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Scaling Community Decision-making - DrupalCon Nashville 2018
<p>Any Free/Libre Open Source Software project will have elements of <a class="reference external" href="http://data.agaric.com/drupal-do-ocracy">do-ocracy</a> (rule of those who do the work) but this approach does not work for all decisions a software community must make.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>A good decision-making process requires everyone involved be <a class="reference external" href="http://www.sociocracyforall.org/projects/rounds/">heard from</a>, and encourages making decisions based on data and scheduling a time to revisit decisions.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>When a decision strongly affects more than those who cary it out, however, we need better ways of making these decisions.&nbsp; We can scale conversations and decisions in a fair and truly democratic way.</p>
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<li>Come with at least a passing familiarity with various ways decisions are or have been made in Drupal.</li>
<li>Leave knowing about sociocracy and sortition and how these esoteric concepts could make our community scale</li>
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### Bio
<p><a href="http://agaric.com/people/benjamin-melan%C3%A7on">Bio</a></p>
<p>I have presented at multiple DrupalCons — Boston (<a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-and-knight-foundation.html">Knight Foundation panel</a>), Washington DC (Taxonomy), Paris (Taxonomy and RDF sessions), Portland (<a href="http://portland2013.drupal.org/training/drupal-for-decision-makers.html">Decision-maker training</a>), Munich (RDF) — and led Birds-of-a-Feather at many more (on topics such as contributing to the community, authoring (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4222173.Benjamin_Melancon">well-regarded</a>) 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 <a href="http://2017.tcdrupal.org/session/saas-how-drupal-service-can-save-us-all">Twin Cities DrupalCamp 2017.</a></p>
### Submissions
* https://events.drupal.org/nashville2018/sessions/scaling-community-decision-making