Re: Summer of Protocols

Sorry for the late notice; I just heard of it myself. I'll put it on the 
calendar for next year.

Evan

On 2024-04-03 8:33 a.m., Aaron Gray wrote:
> 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/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=9>
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uw9UiyvYBQ&list=PLIk0EtKZjVlsbcT7WC7Nq-Z5xNz-yUiSW&index=10
>     <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
>
>
>     ---
>     bumblefudge
>     janitor @Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance
>     <https://github.com/chainagnostic/CASA>
>     contractable via learningProof UG <https://learningproof.xyz>
>     mostly berlin-based
>
>
>
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>
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