do-ocracy

do-ocracy
n.
An organization or movement where power and respect go to people who get things done. Also: doocracy.
Example Citations:
In fact, the success of Anonymous without leaders is pretty easy to understand—if you forget everything you think you know about how organizations work. Anonymous is a classic "do-ocracy," to use a phrase that's popular in the open source movement. As the term implies, that means rule by sheer doing: Individuals propose actions, others join in (or not), and then the Anonymous flag is flown over the result.
—Quinn Norton, " How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/ff_anonymous/all/," Wired, July 3, 2012
Behind door No. 7 of an inconspicuous brick building in downtown Rochester's east side is a group of disparate people with a common purpose: do-ocracy.
The idea of do-ocracy is what drives more than 20 self-proclaimed "geeks" to work on projects and hone skills.
—Frank Bi, " Interlock a physical space for like-minded to collaborate: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120708/NEWS01/307080040/Interlock-geeks-hackerspaces," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, July 9, 2012
Earliest Citation:
We already have the wrapper :-) Just add a new map. (Its up to you I was just suggesting — this is primarily a do-ocracy with excessive feedback from the troll because he hasn't gotten to do much coding this week and is jealous :-) ).
—Andrew Oliver, " Re: TODO: retry configuration and queue: https://community.jboss.org/message/297882\#297882," JBoss Community, May 14, 2004
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