Meetball Handbook

About This Handbook

What This Handbook Is

This handbook documents how we at Meetball work. It reflects our lived experience, our experiments, and our evolving approach to building an anti-social network together.

We're sharing this openly because:

  • Transparency helps everyone learn - If our experiments help others, awesome
  • We believe in building in public - Inspired by Basecamp, GitLab, and other open organizations
  • Accountability - Writing down how we work helps us work better

What This Handbook Isn't

This is not prescriptive advice. What works for us might not work for you.

Every team is different:

  • Different people, different contexts
  • Different stages, different challenges
  • Different cultures, different laws

We share this because it helps us, and maybe it'll inspire you. But your mileage will probably vary.

Living Document

This handbook is continuously evolving. We update it as we:

  • Learn from our mistakes
  • Experiment with new approaches
  • Grow and adapt to new challenges

If something seems outdated or unclear, it probably needs updating. Feel free to suggest changes!

Using This Handbook

For Meetball Team Members

This is your guide. Read it, question it, improve it. If something doesn't make sense or doesn't match reality, that's a bug - help us fix it.

For Others

You're welcome to:

  • Learn from our approach
  • Adapt ideas for your own team
  • Share it with others (with attribution)
  • Suggest improvements

we suggest: consult appropriate professionals (legal, HR, financial) before implementing anything in your organization. We're not consultants, just sharing our journey.

Licenses

We use a dual-license approach:

Code/Theme: MIT License

The Zola theme, templates, styling, and technical implementation are MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for details.

Original theme: AdiDoks by Aaran Xu Substantial modifications: Meetball Team (2025)

Content: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0

The handbook content - all the written documentation, processes, and advice - is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.

This means you can:

  • ✅ Share and adapt our content
  • ✅ Use it commercially
  • ✅ Build upon it

As long as you:

  • 📝 Give credit to Meetball
  • 🔗 Link back to handbook.meetball.fun
  • 📄 License your adaptations under the same CC BY-SA terms

The Fine Print

Want all the legal details? Check out our Disclaimer for the complete story about using this handbook.

Third-Party Software

We stand on the shoulders of giants. See our third-party licenses for attribution to all the amazing open-source software we use.

Questions?

If you have questions about the handbook, how we work, or how to contribute:

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