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