Contribute

The project gets better when people push back on it, fix it, add to it, and spread it. Every level of involvement counts. Money is one option; it's not the most useful one.

Engage with the work

Read. Read what's here. The site has an overview of the party, the representation framing, the empower project (the analytical PA-3 work), and the process and policy proposal series. Tell us what doesn't make sense — that itself is a contribution.

React. Send feedback, push back, ask questions, suggest sources, point out where the writing fails. Email paul@squareparty.org for anything that's faster as a conversation than a tracked change.

Correct. Every page on the site is editable on GitHub. Fix typos, broken links, weak sources, bad citations, factual errors. The empower contribute page lays out the GitHub-based correction workflow in detail; it's the same workflow site-wide.

Add to the work

Draft. Pick a process or policy area and draft it (or a piece of it). Pick a domain and analyze it. The propose-tier workflow on the empower contribute page covers how this is supposed to go. Open an issue first to align on scope before writing anything substantial.

Organize. Claim a domain to follow over time. Take responsibility for a region as the project moves beyond PA-3. Host a square-making session or a People's Assembly meetup in your area. None of this has formal infrastructure yet; if you want to do it, write to Paul and we'll figure out what it looks like together.

Spread the work

Recruit. Introduce someone you think would care. Tell us what was useful and what wasn't. Word-of-mouth is the only acquisition channel that's honest with how this project intends to work.

Connect. The connective layer is part of how the project works. If you've been thinking about keeping a list of about ten people you check in with, being one of those people for someone else is one of the most useful things a member can do for the broader project — and for that someone else.

Host. A square-making session, a tenets discussion, a domain reading group. We'll add a how-to page once enough people have done it to know what works.

Fund the work

The party doesn't have a treasury yet. The plan for party finances is still being structured — what gets funded, what doesn't, where the money comes from, where it goes, how it stays accountable. We'll have a clear picture before any donation page goes live. The honest version: we want to do this right and we'd rather not take money before the structure is in place.

How to reach a person

Email paul@squareparty.org for anything that doesn't fit the GitHub-based workflow. The same address routes to a real person, not a queue.

For project-related work that's better as a tracked change than a conversation — corrections, sources, draft sub-domain analyses, proposed essays — the empower contribute page describes the GitHub workflow.