Let me sum this up as I feel that there is no positive outcome from the activity that has been done here (which is an outcome anyway). I want to do this to make sure the next iteration will be different. Maybe more successful, maybe less. It just bothers me that nothing is going on, even though the problems with sustaining OSS are as actual as before, if not more serious.
A group of people gathered to define how companies could be more friendly to open source scene. All companies, regardless of if they are benefiting from open source model, or threatened by it. And the people told that companies should be more transparent to community. And that requirement of transparency was probably very specific at the initial point, but got generalized in the process. Generalization is rarely a good way of resolving things. It usually happens when the human brain is unable to process all the little details, and easily agrees to submit to close the gestalt with this pattern. But to solve the problems we need to battle the devils in each and every of these details. Thankfully, those AI systems, which is just a crazy mesh of magical connections, show us an example that it is not all that complex in human world, where it is enough to define a few user stories where a transparency was missing. Maybe it was the transparency, but there was no brain surgeon to politely eject the specific need that appeared in that context. The need in the specific transparency which constantly reoccurs when certain people, actions and reactions come in certain order. The transparency here needs to be defined in this specific story, where people, feelings and action are well defined. Something that one can read and understand. Understand through feelings. Feeling that are not triggered by codenames like âAccountability Goalsâ or âauthentic participationâ born as a result of consensus process that occurred among limited group of people exposed to each other in a meeting.
Reading the thread on how the Transparency was again generalized into Accountability, I thought it worth mentioning the pattern. Maybe the next time it will have a storyline that will pop in a head when one find oneself in a situation where this transparency is missing.