IRCNow is a [federation](/freedom/federation). Each server governs itself.

Each server picks its own staff:

# Your team is encouraged to recruit [your own teammates](ircnow/team) and [[train them](/openbsd/training)
# Your team is encouraged to recruit [your own teammates](ircnow/team) and [[train them](/openbsd/training)

# Your team should interview trainees and get to know them to see if they are trustworthy

# Your team chooses whether to ask trainees for a resume, legal name, or phone number

Each server chooses its own services:

# Your team decides whether to host web, bouncers, mail, bots, games...

# Your team decides which [third party services](/third/third) it wants to provide

Each server sets its own policies:

# Please create a terms of service and a privacy policy

# Your team decides how to ban users and your censorship policy

Each server manages its own money:

# Your team sets up its own payment gateway (eg Paypal, Skrill, Patreon)

# Your team sets up its own cryptocurrency wallet

# Your team registers as its own business or non-profit organization

# Your team collects its own donations and revenues and manages them

# Your team will pay for its own expenses

# Your team can choose how to pay salaries

# If our network needs money to pay for common expenses like software development, we vote for it in Congress

# We ask each server to account for all revenues and expenses so that our network has transparency about how much each team earns and spends.

Each server participates in elections:

# Each server must eventually allow users to vote

# In the future, each server will vote for president.

Each server on the network will be bound by the [IRCNow Constitution](/ircnow/constitution), which is modeled after the US constitution.

We unite together to provide one common, strong network.