Fix Planet Club

A repository containing all the organisational documents related to Fix Planet Club. In here you will find all about our mission, our governance, and administration processes.

Mission

Supporting you to find a sustainable fixed point for the planet :)

Microgrant fund

This is a no-strings-attached grant of £1,000 to people working on technical projects addressing the climate crisis.

Operating theory

We believe:

• Change should be made locally,
• Anyone should be able to contribute,
• A multitude of different approaches are necessary,
• Exploration and failure will be part of the process,
• Solutions need to be community-led and community-controlled¹.

Rough selection criteria

• The project:
  • Is it climate tech?
  • Does it add something new either for the proposer, or the community, or both?
  • Is it (even plausibly) feasible?
  • Is it open-source? Why/Why not?
• Community impact: Who else is impacted?
• Personal impact: Does this open up new opportunities?
• Follow-up work; what can be built from this?
• Planned deliverables
  • Article
  • Video
  • Library
  • Talk
  • Podcast

Application process

1. Complete the typeform application
2. Reviewed by a selection of the project selection committee
3. Select for short interview
4. Decision

Payout strategy

• 40% upon project acceptance;
• 30% at halfway mark and successful informal check-in
• final 30% upon final milestone delivery.

Process after project acceptance

1. Invite to community
2. Informal check-in
3. Schedule mid-way check-in
4. Schedule endpoint check-in
5. Capture final project output (at least one blog post? + any other output)
6. Post-project experience report

Example project ideas

• An interactive article exploring some climate topic in detail
• A data-cleaning project, putting cleaned data into, say, OSM
• Build a small open-source library for a niche corner of the climate tech ecosystem
• Design a short class covering climate awareness/actions for technologists
• Something related to climate policy

References/releated ideas

• https://unitary.fund
• Nadia Eghbal - No strings attached grants
• Subak

Governance

See also: constitution.

• UK Charity
• Leadership team
  • Decides size of grants
  • Decides number of grants issued per year
  • Implements governance changes
• Committee
  • Votes on projects
  • Conducts interviews
• Money can be donated by anyone but doesn't convey any particular rights

Footnotes

1. https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles ↩