Article: Forms of Open Source Government
nesbitt.io/2026/06/09/forms-of-open-source-governm…
Andrew Nesbitt makes a list of different forms of open source government (by which I think he means governance). Read the full post for definitions, I wanted to at least capture the labels here.
- Benevolent dictator for life.
- Malevolent dictator for life.
- Steering council.
- Permanent core team.
- The Apache Way.
- Vendor-neutral foundation.
- Technical steering committee with subgroups.
- Do-ocracy with lazy consensus.
- Discord-driven development.
- Conference-driven roadmap.
- Rough consensus and running code.
- Single-vendor open source.
- Hot fork summer.
- Token-governed.
- Coding agent for life.