Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [Dev] [consensus][due: 2016-06-13]: New version for Parabola Social Contract

[André Silva]

On 06/13/2016 06:23 PM, André Silva wrote:
> On 06/13/2016 12:21 AM, Luke Shumaker wrote:
>> I put just "Arch" in the heading (because otherwise the heading was
>> just way too long, IMO) and "Arch (the GNU/Linux distrubtion)"
>> in the body.
> 
> +1
> 
>> Possible other changes:
>>
>>  - The "democratic" thing.
> 
> I think it needs expansion because there a lot of democracy variants
> [0]. I told about it in the previous emails [1] and i mean it because we
> make decisions through consensus democracy [2][3], as opposed to another
> democratic systems where minority opinions can potentially be ignored by
> vote-winning majorities [4] or an authoritarian democracy [5].
> 
> So we could specific about our democracy variant that is consensus
> democracy in our clause (eg. "Parabola's community is democratic in its
> essence ([consensus
> democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy))" or
> "Parabola's community is democratic in its essence through [consensus
> democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy)."
> 
> Otherwise, we could add another expansion in this clause or create
> another one about our organization. Parabola organization is adhocratic,
> as opposite fashion to a bureaucracy [6] and meritocracy [7].
> 
> An pessimal example of meritocracy could be the following one:
> "Emulatorman is maintaining all kernels for Parabola, lukeshu is
> developing libretools for Parabola devs and fauno is being our Parabola
> delegate, therefore they are the bosses here and organize the Parabola
> project" It is not good for Parabola and Contract Social should be
> specific about their adhocratic organization to clarify that all
> Parabola users and community are important in the Parabola project
> organization.
> 
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy#Variants
> [1] https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2016-June/004119.html
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy#Consensus_democracy
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy
> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
> [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_democracy
> [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy
> [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy
> 

For Adhocracy references, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy
for further details.

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