[Multitude Project] Developmental stages and problems for open communities and networks

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Over the past 8 years, I have contributed to the development of www.sensorica.co, an open network for open innovation and peer production. 

SENSORICA can be described as a commons-based peer production community as defined by the p2pValue project, and as a permissionless p2p network like Bitcoin. 

Along with my hands on involvement in SENSORICA, I have also contributed to other open networks and communities and observed their development. It didn't take long to noticed that these new types of organizations were developing similar problems as they were growing in complexity. A few months ago I sat down to uncover the underlying mechanisms behind these problems. My theory is synthesized in the table below. 

In essence, open networks and communities go through developmental stages. The transition from one stage to the next requires organizational transformations, which are adaptations to the new conditions that the organization is facing. More often than not, these transitions are accompanied by organizational crisis. Sometimes, these crisis are fatal, they destroy the organization. This is an attempt to inform those involved in setting up open communities and network, to help them steer clear of these potential pitfalls, into the new organizational state.    

	Developmental Stage	Contribution and reward	Structure	Athmosphere	Problems
1	Informal	Only volonteer	Ambigous and adhock	Friendly, loose, fun	Attract attention
2	Formal	Mostly Volonteer	Some basic roles, some norms, some procedures	Mostly friendly and fun	Dealing with complexity
3	Managing material assets	Volonteer and for benefit	Clear and more stable roles and relations, written rules, some adopted methodologies	Higher responsability, some frustrations.	Dealing with the freerider
4	Tangible rewards generation	Mostly for benefit and volonteer	Clear and stable roles, formal relations, system of rules, body of methodologies, legal structure	Formal, professional	Dealing with the thief
5	Large potential	For benefit, wealth generation and projecting influence	Always filled roles structure, top governance, solid legal standing, proven body of methodologies, connections with the larger ecosystem	Responsable, formal, professional	Dealing with the enemy

This table was created by Tibi, as part of a new synthesis work. In alpha version. CC BY-SA 3.0 licence

If the table above is not clear, if you need clarifications, please ask questions in the comments below, and I will use your feedback to improve this post. 


Tibi

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[\0xDynamite]

Hi Tibi,

Marcos from the next-net mailing list.

Your table is interesting. In the last column, last line.... WHO is
the "enemy"?

Cheers,

Marxos
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[Tiberius Brastaviceanu]

Hi Marcos, 

The enemy is anyone who is envious of our activities, anyone who feels threaten by our activities. 

Once n organization generates a lot of potential it automatically generates enemies. 

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:02 PM, \0xDynamite <dreamin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Tibi,

Marcos from the next-net mailing list.

Your table is interesting.  In the last column, last line.... WHO is
the "enemy"?

Cheers,

Marxos
wiki.hackerspaces.org


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