What information do we try to capture about orgs in the second renaissance wiki?

[rufuspollock]

This is a discussion thread for how we create organization profiles for https://ecosystem.lifeitself.org

Starter for 10

My rough outline for a page

# Org Name

description (short)

image e.g. screenshot of home page

## What

What and How: ie. what they generally do and how they do it ...

## Who

## Why

## Where

May end up in frontmatter e.g. in `locations` but why not just dump free text for now 😉

## When

When did they start etc. A bit of history if that is around

Especially in the Why and Why section we can do linking to key ideas, figures, movements they are influenced by etc.

Later we have stuff like:

• Estimate and analysis for score on the PIE metrics
• Analysis against topics

[rufuspollock]

@catherinet1 suggests adding another section for:

## Key Education Resources

[rufuspollock]

My question would be: couldn't this just find it's way into about for now in some way?

[rufuspollock]

Current profile docs

https://ecosystem.lifeitself.org/templates/profile-documentation

# Properties/Frontmatter
## created 
- date that file was created
## contributors 
- names of contributors
## locations
- where they have an active and ongoing presence
- format = [city], country, e.g. Paris, France (can list multiple locations)
- write out the country, e.g. Spain, Netherlands, except for "UK" and "US".
## start 
- year founded 
## end
-  year ended 
## size
- team size (no. of paid team members, e.g. doesn't include board members or trustees)
- format = select one of the following ranges: 1-3; 3-10; 10-20; 20-50; 50-100; 100+
## image
- representative image for the organization. Should include name/logo. Normally just take a standard screenshot of the home page.
- format = filepath (save image in assets/img)
## sectors 
- what areas of activity is the actor skilled or specialised in?
## activities 
- what are the main activities/interventions they do to bring about change?

# Free text sections

## About 

Who are they? What do they do? What is unique, special, or distinctive about them?

Include screenshots

## Key Educational Resources 

e.g. key books, articles, courses, etc. with brief description if possible

## Connections

e.g. organisations they seem similar to; organisations they are partnered with; ideological inspirations...

e.g. 
- Funded by [[learning-for-wellbeing-foundation]]

## Theory of Change

What kinds of change are they trying to make in the world? How do they seem to understand the process and principles of change?

- How exactly are they working for *paradigmatic* change?
- How exactly are they taking *integrative* or *whole-systems* approaches?

e.g.: key questions that guide their work or that their work explores; transformational practices and frameworks they draw on 

## Key People

- Name, Role

[rufuspollock]

• Theory of Change could become part of "Why"
• Key People = Who

[asimong]

What would help me here is a few examples of actual organisations, to see how easy or difficult it is to capture different kinds of information about them. Also may be worth cross-referencing to Murmurations

[rufuspollock]

@asimong there are a whole bunch of profiles of recent profiles based around this here:

https://github.com/life-itself/secondrenaissance/tree/main/content/ecosystem/cohere

and PIP 2021 ones are at

https://github.com/life-itself/secondrenaissance/tree/main/content/ecosystem/pip-2021