Ben Striegel @bstrie

Beyond the Code: Open Governance and Scalable Distributed Decision-Making

What is free and open source software?

Where does it come from?

Open source is about granting the user practical freedoms

Is it enough to be open source?

HEre's the thing...

who controls the web platform?

the web is just one example

this dynamic is exhibited by all platforms

why does forking matter?

who forking cares?

forking software is a technical problem

forking a platform is a social problem

node.js vs io.js

open governance

Who should care about this?

who is this guy?

The lone developer

the small team

the not-so-small team

the massive organization

Ben Striegel @bstrie

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