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Fix Planet Club

A repository containing all the organisational documents related to Fix Planet Club. In here you will find all about our mission, our governance, and administration processes.

Mission

Supporting you to find a sustainable fixed point for the planet :)

Microgrant fund

This is a no-strings-attached grant of £1,000 to people working on technical projects addressing the climate crisis.

Operating theory

We believe:

  • Change should be made locally,
  • Anyone should be able to contribute,
  • A multitude of different approaches are necessary,
  • Exploration and failure will be part of the process,
  • Solutions need to be community-led and community-controlled1.

Rough selection criteria

  • The project:
    • Is it climate tech?
    • Does it add something new either for the proposer, or the community, or both?
    • Is it (even plausibly) feasible?
    • Is it open-source? Why/Why not?
  • Community impact: Who else is impacted?
  • Personal impact: Does this open up new opportunities?
  • Follow-up work; what can be built from this?
  • Planned deliverables
    • Article
    • Video
    • Library
    • Talk
    • Podcast

Application process

  1. Complete the typeform application
  2. Reviewed by a selection of the project selection committee
  3. Select for short interview
  4. Decision

Payout strategy

  • 40% upon project acceptance;
  • 30% at halfway mark and successful informal check-in
  • final 30% upon final milestone delivery.

Process after project acceptance

  1. Invite to community
  2. Informal check-in
  3. Schedule mid-way check-in
  4. Schedule endpoint check-in
  5. Capture final project output (at least one blog post? + any other output)
  6. Post-project experience report

Example project ideas

  • An interactive article exploring some climate topic in detail
  • A data-cleaning project, putting cleaned data into, say, OSM
  • Build a small open-source library for a niche corner of the climate tech ecosystem
  • Design a short class covering climate awareness/actions for technologists
  • Something related to climate policy

References/releated ideas

Governance

See also: constitution.

  • UK Charity
  • Leadership team
    • Decides size of grants
    • Decides number of grants issued per year
    • Implements governance changes
  • Committee
    • Votes on projects
    • Conducts interviews
  • Money can be donated by anyone but doesn't convey any particular rights

Footnotes

  1. https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles ↩