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

bubbalex
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3 min readNov 4, 2020

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.

Due to the changes made to the Ambassador Subgovernance, it was decided to create separate sub-governances on its basis.

All contests started and planned by Ambassador Subgovernance haven’t been completed nor implemented. Many participants were upset, especially those who have already started their preliminary implementation and have reached certain agreements with potential future members of the Free TON community.

To continue and expand the idea of Ambassador Subgovernance, with the aim of growing an active community of enthusiasts, partners and organizations, as a single decentralized ecosystem of Free TON, the launch of a new subgovernance was initiated — Global Community Sub-Governance. (bubbalex one of the Initial Members)

In this regard, we ask all of you to come and support its launch: https://forum.freeton.org/t/global-community-sub-governance-proposal/4341/

Your every like and every message will speed up the voting process and the launch of Global Community Sub-Governance.

In your support messages on the forum, also write:
- What programs and events you would like to see or launch by yourself in Global Community Sub-Governance?
- In what role do you see yourself in team (participant, creator and developer of own programs, jury member, etc.)?

Feel free to ask any questions and make suggestions.

The faster we start this process — the faster the implementation will begin!

For further information Join the Global Community Sub-Governance Telegram groups:
https://t.me/global_community_sg
https://t.me/global_community_sg_ru
(for Russian-speaking members)

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bubbalex
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Graphic designer, blockchain enthusiast and Cartesi Ambassador