Hi Dante,
I fully understand where your concern comes from, and i take it as a warning and also a proposal for a shared commitment to continue to build it into something that makes us always accountable to one another, as i think we currently are. Can we agree that the organisation is now consisting of a space where well-intended people are putting in a lot of time and effort to be able to turn it into a “brand” precisely to help as many as possible in the network, both at individual level and as a group? actually, the organisation is trying to support the networked commons as you put it because part of building the brand means telling funders : “hey, there is great expertise lying around, why dont you put some money into it and support the people offering that expertise?”
Oh I very much agree with the danger of making processes dependent on specific people, which leads to burnout and can make us weak - both the network and the organisation. What do you think would be useful to have in place in order to enlarge the responsibilities and have more people involved? So far the solution I’ve been experimenting with is engagement: strive to push as many things happening or starting from 1 person out there so that more in the community take ownership. The simplest example is twitter rotation (more people taking ownership of what is communicated about Edgeryders and share the responsibility), the more complicated example is making sure that more of us are involved in the process of generating paid work for ourselves.