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Open Problem Statement: open source incentivization app to share community content #3

Open matchstickmodel opened 5 years ago

matchstickmodel commented 5 years ago

THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE

Proposal: open source incentivization app to share community content Abstract This is a description of the problem.

Open source is not self-sustainable at this point. Some of the business models around it that we have seen in the past include:

Selling support or consultancy services around an open-source product Selling pro services not included in the core open-source implementation Doing a token sale and deploying your own token which interacts or provides some value add to those using the open-source product and having the token Problem with all those is that they require external elements that make the core team or maintainers lose focus, and can also sometimes misalign incentives. For example, you'd want your open-source implementation to be as basic as possible to people resort to consulting with you for custom solutions, buying the pro services, or buying the token that unlocks some value add. Therefore, corrupting the interest of the project itself.

The solution is truly community-run open-source projects. We propose using governance tokens to provide sustainable funding for open source projects in a way that perfectly aligns the maintainers, contributors and community incentives, by implementing a decentralized Git repo as an aragonOS app.

This is enabled by two components:

Aragon: By using Aragon, a token can be created for governance purposes, and different governance mechanisms could be put in place in order to incentivize the interests of the community Decentralized Git repo app: The core resource of an open-source project is its source code. By using Aragon's governance mechanisms, the community could decide who are the maintainers, who is allowed to merge pull requests and how are those all rewarded. Deliverables A decentralized Git repo app compatible with aragonOS, exposing roles for curating issues, opening PRs, merging PRs, naming maintainers, setting bounties to issues and triggering events when each of those should be rewarded. A GitHub-alike frontend for it Ideally, implement everything described in the OpenCollab whitepaper Grant size Funding: From $50k Up to $100k in ETH, split into chunks paid out over achieved deliverables.

Success reward: Up to $50k in ANT, given out when all deliverables are ready.

Application requirements Proof of concept of the smart contracts for the decentralized Git repo as an aragonOS app. Alternatively, a whitepaper researching the implementation of the whole stack Details of the team members, alongside with their willingness in terms of implication Estimated average burn rate for completing the deliverables Legal structure to be adopted, if any Development timeline Testnet launch will be expected during Q1, with mainnet launch being Q2.

matchstickmodel commented 5 years ago

I think this proposal is really good - also Tilmar is great blah blah