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Greetings, Everyone!

(We'll be updating this overview as we learn together what we want from this group. For now, the following duplicates the invitation for our first event, plus includes the info on The Liberators that was already here, thanks to Jon and Christopher.)

My name is Marc Trudeau, and I am the new "organizer" of this Meetup group. (I am also a freelance Team Dynamics Coach in the Boston area, with a special passion for higher-ed and social enterprise.) Rather than let the group go dark, I decided to invite those of you who feel passionate about it, to co-create whatever we need to help us "Liberate" the spaces in which we live and work.

As a first step, I propose we gather for a LeanCoffee.org discussion around the title of this event, "What are we Liberating, and how will we leverage this community to help?" (Lean Coffee is a simple meeting format in which those who attend create the agenda on the spot from topics of most interest to the group. I'm happy to facilitate, but I'll have no more input into the agenda than anyone else.)

We will meet in my company's, LikeBreathin.com's, Gather co-working space. Simply use your arrow keys to "walk" over to the circle in the center of the space. Anyone who comes agrees to honor the Scrum Values of Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage while in the space; and folks can come and go, as needed, throughout the hour.

(I'm scheduling 3 of these at different times on the same day, to accommodate as many as desire to join. I will attend all three.)

Thoughts? Questions? I invite you to visit the event space (https://app.gather.town/app/Z3kC5Z4aQ055q0AZ/LikeBreathin) anytime; even to hang around and work if you like. I'm in and out, but I'll look for you and wander over to say, "Hi!"

Below is more on the overall Liberators Network....

THE LIBERATOR NETWORK
We are a global community of like-minded people that exists to help practitioners of Scrum, other Agile methods, and Liberating Structures to find support, offer help, and draw inspiration. We believe in the power of peer-to-peer inspiration to overcome the tough challenges we face when we try to liberate teams and organizations from ineffective, de-humanizing, and traditional ways of working.

A Global Community With Local Meetups
While The Liberators Network features global meetups, these can only go so far in offering more personal and local support. This is where our local branches, the User Groups, come in. Each User Group focuses on a specific region or organization while also remaining open to other participants. To keep the quality high and prevent overload, we aim for one User Group per region.
User Groups are autonomous in the sense that they can pick the topics that matter the most to them, and use the tools and platforms that are most suitable for that. User Groups are integrated into the larger community in the sense that all meetups are visible in a global calendar. Also, local organizers periodically meet to give and get help and start collective initiatives together. There is the option for local User Groups to participate in global topics that are prepared together.
We hope that The Liberators Network allows us all to tap into the potential of the collective brainpower, expertise, and creativity that such a large and diverse network holds. For example, we hope to develop, field test, and report on strings of Liberating Structures (e.g. to overcome Zombie Scrum or navigate conflicts), to develop helpful tools for Scrum Teams, and come up with creative ideas and powerful experiments.

Index of User Groups

Local User Group Overview

  1. Rules of Play to understand the (minimal) boundaries
  2. Community Principles that we created (and are continuously refining) with the community

Support Our Network
A lot of work goes into organizing, maintaining and spreading this thriving community into all the corners of the world. The great news is that the community is funding our efforts. If you enjoy this community, please considering supporting us too on Patreon.

A description of the behavior that aligns with these principles can be found in this Mural: https://bit.ly/3mpHPln

For an overview and metrics used on The Liberators Network Local User Groups checkout Github: https://github.com/theliberators/usergroups

Our mothership is The Liberators Network out of Utrecht, Netherlands run by none other than The Liberators. To learn more about The Liberators check out: