Awesome work guys ! Thank you @maud1 @eledenaro @joachimlohkamp1
I am pretty in phase with the chosen values but I was a bit taken aback by the loss of "MPRL". Don't misunderstood, I like "care" even more with @jonschull declinaison ! But I feel like I will miss something. Often when I have to describe OuiShare I used our values and after "permanent beta", "MPRL" is the one I am using the most. A way, OuiShare is not just a digital community and meeting people (from OuiShare or not) is what this community is so rich and to be fair our first activity is actually organizing events so people (from different worlds) can meet.

Suggestion maybe to work also on a catchy half "tweet" long description that people can rembeber and/or can be used as meme? For example "Sorry, we are open!" (http://gerryhumphrey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/SorryWeAreOpen.png) is a classic or "Open By Design" or "Open By Default".. and maybe use the Care with "Made with care" or "made with care by X or from Y". For Collaboration it is already there in the description :)

Massive work! Thanks to the 3 of you for leading it! I am really confortable with this new set of values. And particularly thankful for the greater clarity between transparency and openness :)
I've commented the document, but sorry not so inspired with the wording. (I couldn't come up with something better than "proactivity", but I agree this doesn't reflect the "ability to do".).

For the next steps: it would be fantastic if this work could be "implemented" and help communities question/improve the ways of doing. What about empowering a few people in different hubs to carry out this work? Or did you have something else in mind?

@esratat the tool you mention could be with 4-5 axis à la Pentagrowth (http://pentagrowth.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/pentagrowth_graph_en-600x435.jpg) for self-assessment on the projects / activities that could be used in retrospectives? :)

Wow, wow, wow, a big thank you to the three of you! As well, I am comfortable with this new set of value. Yet, I am uncertain about "collaboration" which to my mind, is a bit weak and not distinguishing in comparisons to the others.
As for the external communications, I'd say we should limit the descriptions to two sentences maximum. People won't read more. So I'd follow @jonschull with his suggestions.
I agree we should change "pro activity" for "self-empowerment" or "agency" and would be happy to have the feedbacks of native English speakers on the differences between those two. :) ccs @eledenaro @berniejmitchell @francesca

Im missing MPRL and Independence. Both are values that I keep repeating while I have to explain how we work at OS and what is important for us. Specially in Spain, Independence is one of the values that come up the most as we are in these permanent debate of what type of collaborative economy we are supporting.

Thanks all for your feedbacks and votes;

Concerning the value "pro-activity", various propositions have been made for a better word : Empowerment (or self-empowerment); freedom ; agency (and I wanted to suggest as well something like commitment). which one sounds better to you all ? @jonschull @francesca @albertcanigueral @esratat @joachimlohkamp1 @juhomakkonen @eledenaro

Then we had reactions on 3 values being missed : MPRL (2 people report this miss), Independence and Play.

In the survey though these values were not that supported and for some people it wasn’t values at all. That’s why we tried to convey these notions in other values :
—> MPRL is a way we take care of our relationships and culture, it could be a description of how we make the value « care » and « collaboration » alive ? Do you think it could be enough ? cc @anamanli @juliebr
—> Independence « to express the kind of collaborative economy we support » —> wouldn’t that fit more into a vision / mission statement ? As the values are so far quite independent from any mission we may have in OuiShare. What do you think @anamanli ? do you have an objection of not keeping it as one of the 5 values? maybe also what we have in « open » and « care » can help you explaining as well the kid of projects we support ?
—> Play : well for a lot of people in the survey it wasn’t that obvious and not an important value to say aloud. it was more about doing things we like in a way we all enjoy it. And we thought this notion was again in taking care (of ourselves !). Would you have an objection of letting it this way @amandajansen ?

Concerning the descriptions, I agree with short and catchy sentences like @jon proposed. I would let it to a communication team to draft the perfect words, as there were no strong objections in the documents but just suggestions to take into account.

