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# Hack For Freedom Submission 

## Name of Project
# Research Collective 

## Project Description
The Research Collective is a community at the intersection of crypto and DIY bio.
For Hack for Freedom, we connected Aragon to a Discourse forum.
We focused on two use cases:
Applying for a moderator position, which initiates a token request.
Submitting an experimental proposal, which initiates a standard vote with JSON data crammed into the vote's details. 
Both of these can be initiated from the Discourse thread. 

We hope to continue developing this into a 'decentralized institutional review board' for citizen and pseudonymous scientists. 

## Project Team
[Tristan Roberts](https://github.com/jierdin) Product / Front End
[Ian Philips](https://github.com/orgs/ResearchCollective/people/IanPhilips) Back End
[Pradhmuna Pancholi](https://github.com/PradhumnaPancholi) Front End

## A prototype (code or no-code)
Main Submission (Discourse/Aragon Backend)
https://github.com/ResearchCollective/DiscourseAragonConnectNode
Discourse Plugin Frontend
https://github.com/ResearchCollective/discourse-aragon
**Pre-existing Repo** for React website
*this link points to a branch that contains work only done during this hackathon*
https://github.com/ResearchCollective/ResearchCollective/tree/hackforfreedom

[Link to Video Demo](https://youtu.be/tyE-6NtMCW4)

## Beta-product page + lead capture url
[ResearchCollective.io](https://researchcollective.io) 

## Pitch-deck 
[Pitch Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16ukIjYRFOGal9BN4aYr942aYr1-9kDYrHVlPd_D6Yoc/edit?usp=sharing)