Alexis Sellier & Eleftherios Diakomichalis: Radicle – The Decentralized Platform for Code Collaboration

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Radicle is a decentralized platform for code collaboration. It's built on Git and is an open-source decentralized alternative to platforms like GitHub. Tools like Radicle are an essential component of the decentralized technology stack and will enable DAOs to commit code through governance.
Co-founders Alexis Sellier & Eleftherios Diakomichalis joined us to chat about why they felt it was important to create Radicle and how it fits into the DAO ecosystem with a more accessible governance system of code.
Topics covered in this episode:
- What Radicle is and the vision they are pursuing
- After both working on Soundcloud, the lessons that were carried over to this project
- The Cathedral vs Bazaar model
- Git usage with the tool
- The technical architecture of Radicle
- The other differences between Radicle and GitHub
- Storage and replicating solutions between peers
- How Radicle promotes open source sustainability
- Ethereum integration with the tool
Episode links:
- [Radicle website](https://radicle.xyz/)
- [Radicle docs](https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/what-is-radicle.html)
- [Radicle on Twitter](https://twitter.com/radicle)
- [Alexis on Twitter](https://twitter.com/cloudhead)
- [Eleftherios on Twitter](https://twitter.com/lftherios)
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This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sunny Aggarwal. Show notes and listening options: [epicenter.tv/378](https://epicenter.tv/378)