OGM Stewards Jam Sesh, 2021-04-27

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People

• Jerry, Judy, Scott, David, Pete
• not Lauren, Charles, Matt

Agenda

• Check in as people.
• Discuss how to chunk meeting and what to do if we have overflow agenda items.
• stuff goes here
• Discuss and record next steps.
• Check out as people.

Potential Agenda Items

numbers give priority order

• (1) Review status of OGM + Lionsberg partnership and structuring of OGM.
  • Lionsberg + OGM, 2021-04-22
  • How would OGM fill out FAQ, Entity-Member Relationship?
• (3) Review the term "steward ownership" in relation to OGM:
  • what is being stewarded?
    • authority, responsibility
  • who is stewarding?
  • what is owned?
  • who is owning?
• (2) Discuss David Bovill's proposal to collaborate on Governance issues (below)
• (5) Tour of OGM Wiki, OGM Mainsite (temp), and Massive Wiki static site generation.
• (6) Start prep for Thursday OGM+Lionsberg call.
• (7) Check in on Quest - Opening up OGM.
• (8) What do we think about the new [Quest] namespace in CSC Mattermost? What do we think CSC thinks about it?
• (9) Review Stewardship Dashboard items.
• (deferred to work session) Work session on MOU / Appendix A - Sprint 1 Statement of Work / Legal section documents.
  • 2 hours tomorrow at 11am PDT / 1900 London
• (4) Handling scale ; decentralization

Notes

• Cunningham's Law
• more wiki-fying notes
• page created: Governance Model Comparisons

Wiki Governance

• good wiki structure = good governance
• clarity of definitions

References / Resources

• The LAO: A For-Profit, Limited Liability Autonomous Organization
  • Not sure if this is the "LAO" David refers to, but it's a good short history of The DAO, and an explanation of The LAO. It bears a compare/contrast between the LAO structure and the Lionsberg structure.

Handling Scale; Decentralization

• How to achieve consensus in a large group of people? (i.e., scale)
• Idea: decentralized federation of focused sovereigns
  • Federation = agreements, commitments, promises between sovereigns.
  • Each sovereign has its own, focused, vision/mission/values around a center of gravity.
  • Sovereigns can be service providers and clients to each other.
  • This is called federated micro-publics in GaiaFests "minimal viable governance model".
    • therefore, "sovereign" = "micro-publics"
• Observations
  • Amorphousness is good.
  • Focus is good.
  • Decentralization and federation provide both amorphousness and focus.
• Tools
  • Scaling while preserving the quality of rich deliberation requires tool support.

Proposal to Join Forces on Governance Issues

See original proposal at Proposal to Join Forces on Governance Issues (GaiaFest)

• not a governance model per se, rather a time scale
• short-term process for funding
• (a flotilla of sovereigns/micro-publics forming and doing work that might be, could be hundreds of them)
• mid-term (Nov 21 / June 22), really good process for constitution OGM, GaiaFest
  • 10-15 membership meetings would be needed for good process

"revenue stream" -> "value stream" (where "value" == something that i or someone really care about, a measurable value, value creation)

flotilla - practical, federation - each sovereign is a legal entity, with its own form - an ecosystem of legal entities

quotes - test: if it's a minimal step, are you ready to burn it down and build something else? - "'subset of the flotilla' is misleading" - "governance is about managing conflict" - "pace matching" - where do you incorporate the law - Legislative Theatre - "evolution needs something to work with"