This is the public reference library for the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation. It holds the documents that chapters use to start, govern themselves, and connect with the broader FREE network.
What You’ll Find Here
Section titled “What You’ll Find Here”The wiki is organized into five collections, listed in the left sidebar.
About FREE is where you are now. It covers what FREE is, how to engage, and how to read what you find on the wiki.
Starter Kit is the sequenced guide for starting a FREE chapter. It opens with F1 (What Is a FREE Chapter), followed by P1 through P5, which walk a founding group through the first ninety days: forming a Seed Team, running a first public event, holding the first two General Assemblies, and operating through the first cohort of elected Stewards.
Reference Documents holds the governance templates and the guidance for adapting them: Code of Conduct, Digital Communication Norms, and the companion documents that explain what each section is for, what’s load-bearing, and where chapters have real latitude to make the documents their own.
Chapter Versions is where adapted documents from individual chapters live. Tulsa is the seed pilot, and its versions sit here alongside the emerging versions from Zurich, Bishop’s Stortford, Turin, and other chapters as they form. Each chapter’s variants are their own.
Templates holds meeting agendas, synopsis formats, sign-up sheet structures, and the other working tools chapters use day to day. This collection grows as the network grows.
How to Read These Documents
Section titled “How to Read These Documents”Most of what you’ll find here is in draft. The version number on each document tells you where it stands; v0.1 means it has been drafted and shared, not that it has been ratified by some central body. There is no central body to ratify it. FREE chapters are sovereign in their local work, and the documents on this wiki are starting points to fork, adapt, and improve.
The Tulsa pilot is referenced throughout because Tulsa is where most of these practices were first tested. Tulsa offers evidence of what worked under one set of conditions. Your chapter shapes its own version under its own.
Where the Wiki Doesn’t Go
Section titled “Where the Wiki Doesn’t Go”The wiki is for published reference content. It is not where chapters do their day-to-day operational work, hold their meetings, or store their internal documents. Those things happen in each chapter’s own private spaces, and the tooling for those spaces varies.
The wiki is also not where discussion happens. For ongoing conversation about FREE, including questions about the documents here, FREE will be hosting a Discord server. Once that is live, links will be added throughout the wiki pointing to the relevant discussion threads.
Where to Start
Section titled “Where to Start”If you are thinking about starting a chapter in your community, begin with F1 in the Starter Kit collection. If you are curious about FREE more broadly, read About FREE next. If you want to engage but aren’t sure how, read How to Engage with FREE.
The wiki is a living thing. It will change as the network grows.