Governance Readiness Working Group

[jwf (Justin W. Flory (he/him))]

@heatharensen

Curious if you think that there is a need for a new archetype for Digital Public Goods or if there may be various flavors of DPGs that fit different archetypes.

I split this off into a new thread so we don’t steer the Governance Readiness Working Group off-course with our discussion!

Open Source Archetypes and Digital Public Goods

Continuing the discussion from Governance Readiness Working Group and Open Source Archetypes - Mozilla + Open Tech Strategies (May 2018).pdf (441.7 KB): Hi @heatharensen, welcome to the Sustain community! I finished reading it this past week. It is an incredibly useful framework for approaching overall sustainability models for open source projects. DPGs could be a blend of Wide Open, Mass Market, Trusted Vendor, maybe others in specific contexts. I think a model is missing for Mass…