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Collective design & continuous improvement of OuiShare’s governance

Myriam Bouré PublicSeen by 339

The topic of democracy and governance within OuiShare has been highly discussed during the last summit (see hackpad: https://hackpad.com/OuiShare-Summit-7-Live-Blog-fKiNRuU2Rao#:h=BARCAMP-OuiShare-Organization).
It was decided, collectively, to build a team whose mission would be to facilitate the collective building of a first governance scheme, designed to implement adaptive changes, and starting from our current management model and governance.

This post aims to build that team. This is a call to all those interested in taking part, to raise their hand in the comments section, and join us!
The purpose of this initial team is to start the conversation and facilitate the process; we’ll all work together on the content.

Since the summer holidays are upon us, we are setting a deadline of 3 weeks to get involved, so let’s talk by August 17th.

Step 2 will be to open a discussion (Loomio, Hangout) with the team, to decide on the method we want to use to enable the collective building process of that first governance scheme to move forward, and define the roles needed to drive the process.

Thank you for being part in the design of our collective :)

Etienne

I'm interested to join this team and work together.

As you know I have a special interest for governance and transparency and have been experiencing sociocraty, holacracy both in NGOs and companies.

I'll be delighted to bring my knowledge to the organisation.

Simone Cicero

Interested and (hopefully) available to contribute

Myriam Bouré

I'm of course also interested to take part, especially as I'm getting involved also in designing the organization & governance model of Open Food Network, which has similar issues as OuiShare, so it will be interesting to see the parallels and inspire from both projects :-)

Thomas Dönnebrink

I am also interested in the topic, have to see how much time I have to contribute. I am currently reading "reinventing organizations" from Laloux which I would strongly recommend to all of you here (and in OuiShare in generell) to read (if not already done.
(More about this when I am through with reading :)

Francesca

Thanks for launching the call for this team @myriamboure . Having been involved in the previous organization design efforts of OuiShare in the last 3 years, it's critical we finally create this permanent team (with of course non permanent members :)) that thinks about governance on a continous basis. I'm in too of course!

Maud

Count me in :-)

nelly

very interested to join :-)

Cristóbal Gracia

thanks @myriamboure for leading this topic. I'm also interested in joining this team, specially seeing some friends around. : )

I will be available from september 7th. In August I won't be connected to emails neither fb, slack, loomio, etc...

Jocelyn Ibarra

In. I'm interested in culture development :)

Elena Giroli

happy to contribute!;)

Myriam Bouré

Hei everyone! Ok, so here is the first (evolutive) team people who answered the call :
Etienne, Simone, Myriam, Thomas, Francesca, Maud, Nelly, Cristobal, Jocelyn & Elena.

As we discussed it at the summit, now next step is to decide together on a method we want to use to drive that collective design process. I started a very quick rough reflexion on the drive: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Of-oN79gRm1YTuPv1zHe_REG6ESkBEqDzpg-EqtN3s/edit?usp=sharing but I know @simonecicero you had some proposal on that point. Can you share it? I propose you all to list on the document the different options/ideas for the method to use for that collective design process. I also started a reflexion on the roles/tools linked to that process.

Let's plan a hangout to open a more direct discussion about the method/timeline/roles/tools, before we can make a proposal and share it with everyone on Loomio. Here is a doodle with different dates & times in the coming two weeks: http://doodle.com/qafuwbb7c35e5ntq.

Have a nice day!
Love :-)
Myriam

Myriam Bouré

Oh, and I forgot a question: should we put the governance design process into the participatory budgeting? I remember we discussed about a budget for it during the summit... but I'm not sure... I feel like it's more a core global activity than a "project". Shouldn't it enter the general participatory system?

Simone Cicero

Ciao! Very Good Job, the amount of work done on governance is daunting. regarding your punctual requests:

  • doodle done (I suggest we set an end date)

  • process for creating the next iteration of governance process: I suggest we use the QUEST process from Nilofer Merchant which is basically 4 phases process,

    QUESTION (gathering information about what we are deciding about + information that contributes to the decision)
    ENVISION (proposing new solutions, merging choices, coming up with possible multiple possible ways to experiment)
    SELECT (evaluate together the KPIs for the choice)
    TAKE (Choose the best proposal according to that + put experiment into action)

  • budget: I think this relates to the thread started by Francesca so I suggest we consider this a governance task, so to be accounted in the global budget (will explain briefly on the other thread how I suggest to start doing)

Francesca

I would suggest we try to fund it from the "global operations funding pot" that I suggested we create in my last loomio post (and don't find it from the participatory budget)

Myriam Bouré

Thanks for your inputs @simonecicero!
For the doodle, let's say deadline is next Wednesday 25th, so Thursday 26th we confirm the date.
For the budget great suggestion @francesca.
Thanks also @auli for the link :-)

Myriam Bouré

Just a quick reminder to those who said they wanted to be part of the team! @etiennezoupic @thomasdonnebrink @maud1 @nelly1 @cristobalgracia @elenagiroli, that would be great if you could fill in the doodle, if possible by tomorrow (Wednesday 26th) evening so that we can confirm the date and free the other dates pre-booked in people agenda :-) Thanks in advance! http://doodle.com/qafuwbb7c35e5ntq.
@cristobalgracia I know you will be back only after the 7th, so we'll try to choose a date after that if most people can ;-)

