On 3/22/2019 7:28 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:25 PM Naomi Slater <n...@tumbolia.org> wrote: >> I suspect the answer is not to replace the word but to do away with it >> entirely > I still would like to have a succinct handle to reference the ethos of ASF.
>From my experience, there are words that are landmines in open source: free and meritocracy happen to be such words without question. Switching meritocracy to do-ocracy might be a good way to handle it and I know that's what other orgs like LF have done. However, we are straddling the middle of having both principles of duopolies like JFDI and elections with the necessary hierarchy for fiscal / corporate oversight. That means the definition of do-ocracy doesn't fit. I usually do mention the issues like a meritocracy often morphs into a dictatorship and that people can amass too much merit that it's viewed as harmful. I see that when I mention my $0.02 sometimes and it's taken with more weight than I intend. So like Roman, I've been search for a word or a succinct handle to refer to it. I don't have an answer but agree that do-ocracy and meritocracy don't work well. I usually say all the things we aren't in my Yet Another The Apache Way talk (TATAW per Daniel Ruggeri). I think I'll start saying we aren't a meritocracy OR a do-ocracy/duopoly either but it's the closest thing I know of. I don't like the idea of NOT saying what we are so do you have suggestion of what word you think fits? Regards, KAM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
