To me, meritocracy was always a force-fit to describe what we strive for. The terms with -ocracy all have the intended effect of invoking a top-down rule system of governance. I reject all such descriptions of how Apache works.
How about just "merit-based" as a guiding principle. We don't have -ocracy at all. We strive for merit-based governance. Craig > On Mar 22, 2019, at 4:47 PM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 3/22/2019 7:28 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:25 PM Naomi Slater <n...@tumbolia.org> wrote: >>> I suspect the answer is not to replace the word but to do away with it >>> entirely >> I still would like to have a succinct handle to reference the ethos of ASF. > > > From my experience, there are words that are landmines in open source: > free and meritocracy happen to be such words without question. > > Switching meritocracy to do-ocracy might be a good way to handle it and > I know that's what other orgs like LF have done. However, we are > straddling the middle of having both principles of duopolies like JFDI > and elections with the necessary hierarchy for fiscal / corporate > oversight. That means the definition of do-ocracy doesn't fit. I > usually do mention the issues like a meritocracy often morphs into a > dictatorship and that people can amass too much merit that it's viewed > as harmful. I see that when I mention my $0.02 sometimes and it's taken > with more weight than I intend. > > So like Roman, I've been search for a word or a succinct handle to refer > to it. I don't have an answer but agree that do-ocracy and meritocracy > don't work well. > > I usually say all the things we aren't in my Yet Another The Apache Way > talk (TATAW per Daniel Ruggeri). I think I'll start saying we aren't a > meritocracy OR a do-ocracy/duopoly either but it's the closest thing I > know of. > > I don't like the idea of NOT saying what we are so do you have > suggestion of what word you think fits? > > > Regards, > KAM > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > Craig L Russell Secretary, Apache Software Foundation c...@apache.org <mailto:c...@apache.org> http://db.apache.org/jdo <http://db.apache.org/jdo>