For the next steps, yes @esratat the better would be for each community to think on how to embody these values better. It could be through a workshop or else. I would be happy to help organize workshops on the question and see how we can capitalize on the local reflexions. I don’t personally really believe in using a tool to « assess » quantitatively how we’re doing « à la pentagrowth » @albertcanigueral , but it could be tried !

Please all don't hesitate to share your feedbacks on this last week :-)

Hi there! I feel 'taking care of ourselves' sounds and feels a bit more serious than 'play'. Playfulness is a quality that is something of another quality. It gives flexibility to deal with any issue. Whether that be ourselves, each other, a topic or our set up as a movement. In this way I feel 'taking care of ourselves' turns OuiShare more inward. Now I might be a bit sensitive to these kind of changes since I got deeply involved in similar trajectories and community building. So I am a bit weary for it.. Of course when all of us think 'play' should go.. then no problem. But.. I just wanted to point out that the quality of the value set now is a totally different one than before. A more serious one. Maybe more mature even.. but also more internally directed. Therefore I still miss 'play'. As a fresh quality of a 'beginners mind' (which is also represented in 'permanent beta', but this sounds more organizational and less of a inner quality that makes us curious and flexible. So rather I'd like to replace 'permanent beta' by 'play' or combine.. Just a suggestion.

Awesome work, I feel very comfortable with this new set of value. I guess everyone will have a different way of describing what those values mean to them, and I think we can still continue to say that MPRL is core in OS even if it's not stated as such as a value but included in a care one. Same for independance. I don't have a strong opinion on proactivity/doocracy/empowerment... agency doesn't speak to me, I don't really undertand what it means, I think it's less common term for non native English people.

@maud1 I do think the Wikipedia definition of "agency" captures really well what I think this value means: "Agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices." However, I also do think that @myriamboure has a point in that most folks who will see this value will actually have no idea what "agency" means (I had to look up this definition myself), which might reduce the effectiveness of it as a value.

So my vote still goes for empowerment (I would use it without the "self" part, as I think it's also about OuiShare as a network empowering its members). Agency would be my second choice.

Dear all,
sorry @maud1 I am late to this discussion; I just joined the Loomio very recently.

Find here the link of an excerpt of the conference paper I presented this summer at EGOS (European Group of Organization Studies), the most important conference in Europe on Management/Organization Theory.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19QOSG8MibMhn7nJn4ykRHr7mJ48DO6-C_8UBctsuBdo/edit?usp=sharing

Although quotes and wording is based in X-Net and Las Indias, (because those are the communities where I did my ethnographic work), I also had in mind Ouishare and Enspiral when I wrote it, so the model is equally valid for Ouishare.

Please note that according to the model, and in a parallel and independent inquiry, I found that Ouishare could be summarized in four values (I say axiological principles because we academics are nasty and love ridiculous nuances), and you've reduced your list to five that are pretty close to those that I selected for my model:

Permanent Beta --> Bricolage

Openness+Collaboration --> Abundance

Proactivity --> Plurarch

Care --> Generativity

By no means I suggest that you should take this four, because I took this wording from those specific groups in order to get a better feedback (which, by the way, was very good). On the contrary, I may change my wording depending on your final decision, if I like your solution better :-)

I am sharing this with you because I think that it can helpto think Ouishare 4-5 values as a SYSTEM: see how different they are, and how each value complements each other. It also may help to write the short explanation of each one, choosing wisely the related words/values that your are leaving outside.

Of course, any feedback on this text will be welcomed. I am currently reviewing this and writing a non-academic version. so I will treasure any comment.

Very interesting ethnographic work @toniblanco! I am also curious about your academic affiliation ;)

Thanks Hugo
I am currently an associate professor at EADA Business School. The director of research at EADA is Boyd Cohen.

@toniblanco Thanks for sharing. I like your diagram and approach. Your four values certainly resonate with me for e-NABLE.

But it's not clear to me that your mappings make sense.

