cadCAD: Computer Aided Design for Complex Systems
Open-source cadCAD software is advancing with community support, focusing on system simulation for impactful R&D in economics and crypto infrastructure, seeking donations to fund growth and educational programs.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:50 PM
Projects should directly support the mission of DeSci to innovate scientific research by exploring novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner.
The cadCAD project is developing open-source tools to design, test, and validate complex systems, which aligns with DeSci's mission to advance open and inclusive scientific research using novel mechanisms for conducting and disseminating research.
DeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, but projects may also be eligible if they are deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a scientific research context or if they are educating and recruiting members of the scientific community to contribute to the mission.
cadCAD is actively building technological infrastructure necessary for the simulation of complex systems and is also focused on community engagement, education, and the development of resources for onboarding new users, which satisfies this criterion.
Concrete examples of issues covered by the DeSci mission include: the data reproducibility crisis and archaic data sharing practices; misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review; financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to globally inclusive research; intellectual property, patents, and financial incentives to trade progress for profits; academic disconnect and poor science/health literacy and trust in the lay public and government representatives.
By providing open-source modeling and simulation tools, cadCAD contributes to addressing the data reproducibility crisis and could improve data sharing practices. It also has the potential to address other issues such as misaligned incentives in scientific publishing through greater transparency and reproducibility of complex systems research.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
While cadCAD appears to align with the mission of DeSci and has active development, the provided information does not allow for a definitive assessment of their adherence to the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy. Further information would be needed to completely assess compliance with this policy.