"Minimum Viable Beauty" - hAppenings Newsletter #3
Great News from the Holochain AMA (Ask Me Anything) #53
If you aren’t tuned into watching the videos from Holo LTD and Holochain.org, just know this last AMA was a remarkable and beautiful experience. I love hearing from the Holochain Team about what has THEM excited about what’s happening in the Holoverse. It did not disappoint!
Rather than only addressing questions, Mary switched it up by opening to the group's reflections of this pivotal MOMENT, with the Holochain Platform (and Holochain Launcher) going Beta.
“I’m excited to be switching things and getting into to building! Especially with the scaffolding tool that Guillem has made, how that really accelerates a process that scaffolds them up really quickly and have a quick start and jump in and go. And how much more mature it is.” Arthur Brock
“We’ve crossed a viability threshold. People talk about the minimum viable product. And what is the minimum viable product for Holochain, I don’t know…But what does seem like what we’ve hit is Minimum Viable Beauty.…It has to be beautiful inside the sense of, I can do this, it feels comfortable. Like that level of beauty!” Eric Harris Braun
“The threshold that we crossed for me that’s massive…We can actually support it on Windows, Mac and Linux…It’s not just about beauty, it’s about accessibility.” Mary Camacho
Marcus Phillips went into more detail about the upcoming Holochain Developer Online Training in March, and how this particular training is for those who already know RUST. He also went deeper into how the agenda is laid out. Please pass the word about this great opportunity!
Also mentioned was the #EthDenver Conference, where on Tuesday, February 28th, Holochain will be featured with Arthur, Mary, Eric (Zippy) and Matthew. Arthur mentioned that at the event they’ll be featuring the Scaffolding tool from Guillem Cordoba, and folks will be able to build with it in real time together. How exciting is THAT?!!
So, enjoy watching the entire video, and getting to know some of the core team at the Holochain Foundation. The entire team has all worked so incredibly hard to get to this point of Beta. I send HUGE THANKS to them all!
Let’s take a breath, and celebrate this moment!
This is going to be an AMAZING year!
🌟Latest ‘hAppenings.community’ News:
Updated Database! We have updated our Creators page with our the most in-depth public view of our database! It includes projects and hApps 'In Development' which are regarded as being in a pre-Alpha stage. Also included are Github and GitBook links. Take a look!
Latest applications and projects known to us and added to our database:
Scaffolding - Scaffolding is a game-changing tool that empowers developers to design basic, working hApps in just a few minutes! Using prompts it helps you to add the DNAs and zomes required to create a Holochain application.
🌟 Latest Official News from Holochain and Holo
Holonix: The Beginning of your hApp Development Journey - DevTools Explainer 1 of 6 by Paul d’Aoust, Feb 23, 2023
“Now that Holochain has reached its beta and is stable enough for developing serious hApps, it’s time to introduce the tools you’ll be using. This first article goes into Holonix, the dev environment that distributes those tools.”
Dev.HC Workshop - February 28th @ 1600 GMT, Dev.HC discord server. Radiance Workshop: building a Holochain module. “We are back with a Dev.HC workshop in which we'll build one of the ideas that came out of the Berlin hackathon in November: Radiance. Radiance is a map of the activity that happens in a community. Imagine a dark map of your city, but every time something interesting happens (a meeting, a game, some offer matching some need) a glowing light appears on the map. We'll try to build this module or at least part of its functionality in this workshop, so come if you want to learn how to do it!”
Learn to Build on Holochain - March 9th - 12th, Holochain is hosting a 4-day training event with world-class instructors (including Marcus Phillips and Guillem Cordoba) give experienced developers the critical tools they need to design, develop, and deploy Holochain apps. Training dates are: March 9th - 12th, and Build dates are: March 18th - 19th.
The Commons Engine: Collective intelligence, non-monetary currencies, and Holochain - The Blockchain Socialist Podcast. In discussion with “Ferananda Ibarra, Director of The Commons Engine, a Holochain Ecosystem service agency aiming to create a community of Regenerative Economy practitioners capable of designing ethical tokens and currencies to enable healthy flow, incentives, and feedback loops in order to evolve the economy and culture of their own communities and organizations.”
🌟Latest News from the Holoverse:
Hylo.com - has a new Medium article entitled, ProSocial World and Hylo: Co-creating tools for cultural evolution . (Note: This module creation will be on Holochain, and they are currently looking for collaborative funding partners.)
Also…Hylo 5.3 release! Over the last few weeks Hylo have published several releases, of note among the many changes and fixes is - “Support for oAuth Authorization Code flow! This is a big deal. This means we can truly support API integrations from other platforms who want to connect to Hylo and integrate with Hylo data, with full consent of the Hylo user of course. This also means that Zapier integration is coming soon! We're almost done with our first set of Zapier actions and triggers. And this will open up a world of integration possibilities.”
Internet of Energy Network (IOEN) - has a new Medium article: Community energy and climate for web3 in 2023!
Neighbourhoods - Groupware Survey Request: “Please be our guest in our Neighbourhoods Groupware Survey! Share your interest in groupware (applets) of different functionality, and help to grow our shared sensemaking on all of our interests. This sensemaking will help to inform internal and third-party applet development for our upcoming software releases. Thanks in advance for all feedback; we appreciate all of you!!”
“Also, look out for our upcoming dev preview! Software release info: https://releases.neighbourhoods.network/ and https://neighbourhoods.substack.com”
If you have a Holochain Project and have news, events, articles or videos you’d like to submit for possible Newsletter inclusion, please contact us and/or become a Creator/Member!
🌟 Upcoming Events:
ETHDenver - February 24th to March 9th The Year of the Spork: A community #BUIDLing the decentralised future. Apply to attend here! Holochain will be attending in an official capacity!
🌟 Newest Videos:
IOEN TECH Update Feb 2023 - This is how IOEN is modelling across the grid!
AMA Quick Cuts - How did you know Holochain was a good fit for you?
Scaffold a dApp in minutes! - How to Scaffold a dApp (hApp) in just a couple of minutes. Watch Eric Harris-Braun and Mary Camacho using the game-changing scaffolding tool to create a Web3 app on Holochain in just a few minutes.
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🌟Other Related News & Events
Donations to Earthquake Charities - We, at hAppenings.community, like many in the ecosystem, have been moved by the plight of the people affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Northern Syria. The above link is to Al Jazeera and their researched article detailing charities who are making a real difference on the ground for those affected by the disaster. This resource was referred to by Mary Camacho in the AMA #53.
Collaborative Technology Alliance - The Collaborative Technology Alliance exists to facilitate collaboration, coordination, and community among platform designers, developers, and stewards who are committed to building social technology that benefits both people and planet. The CTA was discussed at the recent DecentSocial Unconference where Eric Bear of Holochain Foundation discussed their project. Ecosystem members and projects, Tibet Sprague of Terran Collective, Hylo and ProSocial are all involved in CTA. We appreciate their Principles!
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