We’re just one month away from Mosaic Experiment 2026: The Ridiculous Revolution, and the volunteers that take time out of their busy lives to plan this event have been putting in a ton of work to make it all happen this year. 2026 has been a year full of changes here at Mosaic; the LLC has changed hands and been expanded and we’ve thought it best to look at the ways in which our Experiment has fallen short in the past, and try something new.

Despite the intentions in helping folks out when they’ve experienced harm, it’s become glaringly apparent of the cracks that exist in the way that consent related issues have sometimes been handled in prior years. While we cannot change the things that have happened, we can hold ourselves accountable for the ways in which our organization has caused those affected to feel unheard, uncared for, or invalidated in their concerns and experiences.

So what changes have we been working on to better serve the community in this regard? With the expansion of the LLC, we’ve created a new position, the Consent Liaison, to provide oversight for the Consent Team in order to ensure that reports are being handled with more care, within a timeline that is respectful to the parties involved, and to safeguard the impartiality of how cases should be handled.

Additionally, we’ve laid out the foundations for what we’re calling the Accountability Board, which is what our latest episode of The Minute in The Mud is all about. In it, we talk with Wonder, one of our new LLC’s and Consent Liaison, who gives us all the details you need to know about the new Accountability Board.

Once you’ve given that a watch, come check out the Accountability Board page and sign-up sheet at https://www.mosaicexperiment.com/accountabilityboard

The Consent Team is seeking community participation in our public vetting process. We are looking to add one Response Team member ahead of this year's event, Luke Elias, AKA Pumpkin. In addition, Jill LeighAnn remains on the Response Team, and current Response Team member Dannie Horton (that's me!) is stepping into the role of co-lead alongside Naomi Belanger, AKA Bunikat. Your feedback helps increase the odds that team members are always folks that the community trusts. Please let us know what you think here: https://forms.gle/CTuALDmZpfj5Qchg6. Responses will be collected through this Friday (9/22).

We'd also like to open up a broader dialogue with the community about what our focus should be, how our priorities should be shifting, and how we can best create more safety and trust in our process moving forward.

This is the first event in which the consent team will consist entirely of non-founding members, and we've heard some really important questions being raised since we've stepped into our roles. Folks are asking how we can best handle reports for incidents that happen outside of Mosaic, who on our team should be part of the community vetting process, and how we can create a more streamlined process to resolve reports with more timeliness.

Before we make any changes on our end we really want to bring in your voices and let the community steer our evolution as much as possible. We're going to put out an invitation shortly after this year's event to join us for a community call. If you have opinions, criticisms, or hopes for what's possible regarding how we can best serve the community, we'd really like to hear from you.

And, as always... This is a volunteer-led effort that is run by the community. If you're super passionate about this work and want to figure out ways to help write our next chapter, please consider volunteering with us! We're a tiny team that is doing important work, and we would love to welcome more of you into shaping our process from within the team.

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