Hi @kevink94! Thanks for sharing this its definitely a really interesting point of discussion.

Measuring/Quantifying Contribution: How do you measure labour and output from contributors? In a multidisciplinary environment, shipping will take many forms and could become quite subjective…

I think measuring/quantifying contribution is fundamentally a subjective issue, I’ve seen some approaches which attempt to reward people for objective metrics such as number of commits or lines of code included in a pull request just don’t feel like they would ever work particularly well. I think it will require some sort of self-valuation prior to work occurring and being accepted, this is one of the goals of one of the Aragon Nest projects (Planning Suite). I hope that we see more and more experimentation in this regard.

Contributor or Service Provider Reputation / Trust

I think reputation definitely can help, but the question becomes how do you design a reputation system that accurately captures the history of valuable contributions… I think the approach that Colony is taking with a task/skill-based reputation mechanism makes a lot of sense for a use case like this. At basic level an organization can use non-transferrable governance tokens as a means to both track internal reputation within an org.

Governance Processes: Can anyone join the free company, do contributors need to apply,

I think ideally organizations take on a more fluid nature where its easier to join or leave than it is with a traditional binary hiring/firing process, but there are some challenges and limitations with that that aren’t immediately obvious. If participation is a gradient, at what point to do people get certain privileges? How do you grant or revoke access to sensitive resources such as social media accounts that are used to communicate on behalf of the organization. The Aragon Community is starting to experiment in this regard with the Aragon DAC initiative.

Resource Allocation/Shared Infrastructure: Would there be any resources shared by contributors, and how would those resources be allocated? How are contract terms drafted, negotiated, closed? How are contributors paid?

Some shared resources can be governed using the DAO’s internal governance process, but currently there is no way for a DAO to enter a traditional contract. This is one of the reason we think a digital jurisdiction will help DAOs become more practical.