This is a side-project for collecting and analyzing the regional social networks among government, corporate, nonprofit, academic and religious institutions that are our community's decision-makers.

Consider this page a preliminary RFC. Thinking a bit before we go too far ahead.

Can we start with brainstorming about relationships between people?

Later, we can normalize this sort of list into a set of relations between people. But we may not have to.

People in groups

Below is a list of possible relationships between one person and an institution. Think of each entry as a possible label on a line connecting two names; one is a person, one is a recognized group of people.

• Served in elected position at ___
• Served on a board at ___
• Employed by ___
• Founded ___
• Applicant/candidate for position at ___
• Served in appointed position at ___
• Regular attendee of ___
• Appears in same article in ___ [media outlet]
• Owner of ___
• Authored public document for ___
• Contributor to ___
• Landlord of ___
• Partner in ___ [note, not "partner of"]

Modifiers

• When?
• How long?
• Where?