You may post a question or change any question already posted to clarify it. No one "owns" the question.

You can post questions about:

• Renewable energy installations;
• Infrastructure for villages in various environments
• Best appropriate construction approaches and materials.
• How to handle Heating and Air Conditioning.
• How to handle water
• Generating electricity
• Planning the work of the village - task sign up and coordination
• Selecting the founding Members
• Village Economics and achieving financial independence.
  
• Legal structuring of a Coop Village
• Dealing with conflict and disruptive members
• How to make decisions democratically (aka Governance)
• How to bring in new Village Members after the founders
• How to create your own banking system
• Critical roles within Village leadership
• Possible Coop village business and their business models
• Managing healthcare within a coop village
• Managing education within a Village Coop
• Managing policing within a Coop Village

A Question is really a forum topic. It is meant to cover all the answers. Reactions to each answer will guide you to the "best" answers for your situation.

Try to provide evidence for your solution working if you have some. Why is your solution the best answer? Also, what circumstances does it best work.

Before you ask - please make sure to search for a similar question topic. You can search questions by their title or tags. It’s also OK to answer your own question.

Please avoid asking questions that are too subjective and argumentative, straight philosophical, or not relevant to this community. This is a make it happen community.

You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of this site and push other questions off the front page. Poorly formulated questions will be removed, and the poster notified to reformat the question to be more appropriate and fitting with the forum itself.

To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed, avoid asking subjective questions where:

• every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?” However, rating of suppliers and materials/products are good.
  
• your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers: “I use ______ for ______, what do you use?”
  
• there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.” This is more philosophical in nature.
  
• we are being asked an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if ______ happened?” State the problem to solve directly. Keep it real.
  
• it is a rant disguised as a question: “______ sucks, am I right?”

If you fit in one of these example or if your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be asking here but on our mailing lists. However, if your motivation is “I would like others to explain ______ to me”, then you are probably OK.
        (The above section was adapted from Stackoverflow’s FAQ.)

More over:

• Answers should not add or expand questions. Instead either edit the question or add a question comment.
• Answers should not comment other answers. Instead add a comment on the other answers.
• Answers shouldn't just point to other Questions. Instead add a question comment indication "Possible duplicate of...". 
• • However, it's ok to include links to other questions or answers providing relevant additional information.
• Answers shouldn't just provide a link to a solution. Instead provide the solution description text in your answer, even if it's just a copy/paste. Links are welcome, but should be complementary to answer, referring sources or additional reading.

Answers should not add or expand questions. Instead, either edit the question or add a comment.

Answers should not comment other answers. Instead add a comment on the other answers.

Answers shouldn't just point to other questions.Instead add a comment indicating "Possible duplicate of...". However, it's fine to include links to other questions or answers providing relevant additional information.

Answers shouldn't just provide a link a solution. Instead provide the solution description text in your answer, even if it's just a copy/paste. Links are welcome, but should be complementary to answer, referring sources or additional reading.

Answers should not start debates This community Q&A is not a discussion group. Please avoid holding debates in your answers as they tend to dilute the essence of questions and answers. For brief discussions please use commenting facility.

When a question or answer is upvoted, the user who posted them will gain some points, which are called "karma points". These points serve as a rough measure of the community trust to him/her. Various moderation tasks are gradually assigned to the users based on those points.

For example, if you ask an interesting question or give a helpful answer, your input will be upvoted. On the other hand if the answer is misleading - it will be down-voted. Each vote in favor will generate 10 points, each vote against will subtract 10 points. There is a limit of 200 points that can be accumulated for a question or answer per day. The table given at the end explains reputation point requirements for each type of moderation task.

The goal of this site is create a relevant knowledge base that would answer questions related to Coop villages. WE are building a simple Wikipedia like database for Coop Village Solutions and Standards.

Therefore questions and answers can be edited like wiki pages by experienced users of this site in order to improve the overall quality of the knowledge base content. Such privileges are granted based on user karma level: you will be able to do the same once your karma gets high enough. You gain karma points through participation that is effective. You can get positive and negative points, although most actions are positive.

If this approach is not for you, please respect the community.