Governance

Governance is essential to any project that has responsibilities and obligations to other parties. While the open source software movement have relied on licenses alone to organise their projects. This is only really suitable for projects that exist as libraries where the consumers are primarily developers. Draupnir is a project that has no direct business that can sustain the project. Draupnir therefore needs a formal governance system. Please also see the project vision.

The Draupnir Longhouse

Draupnir's long term decisions are made through a process called the Draupnir longhouse. This process is cyclic and happens in sessions. There are five stages to each session, and all of the interaction is lightweight and asynchronous.

Short term decisions can also be made through the longhouse, but these happen outside of the cycle. For example, irregular contributors may wish to present to the longhouse assembly for affirmation.