This is my overarching purpose, to help align people's hearts & minds with the things in life that will do that the most good. I believe that humans achieve their highest purpose when we have a culture of sharing and gratitude, much like what has been taught by spiritual people like Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi, and "gift economies" is a concrete and compelling catch-phrase to get to these ideas. - Trent

One intent is to enable alternative ways of supporting one another, outside the traditional exchanges of money.

This shift will causes changes in govenance as well, making monopoly government less relevant as other motivations take over.

These projects are typically open source. They aim for a sustainable project, and if they yield a profit then it won't be extravagant. This is to follow the principle of benefitting as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.

The following projects contribute to this overall purpose. All projects are open-source.

Time Safari is a mobile app (also available on the web) for any user to build a network of people, show them direct gratitude, and also enable them to initiate projects together. It aims to ease the onboarding to the Endorser Server, as well as the sharing of public/private key credentials.
Endorser Server is a server-side application that maintains a chain of cryptographically-signed claims, revealing personal data or metadata only as permissioned by each user. The goal is to allow all the functions to be run in a P2P network, such that users can migrate to peer-to-peer or at least have the ability to choose which servers they use for their work.

Organization

This repository contains the overall vision and strategic planning for the Lives of Gifts project, along with technical documentation for the Time Safari and Endorser applications.

Setup

We may include links to the ./repos which are other repositories involved. These are typically located in the parent directory, so we recommend users create a soft link to that directory, eg ln -s .. repos

Planning Files

This project uses a structured planning system located in doc/ to maintain strategic clarity and provide context for AI conversations:

Strategic Overview - Long-term vision and goals
Project Inventory - Complete repository status
Success Metrics - KPIs and measurement framework
Goal & Task Relationships - Overall goals and tasks with hour estimates and dependencies (format spec)

Major Initiatives

In the task breakdown doc these are some of the largest initiatives.

P2P Mesh Network (~1000h) - Decentralized data sharing via LoRa mesh networks
Voice Input (~400h) - Voice-to-text with on-device processing
Contacts Integration (~80h) - Device contacts integration for direct messaging

Technical Documentation

Refer to the Project Inventory to find specific application & code details.