Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
Dan Scott posted this link on the Evergreen mailing list and I thought it might be interesting reading for Koha folks as well.
http://webmink.com/essays/open-by-rule/
The author provides some suggestions on governance of OS projects.
The author's two most famous memberships are of OSI, which sort-of forked from the well-governed SPI, failed in its primary aim and became an unaccountable zombie for a while; and of Sun's workforce, who were so good at embedding good governance that we now have to choose from a family of MySQL children and from a family of OpenOffice branches(!) So I'm not surprised that I feel Simon Phipps's beliefs are incorrect, especially around who should be in charge. The rules are fine, but appear to almost completely ignore key topics like finance and trade which are often the most divisive. We could learn far more from general good governance from civil society and charities than from reinventing the wheel. Software development is not *that* unique. If you're into books, I heartily recommend "Voluntary but not amateur" (despite the dubious title) as a general background and a lot of the recent "Simply ..." guides from www.uk.coop like Simply Governance... or online, some of them are linked from http://www.uk.coop/tags/term/governance Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha