Session: The Biggest Problems in Open Source Community Have Already Been Solved
Modern open source is constantly inventing new ways to connect collectives, advancing open intellectual property, consumed by millions. Over the past two decades, we still narrowly miss the optimistic model for collaboration while wrestling with conflicting ideals of self-determination and governance, community and economic development, seats of control, language, distributed teams and diverse cultures. For non-indigenous open source participants, we’re learning through no and low hierarchical (flat) structures that embracing community is the means to reach this romantic, radical and revolutionary aspirations of “open” at its very “source.” Learning from indigenous practices that have existed for hundreds of years, leader-less communal structures we can grow in decision making, building consensus, transparent communication, reducing friction in policy and politics, honoring elders, storytelling and self-governance: some of the hardest problems to traverse in an open source community.
