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Summary

What is Pi Open Source (PIOS)?

Pi Open Source (PIOS) is an open source project announced by the Pi Network development team in November 2023. Pi Network is a cryptocurrency that can be mined with a smartphone, and currently has approximately 20 million users participating. The purpose of PIOS is to open up the Pi Network codebase to allow community developers and researchers to contribute.

Features and Benefits of PIOS

PIOS has the following features and benefits.

• Decentralized: PIOS uses blockchain technology to build a decentralized network that does not rely on centralized power or institutions. This allows users to freely manage their assets and data.
• Democratic: PIOS respects the voice of the community and provides a mechanism for determining network rules and policies. For example, users can vote on proposals for network upgrades and improvements.
• Innovative: Based on the spirit of open source, PIOS creates an environment where community developers and researchers can contribute to the development of the network. For example, developers can improve the PIOS code or develop new features and applications.

How to Participate in PIOS

There are the following ways to participate in PIOS.

• As a User: The easiest way to participate in PIOS is to download the Pi Network app and start mining with your smartphone. By doing so, you become a member of PIOS and can earn the cryptocurrency Pi.
• As a Developer: Another way to participate in PIOS is to contribute to the improvement of the network as a developer. This includes viewing, modifying, and extending the PIOS code. You can also develop new applications that run on the PIOS network.
• As a Researcher: Another way to participate in PIOS is to contribute to the understanding and analysis of the network as a researcher. This includes conducting research on the performance, security, scalability, etc., of the PIOS network, and publishing papers and reports.

Summary

PIOS is an open source project of Pi Network, aiming for a decentralized, democratic, and innovative network. There are ways to participate in PIOS as a user, developer, or researcher. PIOS has the potential to bring a new wave to the world of cryptocurrency. Join PIOS and let’s build the future of cryptocurrency together!

Translation
As part of the ongoing growth of the Pi Network, we have taken steps to empower our community with the new Pi Open Source (PiOS) software license.

Development on Pi has always been easy, requiring no prior experience with blockchain or crypto. And with our new Pi Open Source (PiOS) license program, it’s now easier than ever to get started with tools and templates designed for the Pi community.

PiOS is designed to encourage developers to share code and collaborate with others to accelerate the development of high-quality Pi apps and build the ecosystem. This license enables developers in the Pi community to create and contribute code for others to use in the Pi ecosystem.

This has a tremendous impact on long-term utility on the Pi Network. For the first time, the Pi Networks developer community can build on each other’s contributions. By integrating the collective knowledge and building efforts of community developers, leveraging the collective wisdom of a massive community of over 45 million engaged users, the Pi Network aims to make it easier than ever for people to pursue diverse ideas and projects.

These shared resources make building on Pi easier by providing the necessary resources for a distributed community to create their own products, while encouraging contributions to a robust ecosystem of apps and utilities by Pi community members.

This access allows all Pioneers to use and modify code repositories licensed by other community developers under the PiOS license. This license is limited to use within the Pi ecosystem and provides all sorts of options to empower developers as they begin their journey.

This gives all developers on Pi access to a library of editable templates and materials for the first time, allowing them to iterate and experiment. This base of collective Pi knowledge allows Pioneers to develop and learn from each other at scale, while saving time.

With PiOS, developers don’t have to reinvent the wheel, and instead have tools at their disposal to start building right away.

This innovation is to achieve Pi’s long-term goal of fostering user-centric cross-collaboration. Through PiOS, we hope to further empower developers who wish to share their codebase with the community, creating a deeper, more compatible, and collaborative community.

Launched concurrently with the start of the Q1 2023 Hackathon, PiOS enabled Pi community developers to not only build great Pi apps but also contribute to the development efforts of other Hackathon participants. In fact, seven of the Hackathon winning and finalist teams built their apps using PiOS, with one team in particular being responsible for licensing shared source code to enable dozens of other teams to build their apps.

By providing a foundational blueprint for community collaborative development to begin, we are seeing more practical projects being built on Pi from developers leveraging our collaborative tools. Our hope is for the community to continue to thrive by enabling Pi community developers to create open source applications and tools for the Pi ecosystem.

To get started, check out the PiOS Github repository.

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