White Paper: Need for an inclusive decentralized governance in Apache Fineract Project; Best Practices for Open Source Projects of Apache Software Foundation (v1)
Muellners Foundation <https://muellners.org>, a non-profit, has been working on this white paper, based on its findings from public facing records of Apache Fineract Project. I am one of the sponsors/Advisory Board members of the Foundation. I am posting this thread here as an individual contributor to this project as I feel this report is relevant to Banks, fintechs who adopt this platform for its open source & decentralised product engineering benefits. Developers, consultants, students, researchers, all of you, who are associated with this project. This report is based on an Observation Report by Muellners Foundation,(frivillig forening) a voluntary association based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Foundation works towards creating inclusive practices in open source communities. The Observation report highlights: 1. Best Practices for private "for profit" startups in the Fineract community's project management. 2. Best practices for individual contributors affiliated with "for profit" private startups in the Fineract community’s project governance. We are now voting and will close the vote within the next 72 hours. Read more about how we collaborate in this community via the Apache way. <https://community.apache.org/committers/consensusBuilding.html> Subject of the vote is: 1. Public Release of the white paper to this public mailing list. Casting Your Vote The notation used in voting is: - +1 Yes, I agree - 0 I have no strong opinion - -1 I object on the following grounds If you object you must support your objection and provide an alternative course of action that you are willing and able to implement (where appropriate). Read more on how this community's decision making functions here <https://community.apache.org/committers/> and other public facing content on Apache's website, including this project's documentation. -- Ankit Managing Partner Muellners Group, Denmark but a human being here! Impressum- Muellners® Inc; Copenhagen, Denmark CVR: 41548304; New Delhi, India CIN: U72900DL2019PTC344870; Foundation EU CVR:41008407 This mail is governed by Muellners® IT policy. The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail. -- Ankit Managing Partner Muellners Inc This mail is governed by Muellners® IT policy. The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
