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# Business Committee Charter
This document defines the procedures, policies, and bylaws specific to
the Business Committee of the Intrusive Thoughts Creative Collective.
This document is maintained by the Business Committee. Any changes
must be announced to the Business Committee body.

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# Constitution
## Article I. Name
The name of this organization shall be the Intrusive Thoughts Creative
Collective. For brevity, it may also be referred to as Intrusive
Thoughts, Intrusive Games, or simply the Collective.
## Article II. Purpose
We are artists and creators who reject the present capitalist economic
order based on exploitation of labor for private profit, and we defy
the regime of violence and terror which enforces it. We reject white
supremacy, we reject patriarchy, we reject western imperialism, and we
reject all forms of discrimination based on race, gender identity,
sexual orientation, disability status, age, religion, and national
origin. We have come together to teach the people that our world does
not have to be this way. Through our works as artists, we endeavor to
spread class consciousness, foster resistance against our oppressors,
and spread our shared vision of a humane social order.
## Article III. Membership
### Sec 1. Members
1. The set of all current members of the Intrusive Thoughts Creative
Collective is known as the _collective body_.
2. Every individual employed by the Intrusive Thoughts Creative
Collective is a member of the collective body, and all members of the
collective body are employed by the Collective.
### Sec 2. Recruitment
1. Membership is open to every person who subscribes to the principles
of the Collective and is willing and capable of making a meaningful
contribution to the creative work of the Collective.
2. An individual shall apply to be a member following the procedure
prescribed by the [Recruitment Mandate][recruitment].
### Sec 3. Collective
1. Every member has a right to vote on decisions made by the
Collective.
2. Any decision made by an individual member or decision-making body
on behalf of any body of the Collective may be overruled by the
majority decision of a higher decision-making body, except where
otherwise stated in this document.
3. The collective body is the highest decision-making body of the
organization.
4. Members who do not wish to vote on collective decisions may
temporarily waive their right to vote by expressly declaring their
intent to the collective body.
1. Members who have waived their right to vote in the above manner
are referred to as "non-voting members".
2. A member may not be coerced into waiving their right to vote.
3. A member may rescind the waiver of their voting rights at any
time by expressly declaring their intent to the collective body.
5. The set of members of the collective body who have _not_ waived
their right to vote is known as the _voting body_.
6. A quorum of the collective body is half its members. Likewise, a
quorum of the voting body is half its members.
### Sec 4. Expulsion
1. A member may be expelled from the Collective by either a two-thirds
decision by the voting body or by unanimous decision of the
[Personnel Committee](#personnel-committee).
2. A member facing expulsion must receive a written notice of the
charges against them and must be given the opportunity to be heard
before the Personnel Committee or a working group established for
the purpose of considering expulsion.
3. A member meeting any of the following criteria may be subject to
expulsion:
1. They are in substantial disagreement with the principles or
policies of the Collective.
2. They consistently engage in undemocratic, disruptive behavior.
3. They have violated the [Collective Code of Conduct][coc].
4. They have been out-of-contact with the collective body for at
least thirty days without providing an excuse for their absence.
### Sec 5. Resignation
1. A member may choose to resign from the collective by announcing
their intent to the collective, at which point that member is
immediately considered to no longer be a part of the collective.
## Article IV. Committees
1. Committees may be chartered only by this Constitution.
2. Any member of the collective body may be a member of any committee,
provided they meet that committee's requirements for membership.
1. A member of the collective body may be a member of any number of
committees at the same time, unless otherwise prescribed.
3. Committees may make internal decisions by holding polls and
elections exclusive to the voting body of that committee.
1. Any internal decision of any committee may be vetoed by a
two-thirds decision of the voting body.
2. A quorum of any committee shall be half of its voting members.
### Sec 1. Steering Committee
1. The Steering Committee shall be responsible for decision-making on
behalf of the entire collective body in lieu of polling the members
of the collective body themselves.
2. The Steering Committee shall meet once every two weeks.
1. Meetings of the Steering Committee shall be open to all members
of the collective body.
2. The Steering Committee may hold a closed executive session if a
simple majority (one-half) of its members agree to do so in
order to discuss private matters, such as personnel and related
financial matters.
3. The Steering Committee shall be composed of five individuals who
shall be elected from the collective body to a term of one year.
### Sec 2. Personnel Committee
1. The Personnel Committee shall be composed of members of the
collective body who have been individually appointed by the
Steering Committee.
