Engine Change at 80MPH: Transitioning Your Project from Benevolent Dictatorship to Community Ownership
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Topic
Engine Change at 80MPH: Transitioning Your Project from Benevolent Dictatorship to Community Ownership
Description
This session goes through the process of planning a governance transition— a voluntary revolution from benevolent dictatorship to community rule. The workshop will cover influential cases, discuss theories of governance dynamics, and describe tools, all tied in with your own experiences, hopes, dreams, concerns, etc. Whether you are running an OSS project, a coin, a network, or a discussion forum, if your project is looking at its next governance metamorphosis, then this workshop is for you.
Hopes & dreams
Show open source software projects a pathway towards community ownership and governance
Core facilitators
Seth Frey, Joshua Tan, Nathan Schneider, Amy Zhang
Main contact (email)
sethfrey@ucdavis.edu Cc: cent@metagov.org, tony@codex.stanford.edu
Space Requirements
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Electricity -
Monitor -
Whiteboard or pad -
Table and chairs -
Seating in circle - [] Open space outdoors
- [] Either indoors or outdoors is fine
- [] Other (Specify)
Time Requirements
- [] 1 hour
- [] 2 hours
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Multiple sessions across 1 day -
Multiple sessions across 2 days - [] Multiple sessions across 3 days
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Pre breakfast session - [] Evening session
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Other (Specify) - 3-4 hour session
Who should participate
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Coders -
Creatives -
Policymakers - [] Children under 12
- [] Teens 12 - 18
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Anyone and everyone - [] Other (Specify)
What will participants take away?
They will take away new insights into the process of opening up their governance to communities.
Keywords
Community governance, open source software, governance transitions, workshop, accountability
Session rundown (tell us a rough outline of your plan)
- Session will spend 1 hour with practitioners and academic experts, and
- 1 hour giving the audience opportunities to share their experiences, and
- 1 hour systematizing the variety of cases and brainstorming tooling needs.
Relevant links
Relevant links about your project (optional)
Relevant Experience -- share why you'll be great!
Seth Frey is a scholar and long-time practitioner of small-scale self-governance, bringing together theory, case, and quantitative approaches. This workshop is made possible by support of the National Science Foundation.
Graphic or video link
Optional graphic or video to pitch your exciting project!