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The most important things we have to do need to be done together. And our work together is most powerful when we make decisions about it together.

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

+the people most affected by decisions should be those making them + +communication distribution driven by a small number of people with power and money + + + +### Twitter Teaser + +The most important things we have to do need to be done together. And our work together is most powerful when we make decisions about it together. + + ### Bio

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