A satth is the gathering: men of a village sitting together under a tree or on a platform, and the place where that happens.
It had no minutes, no membership and no standing. It also had no women and nobody from the outer part of the village, and both of those are part of what it was.
It is where almost everything on this site was ever said out loud, and it is why almost none of it was written down. A society that settles its business in a courtyard does not need an archive until the courtyard stops meeting.
The courtyards have stopped meeting. The people who sat in them are old.
The project takes the name because a website is a poor substitute for a satth and is better than nothing, and because the work of a satth was to hold what a village knew in a place where it could be got at.
That is all this is trying to do, and it will only work if the people who were in the satth put what they know into it.
The satth is where a village talks without any of it being official. It has no chair, keeps no record, and decides nothing formally.
That is the model. This site is not an archive and not an authority. It is a place where things are said and can be argued with.
A satth also depends entirely on people turning up. So does this.