Nathan Schneider, a Professor of Media Studies at CU Boulder. He also runs a new little outfit called Media Enterprise Design Lab. Nathan explains what he means by, The Tyranny of Openness.” We will also discuss Democratic Mediums, Platform Cooperativism, and CommunityRule.
I’m trying to speak up wherever a podcast episode brought a positive change or outcome for my community.
I love CommunityRule! We’ve begun really serious governance maturation talks at my organization, and to start the conversation, I pulled each module that applied to our current precedent/tradition based governance structure, and based on those module names and sentence summaries alone I was able to write a very in-depth analysis. We often think of our org in reference to the value that we bring through our workgroups/initiatives/community support, and I was surprised how that barely showed up at all (which makes sense when you’re focusing on governance, but I suppose our brains were defaulting to a certain way of seeing our roles as community leaders).
I can’t share our GOVERNANCE.md, but one day I hope to share GOVERNANCE_v2.md as we move to a more transparent, more openly-collaborative governance model drafted with CommunityRule! I also hope to contribute in the near future, as I was getting some ideas for improving the UX and would like to see more of the module descriptions fleshed out.
