Let's talk about the constitution

auryn · July 7, 2020, 8:21pm

@spengrah just posted this constitution, I’m keen to hear everyone’s thoughts and feedback.

clrfund/constitution/blob/master/clrfund-constitution.md

# CLR.FUND CONSTITUTION

## I. Introduction
Clr.fund is a protocol for efficiently allocating funds to public goods that benefit the Ethereum Network according to the preferences of the Ethereum Community. Clr.fund strives for credible neutrality, decentralization, permissionlessness, trustlessness, and pseudonymity.

This document outlines clr.fund’s purpose, the properties it must have in order to fully achieve that purpose, and the principles guiding its development.

*Note: clr.fund is open-source software and may be forked by any community looking to allocate funds to public goods. This document pertains to the instance of clr.fund dedicated to public goods benefiting the Ethereum Ecosystem. Other instances may have different objectives or values, and this document does not represent them.*

## II. Key Definitions
### A. Public Goods <a name="public-goods"> </a>
Public goods are commodities or services that are neither [excludable](#Excludable) nor [subtractable](#Rival-/-Subtractable).

Fully non-excludable and non-subtractable goods are public goods. Additionally, because a good can be partially excludable or partially subtractable, goods that are relatively low on the excludability continuum and the subtractability continuum are also public goods.

### B. Ethereum Protocol <a name="ethereum-protocol"> </a>
The mainnet, canonical Ethereum software protocol that stores, executes changes in, and facilitates consensus on balances of Ether and information (“state”) within Ethereum smart contracts. It is the protocol on which this instance of clr.fund is deployed.

### C. Ethereum Ecosystem <a name="ethereum-ecosystem"> </a>
The individual people, organizations, software, and standards that create, operate, maintain, use, analyze, or convene around the Ethereum Protocol or anything built with the Ethereum Protocol. It is a strict superset of the Ethereum Protocol.

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xuhcc · August 24, 2020, 6:48pm

Note: clr.fund is open-source software and may be forked by any community looking to allocate funds to public goods. This document pertains to the instance of clr.fund dedicated to public goods benefiting the Ethereum Ecosystem. Other instances may have different objectives or values, and this document does not represent them.

I think the term “fork” is not appropriate here. The contracts and UI can be easily used in other contexts without modification, so instead of adding this note we can present versatility as one of the main features. I’d like to make clr.fund a building block which people can deploy anywhere, integrate with DAOs and use for funds allocation in all kinds of communities and ecosystems.

auryn · August 24, 2020, 6:50pm

What word would you propose we use instead?
Fork seems appropriate to me.

xuhcc · August 24, 2020, 7:07pm

I would replace this note with something like this:

“While the initial goal of clr.fund project is to create funds allocation mechanism for Ethereum Ecosystem, anyone can deploy their own instance and use it for funds allocation in all kinds of communities and ecosystems.”

auryn · August 24, 2020, 7:09pm

I’m fine with that. Go ahead and make a PR for it.

spengrah · August 24, 2020, 7:13pm

I’m fine with removing the concept of “fork”, but I don’t think that phrasing is quite right since the constitution is explicitly for the Ethereum Ecosystem iteration of clr.fund specifically, not the clr.fund project generally. How about:

“The goal of this instance of clr.fund is to create funds allocation mechanism for Ethereum Ecosystem. Anyone can deploy their own instance and use it for fund allocation in all kinds of communities and ecosystems.”

xuhcc · August 25, 2020, 11:55am

Good point. I made the pull request: https://github.com/clrfund/constitution/pull/1

xuhcc · August 28, 2020, 7:51pm

If there are no objections, could someone merge this pull request? All conflicts were resolved.

auryn · August 28, 2020, 8:06pm

Yeah, I’m cool with it.