1.9 Engagement

Process of a Planned agreement to do a thing , at a certain time, with someone else. And then the execution of that plan. Leads to a verified interaction

Overview

The person who drafts & posts an Opportunity is called the Initiator, the person who expresses interest in that opportunity is called the Respondent.

Engagements provide explicit (non-binding) confirmation of mutual interest through a 3 step process:

1) The Initiator posts an Opportunity,

2) The Respondent signals their interest (offering to participate),

3) If Initiator then agrees to accept the offer of participation by the Respondent, this is an Engagement.

Explicit (non-binding) confirmation of intent is expressed later when:

4) The Engagement begins when both parties manually affirm their participation [scanning of a qr code or some-such], creating a Verified Interaction which can be reviewed later.

5) The Engagement is completed when the prescribed Opportunity is finished.

The same process as above, but as a dialogue:

1) Initiator: ""I would like to have cake. Does anyone else want cake?"

2) Respondent: "Yes. Can I join? "

3) Initiator "Yes."

4) Both: "Here is the cake, let's have some."

5) Either: "I've had my fill of cake for now, thank you."

Where it occurs/ how we initiate it

A person creates and posts an Opportunity, another person expresses interest. When the two agree to meet we call this an Engagement.

The Engagement is completed when the specified activity is ended by either party.

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