A Note on This Wiki

This wiki is a work in progress. That framing matters, because it shapes how you should read what you find here.

Where the Wiki Is Right Now

Most documents on the wiki are in v0.1, meaning they have been drafted and shared for use, and they have been informed by the experience of the Tulsa pilot and the early G+Local sessions held in spring 2026. They have not been ratified by a central body, because there is no central body to ratify them. FREE chapters are sovereign in their local work, and the wiki holds documents that chapters can use as starting points to fork, adapt, and improve.

You may notice rough edges. References to documents that don’t yet exist, contact channels marked “to be determined,” sections that promise more than they deliver. We are publishing what we have rather than waiting until everything is polished, because chapters are forming now and waiting would mean those chapters start without resources. The wiki will improve as the network grows and as chapters surface what is missing or unclear.

What the Wiki Is For

The wiki is for published reference content. Three categories live here:

Foundational documents describe what FREE is, what a chapter is, and the philosophy that underpins both. F1 is the main example.

Phase guides walk through specific stages of a chapter’s lifecycle, with checklists, agendas, and templates for the moment. The P-series is the working core of the Starter Kit.

Governance reference documents include the Code of Conduct, Digital Communication Norms, and the guidance documents that explain how chapters should adapt them. These templates carry real protective logic, and the guidance documents are there to help chapters adapt without losing what makes the templates work.

Chapter versions of governance documents live in their own collection. Tulsa’s are there now. As other chapters develop their own, those will be added.

Templates for recurring use — meeting agendas, synopses, sign-up sheets — are in their own collection too.

What the Wiki Is Not

The wiki is not where chapters do their day-to-day work. Operational documents like contact lists, meeting recordings, and internal decisions live in each chapter’s private space. The wiki is the public-facing reference layer.

The wiki is also not the discussion forum. Discussion happens in the FREE Discord, which will be linked from documents here once it is live. If you have questions, suggestions, or want to point out something that’s wrong, the Discord is the place — not edits to the wiki itself.

The wiki is not a centrally-authored standard. The documents here, especially the governance templates, are evidence of what worked in one chapter or one moment. They are starting points, not requirements. The guidance documents that accompany them explain which pieces are load-bearing across all chapters and where chapters have real latitude.

Versioning

Each document carries a version number and a draft date. When documents change substantively, the version number increases and the date updates. For now, version history is light. As the wiki matures, more structured version tracking will be in place.

Translations and chapter-specific adaptations are stored as separate documents rather than as branches of the originals. When you see a German Code of Conduct or an Italian Digital Communication Norms, treat it as the chapter’s own version, related to the canonical template but distinct from it.

What Comes Next

The wiki will grow in several directions over the coming months:

The R-series will fill in. R3, the Conflict Resolution Process, is in active drafting. Additional reference documents on decision-making methods, facilitator roles, and Circle structures are planned.

The T-series will be added as templates are formalized. Meeting agendas, synopsis formats, and other recurring tools will live there.

The Chapter Versions collection will grow as chapters develop their own adaptations. We expect this to be one of the most active collections within six months.

Translation efforts are starting. The Documentation Circle, once formed, will coordinate translation priorities and quality.

A federation governance section will be added as the federation structure matures. For now, FREE Foundation holds the global infrastructure, and that posture is documented in F1.

How to Help

The most useful contribution you can make right now is to use the documents and tell us where they fail. Chapters that adopt the Code of Conduct will surface things the guidance didn’t anticipate. Seed Teams that work through P1 will identify questions the document doesn’t answer. That feedback is what shapes future versions.

When the FREE Discord is live, the wiki feedback channel will be the place to share what you’ve found. Until then, the contact form on freefreeforum.org is the right path.

The Documentation Circle, when it forms, will be the operational home for this wiki’s maintenance. If you have document-shaped skills and want to contribute, see How to Engage with FREE for the path in.