Convene

Verb

1. To come together; to meet; to unite.
2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
3. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
4. To summon judicially to meet or appear.
5. To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.

   "To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings."