Made for open-source users, project owners, and young IT learners.

Ara is Maintainer-Led Social Networking Platform on top your GitHub/GitLab repository. It's a platform for funding, coordinating, and gradually transferring ownership of open-source projects to the token-holding communities. Do you have a scepticisim or more curious questions? Please, check out the ara.foundation for short and clear details.

For a feedback and joining our community, 📬 instead of opening GitHub Issues, contact maintainers via Ara App Galaxy and become automatically ARA token holder when your issue gets resolved.

How to interact with Ara App Galaxy? Here is the short video explainaing it

• 🚀 App URL: https://ara.foundation
• 🚀 Network: Testnet Live

Ara uses a public ledger to trakc each project's tokens. But those tokens are non-speculative utility tokens.

They are not designed for trading, but has strict utlity within Ara.

They exist solely to:

• Represent earned ownership and contribution weight
• Coordinate funding and long-term responsibility
• Lock API access and protocol versions by participant choice
• Enable governance within the projects

in Ara, potentially it's possible to customize tokens, to have access/ownership only on the specific code lines or source files, instead having ownership of all project.

Additionally, we implement the blockchain for the transparency. To set the cap on Ara's own fees.

We also use blockchain for two reasons, that other way isn't possible to do:

• Ara's promise Make our comission fees public and capped, to ensure in the long run it can't exceed 2.3%. Thanks to blockchain, it's capped at the tech level beyond human intervention.
• We also use blockchain to follow the hyperpayment protocol, which applies to all projects automatically on Ara. Hyperpayment means, whenever a project receives a fund, then it also flow to its dependencies as well. They are implemented at [github.com/ara-foundation/cascadefund-smartcontracts] repository.

Ownership progresses only when: - work is delivered\

• funding is committed\
• maintainers approve

Never instantly. Never passively.

This repository contains the Ara App, including:

• Main web application
• Core UI and interaction logic
• Integration with Ara's contribution and ownership system

Protocols, token logic, and infrastructure may live in separate repositories.

• Node.js (LTS recommended)
• pnpm (required)

Install pnpm:

npm install -g pnpm

git clone https://github.com/ara-foundation/app.git
cd app
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Ara does not use traditional GitHub Issues.

To contribute:

1. Visit Ara App Galaxy
2. Join a project (galaxy)
3. Raise or claim work
4. Get funded and earn ownership transparently

Licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0).

You may: - Use, modify, and distribute the code

You must: - Share modifications to MPL-covered files under the same license

See the LICENSE file for details.

Open source should not depend on burnout, hero maintainers, or unpaid labor.

Ara makes: - sustainability normal\

• ownership explicit\
• collaboration fair\
• trust programmable