Voting on decisions¶
About the number 5¶
check conway’s law: “Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.”
5 people seems to be a right number to start with
too few, and they end up being the elder when the company grows and inherit some unspoken (and potentially unchallengeable) authority
too many, and there’s too much noise for a structure to emerge (also: it’s expensive!)
2 is too few, no diversity: just a 2-person team
3 could be, but risk of going 2 vs 1 in decision making is high and very likely resulting in the death of the structure
4 is too symmetric: it might just end up being 2 vs 2, which is 2x the case with 2 persons, which we have seen doesn’t work
5 seems to not introduce too many established structures
Voting processes¶
collective is composed of 5 people, each 1 vote. votes are cryptographically signed.
decision is taken with majority, and everyone needs to vote. Exceptionally, a decision can be taken by only 4 members if they all agree, i.e. all 4 vote for the same resolution.
collective changes can happen and need to be voted upon
eviction of one person cannot happen with simple majority, it needs to have 4 votes.
collective has multisig authority over the main account (which main account?) (3-of-5, 4-of-5?)