Modular Organizing Terminology (MOT) is a basic terminology for modularly specified organizing, design and governance technologies.
General Objectives
I (Greg Cassel) intend for this terminology to facilitate useful communication, coordination and collaboration in diverse social contexts without requiring potentially noisy complexity or specificity. For example, agents can use these terms to develop resources including models, plans and reports, and to propose agreements. This terminology can also facilitate the peer-to-peer development of non-coercive open standards and recipes.
MOT terms (or derivations thereof) are suggested for use only on an as-needed basis. The importance of formal definitions varies widely depending on social context. In some contexts it's crucial; this is why (for example) legal documents often include introductory lists of special definitions.
Special Objectives
I'm using this repository's hyperlinked definitions to standardize terminology in my organizing models and related documents. Inclusive Organizing Frameworks represents many relationships between MOT and specific organizing models.
Additionally, I'll work with others to import mutually useful MOT terms into one or more collectively governed repositories.
Philosophical Context
This terminology supports an action, process and systems based philosophy of science and language. MOT's human-centered terms intentionally relate mental, social and physical experiences. One of my fundamental goals here is to help facilitate more effective and consistent descriptions of such relationships. I hope to share that goal with other agents via distributed version control and potential creative mergers.
Some terms in MOT already have excellent technical descriptions elsewhere. I've added MOT entries for them mainly to enable responsible MOT-compatible governance (and coordination) of potential modifications of these terms.
This repository will often be edited as terms are interactively developed. Some of the fundamental terms here are especially difficult to limit and describe, and will need to be inclusively developed through open dialogue between diverse agents.
License: I've now licensed MOT with GPLv3. This is a temporary measure in case anyone wants to adapt any significant parts of MOT without directly collaborating. Whenever MOT's master branch seems sufficiently stable and generally useful, I plan to put it in the public domain-- probably with CCO or a closely corresponding open license.