# Principles of Authentic Participation: Advocate Kit ready for first review

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/principles-of-authentic-participation-advocate-kit-ready-for-first-review/389>\
**Category:** Accountability & Transparency\
**Tags:** accountability\
**Created:** [May 18, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/principles-of-authentic-participation-advocate-kit-ready-for-first-review/389 "2020-05-18T22:23:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/jwf/32/1093_2.png) [@jwf](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/jwf)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/principles-of-authentic-participation-advocate-kit-ready-for-first-review/389/1 "2020-05-18T22:23:22Z")

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Hi folks, this thread provides an update on new deliverables for the Principles of Authentic Participation. Since the last time we met, we discussed creating an Advocate Kit to provide conversational tools and context about how to talk about and share the Principles:

> <https://github.com/sustainers/authentic-participation/pull/9>
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> This is a first draft of an Advocate Kit for the Principles of Authentic
> Partic…ipation. It is mostly historical context to explain how the folks
> who contributed to these discussions came to these recommendations for
> the Principles.
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> Part of #6, but doesn't close it out yet.
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> !\[Screenshot of local preview: Why did we create these Principles?\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4721034/82264763-8dd2b680-9933-11ea-9a89-63a39276fa5e.png)
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> !\[Screenshot of local preview: How do the Principles help?\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4721034/82264781-94612e00-9933-11ea-9aef-ef96a4f8a718.png)
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> !\[Screenshot of local preview: Stories\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4721034/82264859-b65ab080-9933-11ea-92c7-3e2017105cd5.png)

Feedback is welcome and encouraged. Either in GitHub or this thread works!

Catch the rest of the discussion in the original thread:

> [@Principles of Authentic Participation: continuing the Sustain conversation](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/principles-of-authentic-participation-continuing-the-sustain-conversation/284/41):
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> To compensate for dropping the ball on the last call, I could create an “Advocate Kit” on the Principles of Authentic Participation. I would like some sort of affirmation from other current or past participants if this work could be practically useful for you before I embark on this though! What’s inside an Advocate Kit? Ideally, this Kit includes some simple examples to start with thinking through the Principles, and also helps the reader think about how to explain these ideas to different g…

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**Author:** ![jdorfman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/jdorfman/32/14_2.png) [@jdorfman](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/jdorfman)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 3:41am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/principles-of-authentic-participation-advocate-kit-ready-for-first-review/389/2 "2020-05-20T03:41:48Z")

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Awesome! I’ll review this asap. Great work (as always). =)