James Dunseith[1], Sebastian Pabon[2]
[1]Gimbalabs co-founder, Andamio co-founder
[2]Gimbalabs teacher and facilitator, Andamio co-founder
Open Source has gained enough traction in the business world to be perceived as a potential source of competitive advantage. Objective: This document proposes a process that progressively allows an organization to move towards the implementation of an Open Source contribution model to cultivate its benefits in favor of a project (product, service, component, etc).
On February 14, 2024, the Gimbalabs community initiated a process of ideation and implementation of a Governance framework, which has been recorded through a series of sessions called “Gimbalabs Open Spaces” that are still ongoing to date, to build in public and creating an entry point for new contributors. The procedure described in section 3. Research Design of this study and its findings are the product of the running of these governance sessions.
The “Open Source Contribution Model for Cardano Organizations” formulated in section 4. Results, describes a structure of access layers for users and contributors to a project that an organization has decided to make open participation in an Open Source framework. In addition to being access points, these layers allow to conceive the organic growth of a community of contributors that influences and guides the transformation of the organization itself.
Establishing open source participation and governance structures drastically redefines the management style of an organization. A drastic change in exchange of extracting the proven benefits of the value proposition of open source models. Slowly embarking on the implementation of such models while the organization's learning curve gains momentum is the most appropriate approach to follow.
open source, cardano, governance, participation, contributors, maintainers, community.