Meritocracy

About

Meritocracy is governance by merit. Merit is earned by experience or performance. However, mertit is not based on credentialism, but competency based on performance. Meritocracy is part of OSE project's governance. It is worth studying other projects' meritocracy principles to distill best practices.

OSE Context

We favor integrated merit, not shallow merit. Shallow merit is specialization: a person that is good at only one thing. OSE favors generalists. Not point skills, but integrated skill sets - where working well with others (collaboration) is more important than superstar skillsets:

See critique of shallow merit aDo you judge nothing but code, or do you also include other skills, including “plays well with others”, in your reviews of people’s merit? - [1]

So in summary - yes to meritocracy - but now superstar asshole merit - but more Super-Cooperator merit.