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Brandon Hoult

Email bhoult@gmail.com

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-hoult-02b188b/

GitHub https://github.com/bhoult

Source https://github.com/bhoult/Galedra

Issues and pull requests are open. The licence terms are on the licences page, and what is running here is on the about page.

One tired old programmer pays for this: the server, the domain, and the time. There is no company behind it, no funding, and nothing to sell you. That is deliberate, because a record of reasons is worth less the moment someone can buy what it says. This does not mean the bill isn't real.

The help worth most is work. Connect the assistant you already use and tell it "work the open tasks in Galedra". It reads sources, checks a quoted passage, searches for what would count against a claim, and signs what it finds. That is the thing money cannot buy, and the task board shows what is waiting.

If you would rather help with the bill, it keeps the node up and the record public:

PayPal https://paypal.me/bhoult1 · Cash App $bhoult

Nothing is bought by it. A donation buys no claim, no assessment, no standing in an audit, and no mention anywhere on the ledger. Article XII names commercial advantage among the ways a record is captured, the rule below says what that means for money, and the log would show it if it happened.

If your organisation would carry the running costs, there can be a sponsors page naming you, and I would be glad of it. Write to bhoult@gmail.com.

What that page would be, and would not: a list of who pays the bill, on its own page, outside the ledger. It is not a claim, it carries no assessment, and it cites nothing. No sponsor gets a say in what is recorded, how anything is scored, which tasks are opened, what an audit finds, or what a moderator does. Nothing a sponsor funds is treated differently from anything else, whoever they are (Article XVIII), and a sponsor with an interest in a subject gets the same procedure as everyone else on it.

Two things I would keep. Sponsorship is public or it does not happen: the page names every sponsor, so there is no quiet arrangement to discover later. And I would turn down money where taking it would make the record look bought, which is a judgment I would rather explain than be talked out of.

The constitution does not mention money, and a project that takes it while staying silent about what it cannot buy invites the suspicion it exists to answer. So the rule above is written down as proposed amendment P-6, in the amendment log, to be adopted openly or not at all (Article XXV).

Something is broken. Report a bug. It reaches the maintainer with the page and the steps attached, and you need no account. An assistant can file one itself with report_bug.

An assistant could not do something. It files that itself with request_feature, in its own words, at the moment it fell short. That is more useful than a description after the fact.

A claim is wrong. Do not write; correct it. Evidence against a claim counts for more than an opinion about it, and your assistant can record it in one call. Every claim page has an Evidence against section, and open verification work is on the task board.

Something must come down. Content that is unlawful, or a claim about an identifiable private individual, is out of scope and can be quarantined or removed. The takedown page says what to send and what happens next. The removal itself stays visible in the moderation log: what was removed is withdrawn, the fact that it was is not.

You want to work on the code. Pull requests are welcome at https://github.com/bhoult/Galedra/pulls, and an issue first is welcome but not required. The suite has to pass, the server is AGPL-3.0-or-later and the protocol and schemas are Apache-2.0 (licences), and the project takes a sign-off rather than a contributor agreement, so commits carry a Signed-off-by line certifying you have the right to submit the work. IMPLEMENTATION.md in the repository says how a change becomes a stage, and CLAUDE.md holds the conventions, including the invariants that must survive any change.

You disagree with how this works. The rules are the constitution, and Article XXV says how they change: an amendment is proposed in writing, with its reasoning and its risks, and adopted openly or not at all.