This document sets out rules for community domains and the responsibilities and expectations of anyone that maintains and manages the domain settings of official domains used by the Bitcoin Design community. Community domains are used to promote and host content that the community has created and committed to the github.com/bitcoindesign repositories. This currently applies to:
- bitcoin.design
- bitcoindesigners.org
The Bitcoin Design community, defined as;
“The active members of the Slack workspace at bitcoindesign.slack.com, represented in rough-consensus by the maintainers of the BitcoinDesign Github organization at github.com/bitcoindesign”.
A community domain shall be considered owned by the Bitcoin Design community. The role of domain maintainer does not imply any ownership of the domain.
The community will pay for, or solicit donations to pay for the long term registration of the community domain(s). The current yearly fees are $49.88 for bitcoin.design, and $12 plus tax for bitcoindesigners.org.
A domain maintainer needs to enact the will of the community and should be strongly disincentivized to act in their own interest. They are NOT allowed to change the domain settings in any way without the approval from the community as set out in domain changes. The domain maintainer is selected from the community github maintainers, should be an active contributor at the time of selection and should notify the community if they no longer wish to be a maintainer or are planning to leave their active role in the community.
The domain maintainer will not make any changes to the domain (including pointing it to other content than hosted by the github.com/bitcoindesign repositories) without the consent of the community. To make a change, a community github maintainer needs to propose a change;
- Create a pull request with a clear description and rationale for the change in the bitcoindesign/meta repository.
- Post a link to the pull request in the #general Slack channel
- The pull request needs to remain open for at least 30 days and all comments and concern need to be addressed before a decision can me made
- Decision will be made by rough consensus of the community and the github maintainers
- The proposing maintainer can participate in the discussion but should not be the one to merge the pull request once a decision has been made
The domain maintainer can NOT sell, rent or give the domain away nor accept any form of payment for proposing or changing domain settings. The domain maintenance authority can only be handed over to another community maintainer through the domain change process outlined above.
Maintainer: @gbks, as decided
Expiry date: 2021-06-27T23:59:59.0Z
DNS records:
Maintainer: @moneyball
Expiry date: 2021-06-22T23:09:32Z
DNS records: