All future development efforts are going to become way more open, way more public, way more transparent.

This opens up the doors for every one in the world who wants to participate in shaping æternity. For the first time, a lot of people can work on a global scale together, be in contact, exchange things, and do business with each other — in a completely new way that was not possible before. [Emin]

The charitable æternity crypto foundation will focus on supporting and sustaining the whole ecosystem by providing a wide variety of grant opportunities and donations. Of course starting with open source software development — the protocol is open source, the Wællet, the SDKs, API Server are all open source products.

People who are interested in getting involved but are intimidated by a lack of technical capabilities shouldn’t be discouraged at all. Emin asserts that the blockchain industry isn’t exclusive to the technically adept — even non-techies are absolutely welcome, and highly encouraged to get involved. Blockchain technology is all about inclusion, after all.

People who are not technical but still understand or want to understand the advantages of blockchain technology could be the dreamers, visioners and innovators we need.

We need and welcome everyone who is coming up with ideas. Even a 160-word post on Twitter might shape the next real big thing, and cause a real big change that catapults the use of this technology to the next level.

Anyone who isn’t technical but still understands the basics should not hold back with ideas of what you could do with this technology. There are a lot of experiments, not only in governance but also in finance, collaboration applications, in gambling, and gaming — you see it everywhere. Everybody — including non-technical people should just shout out all the ideas they have, whatever they think should be done with this technology.

It is very important to understand why we are here right now — there was a vision and an idea for a public good.

Everything that gets created by the æternity community right now is completely license-free. Everybody can use it, everybody can modify it, and take it as their own. They can even make a for-profit business out of it, change it. They can literally do whatever they want.