# [Org Design] Funding Core Teams: Mission, Vision, and Purpose

A major takeaway from the [Paris Contributor Offsite](https://www.notion.so/forest-text-046/Paris-Offsite-July-2022-Notes-Recording-89bf519f21a7480d95917754f43b6327) was that a high-level (purpose/vision/mission/manifesto) statement should exist and be formalized as the “North Star” to guide the Core Teams as we [transition to the DAO](https://radicle.community/t/the-next-phase-of-the-radicledao/2776). This takeaway confirmed the [Collaborative Vision](https://radicle.community/t/radicle-2022-beyond-a-collaborative-vision/2873) work started by @thom and myself a month prior.

As the Org Design workstream continues its work (see [Part 1](https://radicle.community/t/org-design-funding-core-teams-principles-criteria-part-1/2994) and [Part 2](https://radicle.community/t/org-design-funding-core-teams-principles-criteria-part-2/3013) — our recent deliverables), we'd like to keep pushing this initiative forward.

Here is the first draft of a proposed **Mission, Vision, and Purpose** document based on contributor feedback sourced from the collaborative vision exercise.

## Radicle's Mission, Vision, and Purpose

### Objective
Co-create a high-level mission & purpose to guide the decisions of the Core Development Org and work of its Core Teams. It should be long-term and remain fairly static, but Core Teams have the ability revise & update it as long as its done in a public, transparent, and community-inclusive way.

It's important to note that this is *not* proposing a DAO-wide Mission, Vision, and Purpose at this point in time. This document will be used to guide the Core Development Org. Other Orgs (e.g. RGP, EGF) can choose to align with the document as well. In the future, we can imagine a Mission, Vision, and Purpose being ratified across the DAO – probably one that spawns from this document.

## Survey Analysis

Below 👇 is a synthesis of the responses to the internal survey collected in June. This adds extra context to the messaging kit below.

[https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOrQRxAY=/](https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOrQRxAY=/)

Problem Statement
Radicle Core Belief
Mission
Vision
Values
Radicle DAO Brand Promise
Target Audience

### Problem Statement
- Our reliance centralized platforms & corporations for the production & distriution of critical open source infrastructure is inherently unsustainable.
- Open-source technologies that protect online civil liberties require non-corporate decentralized forms to ensure long-term neutrality, viability, and capture resistance.

### Radicle Core Belief

At Radicle we believe…

* Free and open source software is a *public good* and public goods *can* be funded sustainably.
* We need censorship-resistant, permissionless, trust-minized, and sustainable infrastructure to free the Internet.
* The future of open-source software will be written by self-sustaining, community owned & governed, decentralized online organizations.

The technology we build abides by the following principles:

* Free and open source — We build free software because we respect user’s essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes.
* Censorship-resistant — We build software that is technically, socially, and politically resilient.
* Permissionless — We build software that anyone has the freedom to use to collaborate with others. No single party can prevent anyone from accessing it.
* Extensible & Protocol-First — We build extensible, interoperable, modular software because it makes us a better citizen of the Internet. :saluting_face:
* Easy-to-use — We build easy-to-use software because we believe making decentralized technology user-friendly is necessary to ensure it can compete with centralized alternatives.
* Trust-minimized — We build software that has no single point of failure and we minimize or eliminate our software’s reliance on trusted third parties.
* Local-first — We believe local-first architectures lead to a better user experience.
* Social-centric — We build social-centric software so you can choose what you see, choose what you block, and choose who you can trust.

### Mission

*What we are doing day-by-day to make our vision a reality. Mission may last 2-3 years.*

* Build unstoppable, permissionless, decentralized open-source infrastructure for developers.
* Enable a sustainble future for open-source maintainers & contributors, where they can get paid for their work without relying on intermediaries.
* Become a decentralized, community-owned & operated, self-sustaining free and open-source project.

### Vision ⭐

*Our view of the future we want to live in. Vision lasts a long time.*

* A world where we can live as free citizens on the Internet, with our digital rights protected by capture-resistant free and open source software.
* A world where we control the software the use, not the other way around.
* A truly free and open Internet that protects our digital rights.
* A world in which free software is not dependent on corporate intermediaries.

### Values ⭐

> I feel like this should just be where we publish our organizational principles. Not sure if there should be a different set of values that we list here.

* Autonomy — We enable as much individual and team autonomy as possible to enable them to build faster and work more smoothly.
* Trust — We optimistically trust contributors to do the right thing to enable them to build faster and work more smoothly.
* Collective responsibility — We are responsible for holding each other accountable rather than relying on a hierarchy.
* Open-Source — We are open and transparent where appropriate.
* Evolutionary — We encourage experimentation with adaptability in mind.

### RadicleDAO Brand Promise ⭐

*The highest order aspirational benefit we promise to our customers*

* **Own your code**
* What does it mean to own your code?
1. To have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the code you use/create
2. To control the production, distribution, and monetization of your code.
3. To guarantee the long-term viability & resilience of your code

### Target Audience ⭐

*Clear defined group of people who we are selling the product to. There may be other audience types who we don't directly sell to.*

* Developers/DAOs building free and open source software
* Developers/DAOs building privacy-preserving and censorship-resistant software
* Developers/DAOs building decentralized and peer-to-peer technologies.