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POSI Principles

Dion Whitehead
Dion Whitehead
Creator of Metapages

The POSI principles are a set of goals to promote open scholarly infrastructure that guide the heart and direction of the metapage platform. Some aspects specific to our organization:

Governance: the metapage platform will seek to be a worker owned enterprise:​

We aim to have transparent governance, with input and visibility from our users. The goal is to eventually convert the current LLC into a worker owned cooperative, or similar structure. A cooperative structure has the best chance of long-term survival and durability, which is one of our core values: users workflows will always run.

Sustainability: the metapage organization aims for financial growth​

Based on services, not data or compute.

We specifically store data at cost, and provide computation resources, also at cost. We aim to make compute resources a commodity, so will never charge a computation “value add” beyond what it takes us to service scalable cloud infrastructure.

Insurance: metapage resources (workflows) will always run, even if the organization is wound down​

We will save user data as long as there are resources, and will enable users to take their workflows with them, in their entirety, and run them simply with a public, open-source, static browser (that users can also take and fork).