Festival2012/Submit/Governance of Open Projects

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  • Title of session: Open governance (or governance of "open" projects). Applying methods that open communities evolved to projects and innovation
  • Session format: Fireside chat
  • People (Come with a visual structure of how their community works)
    • Facilitate: Helen
    • Main Chatters:
      • Jono Bacon - Canonical/Ubuntu
      • Gunner - Aspiration
      • Rufus - OKFN
      • Philipp - P2PU
      • Wikipedia?
      • Michelle? (might be too busy during MozFest) - Mozilla
      • Charles Armstrong - One Click Orgs
      • Tom Steinberg - MySociety
      • Zaheda Bohrat? - ex Google and OpenOffice?
    • Organisations to learn
      • Jane Park - CC

How many people = ideal?

  • Fun with 10 or 100
  • 10 - panel talking and then group disccusion
  • 100 - panel then smaller groups talking and reporting back

Open and collaborative communities

What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?

Discuss:

  • How do open communties function
  • How do they make decisions
  • How do they get stuff done?
  • Facilitate conversations
  • Create ownership
  • Culture - How do new joiners understand what the culture is and adopt it?
  • Participation - who gets to participate?
  • Transparency
  • Recognising leadership and authority
  • How to recognise and lead the various types of communities within the community
  • Paid employees vs volunteers - who are you resposnabile to - org or community?
  • Democary vs dictatorships? - http://rufuspollock.org/2007/09/18/talk-at-law-20-openness-web-20-and-the-ethic-of-sharing/

Perspectives:

  • Types of communities
  • Hear the diversity


What do you see as outcomes after the festival?

  • Exit - if you have interest - we are building these courses in P2PU / School of Open
  • Work on something?
  • Sign up for the course?
  • Build and run, testing and feedback
  • Best P2PU course are run by experts!
  • Create a primer?