OGMing

A distinctive piece of OGM's internal language: the noun "OGM" gets used as a verb. From OGM Culture/OGM Languaging.md:

OGM as a Verb

The languaging page is itself a stub — it lists topics for elaboration without filling them in. But "OGMing" appears across the corpus as the lived practice of the community.

What "OGMing" seems to mean

Triangulating across pages where "OGMing" or "OGM together" appears:

OGM Culture/OGM Community Patterns.md — "the participants deeper and richer interactions both here and elsewhere"
OGM Culture/ (folder description) — "how we OGM together"
OGM Structure/Bootstrap Needs for a Sovereign.md — what's needed to do OGM as a sovereign entity
OGM Structure/OGM Infrastructure (Evolving).md — operational sprint plan, framed as what OGM does

Three threads recur:

Conversation as primary medium. OGM happens in calls, Mattermost, Discourse, the wiki — but the living form is the conversation.
Patterns over rules. OGM Culture/OGM Community Patterns.md describes how new communities coalesce within OGM, not as procedure but as observed pattern.
Documentation as a side-effect. Most of the wiki is meeting notes, draft documents, work-in-progress. The wiki is what gets left behind by OGMing, not the goal of it.

Other distinctive language

From OGM Culture/OGM Languaging.md (outline form):

"That vs. Which" — listed as a topic, not elaborated. Probably about the use-distinction in formal writing, but the page doesn't say.
"Fractal and Holographic" — invoked as a property of OGM's structure
"Cooperation and Collaboration" — distinguished, with a sub-bullet "co-creation and co-production"
"Fractal Scale" — "circles, out, in, internal, external within, around" / "not up/down"

That last one is striking: OGM resists vertical metaphors. Not "up the org chart" but "circles within circles" — a flat, recursive geometry.

Related concepts (other Themes here)

The Five Layers — the operational structure of what OGM does
Sovereigns — what OGM calls participating entities
Stewardship Hub — how OGMing gets governed

Source disclaimer

OGM Culture/OGM Languaging.md is one of the most fragmentary pages in the source — section headings without bodies. This synthesis works by triangulation; some inferences may be wrong. Treat the source headings as an invitation to write, not as already-written.

Sources:

OGM Culture/OGM Languaging.md (primary, fragmentary)
OGM Culture/OGM Community Patterns.md
Cross-references throughout OGM Culture/ and OGM Structure/