Welcome to Agaric Collective’s documentation!

Agaric builds software to give people the most power possible over their own lives.

General Instructions

• Don’t panic.

• Be kind.

The Agaric Way

• Agaric’s Purpose
• Values
• Cooperative Principles

Day-to-day

• Roles
  • Rotating cooperative-wide roles
  • Project-specific roles
• In-team communication
  • Zulip
  • BBB - BigBlueButton video chat
  • IRC
  • Internal notes
• Calendars
  • Norms and customs
  • Integrating NextCloud calendars with Thunderbird
• Project management with GitLab
  • Follow issues
  • Disable autoclosing issues from commits and merge requests
• Weekly Rhythm
  • Monday Checkin
  • Wednesday operations
  • Friday Shipping Meeting

Tools of the trade

• Git setup
  • Tell git who you are
  • Align on some basics
  • Let Git’s git clean fully clean out (optional)
  • Create a personal excludesfile (optional)
  • Develop
• Git Usage
  • When NOT to manually resolve merge conflicts
  • Bringing feature branches into main
• Setting up Nextcloud for a client
  • Rationale
  • Original documentation to reconcile
• Setting up e-mail
• Setting up a new Drutopia site
  • Overall setup
  • Create a new site project
  • Setting up database and configuration for the live instance
• Deploying Drutopia updates
  • Prerequsites
  • Ensure you are up-to-date
  • Prepare appropriate base
  • Deploy your site
  • Putting it all together
  • If you need to override site configuration:
  • Sync live database to test
  • Bonus: Keep Drutopia builds with similar available modules
• Local development environments with ddev
  • Installing ddev
  • Updating ddev
  • Using ddev
  • See also
• Drutopia Member Server Access
  • Getting access
  • Logging in
  • Common operations (drush, mysql, backups)
  • Transferring files

Agaric.coop

• Agaric Website Basics
  • Quirks to watch out for
  • Posting blogs
• Content entry on Agaric’s own sites
  • Writing Blog Posts
  • Use Title paragraphs on Case Studies and certain pages
• Tags and taxonomy terms
  • Tags
• Translating Agaric.coop
  • Doing translation
• Short URLs

Important other topics

• Agaric’s Content Style Guide
  • Summary
  • Writing Goals and Principles
  • Voice and Tone
  • Writing About People
  • Grammar and mechanics
  • Writing about Agaric
  • Writing about other companies
  • Slang and jargon
  • Text formatting
  • Write positively
  • Content Types
  • Web Elements
  • Writing blog posts
  • Writing case studies
  • Writing about initiatives
  • Writing about upcoming events
  • Writing profile pages
  • Writing technical content
  • Writing newsletters
  • Writing for social media
  • Writing for Accessibility
  • Writing for Translation
  • Word list (specialized vocabulary)
  • Words to avoid
  • Styleguide credit
• Marketing
  • Content
  • Agaric.coop
  • Channels
  • Events
  • Social media
• Decision-making
  • Monthly worker-owner meetings
• Reference websites, documents, and books
  • Regular Expressions
  • Firefox
• Documentation
  • Where to post what
  • Guidelines
  • Local preview
• Shared technical notes
  • Background
  • Future

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If you’ve found your here way to Agaric’s internal documentation but don’t know about the Agaric technology collective itself yet, please check out our development and consulting services, our trainings, and our initiatives or read about Agaric and ask us for help or collaboration.