Culture & Community as Complex Systems – San Francisco 2025

Culture & Community as Complex Systems: How do communities evolve—and what happens when they don’t? Carter Gibson and Beth McCarthy explore the messy, necessary layers of community governance, content moderation, and cultural infrastructure. Drawing from Carter’s experience managing internal systems at scale at Google, this session examines the lessons centralized organizations can offer decentralized ecosystems. Speakers: Carter Gibson (Google), Beth McCarthy (Funding the Commons) This session was part of the 12th edition of Funding the Commons, held March 15–16, 2025, at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Learn more at https://www.fundingthecommons.io