2025-11-07 –, Room 340
Of all the ways we might evaluate a FOSS project, here is some logic behind how we can evaluate a group's or community's capacity to mobilize it's intellectual labour, and good judgment. With well pin-pointed areas of strengths and weaknesses, helpful interventions can be tailored to fit the real-life of a group in its current situation.
This is a talk about a method for analyzing a group's ability to reason things out together; a kind of diagnostic tool for participatory democracy. This is an organizational implementation of a socio-political and philosophical work by Jurgen Habermas, and generational experience from secular 'Quaker' business styles.
Personally, I am most interested in the ability of collaborative projects to mobilize their collective intelligences, to take advantage of all their available intellectual labour, in the name of building the commons; in this case, the digital commons. I earned a Ph.D. from a collage of urban and public affairs, with a focus on similar work.