Editing Hackweek Spring 2020 (section)

=== Organization Structures ===

Coordinator: Nick

Trustroots has an informal organizational structure right now. A do-ocracy approach, and trust-based access to resources and decisions.

I'd like to see the wider community much more involved in the direction/process, and get a really strong connection between the group of active contributors, where we take the time to listen to each other and find good ways forward.

It's a very alive topic for me right, as I also try to make my personal life work in harmony with projects like this (community-based open source software). I want these projects to be really sustainable and resilient, and the main part of my life - it's all I work on right now. You can read a bit more about my personal angle here --> https://liberapay.com/nicksellen/.

I don't want/need anything to happen very fast, most important to me is getting a good feeling within the team(s), but I do want to share this vision of how I can see trustroots going, and want to start the conversation about this stuff.

Topics that are interesting to me to share thoughts about are:

* how to decide things (low-bureaucracy, transparent, ...)
* receiving money (donations / funding)
* distributing money (solidarity, not wages; fair, not equal)
* supporting people to contribute that don't have the luxury of time to volunteer
* elected board?
* tech vs non-tech people (how to avoid being a dev-only project)

I also tie this stuff into wider concepts - how to challenge society and show there is another way to organise, gift economy approaches.

I really liked reading https://disco.coop/manifesto/ too, but I don't think the model quite fits this case. I'd love to have (or make) another model/manifesto that works for trustroots and other similar projects!