CoPr: Core Practice

This document is an overview of CoPr (Core Practice, pronounced "copper") and of the Institute of Core Practice.

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"Best practice is a substitute for knowledge" Krag Brotby

Simple: a checklist of the minimum things every business needs to do, and how to do them with the least fuss: the copper answer not the gold one.

Free: contributed by the public, and returned to the public for free. It is distributed online at this website, or you can download it as a book. Really. No strings, no spam, no catch.

July 2006 I split Bedrock off as its own site.

this required multiple Drupal site configuration.

I considered using Drupal shared tables feature so that we could have common users and perhaps even common node info (so the Bedrock Omnibus could be seen and worked on from both CoPr and Bedrock sites) but it got ugly:

Want Bedrock users to see only Bedrock-specific recent comments, forums etc

I think some of the contrib modules and maybe some of my hacks use hard-coded table names instead of using curly brackets around them.  These would need to be fixed to use shared tables.

What is Core Practice?

Core Practice is an innovative new concept: the strategic decision to minimise cost in part of the enterprise by implementing practices sufficient to (a) meet obligations and (b) to make processes work to a standard sufficient that risk (to the organisation and to people in its care) is reduced to some acceptable level.
Core Practice is documented business guidance on the core practices, which is user contributed and free. We aim for a million users.
Core Practice is an international organisation of people to promote the concept and maintain the guidance.
Core Practice is a website for the organisation and the guidance.
Core Practice is an ideological movement to make Core Practice a respectable alternative to Best Practice (the copper answer not the gold one), and to bring core practices into the public domain.

We think we are doing something revolutionary here.  is this the first open-source, user-contributed business information?

Open source and similar concepts are well established in other areas (political transparency, freeware, journalism, encyclopaedia...) but has anyone done this with business information in general or process guidance in particular (small business or otherwise)?

Wikipedia has information in it that is useful to a business, but it is not business-focused.  It is aimed at the "man-in-the-street" or rather the "person-on-the-browser" (POTB).  A small business owner is little removed from a POTB but Wikipedia is too wide-ranging to qualify as "business information".

The "root" copyright behind the GNU for much of CoPr is held by Two Hills Ltd, as a legal entity. 
So too are the trademarks "CoPr", "RADIX Framework", "Institute of Core Practice", and the Koru Tick
Two Hills Ltd holds these copyrights and trademarks in stewardship for the CoPr community and will not use them for commercial purposes.

1) Registered trademark (in gernany?) for corepractice
http://www.corepractice4u.de/online_shop_5.htm
2) www.corepractice.com
3) NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives (COPR)
copr .nih.gov
4) Los Angeles Copyright Society www.copr.org

IoCP committee:  you only have user privileges to start with.  That's deliberate; see it as a user, then call me and I'll bump you up to committee level to see it from that perspective.

 you can sign on as

• carl,  to try out being a user any time,
• bertrand to be a moderator
• harry to be a partner
• james to be an approver

all have password "core"

(carl sagan, james randi, harry houdini and bertrand russell in case you were wondering  -all famous skeptics)