OSE Forum Guidelines

Technical Development

• Discussion must follow the OSE Vision
• Each topic has a moderator to keep discussion on track, and to maintain the OSE Code of Conduct
• Discussion must be relevant to carrying out the OSE Vision - and specifically - using Product Ecologies as defined in the Global Village Construction Set, adhering to the development of Distributive Enterprise, and focusing on Open Source, collaborative development
  • Translated to English: we develop Distributive Enterprise, using open source. Discussion must be based on that. If contributors are not aware of the meaning of Distributive Enterprise, moderators are encouraged to facilitate the clarity.
  • Development of products that do not use open licenses do not belong on the OSE Forum, and moderators are expected to keep threads focused mainly on open licenses
  • License clarity: any product development effort carried out on the OSE Forums must provide license clarity. Ie, it must be stated up front what open source license is being applied to a given product.
  • Non-open source content is allowed as a study of industry standards, but proprietary development per se is not allowed on the OSE Forums.
• Moderators are vigilant on adherence to open source, collaborative development.
• The OSE Forum will in time become an important resource for public-interest economic development. Moderators must keep this in mind to maintain accessibility to important knowledge, while maintaining privacy, and guarding the commons from enclosure. See OSE Privacy Policy

Overall Structure: topics

• Main topics are Tech (Dev, Enterprise) and Community
• The OSE Forum shall feature an announcements section which provides information on upcoming OSE events - which is not one of the OSE topics but a separate section.
• University Collaboration - good feature
• OSE Workshops - links to OSE Workshops FB page

Open Source Franchises

• Discussion on any open source franchises must adhere to the same standards: OSE Vision, Distributive Enterprise, open and collaborative development.

Community Discussion

• Discussion at the highest level focuses on the transformation of civilization to post scarcity by addressing structural evil: those features of the operating system of civilization that do not promote happiness and self-determination.
• Moderator keeps discussion relevant to the OSE Vision.

Links

• OSE Forum - especially Moderator Duties