Governance

Sound governance is absolutely efficient production coupled with transparency. Note that the assumption here is that true freedom is based on material abundance - see talk from Bioneers East Conference for logic thread. Everyone is expected to contribute to an economy. People do things out of internal motivation. When internal motivation is aligned with responsibility - material abundance exist. This is a core message implicit in open source ecology. This is a rigorous condition of skill and wisdom. Factor e Farm is intended to be an experiment to show this. Question: what organizational model allows people to thrive under the conditions of a Development Center - if the project positioning is shifted away from a community to an organization?

Julia Valentine Comments

• Should pay volunteers
• Interns should pay for an education program.
• Staff is paid, but that means for x by y.
• Permanent people should be paid.
• One model: not egalitarian, but pay for education.
• Finance committee - should take $ out of my hands.

Isaiah Comments on Structuring

On Product Lead: They'll be responsible for hiring the makers underneath them, people that they believe in. They'll manage the team's daily work and ensure delivery. They'll need to be able to let people go or reassign people that are there right now. OSE can't rely entirely on volunteer Makers. You will be evangelist CEO and high level boat steerer – to make it a healthy organization. You'll be responsible for securing financing and setting direction. You'll need the money to do this right and attract the right talent.

Q: Who do you think will take care of other functions - such as managing our video guy, managing site, managing the farmer, managing programmers, or any other volunteers? Would this fit also in the Product Lead role? I am trying to delegate those tasks as well - I need to get away from managing these. A: You should have a Media/Creative Chief who can handle the video and front facing website. The product/technical chiefs should manage the prototyping and the code and the serious contributors. A third person should manage Factor E Farm as a test site. The Farmer should be good enough to do that or you should replace him with someone who can manage themselves.

Fellowup Thoughts

• Francois - A bit out of the box: Johan Roos - head of a business school in Sweden, close ties to LEGO and a background in agricultural science. Did an amazing LEGO serious play brainstorming session with us in China in August. Very high EQ. Has worked with all kinds of start-ups and giants...
• Arthur - Is it possible to give people autonomy within very specific areas? "Functional authority" it's sometimes called. I.e. "do whatever you like as long as by Feb you have a prototype hyperdrive built."
• KB - Helene would be perfect, but a little out of the way for her i think. Practically speaking i think you need to separate general trajectory and specific manufacturing sessions

Links

• http://www.oaec.org/internships - have volunteers pay for internships. Coming there for an education.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X84mX11VGkE
• Helene Smit
• Psychologists and Mediators in KC:

1. http://www.valuesbasedcounseling.com/mediation.html
2. http://www.psychkc.com/fcj.html