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Closing remarks, I guess, if i have to.
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14 min
Mar 28, 5:45 PM
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Speaker A
0:00
And we've now gotten it and we're going to give it away.
0:14
Would you like to talk about @Geo?
0:18
Uh, so Skyler has set up a giant server in Canada powered by hydropower that has the entire Foursquare Open Places database in it, which is why you need a big server.
0:37
And if you go to @geo.org, we have a bunch of running services.
0:41
In the meantime, the lexicon that Nick helped birth has already kind of made its way into a bunch of things and the pain point in fact is looking up venues that actually exist and editing them.
0:52
So we're super stoked that You know, one conversation we've shipped some things and we have a lot more geo to build.
0:59
Maybe helpful with a little permissions and privacy around some of that geo stuff.
Speaker B
1:03
All of this supported by the community fund.
Speaker A
1:05
Exactly.
Speaker C
1:06
All supported by the community fund.
1:07
So yes, if you want to build on that, come find Skyler or hit us up.
Speaker A
1:12
Awesome.
1:13
And I will hand it to Ted to talk a little bit about our next grantees.
Speaker C
1:17
Thank you.
1:18
And I just wanted to start with like what was the reason that we got involved with IndieSky and what's sort of like common touch points with Free Our Feeds, the thing that we really landed on was what are the things that we could do to encourage building outside of blue sky other companies because the way that we think about this is like if there's a credible exit that needs to happen, there needs to be a credible community that you can exit to.
1:42
That is all of you here.
1:44
And part of what we have been thinking about for the past year is how do we help move these conversations along?
1:50
Where can we get to the questions that haven't been asked yet?
1:53
And there have been amazing members of the community like Bailey with PDS Mover who have gotten us past the point of just talking about, oh, theoretically you can move between PDSs to what is the experience of moving from PDS to PDS actually look like?
2:08
What happens when you need to move a whole lot of people at once?
2:11
It's not just technical.
2:12
It is explaining what is a PDS, what are the steps that you need to take, right?
2:16
And so these are the conversations we want to be able to facilitate and also make sure that we can get to that next level both within this community and with with users.
2:26
So the grant fundee— the fund grantees that we are announcing today are Black Sky for better user documentation, particularly focusing on the—
Speaker A
2:38
Sorry, not better user documentation.
2:40
There's literally no user documentation of the app by Blue Sky.
2:44
So Black Sky is going to ship the first version.
2:47
Can we get a motherheckin' round of applause for that?
2:56
So thank you once again for Black Sky for leading the way.
2:59
At least we slipped you a small check this time around.
Speaker C
3:02
Yeah.
3:03
And we want to encourage people to build in other spaces.
3:07
And we think that spaces like standard.site, which has emerged over the past year as a collaboration within the app prototyping community, is vital and critical.
3:19
But one of the other questions is, how do these things interface with other communities and existing communities of users?
3:24
And so Tyler's efforts with Wire Service really started to bridge the gap into the WordPress community and start to bring at least metadata initially into the App Proto ecosystem so that these things can be published, connect with the standard site lexicons, and begin that conversation of what it looks like to move into these existing ecosystems.
Speaker A
3:46
Thank you, Tyler.
Speaker C
3:46
Yes, thank you.
3:48
And we also think it's really important to think about these next layers of as more users come into the ecosystem, how are we cooperating with them?
4:00
How are we bringing some sense of order or community within these spaces?
4:05
And so we're going to be giving out two grants, one, Debuff to Trezzy, who's built the game dev labeler, and Cartridge, which is a system for being able to ingest information from labelers and other sorts of systems and take action on all lexicons in the App Proto ecosystem, not just the Blue Sky Lexicons, um, and, uh, also Skywatch, um, uh, from Mountain Herder, um, Julia, and, uh, in order to, uh, work on the general threat intelligence problem, right?
4:39
These are, if we're talking about community moderation, what are the infrastructure that we are going to have to be able to share signals and be able to, uh, communicate, um, the things that we're observing out, uh, in the world so that app views and labelers can actually make better decisions about what's going on in the atmosphere.
Speaker A
4:58
Thank you, Trezzy and Mountain Herder.
Speaker C
5:05
I will hand it back to Russ.
Speaker A
5:08
So these are relatively small grants, $2,500 USD each.
5:13
We'll put that up and announce it and also put links where you can make those dollars grow with those 4 entities as well.
5:21
I know that Patrick, hi remote Patrick, has long talked about please, please, please, you know, give us a GitHub sponsor link, give us something like that.
5:29
We know it's I know it's not a lot, but people actually do want to vote with their dollars and with their energy for what you're doing for the community, and we really appreciate it.
5:41
We did a little founders and funders session yesterday, broadly speaking about funding, and Dietrich participated in that.
5:50
He was one of the first people that said, yes, I'll come along.
5:54
And I wanted to highlight these things.
5:57
Brito.space, you can easily find it in the last couple of posts.
6:01
So, like cheese and cultures, the ecosystem is delicate.
6:09
There's a lot, a lot, a lot of enthusiasm and huge talent, but there actually isn't magical investor monies.
6:19
The grant options are thin, many first-time founders, many don't want investor investment, few other options.
6:28
The macro environment is a touch scary.
6:31
So this is a collective challenge.
6:34
We can just do things.
6:36
Maybe we can just pay for things if we pool it across enough things.
