Jonny: I have founded Sense Collective, that focuses on collective intelligence tools. It has been closely related to NYU's ITP community (Interactive Telecommunications), computer science program within Tisch. It's where Dennis Crowley invented FourSquare. Center for the Recently Possible, or Future Adjacent. They have VR, AR, IR studios, fab center for 3D printing, gamification track. It's closely affiliated with I-Beam and Data in Society. Work close to P2P world. ITP world is an adult summer camp, where anyone can apply. It costs $1200. Monthlong program. It has an unconference style. If you want to lead a workshop, it's super easy, you can do it on the same day. Sense Collective has been testing out some blockchain integrations. We have been working on generic and p2p technology. I got into the Crypto space in 2013 and have been in 20 crypto projects. One reason I have been with so many is that I haven't found one that works completely. I have found that many work well when woven together, but most people can't enter the space because it's too technical. We have come up with a methodology to abstract away the hard stuff and come up with a core toolkit for using TCR's and DAOs and creating a sovereign ID. We hope it will be useful by anyone. I have been working with Lauren and John Kellden's Conversation Community to make it totally accessible. We want to use a deck of cards with a group. Lauren has teased out a concpet that we will try at ITP camp, where we are putting together a grant application process to join us for a month to work on a dream project, a creative idea that you didn't think would be possible. The idea is that we will try to introduce these tools in a way that anyone can use them. We will take a group through a number of technologies with an easy toolkit. We will be unpacking these concepts through workshops and tutorials. 10 or 15 blockchain projects can together fund actual demos, where you walk away with something that works to show the powerful technologies.
Lauren: What we want is for people to be able to participate in these technologies and be able to understand them, even with no technical skills necessary. How do we produce things that have never been produced before? Most hackathons look at problems and come up with new applications. We don't need another application, another platform.
Jonny: We don't need another product! We need solutions. "More demo, less code."
Josh: This is triggering my brain into when we were using WAP, wireless access protocols. Until it's adopted [untillegible]. Someone needs to emerge as a leader and say why you need to adopt a certain protocol.
Jonny: I am an applied ontologist and I work to make common specifications. What is the maximumal accessible way to deliver technology without choosing a tech stack. You can do a self-sovereign identity with 10 different companies. We are not working on production-level things that can scale. We are offer giving people the small talk experience. The tech underpinnings are sound. We are using Keybase as the hub for this, because we can invite people in with just their Twitter handle. You just need to know how to use a chatroom, but everything you do uses your PGP key without you knowing what it is. For demos it is really easy. Keybase has different levels for teams. You can join a watershed quality chat...you don't need a watershed coin. You can make a subteam that will help with the tech stuff. We can have different levels of access controls which allow tech people in the same chat room with you.
Lauren: for this hackathon, we wanted to do an open source movie. Josh and Phalan, could you help with this?
Jonny: Lauren introduced an idea of the post-9/11 waves of fear that rolled out from the epicenter. She wondered how we could create the inverse, something of joy and inspiration. Could we use ITP as a center to create inspiring content. It could be singular, like people creating their own movies, or in a group, like a choose your own adventure, with people voting on the next scene.
Josh: a lot of this work was done by Apple, when they did a project trailor with iMovie. You know what type of landscape. It's all be thought out and done completely, so you don't need to recreate the wheel.
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