The Hexayurt Project is one of the world’s oldest (12 years old) and largest (more than $1m spent per year by > 1000 hexayurt builders, and growing fast) open hardware projects. Because of the extreme decentralization and debureaucratization of the project, it’s hard to know everything that is going on. This makes it a tough stewardship challenge.
I’m well-known for making simple models of complex things that aid conversations - not give answers, but help people from different backgrounds communicate their differing perspectives. I’m going to discuss four key aspects of stewardship:
- Mission - Who do you serve? Why do you do this?
- Assets - What are our advantages? What do we bring to the table? (and the dangers of property as a class of assets)
- The Legal System - What it's good for, what it's bad for, and how to approach the difficult stuff.
- Who's the us? - How to figure out tricky issues of inclusion, exclusion, power, roles and responsibilities.
I’ll take about 10 or 15 minutes to discuss the core models, and then we can use the rest of the session to discuss thorny stewardship questions from the perspective of the people present, focussing on practical lessons from projects in the past more than aspirational theories.
Hope to see you there!
Date: 2014-10-24 09:30:00 - 2014-10-24 09:30:00, Europe/Berlin Time.
URL: http://hexayurt.com