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The #OGB project emphasizes voluntary collaboration by prioritizing sortition and 'messy consensus' in achieving decision-making and a more equitable power distribution for all.
Draw on experience gained through the five years involvement with #Mastodon instances and the larger #Fediverse. The #OGB aims to decentralize democratic systems for grassroots governance, free to all with a focus on producers and consumers. This project does not seek to create a single organization dictating protocols or standards. Rather a vision to enable organic creation of synthesis, where competing arguments are broached to formulate corrective procedures and proposals for implementation.
#OGB project aims to address challenges that currently exist within grassroots organizations by creating a tool set for 'Do It Yourself' (DIY) governance rooted by a 'Keep It Simple Stupid' (KISS) standard framework. Human organization and governance are inherently complex and messy. Standard approaches tend to enforce rigid structures - forcing messy processes to be, 'cleaner', 'neater' and 'tidier' - through such forced behaviour, inevitably failing.
@Hamishcampbell you said the dwebcamp crew looked out of touch, so I wondered why you thought so. I thing I knew some people who were there but don't know much about the camp and its agenda.
@Hamishcampbell thanks. I'll look at the video and see if I agree. I know I know what a couple of those people are working on and their projects could be used as a bridge to a better economic system, altho they could also be used as you describe.
But capitalism is a pervasive system, seeps into every relationship. If you want to start anything different it will start within capitalism and then need to figure out how to escape.
The purpose and vision for our #OGB project is to address challenges and conflicts that currently exist within grassroots organizations and assist in the management of those that arise. By creating a tool set for 'Do It Yourself' (DIY) governance. We aim to develop a 'Keep It Simple, Stupid' (#KISS) standard framework and process. This will become #OGB which can be used in future solutions, organically evolving through time.