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Scuttlebutt

A p2p protocol + community

⏳ 2015 – ongoing

This is the project I have contributed the most to in my life. It’s a p2p replicating database, and a solarpunk community that grew up around and through it. I’ve made life-long friends and built bridges spanning almost every continent and honestly it’s a challenge hard to summarize.

🚧 Please feel free to direct queries to me about what you’d like to know more about

Things I’ve done

Here’s an incomplete summary of the many roles/ projects/ things I did:

  • Hosted a Theory of Change workshop
  • Lead development discourse from IRC to Scuttlebutt itself (dogfooding)
  • Ran distributed strategy setting process
  • Wrote many libraries + plugins
  • Developed many applications on top of Scuttlebutt
  • Co-designed new cryptographic primitives
  • Created learning resources + documentation
  • Ran an international conference
  • Ran grant process distributing ~$500K
  • Administered Maintenance and Grant-writing funds
  • Gave conference talks
  • Designed an ran Faerie Rings - a peer support process

Photos

From things I was involved in

Sailing adventures Scuttle Camp in Wellington, New Zealand

Huoim using SSB in the Kalahari Hosting Fairie Rings

Patchbay: Gatherings Patchbay: Scry Patchbay: Threads

A view of part of the Scuttleverse via ssb-graph-viz

From the Scuttleverse

Gardening & gender essentialism Comparing chilli varieties

Mushroom identification Cultivating Reishi

Extra Solar in Tornio, Finland Dark Crystal Art

Collective boat ownership Boat hacking

Solar bikes Off-grid living

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