Consumerium governance

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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:

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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:Software Business Alliance) has some benefits but is mostly just oppressive. Consortia usually fall in between.