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title: One pager on Governance

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# 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