Zine Release: "Change Is in the Cards: Governance Transitions in Open Source Communities"

Abstract: Waves of uncertainty swell around you. They threaten to consume you with confusion as they crescendo. Where do you and your community turn?

Since 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.

We invited practitioners from various open-source communities to use the tarot as a tool for sense-making about governance transitions they have witnessed or participated in. We consulted the tarot, pulling cards for each contributor and encouraging them to interpret these cards as they may— conjuring wisdom about community governance, especially in moments of liminality and transition.

Making open-source software is a way of collectively speaking new possibilities into existence. Programming and community-building both are forms of practical magic: the writing and implementation of codes, spells, or “magic words” that do things in the world. Governance is the stewardship or oversight of these processes. By demystifying certain aspects of it (and mystifying others!), we can help communities operate more effectively and democratically.

Our 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.

www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/03/get-our-latest-zine-open-source-governance-change-cards

game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics

Audience: researchers in the topic

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Metagovernance Seminar

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The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Topics of the seminar include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

See archived videos: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Metagovernance%20Seminar%22

The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public, but please note that the discussion is moderated. Our governance structure is defined here: metagov.pubpub.org/metagov-governance

Please contact a planning committee member (Nathan Schneider, Divya Siddarth, Michael Zargham, Joshua Tan, and Seth Frey) if you are interested in becoming a member of the seminar.

Where available, a direct link to the archived video is linked beneath the video tags.

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