One reflective community wrote their agreements as a set of governing values: - We value each members knowledge and experience
- We value open, honest communication
- We value participation and contributions by all members
- We value diversity of views and opinions
- We value appropriate uses of humor
- We value requests for confidentiality
- We value personal responsibility for ethical behavior
Their commitments included: - All members will make at least one contribution to each online conversation during the specified time period.
- All members will contribute to documents produced by the community during specified time periods.
- Members who are not able to participate in a 2-week time period will notify the communitys facilitator.
- Members will limit email messages to 200 words or less.
- Members will respond to email messages within 3 working days.
- Members will limit contributions to online conversations to 450 words; longer contributions will be provided in a downloadable version.