BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MEDLab (University of Colorado Boulder) DTSTART:20241113T170000Z DTEND:20241113T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260409T011156Z UID:Metagov/228 DESCRIPTION:Title: Zine Release: "Change Is in the Cards: Governance Transitions in Open So urce Communities"\nby MEDLab (University of Colorado Boulder) as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nWaves of uncertainty swell around you. They threaten to consume you with confusion as they crescendo. Where do you and your community turn?\n\nSince its invention 15th-century Italy \, tarot has been one technology of sense-making often used as a starting points for reflection\, divination\, and introspection. By consulting the cards and considering their relevance to the problems that face us\, these technologies can help us to forge answers to the existential queries that arise across a lifetime of complexity and change.\n\nWe invited practitio ners from various open-source communities to use the tarot as a tool for s ense-making about governance transitions they have witnessed or participat ed in. We consulted the tarot\, pulling cards for each contributor and enc ouraging them to interpret these cards as they may— conjuring wisdom abo ut community governance\, especially in moments of liminality and transiti on.\n\nMaking open-source software is a way of collectively speaking new p ossibilities into existence. Programming and community-building both are f orms of practical magic: the writing and implementation of codes\, spells\ , or “magic words” that do things in the world. Governance is the ste wardship or oversight of these processes. By demystifying certain aspects of it (and mystifying others!)\, we can help communities operate more effe ctively and democratically.\n\nOur hope is that this zine will be an open- ended starting point—a forkable resource—that can help others navigate growth\, transition\, and all kinds of impasse\, in software development and far beyond. \n\nhttps://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/03/get-ou r-latest-zine-open-source-governance-change-cards\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/228/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR