MYCELIUM UPDATE
Two Sundays ago the #mycelium Stage One Bootstrap concluded, mostly successfully. I've finally written up the post-mortem, a state-of-the-project report written for lay people. Thanks to the people, whoever you are, who took part.
It can be read at https://khleedril.org/mycelium/report-1.html.
The Mycelium network is intended to underlie project governance structures with an undiscoverable peer-2-peer affiliation system.
UPDATE
The whole thing is undiscoverable, so it is difficult to assess progress in the project. Doing a little poking, I can see that 13 people have registered so far, and they consist of a group of 7, a group of 5, a singleton, and me (the one fully ratified). My guess is that the groups are the contributors to two projects, which is encouraging if true as that means that the Mycelium network is starting to be used IRL.
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The Mycelium network has the ultimate aim to provide provenance to people to allow them to participate in online project governance structures; it is a network of PGP public keys, but unlike the original intention for the keys to be discoverable, this network is absolutely not discoverable.
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#foss developers, you have until Sunday to register participation in Mycelium's Stage-1 Bootstrap 'vote'. It is happening at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-vote. There are jumping-off points to the white-papers with instructions there.
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#mycelium #myceliumboot1
@inthehands @kissane @jenniferplusplus @hamishcampbell
Dear #foss, #gnu friends, the vote to accept voting on the Mycelium network, A.K.A. bootstrap stage 1, is now open; you have until end of Sunday, 28th September to register.
It is happening at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-vote, and the effort is fully described at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-bootstrap-1.
Please participate if you can, it will make the true open source community stronger in the face of AI impersonators and corporate/government surveillance.
If you missed the original announcement of this movement, it is at https://cyberplace.social/@khleedril/115044263927443849. Note that the repository code referred to there is to be found on the boot-0 branch.
Keep an eye on the hash-tags below for updates.
Calling all #foss, #gnu, #guix developers! Please help if you can with the Stage-0 bootstrap of a Mycelium network. The purpose is to provide mutual provenance: in the first place it will prove we are actual humans. The salient features are * you are not discoverable, * there is absolutely no centre; it is entirely distributed * only your trusted friends can know your API end-point; you will not be spammed. 1/2 https://khleedril.org/mycelium-bootstrap-0. #mycelium #myceliumboot0
#foss developers, the vote to accept voting on the Mycelium network, A.K.A. bootstrap stage 1, is now open; you have until end of Sunday, 28th September to register.
The white paper is at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-bootstrap-1, and the vote itself is happening at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-vote.
Please participate if you can, it will make the true open source community stronger in the face of AI impersonators and corporate/government surveillance.
@info ``On the more public facing projects, it’s about ActivityPub ...''
I can't see it having relevance to ActivityPub. But would be great as a tool in open governance, which is the main intention. Watch out for the next stage in the bootstrap: #myceliumboot1.
Khleedril