+ You have found the contribution dashboard and budget management app of the
+ Kosmos
+ open-source co-operative.
+
+
+ We use this app to track what people contribute to all parts of our
+ projects (not just code), as well as for managing our community's budget.
+
+
Why?
+
+ We are trying out a new form of co-operative, native to the Internet,
+ creating and sharing digital resources the same way traditional
+ co-operatives share physical ones.
+
+
+ By knowing roughly how much people contribute, we are able to reward
+ co-operative members who contribute their time with money contributed
+ by the ones who don't.
+
+
+ In addition to open-source grant payouts, all contributors can also propose
+ reimbursements for specific expenses they covered on behalf of the
+ community.
+
+
How?
+
+ Instead of notaries, lawyers, courts, or banks, we record data and manage
+ certain decisions on a decentralized ledger called
+ Rootstock,
+ which is cryptographically tied to the bitcoin timechain.
+
+
+ By doing this, we can ensure community control over the budget, as well as
+ full transparency and verifiability of everything that happens. It also
+ allows us to quickly, cheaply, and reliably send our open-source grants to
+ anyone who's contributing, no matter where they are on this beautiful
+ planet.
+
+
Kredits
+
+ All contributions are rewarded with so-called kredits. They are both
+ credits in the traditional sense of public attribution, as well as a
+ measure of how much and how regularly someone has added value to the
+ community and its products and services.
+
+
+ Kredits are considered for example for grant payouts, as well as
+ permissions for certain actions like vetos or votes. They may also be used
+ to access hosted services for free,
+ or to unlock additional features on otherwise free services.
+
+
Getting started
+
+ We'd be delighted to welcome you as a new contributor!
+ If you'd like to start collecting kredits for your contributions, you can
+ create a contributor profile now.
+
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- Welcome to the contribution dashboard of the
- Kosmos project!
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- If you want to learn more about what the numbers mean and how this works,
- check out the
- Kredits documentation.
- If you want to start earning kredits for your contributions,
- create a contributor profile.
-