From 4d17ecfb458476c935f6306d321e19a86864b064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?benjamin=20melan=C3=A7on?= Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:25:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add an abstract --- scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md diff --git a/scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md b/scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09d455b --- /dev/null +++ b/scaling-community-decision-making/abstract.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Scaling Community Decision-making - DrupalCon Nashville 2018 + +

Any Free/Libre Open Source Software project will have elements of do-ocracy (rule of those who do the work) but this approach does not work for all decisions a software community must make.

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Largely of necessity in heavily volunteer-driven projects, all people who must carry out a decision have to consent to the course of action. Everyone should get a say in the direction and conditions of their work (and no one gets to say they are just following orders).

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A good decision-making process requires everyone involved be heard from, and encourages making decisions based on data and scheduling a time to revisit decisions.

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We'll talk about ways we can do even better, but the nature of needing the consent of people to do the work, to carry out a decision, gives us a good minimum baseline in our processes for much of what we do.

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When a decision strongly affects more than those who cary it out, however, we need better ways of making these decisions.  We can scale conversations and decisions in a fair and truly democratic way.

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Bio

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I have presented at multiple DrupalCons — Boston (Knight Foundation panel), Washington DC (Taxonomy), Paris (Taxonomy and RDF sessions), Portland (Decision-maker training), Munich (RDF) — and led Birds-of-a-Feather at many more (on topics such as contributing to the community, authoring (well-regarded) Drupal books, and worker cooperatives), in addition to panels, presentations, and workshops at multiple Drupal and non-Drupal summits and camps, including NYCCamp, Design for Drupal Boston, Boston GNU/Linux Meetup, New England Drupal Camp, the NERD Summit, and most recently DrupalCamp Montreal 2017 and Twin Cities DrupalCamp 2017.

+ +### Submissions + +* https://events.drupal.org/nashville2018/sessions/scaling-community-decision-making