Do-ocracy

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Do-ocracy is a summary term for consensus Libertarian Management on a non-authoritarian, classical anarchist model emphasizing voluntary involvement and actual results, where those with an actual involvement make the decisions. First brought into currency in the US Libertarian Party by Sean Haugh and Michael Gilson-De Lemos and generally associated with the Libertarian approach.

[edit] Use in Volunteer Communities

Many volunteer communities also run as Do-ocracies without any ties to the Libertarian party or politics. In Free and Open Source Software projects in particular the phrase "talk is silver, code is gold" is used as a simple way to describe a Do-Ocracy. The phrase means that while discussion of features or bugs or ideas in the project is useful, actually implementing the talk is far more important. The practice is also fairly common whenever volunteers are working towards a project together. The lack of a formal command structure or compensation for the work means that each person works on what interests them creating a format of a Do-ocracy.

[edit] Links

• http://www.communitywiki.org/en/DoOcracy