I am happy to announce that the Cooperative Development Guidelines have now a new home with the Vojkruco collective. [1]

It was always the plan to develop the Guidelines collectively and now that should be reflected under Vojkruco. Any community, collective, organization, project and individual is welcome to join our chat [2] and participate in discussions.

https://codeberg.org/Vojkruco/Cooperative_Development_Guidelines

https://invite.joinjabber.org/#lounge@chat.vojkruco.org%3Fjoin

#community #CooperativeDevelopmentGuidelines #Governance #Fediverse #DigitalCommons #XMPP #Jabber

Brussels writes so many laws

https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/how-brussels-writes-so-many-laws

#HackerNews #Brussels #Laws #Politics #Governance #Legislation

After nearly 10 years, Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko steps down as CEO, transferring assets and the trademark to a non-profit ⚖️

The move aims to protect Mastodon’s decentralized, user-controlled values while reducing founder stress and ensuring sustainable governance 🌐

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-ceo-steps-down/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Decentralization #SocialMedia #Privacy #UserControl #FOSS #DigitalRights #Community #Governance #Software #Innovation #TechPolicy #CyberSecurity #Sustainability #Mastodon

I am happy to announce that the Cooperative Development Guidelines have now a new home with the Vojkruco collective. [1]

It was always the plan to develop the Guidelines collectively and now that should be reflected under Vojkruco. Any community, collective, organization, project and individual is welcome to join our chat [2] and participate in discussions.

https://codeberg.org/Vojkruco/Cooperative_Development_Guidelines

https://invite.joinjabber.org/#lounge@chat.vojkruco.org%3Fjoin

#community #CooperativeDevelopmentGuidelines #Governance #Fediverse #DigitalCommons #XMPP #Jabber

After nearly 10 years, Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko steps down as CEO, transferring assets and the trademark to a non-profit ⚖️

The move aims to protect Mastodon’s decentralized, user-controlled values while reducing founder stress and ensuring sustainable governance 🌐

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-ceo-steps-down/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Decentralization #SocialMedia #Privacy #UserControl #FOSS #DigitalRights #Community #Governance #Software #Innovation #TechPolicy #CyberSecurity #Sustainability #Mastodon

New in our electronic #collection:

➡️ Human Rights in the Digital Domain. Core Questions

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009606295

#HumanRights #SocialMedia #digitalization #legislation #privacy #governance #ethics #education #OpenAccess #OpenScience #books #bookstodon

Finalist in the OpenUK Awards 6th edition Governance Category sponsored by Iain Mitchell KC, taking place on 4th December, Dr Margaret Hartnett of Progressio AI, tells us why she made it!

We’ll celebrate the winners in a Black tie gala dinner and awards ceremony at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting.

https://openuk.uk/awards

#openukawards #opensource #opensourcesoftware #governance #openuk

New in our electronic #collection:

➡️ Human Rights in the Digital Domain. Core Questions

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009606295

#HumanRights #SocialMedia #digitalization #legislation #privacy #governance #ethics #education #OpenAccess #OpenScience #books #bookstodon

“It is a sad inevitability that, eventually, we will all be nothing but memories. The bugs that we create live after us….”

#opensource #governance #sustainable #mastodon💙

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/

If you are interested in #Sociocracy or #Peer #Governance, this next Saturday 22 will be the "5th Annual Intentional Communities Conference — Bringing Our Best Selves to the Whole" > https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-in-intentional-communities-conference-2025/

Surely not the best part, but I will participate in a Advocate for Sociocracy in #IntentionalCommunities Circle open session and will share some thoughts (and dialog) about "Roots of Sociocracy: #ComplexSystems, relationships, #holons, #EmergentProperties and life in the #chaordic space".

If you are interested in #Sociocracy or #Peer #Governance, this next Saturday 22 will be the "5th Annual Intentional Communities Conference — Bringing Our Best Selves to the Whole" > https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-in-intentional-communities-conference-2025/

Surely not the best part, but I will participate in a Advocate for Sociocracy in #IntentionalCommunities Circle open session and will share some thoughts (and dialog) about "Roots of Sociocracy: #ComplexSystems, relationships, #holons, #EmergentProperties and life in the #chaordic space".

I implemented an ISO 42001-certified AI Governance program in 6 months

https://beabytes.com/iso42001-certified-ai-governance/

#HackerNews #ISO42001 #AI #Governance #AI #Ethics #Certification #Implementation #TechInnovation

@ncoca Welcome to the pavements/sidewalks of Malaysia! Malaysia's development overly focuses on roads, to the extent that they forget pedestrians have legs and lives too, and need to walk. Maybe the politicians are enjoying their wealthy life in moneyland while we are all in poverty, and we are blamed for our poverty.

#malaysia #infrastructure #urbanplanning #pedestrians #sidewalks #poverty #injustice #governance #sabah #advocacy #roadsafety #development #walkability

Text2SQL is dead – long live text2SQL

https://www.exasol.com/blog/text-to-sql-governance/

#HackerNews #Text2SQL #dead #text2SQL #governance #data #analytics #AI #technology

Great to see this analysis widely reported.

Maintaining poverty is a policy choice. Who benefits?

#AusPol #governance #inequality

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/cheaper-to-end-poverty-increase-jobseeker-than-maintain-hardship/105866692?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Great to see this analysis widely reported.

Maintaining poverty is a policy choice. Who benefits?

#AusPol #governance #inequality

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/cheaper-to-end-poverty-increase-jobseeker-than-maintain-hardship/105866692?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Helix strikes me as a project that needs to work on its contributor ladder.

The maintainers have a strong vision, which means they need to refuse a lot of PRs to keep the project focused. Having the courage to say no to more feature is one of the key aspects of this product.

But there are also too many PRs for them to review, to the point some become stale for months if not more. The maintainers should work on onboarding new maintainers they can trust, to spread the load.

#helix #governance

I started a pol.is conversation on the topic "Fediverse acceleration(?) " ⬇️ (You don't need an account)

https://pol.is/6skfwtthmn

pol.is is a FOSS web-app to help find consensus global & subgroup opinions within a set of participants 🤝

I've heard a lot about it over the years, but have had no experience with it. It looks like you rate statements positively 👍 or negatively 👎 and can write your own ✍️ After 7 participants, report data should become available.

#polis #governance #foss #fediverse