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Radworks Governance Wrapped: 2023

The primary focus for the past year was finalizing the transition to the DAO. The Governance Committee played a key role in facilitating the Radworks community throughout this transition. Not only did we lay the necessary groundwork for advancing our governance system in 2024, but also set new foundations for the ecosystem as a whole. This post summarizes key governance proposals & milestones in 2023 and outlines our plans for 2024!Governance Proposals: A SummaryThe year 2023 saw our highest ...

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Dec 22
Radworks 2023: A Year in Review
As 2024 begins, it’s an ideal time to reflect on what’s happened in the Radworks ecosystem. It was a year chock full of positive change & momentum in its journey to build a freer internet. Here are a few highlights of the progress made and what’s on the horizon for 2024.The Birth and Definition of RadworksBack in July, Radworks was announced as the community-governed network behind Radicle & Drips. The creation of Radworks reflected a reorganization of the (then) Radicle community and ecosyst...
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Dec 20
DAO Challenges: Insights from the Governance Geeks Gathering at Devconnect Istanbul 2023
TL;DR At the latest Governance Geeks Gathering, a group of DAO governance operators and experts from MakerDAO, Safe, Aragon, Radworks and others came together to discuss 2024’s top challenges. In this post we’ll highlight the key takeaways. For a full recap of the workshop and its outcomes, see this Discourse post. Radworks is a community dedicated to cultivating internet freedom and is run by a decentralized governance system that is powered by a vibrant community of users & builders. Design...
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Nov 11
Octant Teams Up with Drips to Fund its Dependencies
We are pleased to announce that Octant is the second organization to commit to fund its critical software dependencies with Drips. Octant, a participatory public goods funding platform, has committed a total of 23.2 ETH (approximately $42k) to fund its critical software dependencies with Drips. Octant & Drips share a commitment to strengthening the open-source ecosystem, and we’re thrilled to partner with them. James Kiernan, Head of Community & Partnerships at Octant, shared that his team se...
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Nov 8
Radworks Gives $1M to FOSS Dependencies with Drips
We’re thrilled to announce that Radworks is now streaming $1 million to 30 of our critical software dependencies. This is a watershed moment for Radworks in our journey to build a freer internet. We believe that by actively supporting our dependencies, we can enhance the resilience and sustainability of the free and open source ecosystem as a whole. With this, Radworks becomes the first project to utilize Drips to support open source builders at scale. (That being said, we’ve heard a few whis...
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Oct 6
A Radworks Inquiry: Towards Internet Freedom
“The internet is the greatest force for individual freedom ever conceived. Our challenge is to ensure it remains open and accessible to all.” - Eben Moglen, Professor, Columbia Law School & Founder, Software Freedom Law Center Despite the inordinate amount of time we all spend on the internet—not to mention the near infinite amount of available content—how often do we consciously consider the systems and external forces that shape the information that reaches us? Are we allowed to explore the...
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Jul 10
Announcing Radworks
“It is in this light that we must recognize that only a restoration of open-source culture, and all that enables across the full spectrum of open-source possibilities, can allow humanity to harness the distributed intelligence of the collective and create the equivalent of heaven on Earth — in other words, a world that works for all.” — The Open-Source Everything ManifestoToday, we’re excited to announce the start of the next chapter in our long march towards a freer internet: Radworks. Radwo...
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Jul 10
Radworks: Defining Our Purpose
BackstoryAt the beginning of 2023, we embarked on a research project to better understand the (then called) Radicle community’s composition, motivations, and team dynamics. At the time, it was clear the organization needed to evolve its operations and governance to better achieve its objectives. Before making such significant changes, we wanted to ensure we really understood the goals, needs, and values of the Radicle ecosystem members. We partnered with Apiary to research our community with ...
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Jul 10
How to Ratify the Radworks Purpose... with Radicle!
The Radworks purpose is hosted on Radicle. You can find it on seed.radworks.org in the radworks-governance project or by clicking here.This is a quick onboarding guide for ratifying the Radworks purpose doc with Radicle! It will walk you through the steps of installing radicle, cloning a project, and submitting a patch. To start, open up your terminal!Install radicle sh <(curl -sSf https://radicle.xyz/install) Follow the instructions on installation: Run source ~/.profile or open a new t...
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Mar 30
Introducing RAD
Original post by @lftherios on February 17th, 2021 on radicle.xyz.The Radicle project has released its native governance token, making it the first open-source, community-led, and self-sustaining network for software collaboration.The Radicle token is live! The official contract address is: 0x31c8eacbffdd875c74b94b077895bd78cf1e64a350% of the total supply will be allocated to Radicle community members and users over time through the network’s treasury.An open proposal to make 3.75% of the tot...
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Mar 30
Collaborating on Radicle
Originaly post by @lftherios on December 20th, 2020 on radicle.xyz. When coming to Radicle from a centralized code collaboration network like GitHub or Gitlab, users might be puzzled by Radicle’s unique social model at first. In contrast to centralized code collaboration platforms, on Radicle:Peers are in control of their social interactionsEach peer effortlessly self hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow that they are interested inPeers have subjective views over t...
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Mar 30
How it works: Radicle Link
Original post by @cloudhead on November 18th, 2020 on radicle.xyz. Behind every repository is a version control system—the most popular of these being Git, created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds for the development of the Linux kernel. Git marked the rise of distributed version control systems as developers realized the centralized model of SVN and CVS didn't scale well with the number of contributors. In fact, Git was only created when Linus’ free Bitkeeper license was revoked after a Linux ...
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Mar 30
Towards decentralized code collaboration
Original post by @abbey_titcomb on April 15th, 2020 on radicle.xyz. Throughout the last decade, open source has become a standard for software development. Sharing code freely and publicly has made it drastically cheaper and easier to build software—and tech innovation is surging as a result. Code hosting and collaboration platforms like GitHub and GitLab have contributed heavily to the growth of open source by bringing it to a mainstream audience. They defined standard vocabulary and behavio...