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Author: HackMD

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+# Community Creation Guide
+
+Hex.Camp is an open source software project which builds software intended to be used by many independently-run communities. For example, [vichex.ca](https://vichex.ca/) is the community for Victoria, Canada.
+
+Each community is defined by the following:
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+- a domain name, eg. [vichex.ca](https://vichex.ca]), [seahex.org](https://seahex.org)
+- a geographic "footprint" - defined as a set of [H3 hexagonal cells](https://h3geo.org/) that covers the area of the community
+  * neighbouring communities must "tile" - that is, any H3 hexagon ID must exclusively belong to one community, but not the other
+  * communities may be nested within other communities to form a hierarchy - eg. a neighbourhood community within a city
+- a set of users to act as "community stewards"
+  * "incubating" communities might use people from outside the community in order to bootstrap
+  * the [New_ Public](https://newpublic.org/) project has a similar concept with their [https://newpublic.org/fellowship](https://newpublic.org/fellowship)
+
+## Community Resources
+
+- a git repo to contain hexagon reservations and allocations
+  * some hexagons are reserved for use by the global Hex.Camp project 
+  * https://github.com/hexcamp/hexcamp-community-vichex
+  * https://github.com/hexcamp/hexcamp-community-seahex
+- a landing page
+  * [VicHex.ca](https://vichex.ca/) ([GitHub: vichex-landing-page](https://github.com/hexcamp/vichex-landing-page)])
+
+## More Community Resources
+
+(to be documented...)
+
+- a welcome page (GitHub/HackMD)
+- DNS configuration
+- an IPFS Cluster
+- map tiles
+- search
+- an AT Protocol PDS server
+- a local news feed (Graze.Social)
+- publishing/repair pipeline
+- authentication
+- secrets management
+- monitoring