News
Updates & milestones
A record of what the Society has done, in the order it happened.
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.