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By describing common problems and offering myriad solutions, we are co-developing a pattern language for decentralized organizations to more effectively coordinate and make decisions. | |||
== Background == | == Background == | ||
What may have the most impact on the future isn't decentralized digital technology alone, but the governance patterns it culturally normalizes. Patterns could be defined as events, methods, or ways of being that recur. They reciprocate their environment. They are something that a world shapes and that shapes a world in turn, like intervals of sloping sand dunes formed from wind currents. | What may have the most impact on the future isn't decentralized digital technology alone, but the governance patterns it culturally normalizes. Patterns could be defined as events, methods, or ways of being that recur. They reciprocate their environment. They are something that a world shapes and that shapes a world in turn, like intervals of sloping sand dunes formed from wind currents. | ||
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=== Decision-Making Patterns === | === Decision-Making Patterns === | ||
* [[Common Area]] | * [[Common Area]] | ||
=== Time Patterns === | === Time Patterns === | ||
* [[Little Seasons]] | * [[Little Seasons]] | ||
* [[Ease of Exit]] | * [[Ease of Exit]] | ||
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=== Craft Patterns === | === Craft Patterns === | ||
* [[Multi-Organizational]] | * [[Multi-Organizational]] | ||
* [[Digital Artisans]] | * [[Digital Artisans]] | ||
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=== Treasury Patterns === | === Treasury Patterns === | ||
* [[Holding in Common]] | * [[Holding in Common]] | ||
Revision as of 06:19, 3 June 2022
By describing common problems and offering myriad solutions, we are co-developing a pattern language for decentralized organizations to more effectively coordinate and make decisions.
Background
What may have the most impact on the future isn't decentralized digital technology alone, but the governance patterns it culturally normalizes. Patterns could be defined as events, methods, or ways of being that recur. They reciprocate their environment. They are something that a world shapes and that shapes a world in turn, like intervals of sloping sand dunes formed from wind currents.
In the 1970s, a group of architects spearheaded by the late Christopher Alexander proposed the idea of a pattern language, a series of small descriptions that could inform how we approach our built environment. For example, the design of a house could be arrived at through connecting patterns, such as planning light on two sides of every room or cultivating a garden growing wild next to a sun facing outdoors.
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Rather than suggesting one universal pattern language to govern our built environment, the idea of a pattern language encourages many shared cultural vernaculars. It aims to support “a quality without a name”, a feeling of aliveness, interconnectedness, and autonomy in the built environment we inhabit. This feeling comes through responding to a place, rather than imposing on a place.
That the idea of a pattern language directly led to the creation of what would become perhaps the primary medium for knowledge commons, the wiki, should be well-known internet lore.
Patterns
note on different ways to construct patterns
Decision-Making Patterns
Time Patterns
Craft Patterns
Treasury Patterns
Partner organizations
Ongoing work
Weekly syncs
The weekly syncs are a great place to discuss and document decentralized organization patterns.
Summary
| Pattern Name | Problem | Solution | Example | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common Area | Discussion on governance proposals is fragmented across platforms. | Establish a canonical discussion space. | link | @kei 🗝️ |
| Multi-Organizational | New areas of interest evolve that can’t be channelled through the core team. | Facilitate a working group model. | link | @kei 🗝️ |
| Holding in Common | A DAO has to trust an exceedingly busy and distant core team to execute multisig proposals. | Expand the multisig to a treasury accessible by the community. | link | @kei 🗝️ |
Subcategories
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
Pages in category "Patterns"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
