[Guide] What is Sub-Governance in Free TON and why it is needed?

[bubbalex]

What is Sub-Governance in Free TON and why it is needed?

I think many people have come across a misunderstanding of how the decentralized Free TON community works, we will try to explain it to you in this article.

Governance — main administration
Sub-Governance — secondary administration

23 members of Free TON Initial Members are Main Governance

Since the team’s resources are limited, they need additional people to develop the project in all directions at once. To this end, sub-governances have been created, each responsible for a specific activity, such as running a wiki or promoting in a specific language.

If every activity in Free TON goes through voting, what are the sub-governance functions?

To establish a sub-governance, its initiators submit a proposal to the main governance at the Free TON forum, and in case of community support and approval through a vote, the sub-governance gets its responsibilities and budget.

In the future, the sub-governance may vote and determine budgets for their initiatives themselves. Thus, part of the authority is transferred to the sub-governance so that more people can promote the project in different areas.

What is the process of launching sub-governance?

Initially, the launch requires support and community interest. After a successful vote, the sub-governance begins activities to launch the initiatives specified in the original proposal.

One of the first initiatives to launch is a Jury competition to expand the vote on proposals and thus reduce the risk of centralized control.

How do sub-governances differ from each other? Are they somehow connected to each other?

Each sub-governance has Initial Members , they create initial proposal for sub-governance creation and become the first members of the Jury in this sub-governance. They also launch and manage the first contests. As the membership grows, more initiatives will be launched and conducted independently of each other.

The sub-governances are not related to each other directly and can therefore duplicate the functions that other sub-governances have. However, different sub-governances may have the same participants or even Initial Members.

All sub-governances are responsible to the community and the main governance.

In general, a sub-governance is a group of active community members who want to implement their ideas in Free TON, anyone with sufficient experience and skills can create their own sub-governance or join an existing one if their proposal is approved by a vote.

Medium article: https://link.medium.com/mSBAres48ab

[Kolman]

The sub-governances are not related to each other directly and can therefore duplicate the functions that other sub-governances have. However, different sub-governances may have the same participants or even Initial Members.

I think most SubGovernances should work in collaboration. We should strive for that as much as possible. This, in turn, will empower each SubGov and push back their narrow specialization

[bubbalex]

The sub-governances are not related to each other directly and can therefore duplicate the functions that other sub-governances have. However, different sub-governances may have the same participants or even Initial Members.

I think most SubGovernances should work in collaboration. We should strive for that as much as possible. This, in turn, will empower each SubGov and push back their narrow specialization

Agree, there is a luck in collaboration, as I see even required processes are not created yet, to be able to run a contest under several sub-governances. At the beginning each sg has its own goal and should work to achieve it, but further we must work together more, because community should be unite.

[lesnik_utsa]

The sub-governances are not related to each other directly and can therefore duplicate the functions that other sub-governances have. However, different sub-governances may have the same participants or even Initial Members.

I think most SubGovernances should work in collaboration. We should strive for that as much as possible. This, in turn, will empower each SubGov and push back their narrow specialization

So far, I notice that the friendship in the SubGovernances is not particularly active. There are some questions in the community for the work of some SubGovernances, but without this there is no way. You cannot build fully deyentralized governance from scratch without facing complexities.

[weborsha]

The sub-governances are not related to each other directly and can therefore duplicate the functions that other sub-governances have. However, different sub-governances may have the same participants or even Initial Members.

I think most SubGovernances should work in collaboration. We should strive for that as much as possible. This, in turn, will empower each SubGov and push back their narrow specialization

So far, I notice that the friendship in the SubGovernances is not particularly active. There are some questions in the community for the work of some SubGovernances, but without this, there is no way. You cannot build fully deyentralized governance from scratch without facing complexities.

I think that the members of different Subgovernances might be too busy coping with their direct obligations, that they may forget to communicate with each other. But all the subgovs are still working Free TON's beteer and faster development.