# Governance Readiness Working Group

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/governance-readiness-working-group/298>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/governance-readiness-working-group/298 "2020-03-27T11:01:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/governance-readiness-working-group/298/47 "2020-07-18T15:26:47Z")

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> [@heatharensen](#):
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> 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](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/open-source-archetypes-and-digital-public-goods/436):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Governance Readiness Working Group](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/governance-readiness-working-group/298/46) and [Open Source Archetypes - Mozilla + Open Tech Strategies (May 2018).pdf](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/uploads/short-url/6WPAqp7Loq5005azts5Ix4tMLSs.pdf) (441.7 KB): Hi @heatharensen, welcome to the Sustain community! wave 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…

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