Governance Story

A reading path through OGM's governance and stewardship history. Built around the Lionsberg-OGM MOU spring of 2021 — the most narratively-coherent slice of the wiki.

1. Why Lionsberg

OGM Bootstrap doesn't have its own 501(c)(3). To accept tax-deductible donations and run a fund, it needs a fiscal sponsor. Lionsberg — itself a 501(c)(3) — agreed to sponsor.

Read first: OGM Stewardship/Documents/OGM Bootstrap MOU/1. OGM Bootstrap-Lionsberg Memorandum of Understanding.md. This is the structural backbone.

"Lionsberg and Open Global Mind Bootstrap (OGM Bootstrap) would like to enter an agreement in which Lionsberg would become a fiscal sponsor of OGM Bootstrap."

Key terms: 12-month initial term, 5% admin fee on deposits, IP given over to The Generative Commons, quarterly reporting, mediation-then-arbitration for disputes.

2. The vision around the MOU

Appendix D is the why behind the MOU mechanics — what OGM and Lionsberg are jointly trying to build. Note that this document is in Hidden Substance: substantive but no inbound links from elsewhere in the wiki.

3. Cultures and values alignment

OGM Stewardship/Documents/OGM Bootstrap MOU/Appendix B - Cultures and Values Alignment.md

The pre-condition for a fiscal sponsorship: do the parties want the same things? Appendix B is the explicit working through of that.

4. The Generative Commons agreement

OGM Stewardship/Documents/OGM Bootstrap MOU/Appendix C - Draft of Generative Commons Agreement.md

The IP terms. See The Generative Commons in this wiki for the broader thematic frame.

5. The Sprint 1 Statement of Work

OGM Stewardship/Documents/OGM Bootstrap MOU/Appendix A - Sprint 1 Statement of Work.md

What OGM Bootstrap commits to deliver in the first sprint. (Flagged as orphan gem — referenced twice, underdeveloped relative to references.)

6. The meetings around the MOU

The Stewardship/Meetings folder is the working trail. In rough order:

OGM Stewardship Jerry + Pete, 2021-03-28 — pre-MOU planning
Lionsberg + OGM, 2021-03-25 → 2021-05-20 — joint working sessions, weekly
OGM Stewards Jam Sesh, 2021-03-30 → 2021-05-25 — internal Stewards work
Jerry, Judy, Pete, 2021-04-09 / 04-10 / 04-11 — three-way working trio
OGM + Lionsberg General Counsel, 2021-04-06 — legal review
Lionsberg + OGM, 2021-05-20 — substantive (Hidden Substance)

7. After the MOU

The Stewardship Dashboard (OGM Stewardship/Documents/Stewardship Dashboard.md) tracks the post-MOU operational layer:

Main website (Jerry + Pete on Massive Wiki tools)
Managing call artifacts better
Stewardship Bat Signal (@channel in Mattermost [ogm] Stewards)
Re-formatting Thursday Call (diversity, time on the floor, federation)
Quest Formation / Quest Architecture
Launching first Quest: Food Security and Regenerative Ag

8. The first Quest

Meetings/Food Insecurity and Regenerative Ag, 2021-04-02.md is the first Quest-formation call. This thread becomes:

Marley → Quick First Book — focused on food/bioregion/regenerative-ag content
Klaus's NeoBook — soil and climate
Bioregions and Food Sample Essay (root file)

9. After 2021

The Stewardship corpus thins markedly after May 2021. Possible reasons:

Bootstrap phase ended; the MOU did its job
Governance work moved to Mattermost/Notion/Google Docs
OGM never spun out into a separate 501(c)(3) — fiscal sponsorship continued

This is one of the Roads Not Taken threads: did OGM consciously choose to remain under Lionsberg's umbrella, or did the spin-off conversation simply lose momentum?

What's missing from this path

OGM Code of Conduct — referenced from OGM Structure.md, no source file
Decision Making Processes — Brain/Decision Making Processes.md lists models without elaborating which OGM uses
Governance Model Comparisons — Brain/Governance Model Comparisons.md is outline-only
Triple-Loop Learning and Pareto Principle — referenced in Appendix D, no source pages

Stewardship Hub — full inventory
The Generative Commons
The Five Layers — Governance is layer 2 of 5
Newcomer Tour — start here if this path was too dense