Canonical commitments
Make room
for good.
These principles are generated from the canonical One Thousand Moves manifestos. They are the boundaries we mean to keep while building, partnering, and deciding what earns a place.
Field notes
Ideas we are carrying into the work.
Freedom from the cloud.
Read the article →A working note on FED, offline-first tools, and a future where sharing is deliberate, local, and useful.
The commitments underneath
Communities keep their own lives.
Useful tools should strengthen a local group without owning its relationships, rules, identity, or future.
Read the principle →Keep the need. Lose the harm.When an idea asks for surveillance, shame, extraction, or manipulation, we preserve the human need and redesign the mechanism.
Read the principle →Partnership is voluntary.We seek permission, share credit, and do not treat another person’s trust, work, or audience as leverage.
Read the principle →Your data is yours.We are a steward when we help someone use their records—not their owner. Cloud is temporary help, not permanent custody.
Read the principle →