Festival2012/Submit/Governance of Open Projects

• Title of session: Open governance (or governance of "open" projects). Applying methods that open communities evolved to projects and innovation
• Session format: Fireside chat
• People (Come with a visual structure of how their community works)
  • Facilitate: Helen
  • Main Chatters:
    • Jono Bacon - Canonical/Ubuntu
    • Gunner - Aspiration
    • Rufus - OKFN
    • Philipp - P2PU
    • Wikipedia?
    • Michelle? (might be too busy during MozFest) - Mozilla
    • Charles Armstrong - One Click Orgs
    • Tom Steinberg - MySociety
    • Zaheda Bohrat? - ex Google and OpenOffice?
  • Organisations to learn
    • Jane Park - CC

How many people = ideal?

• Fun with 10 or 100
• 10 - panel talking and then group disccusion
• 100 - panel then smaller groups talking and reporting back

Open and collaborative communities

What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?

Discuss:

• How do open communties function
• How do they make decisions
• How do they get stuff done?
• Facilitate conversations
• Create ownership
• Culture - How do new joiners understand what the culture is and adopt it?
• Participation - who gets to participate?
• Transparency
• Recognising leadership and authority
• How to recognise and lead the various types of communities within the community
• Paid employees vs volunteers - who are you resposnabile to - org or community?
• Democary vs dictatorships? - http://rufuspollock.org/2007/09/18/talk-at-law-20-openness-web-20-and-the-ethic-of-sharing/

Perspectives:

• Types of communities
• Hear the diversity

What do you see as outcomes after the festival?

• Exit - if you have interest - we are building these courses in P2PU / School of Open
• Work on something?
• Sign up for the course?
• Build and run, testing and feedback
• Best P2PU course are run by experts!
• Create a primer?