Updating OuiShare Values
Elena Denaro
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Hello everyone,
At the last OuiShare Summit in Badajoz, we started a conversation around our values, asking ourselves if they needed some updating.
We started with a little experiment, that we’d like you to do yourself:
* Write down, from memory, OuiShare’s 10 values (try not to take more than 1 or 2 mins on this).
* Check out what they are here.
* Did you get them right? Do the values still feel right?
When we did it at the summit, there was quite a bit of discrepancy, and we felt that, given how OuiShare has grown, and the developments in our narrative, we might want to update them.
Maud and I have been talking about this, but we don’t want to proceed unless there is the desire for this from the community.
So here is our ask to you: please vote, over the next 3 weeks, if you think we should start a process (which we will design to be as smooth as possible) to update our values, or not. Also, if you’d be interested in getting involved, then comment below!
Here is a doc that summarises some of the discussion and thinking from the Summit.
Happy summer in the meantime!!
Elena & Maud
Alexandre Bigot-Verdier
Tue 23 Aug 2016 12:42PM
I feel that many people (including all the Qc team) refers to this values as "customers" who read the general conditions before buying a car. Update the people who endorse them to make them OWN the values could be great.Even if the spirit is the same
Maud Wed 3 Aug 2016 10:26AM
I personnaly feel that
* it's not really clear, or at least really explicit, within OuiShare what do these values stand for; are there here to reflect how we do things, how we want to do things? Can we challenge something / some ways of doing within OuiShare if we feel that the values are not endorsed ?
* as Francesca says, there are some values shared in the community that don't appear in our list and that reflect maybe more who we are
* the current values are nice but I dont' see whether we use them to guide us in our activities and decision making, and I feel there's something to try about that
* the list of values was made 4 years ago, OuiShare and OuiShare people evolved a lot, it could be nice to check if it's still aligned
Myriam Bouré Wed 3 Aug 2016 11:36AM
I agree that even if the current values resonates with me, I also think that it's a meaningful moment to take some time to reflect on those values regularly, and after 4 years maybe it's the right time to take some distance and look at them. Personally I also think that some on the values currently embodied by the people in the community don't appear in the list and I would love make them appear, both for the internal alignment and for the external communication. I'll be happy to take part in this conversation :-)
Joachim Lohkamp Mon 22 Aug 2016 7:41AM
generally I think it is a good idea to check in on our values. however before changing any values or entering into a discussion which values we wanted to change we might wanna do s th like a retrospective (Maud) where we look at which values we implemented as a community the strongest and which values we are lacking to implement. after such a process we would have some clearer indicators where our attention is needed and if there is a need for modification or change. I feel we also need to dig a bit deeper and see how we can implement our current values better and only after that to consider changing them.
thx for taking the initiative Elena & Maud <3
Joachim Lohkamp Tue 30 Aug 2016 4:27PM
thx Maud & Elena for the update. would love to join the call but I will be travelling that day. anyway I'll try to join
MAHE GOGUILLON Tue 30 Aug 2016 7:46PM
Hello Maud&Elen, The process sounds good :thumbsup: and I approve the idea for the distributed regional workshop (what do you mean by regional?): According to me, it will be the best way to cross the perspectives, understand different approach cultural. I will be pleased to join the call on the 14th even if my english is not fluent ;-)
Maud Wed 31 Aug 2016 7:32PM
by regional we meant "country" or area, ie, Spain, Germany, France (+ Belgium), LATAM, UK, Italy, NorthAmerica... something like this :-)
Myriam Bouré Thu 1 Sep 2016 9:18AM
@maud1 that sounds great! Happy with the process, which doesn't seem so heavy to me, answering a survey, and participating to one local discussion sounds like doable and I see the value that can come out of this distributed process.
Jocelyn Ibarra Fri 2 Sep 2016 10:48AM
Hey all,
I'm also fine with the values, if anything we have come back to the issue of "Describing the How, not only the What", and risk getting lost in that conversation again.
From my experience of execution (closeness- higher involvement) and reflection (distance- higher objectivity) OuiShare has showed over the past year and a half the distributed manners in which its teams and projects work, so from the questions that Fran and I raised before the first round of community global distribution, it's finally clear to me that the "How" is not necessary.
I do have a question for those reflecting on this discussion: why do you see values linked to physical locations first?
Hugs from Sweden!
Joss
Alanna Irving · Tue 2 Aug 2016 8:43PM
When do people feel like they put the values to use in real life? That might shed some light on how/if they should be worked on in this way.