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.. title:: Proposal Etiquette
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Proposal Etiquette
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Proposals **must** act to the greater benefit of the entire Matrix ecosystem,
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rather than benefiting or privileging any single player or subset of players
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- and must not contain any patent encumbered IP. The Matrix core team pledges
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to act as a neutral custodian for Matrix on behalf of the whole ecosystem,
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just as it has since Matrix's inception in May 2014.
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For clarity: the Matrix ecosystem is anyone who uses the Matrix protocol. That
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includes client users, server admins, client developers, bot developers,
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bridge and AS developers, users and admins who are indirectly using Matrix via
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3rd party networks which happen to be bridged, server developers, room
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moderators and admins, companies/projects building products or services on
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Matrix, spec contributors, translators, and the core team who created it in
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the first place.
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"Greater benefit" could include maximising:
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* the number of end-users reachable on the open Matrix network
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* the number of regular users on the Matrix network (e.g. 30-day retained
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federated users)
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* the number of online servers in the open federation
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* the number of developers building on Matrix
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* the number of independent implementations which use Matrix
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* the quality and utility of the Matrix spec
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The guiding principles of the overall project are being worked on as part of
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the upcoming governance proposal, but could be something like:
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* Supporting the whole long-term ecosystem rather than individual stakeholder gain
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* Openness rather than proprietariness
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* Collaboration rather than competition
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* Accessibility rather than elitism
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* Transparency rather than stealth
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* Empathy rather than contrariness
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* Pragmatism rather than perfection
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* Proof rather than conjecture
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Return to the `proposals page <proposals.html>`_.
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