On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:32:53PM -0500, nylxs wrote: > All volunteer organizations are top down, even Debian...
That is clearly wrong, and well documented for Debian. Other examples are GNU Guix, where we try to implement a more participatory model (while there are still GNU maintainers). I think the GNU toolchain also has a not quite top-down model, but others know more about it. Or the non-profit organisations Guix Europe and Aquilenet, where we have done away with the traditional structure of president, vice- president and so on who can take all the decisions. You can find the Guix Europe bylaws here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/guix-europe/statuts Actually, even in more traditionally organised French non-profits, the president etc. are elected by a yearly assembly of all the members; I think the same holds in Germany. This is imposed by law as soon as one wants to register a non-profit. I think GNU is the only autocratic volunteer organisation I am contributing to, which, given its goals, is rather ironic. Andreas
