[okfn-discuss] [okfn-advisory] OKFN Governance

[Jonathan Gray]

Excellent - thanks Sören!

I think we should aim to get the projects committee (or steering
committee) set up ASAP. In terms of moving forward, perhaps we could
form the group - with the aim of coordinating and providing strategy
for OKF projects/activities?

Perhaps we could discuss this at next weeks IRC meet (next Tuesday evening)?

Jonathan

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Sören Auer
<auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After last nights discussion in the advisory board telco, I did a little
> research re governance of grass-roots community projects:
>
> *W3C*
> http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/cover.html
> Very comprehensive and structured, (paying) W3C members have voting rights.
>
> *Apache Foundation*
> http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
> Based on meritocracy.
>
> *Debian*
> http://www.debian.org/intro/organization
>
> *Wikipedia*
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines
> From the active Wikipedians elected administrators ultimately decide about
> conflicts.
>
>
> When researching the matter I also found p2pfoundation
> (http://p2pfoundation.net), whose goals seem complementry to OKFN. They also
> have a document comparing different practices of "peer" governance as they
> call it:
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Governance
> There seem to exist also quite a number of articles and even books about the
> matter (cf. references on the wiki articles).
>
> However, for now I would recommend to keep it rather simplistic. Maybe with
> some kind of steering committee, which decides based on a public RFC about
> the acceptance and status of OKFN projects (e.g. incubator and featured
> project) and groups (e.g. interest and working group). Maybe we don't even
> have to distinguish projects and groups?
>
> Sören
>
> --
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Sören Auer, AKSW/Computer Science Dept., University of Leipzig
> http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer,  Skype: soerenauer
>
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Jonathan Gray

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