Federation of AT Protocol Local Groups

Founding documents, v1 draft. May 2026.

This is the document set for the proposed federation of local AT Protocol meetup groups. The forum post explaining what's here and why is on the community forum. Founding meeting is May 21.

If you only have time for one thing, read the briefing deck.

Documents

• Briefing deck (~15 minutes, fastest entry)
• Architectural briefing (~30 minutes, the substantive case for the structure and the home-jurisdiction question)
• Bylaws skeleton (drafted to California Corporations Code; would need adaptation if we go with Canada)
• Mission and purpose
• Membership criteria
• Decision-making framework
• International operations plan (banking, insurance, time zones, translation, data protection, OFAC)
• Affiliate MOU template (for future Article XIII sister entities)
• Code of Conduct (provisional)
• Glossary
• Resources and links
• Sources and provenance

Comments and feedback

PRs and feedback are welcome at the Tangled repo.

Reference architectures

The federation pattern adapted here is the same one used by:

• Linux Foundation
• Wikimedia movement affiliates
• Apache Software Foundation
• OpenJS Foundation

About this site

Hosted on wisp.place, a static site host that stores files in AT Protocol repositories. Using atproto infrastructure to publish the founding documents of a federation of atproto local groups seemed fitting.:-p

The documents on this site are AIL 2.5.