CB.11:5.1 - A departing founder and a closing platform

In a constructed volunteer repair circle, the founder will stop organising in two months and end the privately funded discussion platform. Participants still value a monthly case exchange and the public guide to preparing a useful case request. Some only use the guide and do not want to join another discussion service.

The group compares retaining two monthly meetings through paid coordination, reducing to one meeting with two willing organisers, and ending meetings while keeping the guide. The paid option lacks confirmed funding. Two members can provide the reduced schedule, and a local workshop offers an authorised room booking. Members choose that continuation through their existing decision arrangement, accepting the loss of the second monthly meeting.

The new organisers receive the booking route, the preparation method and access to a qualified facilitator. The founder agrees two handover sessions and no continuing response duty afterward. A willing maintainer accepts the public guide under its existing reuse terms and obtains hosting that will remain available after the old platform closes. Private case discussions remain with their permitted recipients; members receive an invitation to choose the new contact route.

In the first preparation attempt, the new organiser cannot obtain the room key at the required time. The workshop owner provides an actual keyholder arrangement. The organiser then prepares and runs the first reduced meeting with the facilitator, returns the discussed actions and confirms the next booking. An independent reader retrieves the transferred guide and includes the observations and prior actions in a case request. The receiving practitioner can identify the next inquiry. The reader also reaches the maintainer about a missing reference, and the maintainer corrects it.

The founder settles the old platform’s remaining payment and returns borrowed equipment through their owners. An unfinished participant complaint retains its agreed receiver and response date, with a contact that remains reachable after closure. Before the platform closes, its entry page and a notice to participants give the ending date, the guide’s independent address and the optional new group’s contact route.

The result is a smaller activity with working support and continued access to the guide. It does not show that every former member moved or that the relationships will persist indefinitely. The new organisers review the next two meetings against their available time.