Social contract | General | Forum

Since there has been no comment on the current version of the Social Contract for some time now, I am going to assume that everybody interested in it is happy with the current version.  So, this shall become our Social Contract 1.0!  I will moderator-lock the Wiki page after making this post.  This will be the Social Contract adopted at our first meeting after incorporation and any changes to it will have to happen in accordance with the bylaws (i.e. changes will be voted on and adopted only if more than a certain percentage of members want them).

I think that this document is something we can be truly proud of.  There are a few open source space exploration groups out there, but none of them has an official declaration of open and ethical behaviour that they have chosen to hold themselves to like ours.  I hope that our Social Contract will inspire and motivate people – give them a sense of "This is how space exploration should be done!".

Since the current Mission Statement and Design Philosophy have gone even longer without comment, it makes sense to moderator-lock these too (again, these documents should be modifiable after incorporation in accordance with bylaws).  With these documents polished and finalised, along with good recent Wiki work, we can present a fairly organised and official looking face to other groups.  I think now would be a great time to push ahead with contacting other groups.  Some plans for how to do this are in a Friends of CSTART thread elsewhere, which have so far received very little comment.  Whether you love or hate those plans, make some noise so we can figure out what to do.  If we can lock in our documents and make contact with a few other groups (especially Copenhagen Suborbital) in the same week it will make that week a big achievement for us – worthy of the first post to our neglected blog, I should think!