6:41
Gander, as an example, did a crowd equity raise and had 2,000 individual Canadians invest because there was a demand of saying we need this sort of thing ourselves.
6:56
So that's an example.
6:58
If you're using something for free, it can go away.
7:03
Fig this morning said, asterisk, it turns out this stuff is getting cheaper and cheaper to run, but we need that diversity.
7:12
We need more things running.
7:15
The operator may be struggling or maybe just doing it because they still think it's an obligation that they started.
7:24
To those of you running infra, please add a payment tier.
7:31
Make co-ops.
7:33
Make them locally.
7:34
Run community infra together.
7:40
And learn from the past.
7:42
Magical thinking does not make a healthy atmosphere.
7:46
So thank you, Dietrich, for letting me read two skeets.
7:53
Um, and with that, we're actually going to welcome Tony Schneider.
8:15
Thank you.
Speaker B
8:17
Hi everyone, I'm Tony.
8:19
I'm the new CEO of Bluesky, and as someone who grew up in Switzerland, I appreciate all the cheese talk that just happened.
8:28
I am 3 weeks into my new job.
8:31
I spent the first 2 weeks getting onboarded into Bluesky and the last couple of days getting onboarded into the atmosphere, I feel like.
8:39
And the first thing I want to say is thank you to all of you.
8:42
Everybody I've met in person has been extremely nice and welcoming, and I'm getting a sense of this community.
8:50
You're all working on something really important, but you're doing it with a lot of collaboration and grace and a sense of humor, and I really appreciate it.
9:01
I usually don't like being up on stage, but Boris and Ted convinced me that it would be a good idea to introduce myself to you.
9:09
Because I did join the BlueSky leadership team, and BlueSky is the biggest company in the atmosphere.
9:17
We hope that changes in the future.
9:19
We would love to be a small slice in a giant pie that we all make together, but for now, we are biggest, and you should know who the people are behind this company.
9:31
Um, the most important thing I want to tell you is that I love at Proto and the atmosphere.
9:37
We're not changing anything.
9:39
We're going to continue to support this community and the things you're building with all the levers that are available to us.
9:45
So me arriving and taking over from Jay doesn't mean any change in that.
9:50
We're completely behind what you're building.
9:52
We don't want to just build a company.
9:55
We want to help a whole ecosystem emerge.
9:59
And the other thing I wanted to do is just tell you a little bit about myself.
10:04
Like I mentioned, I actually was born and raised in Switzerland.
10:08
I moved to California to study computer science, go to college there, and then I stayed.
10:15
I joined a startup, I got married, I started a family.
10:19
The startup was bought by another startup, and then a bunch of us started a company together.
10:24
That was my first time as a CEO, and then that led to to probably the most formative job I've had in my career so far, and it's when I was the founding CEO of a company called Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com.
10:39
And I remember early WordPress days— this is now 20 years ago— a room not dissimilar to this, a few hundred people.
10:51
In that case, it was bloggers and open-source developers.
10:54
And there was something special in the air.
10:57
We really felt like the case of WordPress, it was decentralized publishing that we thought could be something really big.
11:05
And I remember at the time, people told me, especially investors, that you have a choice to make.
11:13
You can either build an open source community or you can build a company, but you can't do both.
11:19
And we thought Actually, we want to do both, and we did one better.
11:25
WordPress continued to thrive to this day, 20 years later.
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It's huge.
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It now incredibly powers over 40% of all the websites on the internet, thriving as an open source community.
11:37
And we didn't just build one company, we helped build a whole ecosystem that is now also very big.
11:46
There's over $10 billion a year that flows through the WordPress ecosystem, and Automattic is less than 10% of that.
11:53
The rest is thousands, tens of thousands of other businesses, people making a living on that platform.
12:01
So I've seen that happen.
12:04
I know it's possible to build not just a company on an open ecosystem, but lots of companies and lots of people being able to make a living.
12:14
And my hope is that I can bring some of that experience to this community because I believe that the people who are building the atmosphere, people who are coming up with the ideas and the systems and the products and are building the community should be able to do so and actually make a living at it.
12:35
And I think that's possible.
12:36
Thank you.
Speaker A
12:37
Thank you, Tony.
12:51
Simple, easy, after-party at Junction.
12:54
Uh, Eva has gone ahead, uh, uh, and, uh, they've organized some local DJs for us.
13:00
Uh, at 7:30 PM, uh, DJ Cassis back to back with Earthware.
13:05
Uh, links, uh, are posted on the account.
13:08
8:30 to 9:30 PM, DJ Trance Rights.
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Um, and then, uh, a friend of mine, uh, Ian who works out of ZSpace.
13:17
Those of you who managed to come by, I think we're going to get him to do some of his video DJing as well.
13:24
Tomorrow, doors at 8:30 AM, so make your choices regarding after-party night.
13:32
You will be downtown.
13:34
It's going to be a little bit full.
13:36
We're going to have food there.
13:37
You could go out and eat and join us midway through.
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There'll be some finger food.
13:41
You could come for a while.
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Et cetera.
13:43
All of these options are open for you.
13:46
We keep getting amazing weather, and I hope I haven't jinxed us.
13:55
This is the end of your day 1.
13:58
Please join us at 9 AM.
14:00
NPMX crew are going to be kicking us off.
14:04
So happy to have them joining us.
14:06
Thank you, and See you in about an hour and a half.