[[Category:Topical Community Protocol]]
=== What is a Topical Community Protocol ===
A topical community protocol is a commitment to [[SolSeed]] to help it grow. To grow, our tribe needs people who want to join it. But the only people, who will want to join it, are people whose values (conscious or subconscious) are aligned with its values. Our values are specific and numerous and so someone who holds all of them will be quite rare. To find these people we need a wide net.
Our protocols must be designed to make use of modern communications to create just such a net. In detail our protocols will be lists of oportunities to communicate which we commit to take. Each item in the list will include a frequency (daily, weekly, monthly etc...) that we promiss to communicate on that channel.
Each individual member will be the sole arbitor of questions about whether her or his protocol's are strong or deep enough commitments. Each individual who gives time to [[Bringing Life | Bring Life]] to SolSeed helps no matter how little or how much they give. Each individual has their own outside committments, their own strengths and their own weeknesses. So noone is better placed to judge his or her contribution than the individual member themselves.
Commitments can be specifically loose. If an individual says they will look for oportunities, if they looked, even if they found nothing then they have met that commitment. It should be a joy to fulfill your protocol not an unending drudgery. If you have taken on too much or the wrong things, recognize that and release yourself from what is not working for you.