Zuzalu.city Vision & Mission
Zuzalu.city is a decentralised open-source operating system that connects users to interoperable Ethereum ecosystem applications for innovating their communities.
Vision: For Every Innovative Community.
Zuzalu.city is to create a world where every community can innovate their civilisation with the tools they need.
A Community OS (C-OS)
A Community Operating System (OS) is the foundational social technology that manages collective resources and provides essential services for community members to coordinate efforts through software. Unlike a traditional OS, a Community OS such as Zuzalu.city is the intermediary between the user, software, and community.
Community OS is made possible by the emergence of collectively-owned, auditable applications based on trustless infrastructure of Ethereum blockchain.
User Interface: Zuzalu.city is first and foremost a user interface that allows users to interact with various decentralised applications. Such applications are run and maintained independently by their own contributors.
Data Storage Management: A traditional OS manages files and directories on your storage devices (such as hard drives or SSDs) and provides apps with access to read, write, and organize files. The community OS allows users to switch between decentralised and traditional storage, control their profile and application data, and selectively share data while interacting with community apps, via zero-knowledge cryptography.
Community apps store and retrieve data according to individual community configurations.
Security and Permissions: The Community OS manages user permissions and security settings. Apps installed by communities rely on the Community OS to provide access control (such as requiring a password or fingerprint) to authorised users and for apps to interact with each other.
Compatibility: Decentralised applications follow fundamental architecture required by the decentralised networks they operate in (i.e. Ethereum). Applications are designed to be compatible and interoperable when the GUIs are provided and the OS ensures that the software functions correctly and interacts well.
Updates and Maintenance: The community OS must provide update mechanisms for applications, ensuring that software can be patched or upgraded smoothly.
Mission: What Should've Been, Is.
Zuzalu.city was born in the first of its kind techno-optimistic pop-up community of Zuzalu, and commits to becoming the most user-friendly operating system to interact with the tools and applications built by Ethereum’s decentralisation communities.
We are building an easy-to-use interface that serves as a collective operating system, connecting users to decentralised, open-source and autonomous applications. In the movement of d/acc, Zuzalu Software empowers communities for online and offline coordination, contribution and collaboration with customizable privacy and most importantly, user-owned data.
Approaches
We approach this social, technological and philosophical challenge by:
focusing on user experience while not compromising cypherpunk principles
being neutral & open to integrate and promote all vision-aligned applications, connecting them to communities with relevant needs
being hands-on at research and developing native tools needed to fill in the gaps
supporting teams that are on the way to being aligned tooling
building tools that out-live individual developers and teams
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