This repository is designed as a starting point for digital communities to establish a "citizenship model" tailored to their particular needs and contexts.
A code of conduct makes a community's norms and values explicit and enforceable. Governance makes decision-making within a community explicit and accountable. A license makes the conditions of adoption and reuse of the community's work explicit and legally binding.
What's missing is "connective tissue" bringing norms, governance, adoptions, and use together into a cohesive whole, supported by a robust ethical framework that promotes just, equitable, and pro-social outcomes in the work of our open source communities.
The Open Social Compact lets communities define the fundamental rights of all their participants; the specific responsibilities that participants have toward the community; and the privileges that are extended to participants who respect these rights and meet these responsibilities.
The Open Social Compact will also provide an innovative model for centering and elevating the safety and well-being not only of maintainers, collaborators, adopters, and users, but– most importantly– the safety and well-being of those who are most impacted by technologies we create, whether explicitly or implicitly, directly or indirectly, consensually or coercively.
- https://open-social-compact.dev
- @CoralineAda presenting the Open Social Compact to the Metagovernance Seminar in November 2022 video
TODO
TODO
TODO
TODO
Link to FAQ on official OSC website
Link to About page on official OSC website
Link to dedicated OSC open collective project
We are a global community of open source maintainers and contributors, tech ethicists and advocates, legal experts, academics, sociologists, human rights workers, and others who work together on ways to center justice and equity in the software commons.
OES stewards the continuing development of Contributor Covenant and developed the Hippocratic License, both examples of innovative policy instruments specifically designed to meet the evolving needs of open source communities. You can find out more about us at https://ethicalsource.dev.