A review of the governance norms applied in FSFE and KDE, how they developed over time and how current debates reflect their evolution.

FLOSS communities create freely available products in a social process. Communities with a small number of participants typically organise informally. As the community grows, the need for coordination grows as well and at some point formal organisation is required. Where structure and processes emerge, the principles and norms applied typically reflect voluntary participation and meritocratic peer status. The main interest of the community is to attract and retain contributors and to collect contributions. The presentation will review the governance norms applied by the KDE Community and FSFE as the organisations developed, how the constitutions of the communities reflect the convictions and expectations of their contributors, and how the need to evolve governance norms is at the heart of recent conflicts in both communities.

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Day: 2016-09-03
Start time: 11:15
Duration: 00:30
Track: Community

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