We at Planet Ethereum believe that explicit specification and publication of values, mission and vision by any organization will benefit all of the stakeholders involved in the proceedings of the organization, and in accordance with this belief, we strive to maintain this repository as a reflection of our own values, mission and vision.
We wish to become a non-profit decentralized organization, with a low barrier to entry, which pursues the following:
A thriving Ethereum ecosystem, with a spirit of collaboration and experimentation, and a strong network effect, that promotes the values we believe in.
This community project strives to research and implement efficient methods which progress towards the following goals:
- Build and maintain devtools and infrastructure to reduce the cost of experimentation, as the planet is largely unexplored.
- Invest in educational efforts.
- Facilitate the exchange of ideas, and thereby, the formation of teams, who in turn start new adventures.
- Practice decentralized organization.
- Support projects which benefit the community, but don't yet have a viable mean of sustaining themselves.
- Encourage a spirit of collaboration, and increase network effects.
- Invest in improving community signaling for what they deem most necessary at the moment for the ecosystem, and try to adjust efforts according to this signal within the organization.
- Regularly measure impact of ecosystem on real-world problems.
- Encourage value-driven development.
- Transparency
- Openness
- Decentralization
- Inclusivity
- Fairness
- Sustainability
We realize that continued concentrated effort would certainly benefit from a source of funding. Hence We hope to become sustainable by participating in hackathons with ideas from our proposals pool, or by doing bounties from the projects we find beneficial for the ecosystem that require help in workpower, or by applying for grants for our research projects.
As, all three of the aforementioned strem from the ecosystem, in a way, the ecosystem will be investing in research, development and maintaining of the common set of what the community finds necessary and what aligns with our skills and values. That is one of the reasons why we must aim for transparency and accountability, and furthermore why we must try our best to engage the ecosystem at large and to gather feedback on what is deemed as most necessary.
Thanks for reading this far! if you're also excited about our vision, we'd be more than happy to have you, and to help you employ your personal strengths in achieving it. Make sure you drop by our Gitter channel and say hi.
Here is just a small subset of the ways you can take part:
- Help us figure out how to tackle these goals
- Research, implement or maintain dev tools for the ecosystem
- Help us organize ourselves
- Mentor beginners, and provide educational content
- Spread the word
- Mix your creativity with our UIs
We understand if you can't spend much time on this, we do this in our free time too. Even small contributions add up over time and matter.
Please feel free to create issues to discuss anything, and PRs to change anything :)
