Gaia is building the foundation for truly autonomous open-source projects—digital ecosystems that can sustain and evolve themselves long after their creators have moved on. We're creating the infrastructure where projects can transition from human-dependent codebases to self-governing digital organisms.
Our mission is to solve the fundamental paradox of open-source: projects need centralized agility to begin, but require decentralized resilience to endure. Gaia provides the path from one to the other.
To get the most out of Gaia, we recommend starting with these key documents that explain our vision and approach.
The Gaia Vision - Understand our ultimate goal of creating autonomous open-source projects that can sustain themselves through built-in economic and governance mechanisms.
Core Challenges - Explore the fundamental problems facing open-source sustainability, from governance cold starts to contribution quantification.
Adoption Challenges - Understand the barriers to user migration from GitHub and our approach to overcoming them.
For a structured overview of all our documentation with suggested reading paths for different audiences, visit our comprehensive documentation guide:
Gaia is under active development. We're currently building the core infrastructure on the Internet Computer platform. The project itself will eventually run on Gaia to demonstrate the viability of our approach.
Interested in contributing? Check out our contribution guide to get started with the development environment and learn about our contribution workflow.