Spiral Framework for FOSS

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Spiral runs a grant program funding ~36 developers and designers across 20 countries with ~70 grants in three years plus a full time engineering team working on scaling mobile UX privacy and dev experience. The four‑phase framework is identify build alpha and roadmaps, grow community and docs, secure multi‑entity funding and set up foundations, then reach sustainability without Spiral. Examples include the Bitcoin Design Guide, BDK for cross platform wallets and OpenSats as a donations conduit.

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1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 2:09About Spiral
3. 3:39Phase 1: Project identification
4. 6:27Phase 2: Community development
5. 8:31Phase 3: Multi-entity funding
6. 10:46Phase 4 and conclusion

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