A Clan is the decision-making body. Projects are not approved administratively: a proposal is raised over a verified farm, seconded by other members, argued for and against on the record, and then voted on. Nothing opens for participation before that finishes.
Four stages, in that order. Each is a record kept against the proposal, so how a decision was reached can be read back afterwards.
A proposal is put forward over a verified farm or a cluster, carrying what it will cost and the terms it asks for.
Other members have to support it before it goes further. A proposal nobody will second never reaches a vote.
For and against, on the record, during a reading period before voting opens. The arguments stay attached to the proposal.
Members vote. Quorum and the threshold it must clear are set in advance, and a proposal that reaches neither does not proceed.
Zimo Clan operates within the MAISTRADE cooperative framework. That framework is where membership originates, and membership is what carries a vote.
Membership comes through a cooperative in the MAISTRADE framework, and a membership fee is payable when it is approved. Nothing on this website sells it to you, and no amount paid anywhere admits somebody the cooperative has not accepted.
Membership puts you on the roll. Voting needs a Clan Pass on top of it — the platform refuses a ballot from anybody who does not hold one, and the pass is also what lets a member raise a proposal.
The register names people, not landowners. A cooperative's member may farm nothing at all — being a farmer is a separate record entirely.
Being admitted as a member never confers the power to commit the cooperative to a funding request. That is its own decision, made on the cooperative's officers screen.
The Clan Pass is the ZIMOVERSE membership credential. It identifies you as a Zimo Clan Federation member, and it is what confers both rights that matter here: the right to vote, and the right to take part in an approved project. Without one, somebody is still on the roll and still counted in the membership, but a ballot from them is refused.
Two rights: a vote on proposals, including the right to raise one, and the right to take part in a project the Clan has approved.
A membership fee, then being on the clan roll with a verified identity. Beyond the fee there is nothing to apply for: a member who qualifies and has no pass yet is issued one rather than refused, because nobody should have to request a right they have already earned.
A cooperative can suspend somebody's vote by withdrawing the pass, without removing them from the roll — because the roll is the denominator of every quorum, and quietly shrinking it would change the arithmetic of every proposal in flight.
A farming cooperative or agro cluster applies publicly, and an administrator reviews the application before approving it. Once approved it can admit members, put its clusters forward for funding, and appoint its own officers.
Then your membership is what you need. The Member App is where proposals, evidence and votes live, and where you decide whether to take part in an approved project.