Strategy

The durable strategy record for this site, migrated from the private devspaces-consolidation repo (a sibling checkout, ../devspaces-consolidation). Brand, naming and design decisions live next door in ../branding/README.md. This folder is excluded from the published site (see contentExclude in config.json) but visible on the public GitHub repo, so nothing private goes here.

Files

File	What it holds	Source and date	Status
motivation.md	Why one home: the theory of change, the four functions (awareness, capital, field-building, design knowledge), the consolidation rationale, non-goals.	`motivation.md` v2, 11 Jul 2026	The durable rationale. Decisions carried out.
brief.md	One-page brief: mission, positioning line, audiences and job stories per stream, voice and register, brand elements, platform decisions.	`BRIEF.md` draft v1, 11 Jul 2026	Mission, audiences, voice in force. Name, tagline and design superseded (banner at the top says how).
sitemap.md	Target sitemap, redirect map, draft theory-of-change statement for the home page.	`sitemap.md` draft v1, 11 Jul 2026	The IA principle is in force. The tree is the July plan; the banner lists what differs on the live site.
../branding/brand-narrative.md	Posture, audience hierarchy, ambition, values, voice by stream.	Migrated 18 to 19 Sep 2026	Ratified 12 Jul 2026, revised since.
../branding/naming.md	Conscious Communities (public name) and Developmental Spaces (concept).	Decided 18 Sep 2026	Decided; review on or after 2027-03-19 (bead `coco-lxb.10`).
../branding/design-direction.md	Design direction E, watercolour, and the identity history.	Decided 18 Sep 2026	Decided.

Decisions: locked and open (2026-09-19)

Decision	Status	Where
One home at developmentalspaces.org; the streams are functions, not audiences	Locked (11 Jul 2026), done	motivation.md, brief.md
Streams: Learn, Build, Fund	Locked, live. Find added later as a fourth entry	sitemap.md banner
Mission line: "A world with many more developmental spaces"	Locked	brief.md
Front door is for people exploring conscious communities; wide door, strong spine	Ratified 12 Jul 2026	../branding/brand-narrative.md
One Substack, tealestate merged as a Fund section	Done (11 to 12 Jul 2026)	brief.md
Courses are web-canonical with an optional email drip	Done (27 lessons live; mailer live 12 Jul 2026)	brief.md
Public name Conscious Communities; Developmental Spaces for concept, paper, manifesto, network	Decided 18 Sep 2026, supersedes 11 Jul	../branding/naming.md
Tagline and hero copy	Open. Ratified 12 Jul, changed Aug to Sep, now a pending human copy pass	bead `coco-jhk`
Design direction	E, watercolour, decided 18 Sep 2026; supersedes "warm monastic"	../branding/design-direction.md
Voice: plain and warm on Home and Learn, institutional on Build, sober on Fund	Locked	brief.md
Redirect consciouscoliving.org to /learn and the consciouscommunities.net domain	Open, in beads	bead `coco-lxb.1`
Archipelago (archipelago.place) stays separate and is cross-linked only	Deferred	motivation.md Q11

Migration review: what was compared, what was left out

Inventory of ../devspaces-consolidation against this repo, 2026-09-19.

Source file	Disposition
`BRIEF.md`, `sitemap.md`, `motivation.md`	Migrated here, with status banners. Persona first names in the job-story table were replaced by descriptions (only `docs/branding` was cleared for first names).
`brand-narrative.md`	Migrated earlier to `../branding/brand-narrative.md`. The private copy carries a "moved" note.
`PLAN.md`, `BACKLOG.md`, `NOTES-manual-actions.md`, `MIGRATION-consciouscoliving.md`	Left in place on purpose. Project management and one-off migration mechanics. Open work is now in beads (`bd list`). `PLAN.md` Phase 2 points here.
`HANDOFF-design.md`	Left in place and marked superseded (it says to start from the June exploration and "warm monastic").
`README.md`, `config.json`, `assets/`, `design/`, `drafts/`, `sources/`	Left in place. Source archives and working files. The mood board and mockups that mattered are in `../branding/`.
`ref/` (including the February 2026 WhatsApp consultation responses, the ChatGPT naming thread, screenshots)	Deliberately not migrated. They name private group participants. The conclusions are captured in `../branding/naming.md` and `../branding/README.md`.

Where the reasoning lives: the consultation was unanimously positive on consolidating (recorded in the branding decision log); the naming reasoning is in ../branding/naming.md; the theory of change is in motivation.md and in whitepaper §6 (../../paper.md).