Maud

thanks @myriamboure for facilitating the process and next steps, and for the great review of all existing resources, I will dig into it before the first HO. I don't have yet many inputs on the global methodology we should follow, I just think we shouldn't try to find "the perfect solution" but work more on a learning process, prototype, test and learn, because I'm afraid of spending too much time on theory about governance (even if I do enjoy theory) and not enough on doing!
thanks also for your work @auli

Myriam Bouré

Hi everyone! Ok so given the results of the doodle, and taking into account the fact that Cristobal is back on the 7th, the HO will take place on Thursday 10th September from 18:00 to 19:00 CEST. I launch the invitations on google agenda.
That would be great if we could all have a look and contribute/comment to this document if you want to share thoughts on the method: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Of-oN79gRm1YTuPv1zHe_REG6ESkBEqDzpg-EqtN3s/edit?usp=sharing
Here is also a first list of identified documents that deal with governance in the drive: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qZx-ozQAGCg80g-F9_SUHX6c2kopZEQ-cmHUPr37iFk/edit?usp=sharing

Simone Cicero

Perfect don't forget to add the meeting in the calendar/OS Hangouts

Maud

Guys, 2 suggestions :
1/ Should we move our "casual" conversations on slack, on #management_governance channel? and re-use loomio for our next proposition ?
2/ I wish we could agree before the next HO, what the objective of our HO is / the agenda, so that we really spend only one hour on it, don't you think? I think the 1st HO is here to agree on how we organise ourselves for the next month to work on governance, with

agreeing on the objective of the working group (ie. design a process to make OuiShare a learning organisation / a process to adjust the way we work when required)
agreeing on the tools we use to work together on that (Trello, etc.) and people in charge
agreeing on the methodology we use (with so far inputs from Simone & Myriam)
define next steps

All that is on the document Myriam put together :-). Are we all ok with that?

By the way, I took time to go through all the resources / historic documents Myriam found on drive. I'm really impressed by all the work and discussions that already happened around Governance within OuiShare, and indeed i see recurrent issues! I think it could be really worthfull / usefull if the people that were involved already in that could share what are, in their own mind, the main obstacles that could make this group not reaching its target. This would be for me a great input to decide in the tools and methodology we need.

David De Belleville

sorry for joining late... but I'll be online on Th Sep 10 fo rthe hangout, x

Albert Cañigueral

After last OSSpain Summit our governance leader is @luistamayo ... Luis can you make it to the call on the 10th? Thursday 10th September from 18:00 to 19:00 CEST ... it is a must to connect local ES with global governance models. Ping also @cristobal to keep on track with this

I am interested to keep and eye on this topic too. I think it is crucial for the community and I also think it will be our Unique Selling Point for consultancy to companies. We will be in a unique position of self-experimentation that few other consultants will be able to match.

I would encourage to create a body of knowledge around this (not only the OS "solution" but the topic as a wider problem). I think @francesca already created a personal Ouiki page on this with some key links and references

FYI, I read this summer:
* Lidertarios (see slides: http://www.slideshare.net/tcreativo/manifiesto-lidertarios-49225562). Simple and recommended if you understand spanish.

  • The community book of las indias. Dense (a lot of history and philosophy) yet with some interesting hints. Nice read. Available in English. Free download

  • I am reading "reinventing organizations" (not finished yet)

  • It might make sense to recover Swarmwise that was inspirational for OS early days.

I plan (for my own process of learning) to write a post on OS Magazine about these 3 books... and BTW I think it might be also interesting to write about all this in our Magazine.

Maud

Hello there ! @myriamboure @elenagiroli @francesca @thomasdonnebrink @etiennezoupic @jocelynibarra @daviddebelleville @simonecicero @cristobalgracia @nelly1 the 1st HO is planified this thursday at 6pm and for one hour but
* one hour may not be enough to validate a method and organisation for our working group
* simone isn't sure to make it at 6 and propose the start at 5, maybe even in small group, to discuss method. Would you be available earlier and for 2 hours ?

Francesca

yes, I am available @maud1

Thomas Dönnebrink

@maud1 17:00 works much better for me as 18:30 is opening of Solidarity economy conference here in Berlin and will have to leave earlier anyhow.

Myriam Bouré

Thank you @maud1 for those proposals :-) I can also at 17:00! And you are right, that is better to plan a bit more time, so if we can book 2 hours instead of one that is safer.

Myriam Bouré

@luistamayo I added you on the Google invitation as well, hope you can make it :-)

Luis Tamayo

Thanks @myriamboure ! Im really interesting in governance and leading this area in OS Spain :), i´ll try to participate in the HO (a lot of work from OSFest bcn :)

Myriam Bouré

17:00 CEST (Paris time) ;-)

Eugenio Battaglia

Incredible inspiration

People, this is wonderful and the yesterday hangout gave me lots of inspiration that I will soon share with you. Thanks with @myriamboure to take the lead on this..

Just a consideration:

Let's reduce the amount of message on Loomio threads as it makes difficult for people to use it. Let's start a discussion, give little messages of support or not support on the idea, discuss the idea, but for organising meetings, and other things alike let's point people from here to the Slack channel. Also, it would be awesome if people start to use Markdown to highlight what they're saying. I know it's boring, but think about the difference. (PS: In know I used markdown in a stupid way here, but was just to show you)

Francesca

Thank you for raising this point @Eugenio, I was thinking exactly the same the other day and fully agree!