Joining an ecosystem

An ecosystem never absorbs anyone quietly. Everything in one is there because somebody asked and somebody said yes.

Applying

Open the ecosystem's page — you need its link, since ecosystems are not listed anywhere. You need to be signed in to apply. Under the figures at the top you'll find two buttons:

• Apply with a community — for the whole community, permanently.
• Apply with an event — for one event only.

Each opens a picker of what you actually run: the communities you administer (minus any already in the ecosystem), or the events you organize. Pick one and press Apply, and the request waits for the ecosystem's decision. A note confirming it was sent takes the buttons' place.

In the app there is a single Apply to join button. On the sheet it opens, choose Community or Event, pick one from the list, and press Send request.

You can only apply with something you run. If the picker is empty, you don't administer a community (or don't have an event) that could join.

Community or event?

Applying with your community is usually enough. Once your community is in the ecosystem, its events start showing on the Events tab of the ecosystem's page too — you don't need to send each one.

Apply with an event is for when you want one event on the ecosystem's page without putting your community in: a joint meetup, a one-off that fits the network's programme. Your community stays outside the ecosystem; only that event goes in.

After you apply

The people who run the ecosystem see your request and approve or reject it. Approving puts you in straight away: your community appears on the ecosystem's Communities tab, or the event on its Events tab.

Nothing changes on your side. Your community keeps its own page, its own members, its own settings. Being in an ecosystem adds a place you appear — it takes nothing away.

Leaving

If you want out, write to the people who run the ecosystem, or to us. Taking a community or an event out of an ecosystem is done by Gathin's platform team.