2. The Personnel Committee shall be responsible for the recruiting &
interviewing candidates for collective membership as prescribed by
the [Recruitment Mandate][recruitment].
3. The Personnel Committee shall be responsible for ensuring that the
Collective operates as a safe, equitable, non-discriminatory
organization in accordance with the principles of the Collective.
4. The Personnel Committee shall be responsible for periodically
reviewing member performance.
5. The Personnel Committee shall be responsible for expelling members
who meet the criteria for expulsion.
6. The Personnel Committee shall be responsible for rallying the
morale of the collective and fostering a sense of _esprit de
corps_.
### Sec 3. Finance Committee
1. The Finance Committee shall be composed of members of the
collective body who have been individually appointed by the
Steering Committee.
2. The Finance Committee shall be responsible for the direct
management of the Collective's financial assets.
3. The Finance Committee shall review the Collective's financial
situation with the Steering Committee on a monthly basis.
4. The Finance Committee shall prepare an annual budget.
### Sec 4. Infrastructure Committee
1. The Infrastructure Committee shall be composed of members of the
collective body who have been individually appointed by the
Steering Committee.
2. The Infrastructure Committee shall be responsible for the
maintenance, upkeep, security, and administration of all Collective
IT assets and infrastructure, as well as any physical Collective
assets.
3. The Infrastructure Committee shall be responsible for provisioning
and acquiring new IT assets for the Collective as mandated by the
other committees and/or the collective body.
4. The Infrastructure Committee shall be responsible for assisting all
members of the collective body in the use of Collective IT assets.
5. Immediately upon discovery of any instance of unauthorized access
of any Collective IT asset, the Infrastructure Committee shall
announce the incident to the collective and subsequently begin the
process of mitigating damages and advising any affected
members. This damage-control process takes priority over any other
responsibility of the Infrastructure Committee.
### Sec 5. Engineering Committee
1. The Engineering Committee shall be composed of any members of the
collective body who wish to contribute to the works of the
Collective in a technical capacity.
2. The Engineering Committee is responsible for maintaining the
[Engineering Committee Charter][engineering], documenting the
procedures, policies, and bylaws specific to the Engineering
Committee therein.
1. Any changes to the Engineering Committee Charter must be
announced to the Engineering Committee body.
### Sec 6. Creative Committee
1. The Creative Committee shall be composed of any members of the
collective body who wish to contribute to the works of the
Collective in a creative capacity.
2. The Creative Committee is responsible for maintaining the
[Creative Committee Charter][creative], documenting the procedures,
policies, and bylaws specific to the Creative Committee therein.
1. Any changes to the Creative Committee Charter must be announced
to the Creative Committee body.
### Sec 7. Business Committee
1. The Business Committee shall be composed of any members of the
collective body who wish to contribute to the Collective and our
works in a business capacity.
2. The Business Committee is responsible for maintaining the
[Business Committee Charter][business], documenting the procedures,
policies, and bylaws specific to the Business Committee therein.
1. Any changes to the Business Committee Charter must be announced
to the Business Committee body.
## Article V. Elections
### Sec 1. Procedure
1. All elected positions shall prescribe a limited term of office.
2. All elections shall be decided by
[ranked-choice voting with instant runoff][rcv].
1. In the event that a clear winner cannot be decided by either the
normal election nor the instant runoff, the winner shall be
decided by random selection of the given tied candidates.
3. All elections shall be held via an online platform so that every
member may cast their vote regardless of physical location.
1. Immediately after an election is opened, a link or other means
of accessing the ballot must be announced to the collective.
4. All elections shall be open for a period of at least 72 hours after
being announced to the collective.
5. Whenever an elected position is vacated, a new election for the
position shall be held immediately.
### Sec 2. Abdication
1. A member holding any elected office may choose to abdicate that
office at any time for any reason, including no reason, by
announcing their intent to the collective.
2. A member holding any elected office shall automatically abdicate
that office upon resigning (or being expelled from) the collective
body.
### Sec 3. Recall
1. A member holding an elected office may be recalled from that
elected office with a two-thirds decision of the voting body, or
the body to which they are beholden.
## Article VI. Roles
### Sec 1. Internal Roles
1. A member may be granted a role with respect to any committee they
are a part of in accordance with the bylaws of that committee.
