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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 06/30/2020 11:55 PM
Add bias as discussed with the steering commitee privately


GovernanceResearch

Introduction

The Replicant project sometimes needs to take decisions. The decisions are currently taken by the steering commitee.

It would be better if this is made more horizontal:
  • It would remove the single points of failure
  • The decisions would be better and less horizontal
  • Potential individual bias could be smoothed out by having more people taking decisions.

Challenges

The main issues with a more horizontal governance in Replicant are:
  • To ensure that the decisions being taken are informed decisions
  • The Replicant project doesn't become a nonfree distribution

Examples

Project governance can work in completely horizontal way, however to do that projects typically need to implement some rules1.

Examples:
  • Some free software projects require to follow meetings or pay a membership to be able to vote. The goal behind that is to avoid taking uninformed decisions.
  • Events organization projects do manage to take very well informed decisions in a very efficient and fast way2.

Good practices

References

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom
fn2. https://media.ccc.de/v/Camp2019-10204-participatory_art_event_tools_co-creation_and_silk_road_networks

Updated by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 3 years ago · 2 revisions

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