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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-advisory mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-advisory > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
