governance

Wordplay's overarching approach to governance is to be community-led. We view our primary community as youth and their teachers, whether in school, out of school, or at home worldwide. However, there are many challenges: building and maintaining a community for youth takes time and care. Combining knowledge across institutions and generations requires acknowledging power differentials. There are also sometimes tensions in who can be served on the platform. This page describes our ever-evolving approach to these challenges.

Currently, our governance process is as follows:

• Amy tries to build partnerships with teachers and their students around Puget Sound, fundraising to support their summer participation in the project. We aspire to develop teacher and student advisory councils to inform design priorities.
• We organize a community of local open-source contributors, mostly undergraduates around Puget Sound, and solicit design ideas, improvements, and localizations that they view as crucial to the platform. We focus their work on design priorities emerging from interactions with teachers and students.
• Amy and her undergraduate researchers meet weekly to discuss challenges in the community, platform, our processes and governance, and set design priorities.

This is always evolving in response to feedback.

You can see all of your past meeting agendas and comment on them, as well as see our next meeting agenda, and suggest items for it.