How Odyssey is run, who decides, and how.

This is a distribution run by a single person. But I am not the unquestioned boss, and I don't see myself as a benevolent dictator either. I've tried — or at least I'm trying — to build a new kind of community model, based on economic sustainability and on the support of the community itself. It's a hard challenge. I'm giving it a shot.

I will try to make my decisions about the development of the distro by consulting the Argonauts. I'll organize a public meeting, and afterwards I'll publish the minutes of that meeting, where together we set the roads to take. Obviously I am the leader: for some decisions I'll ask for a binding vote, for others a non-binding one — and which is which, I decide. For now the distro is small; as members grow, I intend to write more structured and sensible governance rules, ones that truly reflect the dynamics and the needs of the project.

I also have a plan to give the project continuity if I ever abandoned it: a recovery plan with all the documents, the instructions and the keys, allowing anyone to replicate Odyssey, its build system and its supply chain from their own machine. This too will be settled in the future, with new members.

Being alone doesn't mean being disorganized, and it doesn't mean being opaque. What you've read so far seems honest enough to me, for a project this young.