Re: Summer of Protocols

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 15:40, Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:

> Sorry for the late notice; I just heard of it myself. I'll put it on the
> calendar for next year.
>
Thanks Evan, and thanks anyway, good to know it exists.

Aaron

> 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/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
>>
>>
>> ---
>> 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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