Contract Process

Contracts for OSE apply to paid staff and volunteers.

The following need to be specified with utmost clarity:

• Focused, non-negotiable core work plan - visible to world
• Scope of work - what activities are and are not allowed
• Specific guidelines for communication with other team members and the rest of the world (including brand identity, authority, transparency, triangulation, etc)
• Specific guildelines for purchasing
• Specific guidelines for organizing and holding effective meetings
• Simple and transparent means of documenting work product - visible to world
• Simple and transparent review process - visible to world
• Measurability: measurable, assessable task assignment. Ie - how is the task framed so that assessment is easy and that the assessment can be made by anyone in the world
• Distraction management - given the integrated complexity of project, how do we assure navigation on well-defined path of responsibility
• Clear requirements on process documentation - how somebody else is to carry on a task in person's absence, or to distribute a particular task to remote collaborators.
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• Compensation terms - private
• Method to handle contract violations, conflict, exit, contract changes