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| Key | Value |
| --- | ----- |
| **id** | RC-role-gardener |
| **name** | Gardener |
| **description** | Tends, cultivates, and cares for shared resources and relationships; curates knowledge, supports culture, and maintains health/abundance signals across the commons. |
| **relatedMembranes** | "[[Commons Members]]", "[[2. Structure/Membranes/Project Team]]" |
| **relatedAssets** | "[[Core IP]]", "[[Governance Forum]]", "[[Brand Assets]]" |
| **relatedProtocols** | "[[Publishing Protocol]]", "[[IP Protocol]]", "[[Decision-Making Protocol]]", "[[Conflict Transformation Protocol]]" |
| **criteria** | Alignment with Purpose and Values; demonstrated caretaking/curation skills; trusted participation record; willingness to steward cultural and knowledge assets. |
| **responsibilities** | Curate and organize resources; maintain documentation and metadata quality; support community rituals and communications; monitor health/abundance metrics; facilitate feedback and learning loops; uphold brand and knowledge integrity. |
| **benefits** | Recognition for care labor; access to curation tools and support; eligibility for funded scopes; attribution for contributions. |
| **roleAddress** | Hats role (Gardener) (TBD) |
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**Role**: Cultural and knowledge steward who tends the commons' resources, documentation, and relationships to keep them healthy, accessible, and legitimate.
**Benefits**: Recognition and attribution for care labor; access to curation and collaboration tools; potential funded scopes via project proposals; visibility in Governance Forum as resource maintainer.
**Rights**: Propose curation standards and improvements; request access needed for metadata and publishing; raise care/legitimacy concerns; initiate advice processes for resource changes.
**Responsibilities**: Curate and maintain knowledge and brand resources; publish updates and changelogs; help facilitate community communications/rituals; track and report health/abundance indicators; ensure compliance with Publishing, IP, and Brand protocols; support conflict transformation through documentation and context.