spreading the word · the sharer's kit

Carry it honestly.

Everything below is true, proven, and free to share — the creed and the content under CC BY, the machine under Apache-2.0. Copy the boxes, speak the numbers, credit the table. That's the whole license: attribution travels with the work.

the one-paragraph tell

What this is, in one breath

Spruce Grove OS is a free, open-source machine that builds software the way a good apprentice works: you describe the job out loud, it thinks in the open, checks its own work, and shows you everything. It runs on your accounts, on your computer — no seat rent, no toll on your own productivity. Around it stands the Leather Apron Club, a council rebooting Benjamin Franklin's 1727 Junto in Bentonville, Arkansas: neighbors pooling skills, building what the world isn't offering, and teaching every neighbor to own their own tools. https://sprucegrove.io

paste as-is. the link is the attribution.

the numbers · share-safe

Proven, or don't say it

These are the only figures to quote — each one traces to shipped work:

2shops' tools built in public

30–90days, friction to self-sustaining

75,000+people work the method

7,869automated tests on the machine

$0license · your keys, your models

12seats, tight — one kept open

100%of profit → 43 Institute

anything beyond these: don't invent it. say "come look at the receipts" and link the works.

the creed · copyable

Together we are better. Always.

The club's whole ethic, in the lines it actually runs on:

Be first to say hello. Assume positive intent. Be kinder than necessary.
Love truth for truth's sake. Cite it or flag it NOT VERIFIED.
Tough minded, tender hearted. Candid about the code, gentle with the person.
Leave everything better than you found it. Every file, every repo, every room.
"How can the Junto assist you in any of your honorable designs?" — asked at every table since 1727.

credit line: "from the Leather Apron Club's standing code — sprucegrove.io"

the standing questions · copyable

The ritual, carried

Franklin's Junto opened its sessions with standing questions. The club's adaptation ends every meeting on the same one:

What did you build this week?
What friction did you name — yours or a neighbor's?
What did it teach you that the next person should hear?
Who belongs at the table that isn't in a chair yet?

the first three are franklin's, adapted; the ritual is public — the chairs are twelve.

the pledge · copyable

Where every dollar goes

The grove's work is free. Where profit exists at all — a video, a sponsorship, whatever comes — it is ledgered in public and donated to the 43 Institute, Ken Block's foundation: a 501(c)(3) creating pathways for underserved, highly driven "motivated misfits" in action sports, motorsports, and the creative arts. Racing and rally, skateboards and BMX, art and music and print.

Every dollar the grove earns goes to the 43 Institute (43i.org) — Ken Block's foundation for "motivated misfits": underserved, highly driven kids in action sports, motorsports, and the creative arts. The machine is free. The value flows to the misfits. The ledger stays public.

their impact, in their words: 43i.org/impact · 501(c)(3) · donations unrestricted, used where needed most

the rules of the road

Don't be a twat: the sharer's edition

Credit the table. "From the Leather Apron Club / sprucegrove.io" — every time, even the small mentions. It costs nothing and it is the whole deal.
Never strip the names. Re-sharing is welcome; re-branding is not the sharing this page means.
No enemies. The story is cooperatives versus complexity, cost, and indifference — never a company, never a person.
Mark the line. The names "Spruce Grove" and "The Leather Apron Club", the TreeMark and the badges are identity, not content — ask before you wear the apron.

full terms: content CC BY 4.0 · machine Apache-2.0 · marks in TRADEMARKS.md

kit contents: creed + standing questions (CC BY 4.0 — credit travels) · proven numbers trace to the works of the council and the grove's FACTCHECK · marks: TRADEMARKS.md