This is cool. Like you @mix, I want my community development efforts to mostly be serving a commons bigger than Enspiral.

Dunno if it is obvious that most of my work for the past 2 years has really been on this network-of-networks thing: travelling, building relationships, and developing language that resonates in different contexts. First with the patterns for decentralised organising, now with microsolidarity.

If you can see an 'alumni check-in' pattern or a 'internetwork show and tell' emerging, I'm interested to hear how that goes. My gut reaction is, "sounds nice, but what's the value exchange? why will people prioritise it?"

I have some hypotheses about why microsolidarity feels like it has traction, maybe some of these are design principles that could inform what you're doing?

• big vision is motivating ("small crews of support are gunna fix the anthropocene")
• right-sized investment (if you want to participate you have to start or find a crew, probably with a commitment to 5 or 10 calls)
• immediate returns (good feels after the first call, noticeable growth after the 5th)
• someone who is willing to hype it relentlessly for a few years (me)

My bias is "networking networks is super hard", so it could be useful to puncture that with some 'appreciative inquiry': what have we seen work really well?

@katekb @joshuavial any ideas? (I notice there are people I want to tag who are not on SSB -- another data point for what makes internetworking hard.)