Comments on: Open Governance – How can open communities make good decisions and get stuff done? http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/08/open-governance-how-can-open-communities-make-good-decisions-and-get-stuff-done/ Philipp Schmidt's shared learnings Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: Weekend Reading: His Way Edition - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/08/open-governance-how-can-open-communities-make-good-decisions-and-get-stuff-done/#comment-307 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:16:42 +0000 http://sharing-nicely.net/?p=665#comment-307 [...] Schmidt, of Peer 2 Peer University, speculates about “Open Governance: How Can Open Communities Make Good Decisions and Get Stuff Done”: I have a fairly good idea what it means for content or software to be open, but I find the complex [...]

]]> By: Philipp http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/08/open-governance-how-can-open-communities-make-good-decisions-and-get-stuff-done/#comment-176 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:06:11 +0000 http://sharing-nicely.net/?p=665#comment-176 Hey Bonni: I find Holocracy an aweful term (and it is trademarked on top) and it sounds more like jargon than anything particularly new.

“The power of organizations today is unmatched, and their capacity for driving further evolution has never been greater. Holacracy offers a way forward – it’s up to us to make it happen.” Really?!?

The article is basically a sales pitch/marketing for consulting services. If you feel there are particular ideas in the “holorazy” haze, which are relevant to the conversation, please mention them.

]]> By: Philipp http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/08/open-governance-how-can-open-communities-make-good-decisions-and-get-stuff-done/#comment-175 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:00:17 +0000 http://sharing-nicely.net/?p=665#comment-175 Hey Jan: I am not in Cape Town this week, but forwarded Michael’s announcement to friends and colleagues a few weeks ago. Looks great and sad to miss it.

]]> By: Jan Wildeboer http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/08/open-governance-how-can-open-communities-make-good-decisions-and-get-stuff-done/#comment-174 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:45:51 +0000 http://sharing-nicely.net/?p=665#comment-174 We are right now here in Capetown delivering POSSE South Africa:

http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_South_Africa

Maybe you or someone from p2pu would like to join us? We are open for more participants :-)

Jan Wildeboer

]]> By: Stian Håklev http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/08/open-governance-how-can-open-communities-make-good-decisions-and-get-stuff-done/#comment-146 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:47:02 +0000 http://sharing-nicely.net/?p=665#comment-146 Great post, and I look forward to the course! Just as we have benefited from the experiences and examples set by other pioneer organizations, it’s great that we are also trying to share our own experience, including the difficult parts. The good, the bad and the ugly! :)

It’s no doubt that trying to run a big virtual organization, where almost everyone is a volunteer, is very difficult. Some of the things you didn’t mention above is how to motivate volunteers to join, and to keep working on the project. How to reward or motivate volunteers in a fair and sustainable way. How to pay somebody for their work, and not others, without creating resentment.

How to enable self-organizing and initiative-taking by members, so that a project can scale in size – not everything needs to be coordinated or initiated by the “top”. How to keep decision processes open and participatory, without having to vote on every single detail, or overwhelming participants with discussions and decisions…

Many more questions. The course will be a great place to discuss these (it would be great if one of the outcomes was a wiki or a document that could be useful to others), and of course P2PU presents an ongoing lab for experimenting with these ideas.

]]> By: Bonni http://sharing-nicely.net/2010/08/open-governance-how-can-open-communities-make-good-decisions-and-get-stuff-done/#comment-144 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:20:46 +0000 http://sharing-nicely.net/?p=665#comment-144 Thanks for posting about this. I’m wondering if you have had an opportunity to look into holocracy. There seem to be some similarities and it may provide some good tools as you explore this topic.

http://www.holacracy.org/sites/default/files/resources/Organization_Evolved.pdf

Looking forward to reading more….

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