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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