These principles enable the community to be highly distributed and self-organizing. Below, they are applied to the addition of new members and the treatment of intellectual property within Addapt. Addapt's goal is to enable cooperative learning and new business development among its members. Addapt delegates judgement of member behavior to all other members.
Individual behavior is self-managed via the reputation of that individual in the community.
Any existing member can refer a new member. A referral record is generated that links the reputation of the old member to that of the new member. Subsequent actions of the new member reflect upon the judgement of the recommending member. This provides an incentive for each member to be judicious in their selection of new members that will add value to the Addapt community. For members to obtain value from Addapt, they need to collaborate with other members.