News
Updates & milestones
A record of what the Society has done, in the order it happened.
Submitted an application to register Serendip Commons Press as a trade name of the Society in the State of Delaware. It is the name intended for the Society's publishing work, the Press announced as in planning in August. The registration is pending. A trade name is not a separate entity: what is published under it remains the Society's work, governed by its Bylaws. Read the notice (SCS/NTC/2026/01) ↗
Serendip Commons Society Press is in planning. The Society already publishes — papers, governance instruments, project documents — but as an organization writing for itself. The Press is the step from that to a publisher's role: an editorial process, an imprint under which work appears, and the functions a publisher carries on behalf of authors who are not the Society. Scope, editorial policy and licensing are still being drafted. Coming soon.
Adopted the Intellectual Property Policy (SCS/POL/2026/01), an Implementing Instrument under Bylaws §5.17, published with a blockchain-anchored timestamp. Its default is non-retention: the Society claims no ownership of intellectual property created within a project — it belongs to those who create it — unless the project's terms or a written agreement provide otherwise. Where a work has no owner, the Society holds it only in custody until a rightful claimant appears; questions of affiliation are settled first by the project's members, and by the Board only if they cannot agree. Read the policy ↗
Revised the Society's infrastructural framework from seven to nine domains, adding an Epistemic domain and distinguishing the Normative, Ethical & Aesthetic, and Care commitments. Published Schedule A — Infrastructural Domain Classification (Rev.1) and the Amendment Instrument (SCS/AMD/2026/01) that effected it, both with a blockchain-anchored timestamp.
Adopted the Document Type Code Standard (SCS/STD/2026/01), establishing the Society's document-identification system under Bylaws §5.16 and §5.17. Read the Standard ↗
Formally approved the Society's first three projects under the governance framework: Responding to the Crises of Symbol and Subject in Modernity (SCS/PA/2026/01), Philosophy of Intimacy and the Theory of Justice (SCS/PA/2026/02), and G³: Geometric Graph Grammar ToolChain (SCS/PA/2026/03).
The Society's Bylaws were published with a blockchain-anchored trustable timestamp (OpenTimestamps), so their integrity and date can be verified independently of this site. Read the Bylaws ↗
Published Introduction of Trustable Timestamp in Document Publication (SCS/PGD/2026/01), the recommended practice by which the Society now timestamps the documents it publishes. Read the guidance ↗
This site launched as a working draft.
Mission, vision, and the nine-infrastructure framework drafted.
Serendip Commons Society established as a non-profit corporation in Delaware.