Welcome! This repository hosts the code of gov4git — a decentralized protocol for governing open-source communities based on git. We created gov4git to aid us in experimenting with organization and incentive mechanisms that stimulate happy, productive and fair open source communities.

gov4git is a framework for programming and deploying governance applications. It is based on a new, radically simple and powerful software architecture for decentralized applications and trusted computation.

• Summary of gov4git for users
• Whitepaper describing the software architecture underlying gov4git

Gov4git has reached an MVP milestone, which includes a variety of features:

• identity system for community members
• community user and group management
• polling for prioritizing work (such as issues or pull requests) based on quadratic voting
• community-scoped fungible and non-fungible currencies (such as voting credits and badges) and services (such as transfers)

At the moment the gov4git protocol is implemented by our reference command-line client. We are working on building a web UI to facilitate non-technical users.

We are using gov4git to govern our own community and improve the protocol with practice. Everyone is invited to join the community and try the system.