The Knowledge Hub is open
What is in the members' area, what is deliberately marked as not working yet, and how to get in.
NODA2 min read
The members' area is open. This note explains what is in it, what is not yet, and how to get in.
What it is
The Knowledge Hub is where the working record of NODA lives — the parts that are useful to members and not meant for a public page. Governance decisions and the reasoning behind them, how the levels work in practice, the services model, and the running notes on what is being built.
It replaced a single very long page. That page had everything on it and, for that reason, nothing was findable: you could read it once, and after that you could only scroll. The same words are now articles, grouped by subject, each with its own address you can send to somebody.
How to get in
You need a hub account. If an administrator has created one for you, you will have had an email with a one-time link to choose your own password — nobody at NODA sees or sets that password. If the link has expired, ask for a new one; it can be reissued and the old one stops working.
Once you are signed in, My Space in the top-right corner is your own area: your profile, your balance in NODA units, your services, and the actions your level allows.
What is here now
The reference material is complete: governance, the nine levels, the services model, the revenue splits and how they are calculated. Member profiles are live, and publishing one requires both your consent and a review — a profile is never made public because somebody forgot to untick something.
What is not here yet
Several things are visible in the interface and marked Not active yet rather than quietly missing. Featured projects, certifications and recommendations save and display but have no editing form. Click statistics on service listings count nothing so far. The directory search runs on the browser rather than on the database, which is fine at this size and will not stay fine.
They are labelled because a feature that looks finished and does nothing wastes more of your time than one that says what it is.
What to do with it
Read the governance article if you read only one. Everything else in NODA — how work is priced, how services are approved, what a level actually gets you — follows from the decisions recorded there, and most questions we are asked turn out to be answered in it.