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Strategic Overview: Gift Economies Vision
Mission Statement
Build gift economies that align people's hearts & minds with things that do the most good, creating a culture of sharing and gratitude.
Long-Term Goals (3-5 Years)
1. Cultural Transformation
- Goal: Create sustainable alternative economic model shifting society toward sharing, gratitude, and mutual support
- Success Indicators:
- Reduction in purely monetary exchanges within user communities
- Basic livelihoods are supported without money, in a sustainable way so people are confident they can have that support for all their lives
- Direct connections are valued more and more, leading to stronger spiritual & moral lives
2. Community Connections
- Goal: Achieve meaningful interactions with network effects
- Success Indicator:
- Growth of the number of connections to local people with the same interests (which equates to a shrinking of loneliness)
- Growth of the number of projects that have details tracked, and growth of the size of those projects
- Active Project: Contacts Integration
3. Governance Innovation
- Goal: Demonstrate reduced dependence on traditional monetary systems and centralized governance
- Success Indicator: Communities operating primarily through gifting economy principles
4. Technical Infrastructure
- Goal: Build robust, decentralized platform ecosystem
- Components: Time Safari app + Endorser Server + supporting tools
- Success Indicators:
- P2P network capability (eg. supporting operations in a widespread emergency)
- User-controlled data migration (eg. people can retrieve a copy of all their data and use it elsewhere)
- Active Project: P2P Mesh Network
Core Principles
- Open source everything as gifts to the world
- Sustainable projects (profit is not extravagant)
- Benefit as many people as possible, as quickly as possible
- Enable alternative ways of supporting one another outside traditional money exchange
- Cryptographically-provable claims with user-controlled privacy
Task Management
Detailed tasks with hour estimates, dependencies, and links are maintained in project.task.yaml, following the structure defined at taskyaml.org.