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TODO list for myself, gonna submit these as separate PRs.
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CONTRIBUTING.md (include certificate of origin and code of conduct) -
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PRINCIPLES.md (long-form description of principles, i prefer we have this in our main repo as opposed to wiki, so any changes are obvious)
also wrote some content in describing Value Flows to @Connoropolous, it's just refinement of existing content, might be worth a few more refinement cycles then merge into the README.md (or not):
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How would you most succinttly summarize the goals and intentions and short and long term plans of the valueflows space?
the purpose of Value Flows is define a common vocabulary so a lot of alternative economic software projects that are solving different pieces of the same puzzle are able to work together.
our principles for success are:
- the vocabulary must support coordinating work between different people in different organizations using different software on different platforms using different human and programming languages.
- the vocabulary must track the flows of resources (value) forwards and backwards.
- the vocabulary must distribute income (rewards) according to peoples' contributions, regardless of where and when in the network those contributions occurred.
- the vocabulary must be fractal: it must support high-level views of networks as well zooming in to lower and lower levels of detail.
- the vocabulary must work at the recipe, planning, and accounting levels.
- the vocabulary must work for alternative and traditional organizing shapes and economic relationships.
our next deliverable is to have separate API and UI apps playing with each others' people, groups, and relationships in-between by communicating through a common vocabulary.
our long-term plan is to refine our common vocabularies, design a set of interoperable protocols for decentralized economic infrastructure, and deploy an ecosystem of interconnected apps to form the backbone of an alternative economic system that supports recipes, planning, and accounting for fractal networks.