The DigitalGaia manifesto

The following are some fundamental tenets guiding how the DigitalGaia collective operates:

  • we produce digital commons, we write free software

    We have hugely benefitted from having access to freely available resources, and want to pay it back to society. Anything that we produce should be freely available too – we are building our future society together through the use and production of digital commons.

  • we strive for quality, not deadlines

    We are craftsmen and take pride in our work. Our engineering duties and responsibilities should not let us forget that. Quality should transpire through:

    • code that is beautiful and simple, rather than churned out mindlessly

    • documentation which needs to be complete and up-to-date

    • tests which are part of the specs/documentation and should be readable

    • any other output of a given project

  • we work towards sustainability, not profits

    The collective is meant to be a specific size and not grow over time. If it ends up accreting too many people it should be split into multiple “copies” of the collective the same way as for instance the human body is made of multiple cells, not a giant one that grew boundlessly.

    Growth is fractal in the sense that multiple collectives can join together and form a “super-collective” in the same way that multiple persons joined together to form a single collective.

  • we choose freely what we work on

    No one is required to work on anything on particular, if people want to team up to work on a common project they are free to do it and can rescind that collaboration whenever they choose to do so.

    People decide what they want to do with their time (except for some needed coordination stuff) (we do it Just for Fun. No, Really. [HN])

    The idea is that there is more symbiosis when a working structure emerges by itself through free will rather than be imposed by a central authority. That way, each participant can use their skillset to their best potential instead of being assigned to a task that doesn’t necessarily fit them.

  • we need to be resilient / antifragile

    Decisions are collective, 1 human 1 vote (unless we find something better)

Note

check also: Bevy’s “manifesto”

and: A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (by Eric Hughes) more cypherpunk links

check Framasoft, they have some pretty good ideas, tenets and organization: https://framablog.org/, https://framasoft.org/en/, https://framasoft.org/en/manifest/