Chad Whitacre

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I'm the founder of Gratipay, an open organization with a mission to cultivate an economy of gratitude, generosity, and love. We help companies and others pay for open source—and we're funded on our own platform. Offline, I live outside Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and online, I live on Slack, IRC, and GitHub.

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Good suggestion, Ben. I've seen that sort of process work well recently with the Open Organization Ambassadors group. For example, when we transitioned to using GitHub a few months ago, Bryan developed a plan in private that he presented more broadly for discussion before it was finalized. They key is to hold the decision open until everyone has had a chance to weigh in. That can be scary, but like you say there are ways to mitigate some of the risks.