[governance] FW: [ox-en] Study Reports on Debian Governance, Social Organization

[Michael Gurstein]

May be of interest for those with a more academic interest in how we govern
ourselves.

MG


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Of Anivar Aravind
Sent: April 14, 2008 11:35 AM
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Subject: [ox-en] Study Reports on Debian Governance, Social Organization


"Two academic management researchers, Siobhán O'Mahony and Fabrizion 
Ferraro, performed a detailed scientific study about Debian Project 
governance and social organization from the management perspective. How 
a big non-commercial non-paying community evolved and actually produces 
some of the most respectable Operating Systems and applications packages 
available? Organizations without a consensual basis of authority lack an 
important condition necessary for their survival. Those with directly 
democratic forms of participation do not tend to scale well and are 
noted for their difficulty managing complexity and decision-making — all 
of which can hasten their demise. The Debian Project community designed 
and evolved a solid governance system since 1993 able to stablish shared 
conceptions of formal authority, leadership and meritocracy, limited by 
defined democratic adaptive mechanisms."

http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about
_debian_governance_and_organization
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