Automating Open Source communities on Blockchain: A transparent way to manage Organizations
Akshay Arora (~akshayaurora) |
Description:
Open Source Communities and their management.
- How things work currently
- A case study of different open source organizations:
- Advantages and disadvantages of current systems.
The issues with Open Source organizations are nothing new, what are the possible solutions available?
- DAO and automation of majority of the tasks of a "Open by default organizations"
- What part of the organization can be automated, what can't.
Important Aspects that usually breed trust among members:: - Transparency - Consistency & Automation - Inclusion & support
Our Proposal
We will be posting codebase and complete websites and mobile apps that offer these solutions:
- Automated and transparent membership procedure.
- Transparent Public Elections on Blockchain for a
board
with automated publication of votes and results. - Automate votes based on proposals
- Automated Procedure to apply for grants: with voting members and results being put up on Blockchain
- Automated meetings with MOM being recorded and put up on blockchain.
Testing Proposal from the ground up:
Start Small and test if these methods work locally in meetup groups - Automation of Tasks around meetups: ... We will keep updating here as and when we have deployed solutions on blockchain
Tools used for these automation:
Blockchain Dapps using : Solidity & Vyper Python: Kivy Framework for mobile apps and Web3.js & other such frameworks.
Repos: They will be made online shortly, currently the experimentation is going on the following repos: https://blockchaindevs.github.io/MeetupDAO please excuse for the alpha quality of the software as they are just experiments as of now.
This is a open source initiative based on the needs we feel we have seen arise in open source communities around us.
Ultimate Goal
Use this proposal as a catalyst and create small Organizations in local communities testing this theory.
If things work in local communities, create a
National Level Organization
for managing the tasks around PyCon India
* This is just one of the hopefully multiple proposed solutions for moving on post PSSI. *
Prerequisites:
A willing ness to contribute, ability to learn. Open Mind to experiment even if it leads to failure.
Content URLs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization https://blockchaindevs.github.io/MeetupDAO
Speaker Info:
http://github.com/akshayaurora
Akkshay is huge open source enthusiast, he has helped bootstrap different communities around Kivy, PyDelhi, ILUGD, BlockchainDevs , HyperLedger Delhi/NCR & chaired conferences like PyDelhiConf, Pycon-India, Global Blockchain Conference.
He has been involved and working on blockchain based projects from 2011 onwards, he is one of the core developers of Kivy python framework & Electrum bitcoin wallet that has been built on top of it.
Speaker Links:
http://github.com/akshayaurora