# Project Guidelines ## Who Can Sign Up? Anybody can sign up who is considered a public good. ## What is A Public Good? You provide more valuation creation than value capture ## Categories Explained Soon we will be enabling to choose multiple categories ### Public Good Your project is oriented towards creating social benefit and improving some corner of the world somehow. ### Open Source * A project in which majority of code base is open source * Must be a culture of encouraging additional contributors and open source development * Recent Activity: There must be meaningful GitHub activity within the past 3 months, demonstrating ongoing work aligned with the project's mission. * The project does not have to be a Web3 project We recommend your codebase follows the Public Code Standard ### Climate * A project that addresses climate issues * Not everything needs to be non profit for climate round * Private corporations in climate that bring more positive impact ot environment can be eligible (exception for this round) ### A non profit organization * 501c3 organizations are automatically qualified * An organization that does not distribute its profits to owners or shareholders. Reinvests profits back into the organization for its mission-driven activities. ### DeSci * Projects promoting decentralized science space and democratiziing or disrupting the traditional science space ### Education * Your project is dedicated and provide some type of free and accessible education program or resources * Not limited to just Web3 education
As part of your application you will be required to justify why you are a a public good as well as putting funding to date
### Projects That Don’t Qualify * Extractive; closed source projects. Purely in it for profit, and does not create more value creation * Software that is not open source * Educational initiatives that do not have a free element or provides accessible resources * Projects that are meant to enrich only a few individuals
### Quality Submissions A project is likely to get unlisted due to the following: * ❌ No project description * ❌ Vague project description * ❌ No unique or custom banner photo * ❌ No justification as a public good ### Flagged Projects Projects that are found to exhibit "unacceptable behavior as outlined by our [Code of Conduct](/general-information/code-of-conduct.md) will be flagged from our public registry immediately with proper justification on-chain. Flagged projects and unapproved rounds from the protocol can be soon found at uncensored.potlock.org #### Examples of unacceptable behavior include: * ❌ The use of violent or sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind * ❌ Trolling, insulting, derogatory, abusive or vulgar comments, and personal, political, or religious attacks * ❌ Public or private harassment * ❌ Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission (including doxing) * ❌ Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting \
## How to get on our registry * Projects get listed automatically * DAO or admin can put projects on graylist if they do not fulfill the aforesaid criterion * If their is a complaint for status please join the [Potlock Community telegram](https://potlock.org/communtiy) and in the feedback section explain why. {% content-ref url="/pages/8Jg4nLXAtYMrABGX8Xdx" %} [💼Projects](/user-guides/projects.md) {% endcontent-ref %} ## Technical Details When you sign up for POTLOCK you are signing up for a public profile that information is stored on the blockchain with a project account. This means you must secure your private keys.
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