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+<main id="about">
+  <div id="aside">
+  </div>
+
+  <div id="content">
+    <section class="text">
+      <h2>What is this?</h2>
+      <p>
+        You have found the contribution dashboard and budget management app of the
+        <a href="https://kosmos.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kosmos</a>
+        open-source co-operative.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        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.
+      </p>
+      <h2>Why?</h2>
+      <p>
+        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.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        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.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        In addition to open-source grant payouts, all contributors can also propose
+        reimbursements for specific expenses they covered on behalf of the
+        community.
+      </p>
+      <h2>How?</h2>
+      <p>
+        Instead of notaries, lawyers, courts, or banks, we record data and manage
+        certain decisions on a decentralized ledger called
+        <a href="https://rootstock.io/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rootstock</a>,
+        which is cryptographically tied to the bitcoin timechain.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        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.
+      </p>
+      <h2>Kredits</h2>
+      <p>
+        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.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        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 <a href="https://kosmos.org/services/">hosted services</a> for free,
+        or to unlock additional features on otherwise free services.
+      </p>
+      <h2>Getting started</h2>
+      <p>
+        We'd be delighted to welcome you as a new contributor!
+        If you'd like to start collecting kredits for your contributions, you can
+        <LinkTo @route="signup">create a contributor profile</LinkTo> now.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Next, you could learn more about
+        <a href="https://community.kosmos.org/t/how-kredits-for-contributions-are-proposed-and-confirmed/176">how kredits are proposed and issued</a>.
+        If you want to dive deeper into how this all works, head over to the
+        <a href="https://wiki.kosmos.org/Kredits">Kredits documentation</a>
+        page on our (soon to be phased out) wiki.
+      </p>
+    </section>
+  </div>
+
+  <div id="empty">
+  </div>
+</main>