Description
Any Free/Libre Open Source Software project will have elements of do-ocracy (rule of those who do the work) but this approach does not work for all decisions a software community must make.
Largely of necessity in heavily volunteer-driven projects, all people who must carry out a decision have to consent to the course of action. Everyone should get a say in the direction and conditions of their work (and no one gets to say they are just following orders).
A good decision-making process requires everyone involved be heard from, and encourages making decisions based on data and scheduling a time to revisit decisions.
We'll talk about ways we can do even better, but the nature of needing the consent of people to do the work, to carry out a decision, gives us a good minimum baseline in our processes for much of what we do.
When a decision strongly affects more than those who cary it out, however, we need better ways of making these decisions. We can scale conversations and decisions in a fair and truly democratic way.
- Come with at least a passing familiarity with various ways decisions are or have been made in Drupal.
- Leave knowing about sociocracy and sortition and how these esoteric concepts could make our community scale
Benjamin Melançon
Worker-owner, developer @ AgaricAt Agaric, i use open source free software to give people and groups power over their online communication and web presence. To help all people gain power over our own lives, which we need to make progress toward justice and liberty, I volunteer at a nonprofit organization called, and for, People Who Give a Damn.