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How to contribute
First of all, thank you that you think about contributing to this project. The most valuable action would be getting in direct contact. Now, if we already know each other, lets have a quick walk through.
Original GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. But its features open a sphere of precious tools that reach beyond code. It enables people from around the world openly work on a project they all support, investing their time and labor to bring it forward. One of the core principles of projects hosted on GitHub is Open Source. Meaning everyone can have a look at the code, use it, alternate it or contribute to the project. Which resulted in things no body was dreaming of, today almost everything you do is in some way based on an open source technology. Making GitHub the place for developers to come together and design the world of tomorrow. And this is exactly what this project too, tries to do. Except it's not just code, we want to create a source of knowledge for creating seeds of a post-capitalistic regenerative system to replace the old one. And also let people connect with similar thinkers.
Proposing you have read the Manifesto/README.md, you will hopefully have an idea what this repository is for:
- NO? We have a discussion thread open called Q&A, where you can ask questions. We will try to answer them as quick as possible :)
- Yes, that's great! Now you probably have a lot of your own ideas about how an alternative-world should look like, how it should be organized, formed, financed etc. and that's awesome. We setup our discussion section on this GitHub page in a way that makes exploring and discussing new things as easy as possible and it's one of the best ways to contribute to this project. Learn more about how our discussion-page works. If you're not happy with existing work that has been put out on the main-page, then raise an issue or add a Pull request with improved material right away.
Be aware of the structure of this project when suggesting something, it will make it easier to follow your thoughts.
You may have to create a GitHub account first. After that, go to the discussion section. Imagine this page as a big house with a lot of rooms. In those rooms people come together to discuss certain topics. Like energy production in communities, how to decision making should look like and so on. When opening a new room/discussion you can first choose how this discussion is structured. At the top left there is a field called category. Currently there are the following options to choose from:
- Explore Ideas: select this one, if you want to start a discussion with open ends.
- Find Solutions: your searching for a specific answer for the challenge you want to solve, go with this one.
- Q&A: Have uncertainties about how this project works? If you have just a general question that isn't meant to contribute to the knowledge on this page. After that add a title to your discussion, that sums it up and the rest is up to you. One last thing, please add a label to your discussion, so others can easily find the discussions they're interested in, by clicking in the right panel, on the options icon of labels. You can find further explanation about the labels in this section.
Before you can do that, you might have to create an account first. Secondly, be sure this is really an issue or if it would fit better in the discussion section. When that's clear, go to the issue tab and click on New Issue. Now, you can add a short title, that describes your idea well and start typing. We are very interested in what we can make better.
This is a more complex task, and is open for people who want to contribute whole files. Your very welcome too :)
There are a couple of labels we work with, here are their descriptions.
- grow-seed : Every thing about putting social change forward, how to engage more people in this world, how to trigger tipping points to end the capitalistic system. Every label related with DNA is about ideas/concepts/information that have something to do with the blueprint of an alternative reality. How a world after the end of capitalism might look like and more specific, how communities in this common-based world of peer production look like. The next word shows which sub-topic is addressed.
- DNA:clothing : Every thing about keeping oneself warm and dry.
- DNA:buildings : How to built regenerative and with little resources
- DNA:transportation : The transportation of the future, inclusive, sustainable and efficient
- DNA:energy : How should generate electricity and create heat
- DNA:financing : A big problem, getting the resources to build seed communities for a new system
- DNA:communication : How should we communicate, use the internet and share our knowledge?
- DNA:organisation : steering a peaceful cohabitation and making decision
- big-picture : Exploring how such new economy works within society and earth
- _documentation : For issues related to documentation
- _duplicate : this topic has already been raised somewhere else
- _help wanted : I can't do this alone