### Sec 2. External Titles
1. Members should not identify their internal role when representing
themselves as a past, present, or future member of the Collective
to anyone outside of the Collective, including (but not limited to)
a recruiter for another company, on social media, and on their
résumé or CV.
2. Members are automatically granted _external titles_ based on
committee membership. Members are encouraged to identify themselves
as one or more of their external titles.
1. All members of the collective body may use the title of "Vice
President of Research & Development".
2. Members of the Personnel Committee may use the title of "Vice
President of Human Resources".
3. Members of the Finance Committee may use the title of "Vice
President of Finance".
4. Members of the Infrastructure Committee may use the title of
"Vice President of Information Technology".
5. Members of the Engineering Committee may use the title of "Vice
President of Technology".
6. Members of the Creative Committee may use the title of "Vice
President of Design".
7. Members of the Business Committee may use the title of "Senior
Executive Vice President".
### Sec 3. General Secretary
1. The creative body shall elect a General Secretary from the creative
body, for a term of one year.
2. The General Secretary is responsible for representing the
Collective's interests publicly in situations that require an
in-person representative.
3. The General Secretary does not have any executive power,
directorial power, or decision power beyond that which would be
otherwise granted to a regular member of the collective body.
## Article VII. Working Groups
### Sec 1. Working Groups
1. Any set of members may form a _working group_ for any purpose.
2. Membership in a working group is inherently open; the members of a
working group are exactly the members of the creative body who
identify themselves as members of that working group.
### Sec 2. Projects
1. A _project_ is a working group formed for the specific purpose of
creating a single distinct game, visual novel, or any other piece
of media.
2. A project may elect a Project Director from the project body, for
the term of the project development cycle.
1. A Project Director makes decisions about the creative direction
of the project which they direct. All members of the project
body are asked to abide by the creative decisions made by the
Project Director.
2. While other members of the project body will naturally make
creative decisions about the project in the course of their
work, any such decision may be overruled by the Project
Director.
3. The project body may collectively overrule any creative decision
made by the Project Director with a two-thirds veto decision.
4. A project does not need to elect a Project Director. The
election of a Project Director must include a "None" candidate,
to indicate the voter's preference that the office remain
unfilled.
5. This document overrides and abolishes the previous Charter of
Directorship. Any individual elected Project Director according
to the terms of the previous Charter of Directorship shall be
automatically appointed as Project Director of an equivalent
project group once it is formed after the ratification of this
document.
## Article VIII. Collective Ownership
### Sec 1. Collective Property
1. All intellectual property created or discovered jointly by two or
more members of the collective body (in any proportion) during the
course of any of the aforementioned members' association with the
collective body shall be the collective intellectual property of
the Intrusive Thoughts Creative Collective, with all present and
future rights, title, and interest assigned to the Collective.
1. _Intellectual property_ includes, but is not limited to, code,
graphical assets, sound assets, algorithms, concepts,
developments, designs, discoveries, ideas, formulas,
improvements, inventions, processes, software, trademarks, and
trade secrets, as well as the tangible embodiments
(e.g. drawings, notes) of any intangible items.
2. All assets owned by the Intrusive Thoughts Game Collective are
collectively owned by the collective body. This includes virtual
assets such as intellectual property, as well as material assets
including servers and databases, as well as any accounts which
represent the Collective on online platforms.
3. Collective assets shall be managed and administered by the
[Infrastructure Committee](#infrastructure-committee). Access to
collective assets in an administrative capacity shall be the
exclusive responsibility of the Infrastructure Committee.
### Sec 2. Core Infrastructure
1. The Intrusive Thoughts Creative Collective shall collectively
maintain a set of core infrastructure elements to facilitate the
basic operation of the collective.
2. All core infrastructure elements shall be listed in the
[Core Infrastructure Manifest][core-infrastructure].
1. Any change to the core infrastructure must be immediately
reflected in the Manifest.
3. The [Infrastructure Committee](#infrastructure-committee) is
responsible for the administration, upkeep, and security of the
core infrastructure.
4. All members must have user-level access to the core infrastructure.
## Article IX. Dissolution
1. In the event of the dissolution of the Intrusive Thoughts Creative
Collective, all remaining funds and assets are to be released to
such other organizations that are organized exclusively for the
promotion of social welfare and that will operate to further the
common good and general welfare of the community.
2. In such an event, all Collective source code assets are to be made
publicly available on gitlab.com. The URLs of any such repositories
shall be disclosed to every person who was a member of the
Collective before its dissolution.
