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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 06/30/2020 11:55 PM
Add bias as discussed with the steering commitee privately
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| 3 | h2. Introduction |
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| 5 | The Replicant project sometimes needs to take decisions. The decisions are currently taken by the [[SteeringCommittee|steering commitee]]. |
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| 7 | It would be better if this is made more horizontal: |
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| 8 | * It would remove the single points of failure |
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| 9 | * The decisions would be better and less horizontal |
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| 10 | 2 | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli | * Potential individual bias could be smoothed out by having more people taking decisions. |
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| 12 | h2. Challenges |
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| 14 | The main issues with a more horizontal governance in Replicant are: |
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| 15 | * To ensure that the decisions being taken are informed decisions |
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| 16 | * The Replicant project doesn't become a nonfree distribution |
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| 18 | h3. Examples |
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| 20 | Project governance can work in completely horizontal way, however to do that projects typically need to implement some rules[1]. |
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| 22 | Examples: |
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| 23 | * 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. |
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| 24 | * Events organization projects do manage to take very well informed decisions in a very efficient and fast way[2]. |
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| 26 | h3. Good practices |
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| 30 | h2. References |
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| 32 | fn1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom |
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| 33 | fn2. https://media.ccc.de/v/Camp2019-10204-participatory_art_event_tools_co-creation_and_silk_road_networks |