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## SourceCred
SourceCred is a system for creating digital tokens, called 'Cred' (¤), for open-source projects. Cred represents credit for doing the work of developing and maintaining the project. For example, people who contribute to SourceCred's development will receive SourceCred¤.
The open-source community provides an enormous amount of value to the world. SourceCred aims to support that community by creating a sustainable model for funding open-source projects, and rewarding the contributors to those projects. We'll do that by enabling every open-source project to create its own digital token, called cred, which represents respect or "street cred" in the community. People will earn cred in a project by contributing to it.
The world benefits tremendously from open-source software, but most open-source developers don't get any recognition or reward. We want to build tools for fairly distributing Cred to those contributors, and incentives that act as rewards for having Cred. We hope these tools will reward open-source developers, and result in the creation of more open software.
For a high-level overview of how SourceCred works, check out [overview.md](overview.md).
SourceCred is in very early stages: as of 2/3/2018, we have just started work. Dandelion is currently working on an initial documentation push:
For an in-depth discussion of SourceCred's design, check out [design.md](design.md) (under construction).
* **overview.md**
high level overview for a general audience
* **cryptoeconomics.md**
details on SourceCred's economic design, and precise token mechanics
* **implementation.md**
implementation strategy and roadmap
We aim to have design discussions on GitHub, so that people who contribute to the design will receive Cred. For coordination and casual conversation, please join [our slack](https://join.slack.com/t/sourcecred/shared_invite/enQtMzA4NzI5ODIwODMyLWFiNDlhNWNiODc4MTk4MjNmZTAzMDNjNDAwYzEyZTBiNjAxZTFhMjU1MDg2YzNlN2FlNzgwYmU0NGM1NGEzM2M).
We aim to have design discussions on GitHub, so that people who contribute to the design will receive cred in SourceCred. For coordination and casual conversation, please join [our slack](https://join.slack.com/t/sourcecred/shared_invite/enQtMzA4NzI5ODIwODMyLWFiNDlhNWNiODc4MTk4MjNmZTAzMDNjNDAwYzEyZTBiNjAxZTFhMjU1MDg2YzNlN2FlNzgwYmU0NGM1NGEzM2M).