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| '''[[Consumerium]] [[governance]]''' is how it runs [[Consumerium:itself|itself]] - the [[protocol]] that keeps everything "fair and above board". This should be as close to a [[formal protocol]] as possible. | | '''[[Consumerium]] [[governance]]''' is how it runs itself. Because Consumerium seeks to change [[corporate governance]] and perhaps [[government]] attitude to this, it should be a very good example of governance responsible to our [[values]]. Whatever they are. Specific issues in Consumerium governance are: |
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| == continuous improvement ==
| | *choice of a [[Consumerium board]] - by default now it is just [[User:Juxo]] or "Chairman Juxo" or "Chief Gardener Juxo" or "Janitor Juxo" or whatever title he likes. ''see [[m:Wikipedia Governance]] for debate on one-man rule over there.'' |
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| While [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] deals with daily issues of [[Publish:governance]], [[Research:governance]] and building a [[healthy signal infrastructure]], what it does must be formalized into:
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| *[[publish protocol]] to keep generating a [[Consumerium buying signal]] that satisfies [[individual buying criteria]] and [[institutional buying criteria]] of uesers
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| *[[research protocol]] to keep gathering and filtering data from all [[faction]]s for all [[individual buying criteria]]
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| *[[integration protocol]] to keep funding servers and expansion that meets our own [[institutional buying criteria]] and creates [[healthy signal infrastructure]]
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| Because Consumerium seeks to empower [[consumer]]s to affect [[corporate governance]] and perhaps [[government]] attitude to [[trade]], it should be a very good example of governance responsible to our [[values]]. Whatever they are.
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| == counter-bias ==
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| It is clear that Consumerium has and will continue to have a [[Consumerium:Systemic bias]] based on the values of the people building it. This must be inverted, by applying a counter-bias in governance. ''Note: [[Wikimedia]] does the exact opposite! It must not be copied in this respect or [[CGO]] will fail. See [[m:Wikipedia Governance]] for debate on one-man rule over there. See also [[GodKing]].''
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| == issues ==
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| Specific issues in Consumerium governance are:
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| *choice of a [[Consumerium board]] - by default now it is just [[User:Juxo]] or "Chairman Juxo" or "Chief Gardener Juxo" or "Janitor Juxo" or whatever title he likes.
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| *choice of [[licenses]] - note that there are few contributors now, and it is not too late to require that all contributions accept that a change of license be possible later, under the terms of governance we eventually work out for that (in other words notify that unless you object in such and such a time after a notice of change of license, the material is under a new license, and you lose rights to say fork off a new project with the old material without problems). | | *choice of [[licenses]] - note that there are few contributors now, and it is not too late to require that all contributions accept that a change of license be possible later, under the terms of governance we eventually work out for that (in other words notify that unless you object in such and such a time after a notice of change of license, the material is under a new license, and you lose rights to say fork off a new project with the old material without problems). |
| *ways of assessing [[Consumerium:project future|project future]] and [[project status quo]] - ''see [[m:governance]] for some ways to do this, not sure if they've been tried.''
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| *other things that might have to be listed in a [[board manual]] - ''see [[m:board manual]] for a possible starting point for Consumerium's board - and [[m:Wikimedia board]] for an example of how not to do things!''
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| *picking the right balance of tools, rules and fools. We hate [[w:bureaucracy|bureaucracy]] for practical reasons, but sometimes zero-bureaucracy (like [[GPL]]) just leads you into more control by official bureaucrats and wasting your life defending your work. High-bureaucracy (like [[w:Business Software Alliance|Business Software Alliance]]) has some benefits but is mostly just oppressive. [[w:Consortium|Consortium]] usually fall in between and balance a little more bureaucracy and obligation up front with a way to manage unforseen events later on, the main reason to even consider '''governance''' important.
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| == interim step ==
| | *ways of assessing [[project future]] and [[project status quo]] - ''see [[m:governance]] for some ways to do this, not sure if they've been tried.'' |
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| It is not reasonable to expect all [[protocol]] to work on day one without gathering expertise of experienced people:
| | *other things that might have to be listed in a [[board manual]] - ''see [[m:board manual]] for a possible starting point for Consumerium's board.'' |
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| Eventually a [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] must take over from the founders, and regulate the '''Consumerium governance''' protocol in a fairer way than any of us can manage - we are not so foolish as to imagine that this means always relying on the original [[Consumerium board]]. It must be assumed that eventually the project is too complex and contentious to be "controlled" by anyone, and that the organization/board is primarily trying to [[obsolete itself]]. This probably is its ''only'' "job". A [[Transparent Consumerium]] would use the CGO only to resolve disputes that arise about the CGP fairness.
| | *picking the right balance of tools, rules and fools. We hate [[bureaucracy]] but sometimes zero-bureaucracy (like [[GPL]]) just leads you into more control by official bureaucrats and wasting your life defending your work. High-bureaucracy (like [[w:Business Software Alliance]]) has some benefits but is mostly just oppressive. [[Consortia]] usually fall in between and balance a little more bureaucracy and obligation up front with a way to manage unforseen events later on, the main reason to even consider '''governance''' important. |