## Article X. Constitutionality
### Sec 1. Constitutional Mandate
1. This document shall be hosted in a publicly-visible git repository
on the [Collective document repository][doc-repo].
2. The version of this document published at the head of the `main`
branch of the repository shall be recognized as the current version
of this document.
3. The git commit history of this document shall not be abridged or
altered except to add commits when merging an amendment.
### Sec 2. Ratification
1. This document shall be submitted as a pull request to the existing
[Collective document repository][doc-repo].
2. After a period of review of at least one week, with the unanimous
consent of all six founding members of the Intrusive Thoughts
Creative Collective, this document will be ratified by merging it
into the `main` branch of the repository.
3. Upon ratification of this document, the six founding members will
automatically become members of the Collective.
4. Upon ratification of this document, there shall be a grace period
of one week to allow the Collective to form in compliance with the
procedures of this document.
### Sec 3. Amendment
1. Amendments to this document may be proposed by any member of the
collective body by submitting a pull request to the
[Collective document repository][doc-repo].
1. Any member may have no more than one proposed amendment to this
document under consideration at any given time.
2. A proposed amendment must be approved by two-thirds of the
collective body before it can be accepted and merged.
3. If a proposed amendment does not meet all acceptance criteria
within two weeks (fourteen days) of submission, it shall be
considered rejected and closed permanently.
1. A rejected amendment may not be re-submitted. However, a new
amendment with the same text as a previously-rejected amendment
may be submitted.
[business]: business.md
[core-infrastructure]: core_infrastructure.md
[creative]: creative.md
[doc-repo]: https://git.of.the.spectacle.lol/intrusive/docs
[engineering]: engineering.md
[rcv]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
[recruitment]: recruitment.md

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# Core Infrastructure Manifest
This document enumerates and describes the core infrastructure
elements necessary for the operation of the Intrusive Thoughts
Creative Collective.
This document is maintained by the Infrastructure Committee. Any
change to the core infrastructure should be reflected in this document
as soon as possible.
## Chat
An online chat server must be maintained in order to communicate and
coordinate with the collective.
This is currently implemented with a Discord server.
Announcements to the collective are made using the **#announcements**
channel.
## Meeting Service
An online meeting system allowing voice chat, video chat, and screen
share must be maintained in order to facilitate Collective meetings.
This is currently implemented with the same Discord server as our
[chat](#chat).
## Git Host
A git host must be maintained as a host for Collective source code
assets.
This is currently implemented with a [gitea](https://about.gitea.com/)
instance hosted on a server at 23.239.29.92
([git.of.the.spectacle.lol][spectacle])
## Document Repository
A document repository must be maintained as a host for the
Collective's Constitution & Bylaws.
This is currently implemented with a repository on the aforementioned
gitea instance, under [intrusive/docs][docs].
[docs]: https://git.of.the.spectacle.lol/intrusive/docs
[gitea]: https://about.gitea.com/
[spectacle]: https://git.of.the.spectacle.lol/

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# Creative Committee Charter
This document defines the procedures, policies, and bylaws specific to
the Creative Committee of the Intrusive Thoughts Creative Collective.
This document is maintained by the Creative Committee. Any changes
must be announced to the Creative Committee body.

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# Engineering Committee Charter
This document defines the procedures, policies, and bylaws specific to
the Engineering Committee of the Intrusive Thoughts Creative
Collective.
This document is maintained by the Engineering Committee. Any changes
must be announced to the Engineering Committee body.

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# Recruitment Mandate
This document describes the process through which an individual may
join the Intrusive Thoughts Creative Collective.
This document is maintained by the Personnel Committee. Any changes
should be announced to the collective body.
## Procedure
### 1. Petition to Join
An individual wishing to join the Collective ("applicant") must ask an
existing member to endorse their application. That member may then
endorse the applicant by petitioning the Personnel Committee on behalf
of the applicant.
### 2. Application Decision
The Personnel Committee must accept or reject the applicant's
application by two-thirds decision no later than three weeks after the
initial petition.
### 3. Application Acceptance
If accepted by the Personnel Committee, the applicant must agree to
uphold the policies, procedures, and principles of the Collective as
defined in the [Constitution][constitution].
### 4. Onboarding
The Infrastructure Committee is responsible for supplying the new
member with the following:
- Access to the Intrusive Thoughts Discord server.
- Access to the Intrusive Thoughts git server.
[constitution]: constitution.md