Hosting, infrastructure, software, and other meaningful operating expenses should be summarized for members.
Transparency
Members should be able to see how the lights stay on.
Transparency is the practice of making the community’s structure, costs, authority, and significant changes understandable.
The services that materially support the community should be documented at a level that informs members without creating a security risk.
Members should understand where operating funds come from and whether any relationship could influence community priorities.
The moderation structure, meaningful actions, and review process should be reported without exposing private member information.
Roles, decision paths, and major policy changes should be visible and explained.
Changes that materially affect privacy, membership, governance, or operation should be communicated plainly.
A necessary limit
Transparency should never become an excuse to publish IP addresses, authentication details, sensitive security information, private content, or confidential administrator notes.