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