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Originally developed to support camps at European Burning Man, Gatherings has since been used by microburns, unconferences and local communities taking care of their neighbourhoods .", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Summary (1-3 sentences for social media)", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Feb 2020", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Inception Date", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Lead developer Stephen Reid https://stephenreid.net\nOther Symbiota Co-operative members https://symbiota.coop/people", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Team Members (plus social links)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Stephen Reid", "hidden": true, "question": "Which project steward is a member of OpenCivics?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received a grant from OpenCivics previously?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Approx \u00a310k in small donations plus a 2500 ARB grant", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the total amount of funding your project has received to date?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Approx \u00a35k", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the total amount of funding your project received in 2023?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "n/a", "hidden": false, "question": "If your project has any public reports or documentation on its budgeting and finances, please share links here:", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Dandelion's long-term vision is to catalyze a more participatory, co-creative culture of civic engagement, both online and off. We aim to do this by providing digital infrastructure, such as our Gatherings feature, that makes it easy and intuitive to organize in decentralized, collaborative ways.\n\nThe Gatherings feature was inspired by and developed in collaboration with participatory event cultures like European Burning Man gatherings. It embodies learnings and best practices from these mature co-creative communities, such as:\n\n- Distributed decision-making on membership via community voting on applications\n- Decentralized co-creation of activities and focus areas via Teams and Timetables\n- Transparent allocation of shared funds via collaborative budgeting powered by cryptocurrencies\n\nBeyond specific functionalities, the core intention of Gatherings is to maximize agency and emergent self-organization of participants. We believe online spaces can and should be sites of, in Nathan Schneider's words, \"creative, radical, democratic renaissance\".\n\nThe long-term civic impact we envision is multi-layered:\n\n1. Empowering individuals with experiences of meaningful co-creation and participation, which they will then demand and replicate in other contexts\n2. Proliferating participatory, emergent models of organizing that can out-compete top-down, centralized approaches\n3. Enabling the viral spread of bottom-up civic initiatives to reach critical mass and tangibly influence societal directions\n4. Prototyping and normalizing participatory innovations that could eventually be adopted into formal democratic institutions\n\nDandelion is and has always been an open-source project. We believe this infrastructure for participatory organizing should be a fully accessible public good, able to be replicated and built upon by civic innovators everywhere.\n\nDandelion aims to be an enabling platform for a new generation of civic projects and leaders. Each Gathering is a \"Governable Space\" in Schneider's sense - a site of applied participatory governance with network effects into wider civic life. As more people have formative experiences of co-creative culture through the platform, it could help participatory organizing become a new default, expected and demanded in communities of all kinds.\n\nWe believe co-creation should be the foundation of our civic life - not a fringe phenomenon, but the norm. If Dandelion's Gatherings feature can enable people to viscerally experience the benefits of emergent participation over top-down control, those insights will ripple out and transform what we understand governance and citizenship to mean in the 21st century. 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We aim to do this by providing digital infrastructure, such as our Gatherings feature, that makes it easy and intuitive to organize in decentralized, collaborative ways.\n\nThe Gatherings feature was inspired by and developed in collaboration with participatory event cultures like European Burning Man gatherings. It embodies learnings and best practices from these mature co-creative communities, such as:\n\n- Distributed decision-making on membership via community voting on applications\n- Decentralized co-creation of activities and focus areas via Teams and Timetables\n- Transparent allocation of shared funds via collaborative budgeting powered by cryptocurrencies\n\nBeyond specific functionalities, the core intention of Gatherings is to maximize agency and emergent self-organization of participants. We believe online spaces can and should be sites of, in Nathan Schneider's words, \"creative, radical, democratic renaissance\".\n\nThe long-term civic impact we envision is multi-layered:\n\n1. Empowering individuals with experiences of meaningful co-creation and participation, which they will then demand and replicate in other contexts\n2. Proliferating participatory, emergent models of organizing that can out-compete top-down, centralized approaches\n3. Enabling the viral spread of bottom-up civic initiatives to reach critical mass and tangibly influence societal directions\n4. Prototyping and normalizing participatory innovations that could eventually be adopted into formal democratic institutions\n\nDandelion is and has always been an open-source project. 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