Re: Summer of Protocols

Thats a bit short notice to say the least ! Would have liked to have known
about this a bit sooner : [ Maybe next year.

On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 at 17:52, bumblefudge von CASA <
bumblefudge@learningproof.xyz> wrote:

> On Monday, April 1st, 2024 at 7:09 AM, Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
> wrote:
>
> It would be great to see some projects for ActivityPub extensions win
> these $90,000 grants. Application due April
>
> https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/cfa-summer-of-protocols-2024
>
>
> Absolutely!
>
> I didn't participate last time but did lurk a little at their events and
> in their Discord.  While the organizers and some of the sponsorship grants
> come from deep in the blockchain-centric decentralization world, the focus
> (and the goals) are very much to get beyond "everything looks like a nail"
> and think more generalizably about decentralization and protocol-design.
>
> My sense from talking to them is that they are *particularly* interested
> in projects that have a mechanism-design/behavioral component, and projects
> with some kind of formal governance and/or sociological/observational
> socio-psychological component, so I would discourage people applying only
> with AP-specific or Fediverse-specific tooling (except maybe
> bridges/portability/translation-tech?), and encourage people who are
> looking at governance/federation/moderation tooling and/or user research on
> the requirements for such and/or adoption strategies, in addition to or
> instead of tooling for tooling's sake.
>
> People deciding whether or not to invest hours in this app process are
> encouraged to lurk in their extensive, thematically-organized youtube
> archive:
> https://www.youtube.com/@protocoltownhall/playlists
> three of my personal favorites, and relevant to people who participate or
> lurk on the SocialCG list:
> https://www.youtube.com/live/kWPpprIjpwA?si=QeWBaInqAUANqP8E&t=1122
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uw9UiyvYBQ&list=PLIk0EtKZjVlsbcT7WC7Nq-Z5xNz-yUiSW&index=9
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uw9UiyvYBQ&list=PLIk0EtKZjVlsbcT7WC7Nq-Z5xNz-yUiSW&index=10
>
> I'd be happy to help or review apps/work with people on this if they are
> throwing together an app by, say, Wednesday?
>
> Thanks,
> ___bumblefudge
>
>
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> bumblefudge
> janitor @Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance
> <https://github.com/chainagnostic/CASA>
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> mostly berlin-based
>


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