A conference in the Electric Minds teleconferencing system, one of the most "socially oriented" conferences in the community. A good place for newbies to look around and get acclimated to the CommunityWare conferencing system.

The commons is also the term applied to the land outside mediaeval villages in England. It was held in common by the residents, and by those who lived around it.

They could live their lives by subsistence, outside any money economy.

This existence was forcibly ended by many, many acts of the British Parliament, called by some the agrarian revolution that paved the way for the Industrial Revolution.