Particl Marketplace is nearly among us and we are advancing anxiously into 2018 with a stronger team and unhinged excitement after lighting it up in 2017.

I would sum up Particl in 2017 as, “Laying a Strong Foundation” and follow it up with a mission this year to “Framing the Structure”. We’ve said it a ton of times, opensource projects like Particl are only as strong as their userbase; their community. We could have the best tech in crypto but without a community as the driving force to use it, add to it, build upon it, own it… we easily slip out of relevance. So now we’re doing something about it!

We want to empower Particl Community and it starts with a framework for community contributions

“Our forces will not be on the sidelines.” — John Abizaid

Framework

Just like the PART blockchain empowers a network of privacy peers, our community framework needs to empower a network of community volunteers.

Activists, artists, writers, vendors, developers, scientists, teachers, cheerleaders.

Our team has been hard at work, drafting the blueprint for a Particl Community Contribution Framework (PCCF). PCCF is a set of tools, built for community volunteers, to help Particl’s opensource project in a multitude of ways. These first steps are just the begining.

Some tasks are related to content creation and have bounty rewards and other tasks are related to peer review like critically reviewing/debating proposals. Some tasks might be proposals to impact/improve the direction of the Particl Project and some tasks might be proposing marketing/integration opportunities for Particl Project.

We have a lot cooking in the pot and need your help to do it all.

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. — Bono”

Platforms

Discussion

We have earmarked one dedicated channel for marketing/bounties/community initiatives, etc; the “Proposals” channel. This channel is where the community should pitch ideas related to the aforementioned topics. The goal here is to have the proposals channel become a community brainstorm haven, away from our general channel where content gets buried quickly.

Whether you use Slack/Riot/Telegram/Discord to participate in PART community discussions, each platform has a proposals channel and we’ve bridged the discussion between them so everyone can be involved, no matter your platform preference.

Creation

For proposal creation we are going to leverage Github.

Github is where the Particl Project shares and works together to build our opensource software. It is also a great place to host documentation such as proposals to improve an opensource project, as demonstrated by many cryptoprojects like Bitcoin and BIPs.

Debate

For debates we are going to leverage Kialo.

Currently, Particl community has no good way to retain meaningful posts or ideas. All our discussion platforms fall into the “chatter boxes” category and you’re lucky if you ever get the full picture of what is happening in the Particl economy. To handle debates and proposal creation we are tapping into 2 powerful platforms I think you’ll really fall in love with as you start using them.

Kialo is a discussion platform that will be very useful for our use-case, right out of the box. If we are to follow process of approval of a community suggestion, the Proposals channel would be the first step whereas Kialo is the second step (see Methodology below).

Unless there is an overwhelming amount of support for the idea within the Proposals channel, a Kialo discussion board should be opened specifically for that idea. Community members will then be invited through a custom link to debate on the proposal. Any community member and dev can join the discussion, this is not limited to only contributors.

The end goal is to consistently vet each idea to the point of either continuing them on to a network vote or retiring the discussion. Kialo’s built-in branches and ratings mechanisms will logically strengthen the good ideas and weed out the bad ideas, effectively moving us along the framework to the next step.

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other’s think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible. - Anonymous

Proposals

As part of our initial roll-out of the PCCF we’ve created 2 types of proposals anyone can create on the Particl Community Github page.

Particl Improvement Proposal (PIP): protocol improvements

Particl Opportunity Proposal (POP): community opportunities

1. Particl Improvement Proposals

Draft:

A Particl Improvement Proposal (PIP) is a design document providing information to the Particl community, or describing a new feature for Particl or its processes or environment. The PIP should provide a concise technical specification of the feature and a rationale for the feature.

We intend PIPs to be the primary mechanisms for proposing new features, for collecting community input on an issue, and for documenting the design decisions that have gone into Particl. The PIP author is responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions.

Repository:

Template:

https://github.com/particlcommunity/pips/blob/master/pip-0000/pip-0000.mediawiki

2. Particl Opportunity Proposals

Draft:

A Particl Opportunity Proposal (POP) is a design document providing information to the Particl community, describing bounty or contest opportunities, integration opportunities, funding Particl-related projects or marketing opportunities. Philanthropy, donations, sponsorship’s… a broad categorization of opportunities.

Repository:

Template:

https://github.com/particlcommunity/pops/blob/master/pop-0000/pop-0000.mediawiki

Methodology

Join one of our chat channel on either Riot, Telegram or Discord and pitch your idea to the community If you find enough people in the community interested by your idea, it’s time to produce your proposal. Use either *POP-0000 or PIP-0000 as template for your own proposal. Submit your proposal to Cryptoguard. Once approved, it will be uploaded on Github. Unless your idea was overwhelmingly well received by the community when first discussed, a Kialo debate thread will be created and your proposal will be tagged as “Kialo”, which also means “logical reasoning” in Esperanto . Register on Kialo (if not already done) and write your arguments in favor or against your own proposal. Note that arguments made on Kialo should always be one-sided and not nuanced. It is better to write two separate arguments, one in favor and one in disagreement, rather than creating a nuanced argument. If no clear consensus is reached on Kialo, a voting period will be initiated. Once your proposal has been accepted/voted for, it will be activated and open for anyone to take on.

Bounty Status

Available: 35 PART

35 PART On Hold: 15 PART

15 PART Pending: 0 PART

0 PART Completed: 0 PART

Special Thanks

Particl Community Contributions Framework / Co-Author: CryptoGuard

Thank You

Particl Team