Glossary

Terms used across the Humans user guide. Each entry: a short definition plus a link to the section guide where it's most relevant.

Admin

A human with the Admin role — global superset privilege over the whole app. Domain admins like Teams Admin, Camp Admin, and Ticket Admin are separate, narrower roles scoped to their section. See Admin.

Asociado

A voting human with governance rights (assemblies, elections). Requires an application and a Board vote. 2-year term. See Governance.

Barrio

A camp — the collective's word for a self-organizing themed community that registers each year. Used interchangeably with "camp" across the app and guide. See Camps and City Planning.

Board

The governance body of Nobodies Collective. Approves tier applications and votes on governance matters. See Governance.

Board vote

The decision a Board member casts on a Colaborador or Asociado application — Yay, Maybe, No, or Abstain. Individual votes are deleted when the application is finalized; only the collective decision is retained. See Governance.

Camp Lead

A human responsible for a camp. A camp has at least one lead and, by default, up to two (a Camp Admin can raise the cap). Leads have equal authority and are managed from the camp's Edit page. (An older "Primary Lead / Co-Lead" distinction is being retired.) See Camps.

Camp Season

A camp's per-year record — name, blurb, vibes, space needs, placement, and status (Pending, Active, Full, Withdrawn). Placement on the barrio map requires an approved season for the current year. See Camps.

Colaborador

An active contributor with project or event responsibilities. Requires an application and a Board vote. 2-year term. See Governance.

The coordinator role that reviews a human's signed consents and clears them for activation as a Volunteer. See Legal & Consent and Onboarding.

Coordinator

A human assigned to a department's management role, with full authority over the department and every sub-team under it. See Teams.

Department

A top-level team (Build, Kitchen, and so on). Rotas, Google Groups, and Shared Drive folders live at the department level; sub-teams inherit access. See Teams.

Facilitated message

A message sent between humans through the app so personal contact details stay private. Humans can opt out from notifications. See Profiles.

Human

The standard term for any person in the system. Used in place of "member", "user", or "volunteer" when referring to the general population, independent of role. Individual capabilities depend on role.

Membership tier

Your governance status — Volunteer (default), Colaborador, or Asociado. Tracked on the profile and changed via tier applications. See Governance.

Reconciliation

The nightly Google sync job (GoogleResourceReconciliationJob, 03:00) that realigns Shared Drive and Group membership with your team memberships. Runs only for services whose sync mode is not None. See Google Integration.

Role assignment

A temporal grant of a coordinator or admin role to a human — with a valid-from date and an optional valid-to date. Every change is audited. See Governance.

Section

A vertical area of the app (Profiles, Teams, Shifts, Camps, Budget, Admin, etc.). Each section has its own guide file.

Service account

The Google identity the app uses to manage Shared Drive folders and Groups. To link a resource, that account must already be an Editor on the Drive folder or a Manager on the Group. See Google Integration.

Shared Drive

A Google Drive shared with a team. The app manages only Shared Drives — not personal My Drive folders — and touches only direct permissions, not inherited ones. See Google Integration.

Sound zone

A noise-level classification assigned to a camp (quiet, medium, loud, and so on). Color-codes the barrio map and feeds camp directory filters. See Camps and City Planning.

Sub-team

A team that lives under exactly one department. Managed by sub-team managers, who have the same tools as a department Coordinator but scoped to the single sub-team. See Teams.

Sync mode

The per-service Google sync setting — None (off), AddOnly (grant access only, never revoke), or AddAndRemove (full bidirectional sync). Flipping a service to None is the fast kill switch. See Google Integration.

System team

A team the app manages automatically — Volunteers, Coordinators, Board, Asociados, Colaboradores. You can't join or leave a system team by hand; membership follows role assignments and tier status. See Teams.

Team

A group of humans organized around a shared purpose. Teams have members, coordinators, and optionally a Google Group and Shared Drive. See Teams.

Volunteer

The default membership tier — the standard human. Everyone starts here after completing signup, profile setup, consent, and Consent Coordinator clearance. See Onboarding.

Volunteer Coordinator

The role that acts as a facilitation contact for onboarding, with read-only access to the onboarding review queue. Distinct from the Consent Coordinator, who clears consents. See Onboarding.