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This page is a placeholder, and it says so rather than pretending to be a cause. There is one real cause on the list and a space beside it, because the honest number of causes we have thought of is one.

A cause is a thing that needs software and is not going to get it otherwise: a piece of history worth rescuing, a bit of public arithmetic nobody will fund, a tool a small group needs and cannot buy. Put yours up below — one per person, and everything that comes of a cause taken up is released as AGPL free software, so what you are proposing is a donation to the commons rather than a request for a favour.

Voting for this one is a vote for the slot itself: it says the reef should be running causes proposed from outside, and not only the ones we came up with.

Have a say

When the factory's credits go live, you will be able to donate them toward this. For now, your vote is the steering.

Whatever the factory forges for a cause is released as AGPL free software: the commons gets the code, and no cause here produces a proprietary product.

Put up your own cause

No name, no email — anonymous, like the ballot. One proposal per connection: the same honest, imperfect test the vote uses.

How the vote works

One vote per visitor, as far as an honest server can tell without cookies — we rate-limit and hash addresses, we do not store them. The hash is salted, it is what stops a second vote in the same week, and it is thrown away when the week turns. Your address itself is never written to disk.

That is not one person one vote and we are not going to pretend it is. Two people on the same home connection share a hash, and one person on two networks has two. It is a steer, honestly counted, and it is the best a site can do without following you about.

No scripts, no cookies, no analytics here either — a vote is an ordinary form, posted to this server and counted on it. View source and check.