🌟 Collaborative Sparks

Collaborative Sparks is a living, open-source knowledge garden for exploring and documenting practices of collaboration, governance, and distributed coordination. It is part of the ODIN Initiative and a featured project in the Season of Collaboration 2025.

Whether you're a writer, technologist, community builder, or curious explorer — you're welcome here. Drop by the ODIN Discord to say hello!

🧭 What This Site Is

• A hub of articles on collaboration practices, governance models, and open source stewardship

• A working example of open-source coordination using Astro, Tailwind, and Markdown

• A place to share what you’re learning with others on the same path

🔥 Ways to Contribute

• Write blog posts or articles on collaboration, Teal organizations, or open-source practices

• Build or improve site features (we use Astro)

• Provide feedback as a user tester or reader

Check out CONTRIBUTING.md for a full guide to getting involved.

💡 Project Origins

This project emerged during the Season of Collaboration, a 3-month experiment hosted by the ODIN community to explore network collaboration, self-organizing systems, and shared knowledge production.

💻 Tech Stack

• Astro – modern static site builder

• Astro Starlight – docs template

• Tailwind CSS – utility-first styling

• Markdown – simple content formatting

• Obsidian – local-first Markdown authoring (optional)

🚀 Quick Start

# 1. Clone your fork

git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/collaborative-sparks.git  
cd collaborative-sparks

# 2. Install dependencies

npm install

# 3. Start the development server

npm start

📚 Suggested Topics for Contribution

We’d love content on any of the following:

• Goal-setting frameworks (e.g. 'I am' statements)

• Conference formats (BarCamp, Unconference, World Café)

• Open source contribution guides (licensing, release tagging, etc.)

• Maps of Content (MoC)

• Compensation experiments

• Stories from Teal or decentralized orgs

• Governance experiments

• Cardano blockchain development

See more ideas in CONTRIBUTING.md.

🧠 Obsidian Users Welcome

We’re experimenting with workflows that link Obsidian directly to this site’s content directory for local-first writing. Learn more:

• Astro Starlight + Obsidian Integration

• Obsidian on Windows via WSL

🤝 License

MIT

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Let us spark new ways of working — together.