For example, the essential element of Care, for example is compassionate humanism. I think Abundance makes that possible, and necessary. Generativity may be a side effect, but not an esential one.

I'd b interested in discussing this. Where are are you located (online or in space? I'm in New York City through Monday, and live in Rochester NY).

Thank you Jon,
to choose one value over other, when you want to keep the list short, is a matter of how to build the more inspiring narrative, and what do you want to stress to reach the people you want to reach. In my model, care is the unavoidable consequence of generativity (as I understand it), but probably the other way around as well. That said, I consider more important the practices that make those values effective, than the values themselves. That is why I think that if you prefer to talk about care in the first place, I think that is valid and maybe wiser, because generativity is not an easy word.

I live in Barcelona (Spain) but we can skype/hangout next week in the morning your time, afternoon my time. I really like e-nable, it would be a pleasure to know more about it.

Dear all,

Sorry I'm a bit slow at facilitating that discussion, busy taking care of my newborn...
Still, some presentation was prepared for munich summit, sharing a synthesis of your valuable feedbacks :

About the list of values

Pro-activity : need for a better word. Agency has been proposed but seems not easily understood by all without a description. → Suggestion is to put Do-ocracy instead (already in our vocabulary)

MPRL : some people report to miss it as a value, but no strong objection it seems. → Suggestion is to make it more obvious in the description of values (something like the best collaboration happens when people meet in real life ?)

Play : the playfulness has disappeared from this new set and can be missed indeed; cf Amanda’s reactions. → Suggestion is to combine it somehow with Permanent Beta (make it more visible in the description)

On the descriptions
Need for shorter / catchy descriptions, at least for external communication. See Jon Schul’s propositions.

As a result, and before communcation works on the wording, the updated list would be something like :

• Permanent Beta : Always a work in progress. Learn by doing, improve by reflecting and iterating. +Give feedback and keep playing.

• Do-ocracy : Don't wait to Do good. Celebrate autonomy and initiative-taking. Actions speak louder than words. + finding way to "tone down" this autonomy to have a glimpse of interdependence from the network?

• Openness :
  Open-minded: Open to new ideas.
  Inclusiveness: Open to diverse people with diverse perspectives.
  Transparency: Open access to inner workings. (& add decision making ?)
  OpenSource: We share.

• Collaboration : Together we go further. (and add something like “it’s even stronger when we MPRL”)

• Care : Care for each other, care for the commons, care for the planet. Three legs of a single stool + _ Take care of your own journey_

NEXT STEPS

• Validating the new set of values
• Autumn 2017 : “branding” the new set → need for a team to find final wording of descriptions of values for internal & external communication and Update website and other supports speaking about the values
• 2017/2018 : Possible to run regional workshops on Values & Practices (Maud ok to help on designing and coordinating workshops and collecting results from november)
• Documenting the process of updating Ouishare Values / writing an article… → Maud (2018)
• To be decided : budget for this work (had been discussed in april in OS France)

I was not able to put in my vote the following ideas for the communication team that is going to work the wording:

• a Beta is not a "work in progress", is a functional finished stage of an unfinished project. The "work in progress mindset" is dangerous for those that want to work in permanent beta. I would avoid that expression.
• As I explained, do not worry because do-ocracy could lead to excessive individualism. No value should be considered separately. Do-ocracy is perfectly framed by the forces of openness, collaboration and care. Our values are a dynamic system of values.
• Diversity implies inclusiveness and maybe defines better openness.
• Collaboration (or cooperation) is important because federates skills, knowledge and competences, the force of diversity, and implies the effective and public acknowledge of the value of diversity.
• MPRL could be mentioned in care: the materiality of the bodies involved in the care, MPRL, promote a better care for the others (and other's ideas, other's actions, other's needs)

Where is the updated version?

Thanks for keeping an eye on this ! It was on my list but time flies... Here is an updated version on our gitbook : https://ouishare.gitbooks.io/ouishare-handbook/ouishare-values.html it will be on OuiShare website on its next version in 2018.