learn from the COS Strategic Plan

[chadwhitacre]

I made a first pass through the COS Strategic Plan 1.0 today, and it is awesome. I don't even know how to express it yet, I just love how they combine idealism and pragmatism. Executive director Brian Nosek reports (in private chat) that it is CC0, and that version 2.0 is currently in the works.

What can Gratipay learn from this?

[chadwhitacre]

The first thing that jumped out at me is, "Of course COS had to be started by psychologists, because the problems in science are problems with incentive structures, which are problems of human psychology." Makes my p-chem uncle's jab at psychology not being a real science ring hollow.

[chadwhitacre]

But beyond that, there's something really deep here about how to change the world. I want to reverse engineer it and apply it to Gratipay!

[chadwhitacre]

Related to this, Red Hat has a maturity model for open organizations (PDF) that parallels the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines that COS puts out. It's part of Red Hat's Open Decision Framework.

How does Gratipay's strategy interface with others such as Red Hat? Can the open organization group (#672) coalesce enough to the point where a significant portion of Gratipay's strategic identity is located in that group?

[chadwhitacre]

Hmm ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Free_rider_problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/

[chadwhitacre]

(The above are from under https://github.com/whit537/openorg/issues/5.)

[chadwhitacre]

Alright. Let's assume for a minute that we really do want to reverse the polarity of the economy. Everything is free, but we pay for it anyway, out of gratitude to the people who produce it for us in a society of people freely serving one another. What I'm seeing is that we've got a pocket of market failure in open source, where companies are excessively free-riding (14%). Our strategy is to tap that $2 B/yr inefficiency to jumpstart the new economy.

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[chadwhitacre]

Gonna close this with #909.