#TIL about the #NivenlyFoundation;

"We set the precedent for member-controlled and democratically-governed technical organizations. We support open-source services and projects around the world. We believe in balancing power between our contributors and maintainer(s) that sustain our projects with the corporations that use them."

https://nivenly.org/

#HatTip to Nivenly projects @pachli and @hachyderm

https://pachli.app/about/

I presume you're familiar with this @ntnsndr?=

Happy that I keep finding more Fediverse merchandise out there, and even moreso when it helps with funding the platforms and insitutions we love.

Tonight I found a two for one. Hachyderm, the Mastodon Instance and Nivenly Foundation share a store.

You can get t-shirts, stickers, mugs and more with various logos for each group.

https://nivenly.myspreadshop.com/

#FediMerch #Hachyderm #NivenlyFoundation

@nivenly, an organization that supports open-source services and projects, has launched the Fediverse Security Fund. This member-supported program will pay people who identify and fix security vulnerabilities that might affect fediverse services and apps. “Part of the program is…education for project leads, helping them understand why responsible disclosure practices for security vulnerabilities are important,” open source contributor @thisismissem told @Sarahp. Here's her story for @TechCrunch

https://flip.it/B-cWKk

#Fediverse #OpenSource #OpenSocialWeb #NivenlyFoundation #FediverseSecurityFund

#Pachli joins the #NivenlyFoundation

Since the Pachli project started the goal has been to "provide a first class organisation to manage the development of the application under the 7 cooperative principles".

The project is now a step closer to that goal, as the Nivenly Foundation (@nivenly) membership and board have voted to accept the project's membership application.

https://pachli.app/pachli/2024/05/05/pachli-joins-nivenly.html

The #Pachli application process with the #NivenlyFoundation is underway, with Q&A discussions happening in the Nivenly forums for both members and non-members.

See https://pachli.app/pachli/2023/11/16/governance-update.html for more links and details.

Please do come along and ask if you have questions and/or think you might want to be involved in Pachli governance via membership in the future.

We passed $2700 today for #translifeline in memory of @nova. Thank you all so much for your generosity and support. It means the world to me & you're helping an incredible cause. The fundraiser will remain open through the end of September. Please continue to give if you can & spread the word to everyone you know. ❤️

Donate here: https://twitch.tv/charity/zunderscore

#charity #fundraiser #donate #trans #transgender #transrightsarehumanrights #translivesmatter #hachyderm #nivenly #nivenlyfoundation

Just over a week and y'all have raised over $2600 for Trans Lifeline in memory of @nova. Let's try to hit $3000 for this wonderful cause today! ❤️

Please share! And if you can, please give. Together, we can continue doing amazing things. ❤️

Donate here: https://twitch.tv/charity/zunderscore

#charity #fundraiser #donate #trans #transgender #translifeline #transrightsarehumanrights #translivesmatter #hachyderm #nivenly #nivenlyfoundation

I have enjoyed being a paying member of #NivenlyFoundation, but I am absolutely not cool with that funding going to #haidra. It honestly feels akin to NFTs where it sidesteps the underlying technology concerns (NFTs with block chain, Haidra with agnostic AI models) and builds atop them.

A castle built on bones still has the bones under it.

A while ago I was having a lot of troubles trying to figure out how to make open source development work. It was a completely new endeavour by me and I kept running into payment processors issues. In desperation I wrote about it in Hachyderm, which is my primary mastodon instance and someone suggested to contact Nivenly which is an org created explicitly to provide guidance to such matters for open source software and are also based on Hachyderm.

While I discussions were ongoing with them, work was progressing on the AI Horde itself but I had eventually realized that I can’t keep everything under the AI Horde moniker. The AI Horde itself is the main middle-ware making it all possible, but nobody can use it in isolation. We don’t only need the Worker backends, but we also need the various frontends and bots which the end-users will use.

So I set up a Github org to provide an overarching group for the whole official ecosystem around the AI Horde. I called it Haidra, as is both can portmanteau the “AI” part but it also represents the endless potential between the integrations around the AI Horde. It is also one of my favourite concepts.

Long story short, Haidra is now hosting all the repositories that the public AI Horde needs to run, along with a lot of helper libraries and UIs. It has as members all the people who have provided invaluable support in development or community building. We also designed a neat logo for it using the AI Horde and a competition in our discord server which Tazlin further polished as our new logo. You can see it as the featured image in the post.

And today I’m excited to announce that Haidra has also officially joined the Nivenly Foundation!

While there’s a lot of people helping to make Haidra what it is, most of the community building still falls on me, along with the social outreach. Likewise there’s a lot of questions and problems around governance of an expanding community which are really not my strength. This is where Nivenly comes in.

The plan is that they will help us with best practices on growing and sustaining our community, and finding more volunteers, especially in community management and software development. They will also provide us with governance and legal support as needed. And generally plug any holes which a lot of developers (including with me) don’t have the skills to deal with.

I hope with The backing of the Nivenly Foundation, we can all together take Haidra and the AI Horde to the next level and ensure that Generative AI remains available for everyone forever!

#aihorde #haidra #nivenly-foundation

https://dbzer0.com/blog/the-birth-of-haidra-and-the-join-with-nivenly/