do-acracy

A form of do-ocracy — An organization in which power and responsibility are held by those who do the most work.

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Meanings

noundo-acracy (countable and uncountable, plural do-acracies)

plural do-acracies

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of do-ocracy.

    You could argue that Lerdorf and PHP started as a do-acracy, as Lerdorf worked on PHP/FI 2 based on the feedback of users as he released various scripts to the community, and other developers contributed code to the project.

    2023, John Mertic, Open Source Projects—Beyond Code: A blueprint for scalable and sustainable open source projects, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 69
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