# One pager on Governance

Project frame: What would we do if we wanted to fund this project? And, what could $100,000 do to actively change the nature of the landscape for OSS sustainability?

## Governance structures

### Known unknowns

- Governance is not a linear process but it often thought of one as
- 0 -> 1 -> BDFL -> Technical steering -> Foundation -> Corporation
- But is this true?
- Building a FSM will show us whether or not this is true
- [ ] Fund research into FSM models for project governance

- A prerequisite for a quant study of this is parsed, meaningful data on project governance

- Recreating the wheel:
- Vicky's repo on Governance models
- Nathan Schneider from communityrule.info
- Random collection, but can you map it?
- IEEE OSSSWWFSDfljDS

- Solutions:
- 1. Can yuo map it? Hire a postgrad to map it.
- 2. Institute a protocol and have them do it themself

- Incentivizing adoption:
- How do you roll it out?
- What are the incentive models?
- A necessary step for fiscal hosting
- Pitching it as a defense mechanism