Add team documentation

templates/about.html

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  {% set current_page = path.raw.split('/')[2] %}
  {% set nav_base = "/about" %}
  <div class="nav">
- {% set pages = [('/', 'About'), ('/faq.html', 'FAQ')] %}
+ {% set pages = [('/', 'About'), ('/faq.html', 'FAQ'), ('/teams/index.html', 'Teams')] %}
  {% include nav.html %}
  </div>
  <div class="nav level-1">

www/about/teams/index.html.spt

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+title = "About teams"
+[---]
+{% extends templates/about.html %}
+{% block page %}
+<div class="col0">
+
+<h2>About Teams</h2>
+
+<p>On Gittip you will find users, communities and teams. Teams are sets of
+people working towards a common goal. A team can represent an Open Source
+software project, a small time indie magazine publisher, a set of YouTubers
+working together on something or generally any set of people collaborating on
+the same goal.</p>
+
+<p>Teams on Gittip have members and can receive funds. The team's members can
+make use of those funds to help support them in reaching their team's goals.</p>
+
+<h2>Creating a team</h2>
+
+<p>Team accounts are created just like regular accounts. Just login. Once you've
+setup your team account there are three steps to change it from a regular
+account into a team account:</p>
+
+<ol>
+ <li>On your team's Profile page, edit the "Statement" section;</li>
+ <li>Change "I am.." into "We are..";</li>
+ <li>Save the change;</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>After you saved the change, the navigation section on the profile page should
+include a new "Members" button. This section will list all of the team's members
+and allows the team owner (i.e., whoever controls the team account) to add new
+members to the team.</p>
+
+<h2>Becoming a team member</h2>
+
+<p>After a team is first created, there are no team members. This is because a
+team is in essence the same as a normal account. Adding members is very easy and
+can be done by the team account owner:</p>
+
+<ol>
+ <li>Log into the team account;</li>
+ <li>Click the "Members" button on the Profile page;</li>
+ <li>Type the Gittip username of the person you want to add in the box;</li>
+ <li>Click add;</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>If your want to become a team member, contact the project that is represented
+by the team account. The first member of the team will usually also be the team
+account owner.</p>
+
+<h2>Removing team membership</h2>
+
+<p>People move, people change, life catches up to you when you least expect it.
+What ever the reason, you want to stop being the member of a team.</p>
+
+<p>Simply log into your account, go to the Members section of the team and
+change your take to zero. To be a team member, you have to have a minimum take
+of one penny ($ 0.01). Also see the <a href="#using-team-funds">Using team funds
+</a> section below for more details on team members takes and team funding.</p>
+
+<p>If you're the team account owner and someone has broken the team's trust or,
+for example, is no longer active, you can remove them from the team too. Simply
+click on their take entry for "This week" in the Members section of the team.
+</p>
+
+<p>Please note that no one, not even the team account owner, can change a
+member's take. The team account owner can only add or remove members.</p>
+
+<h2 id="using-team-funds">Using team funds</h2>
+
+<p>So your team is receiving funds through Gittip. Now what? There is no payout
+to teams, Gittip pays out to individuals. So how are we going to split the
+funds?</p>
+
+<p>Gittip uses the "Kids eat first" concept.</p>
+
+<p>The "Kids eat first" concept means that the last member added to the team is
+the first to take funds out each week. That means the first team member is the
+last to access funds.</p>
+
+<p>All team members set their own “take” of the money.</p>
+
+<img src="/assets/teams/first-in-last-out.png" />
+
+<p>The idea is that a healthy team is built on trust, and trusting each other
+with money is a powerful cause and effect of mutual trust. Team memberships and
+what a member's take is, is public information. This combined with the team's
+own agreements, means everyone involved in the team should have sufficient
+information to reach appropriate decisions together.</p>
+
+<p>However, it is important to understand that taking money is throttled. This
+allows new members to build trust. New members start with a penny ($ 0.01) per
+week.</p>
+
+<p>As a team member, you can double your take each week (and if you’re under $1
+you can increase to $1). If you set your new take higher than double the
+previous take, it will be clipped to double. Here’s the throttled growth curve:
+</p>
+
+<p>A new member’s access to funds is throttled for the first two months.</p>
+
+<img src="/assets/teams/take-growth-curve.png" />
+
+<p>Note that your take does not increase automatically, and no-one else can
+change it for you. This means you will have to increase your take manually each
+week until you're happy. The above graph shows what happens if you increase your
+take as fast as you’re allowed.</p>
+
+<p>The idea is that, for a mature project with funds available, a new member
+will generally start to flatten out their growth curve between week 10 and 12.
+That gives a two to three month honeymoon period for existing team members and
+new members to get to know one another, and makes it easy to add new members at
+the first sign of interest as a way to encourage further participation without
+worrying that they’ll take all the money and run.</p>
+
+<p>A member can withdraw from a team by setting their take to zero. After that,
+they need to be added back by the team owner. The team owner can drop members
+from the team as well, in the case of broken trust or stagnant membership.
+However, even the team owner can’t otherwise set takes. Only a member can change
+their own take.</p>
+
+</div>
+{% end %}