alpha release
LazerJesus opened this issue · comments
Is this project purely theoretical at this point or is anyone working on code? If so, then when might there be an alpha release?
I'd like to know this as well. If so, how big is team size?
I'm not sure of team size and I'm a coder wannabe still... making it clear first just to point out that as of now there seems to be no actual roadmap to take as the most basic tech (biocryptic user ID) does not yet exist... or am I wrong? Guess it will be purely theoretical and backlog gathering phase until then.
I've spoken with the main guy before and I believe it is just getting the whitepapers down. But I'm contacting them soon to help get the ball rolling.
@objectorange can you give more information about the team size?
you say main guy, is this at the one-guy-in-basement-stage 😉
@FinnFrotscher sorry for not stating it clearly before, but no, just observing and commenting.
If you'd ask me, we are the team. My projected road map would be to create a fullnode wallet that runs on a phone, and implement basic income. Then implement voting on mobile, to get a core idea of how direct democracy is going to fit in within established forces.
Hey there btw, I'm Tane, 23yrs old, I have 4 years of programming experience now.
@tanevanwifferen i have a similar background. where are you from?
i would start with the project side of things, trying to answer how the projects, which will be voted upon, are realised.
direct democracy means citizen-driven bottom up projects. how do you do that?
hey cool, I'm from Holland, near Eindhoven. I tried computer science at the TU/e, but was spending more time programming for myself. Dropped out last May. I've had a few startups, and done a few jobs as a software engineer. Who are you?
That might be a good idea too, I'm more of an action guy myself, want to get prototypes quickly.
For the project side of things, we could split into groups, I saw something on the mail about that. I see there are 90 people subscribed to this repository, so we could make pretty big groups, or a lot of smaller projects at a time.
I study business psychology in Berlin and taught myself programming. Now I am technical lead in a startup that I co-founded. We have two offices, one in Berlin, one in Hamburg.
The major inspiration for me to learn coding was to build something like this project.
The main point that impresses me about the whitepapers is the detail in which the cryptographic system is described. I lack the cryptographic skills to implement this system, but I understand the absolute necessity for the underlying crypto to be solid.
What is your coding background? @tanevanwifferen
Beside the basic income, the bio-crypto, the voting and (for me) the citizen-projects, what other parts do you see?
@FinnFrotscher , @tanevanwifferen I'm a UX designer and HFE and would contribute where possible as well.
@sgalbraith @tanevanwifferen @objectorange
i created a slack channel
we can brainstorm about the moving parts and put together a prototype.
I reside in northern Germany. I've got 16 years of professional experience, after graduating from University in 2001, where I studied Business Administration. I'm kind of a swiss army knife and thus have a very broad range of skills, mainly outside of software development, but nonetheless potentially valuable for the project, e.g. management, process design, process consulting, media design, project management.
With respect to software development: user story mapping (strong), Excel VBA (strong), Ruby (advanced beginner), Ruby on Rails (advanced beginner), PHP in the context of Wordpress (intermediate). I sneaked into Java, Python, Javascript and intend to study one of these thoroughly in the months to come - haven't decided yet.
I joined the slack channel, however, I'm quite suprised as I thought that the already existing channels on DecStack are used for this project.
Ich lebe in Berlin @wrrp und du?
Your skills sound very interesting, what kind of projects have you been working on?
it is true that there is a mattermost server especially for decentralized and crypto projects named decstack. tbh I was not aware of that when I started the slack channel.
But there was no Cicada-specific channel on decstack. and from the point of convenience slack is a very good entry point to get the conversation going and exchange ideas, which is my main goal.
I'm currently living in Hamburg, but I intend to move to the countryside - either McPomm or Brandenburg. Berlin rocks, have been there for 9 months for a project.
I actually have been working for two of the big four public accounting firms (auditing and consulting) and have been in management positions in affiliate companies of three multinational corporations, all within the accounting function.
Since 7 years I'm a freelancer, mainly as interim manager and business consultant in recent years, mainly as media and web designer as well as video producer in the first few years. I've been developing several custom tailored solutions with Excel VBA and partly also Access VBA since 2006 - all but one of these development jobs were one man shows, in one I coded together with a colleague.
i was born and raised in hamburg. just moved to berlin 4 years ago. part of my company is located in Hamburg.
To sum up who has stated interest in participating in the development:
- two fullstack (but frontend heavy) developers with +-4 years of experience.
- one UX designer and I bring another to the team.
- one senior developer and business-admin with much experience in process-design
- and two more, i still need to find out about their preferences
Can I be in the Slack channel?
of course, its an open channel
I'll join too. Maybe it's an idea to add a link to the slack on the readme.md?
good idea @tanevanwifferen
/pull/12 it is done
Hi, if you still need some developer, I am volunteer. I have quite much experience on development. mostly mobile programming, but also I can help with java, node.js, c++.
Hey I'm a web developer nodejs php... I know a little C and Python. I'm an app developer too. Web apps.
Would love to join in.
I'm curious about this project as well.
Sorry, haven't been back to this site in awhile. The founder started a group you can join at https://hub.decstack.com. Lots of people there (4k+ members) from many different backgrounds all interested in decentralization in some form or other.
Hi all,
this is really exciting stuff
anyone of you is at this? http://iovo.io/
looking by whitepapers it's exactly what is outlined in cicada
Jeffries just mentioned it in his latest public post: https://hackernoon.com/song-of-the-cicada-project-and-the-mystery-of-cicada-3301-9ce93184f3dd
About hub.descstack: I did not understand it properly, so kept away from it. After registering, what's there? Some sort of chat where all stuff is coordinated? Or a forum? Thanks,
Hi! any news about this project?
spoiler alert: it's really hard. digital voting where each person gets one vote has never been done. The only successful case of digital voting (arguably) is Estonia, and they were able to build it because they build upon government infrastructure (SSN). IMO for now, the project can't be started, but I'm still watching the repo. There's a lot going on in maths, so maybe all of a sudden it can be done. Or maybe facebook will become a DNA bank that holds all our identities and can be the centralized partner here :P /s
Now I'm thinking of it, we can have something here. Say an Iris scanner that is built in our phones, and an AI that embeds your iris. If there's consensus on the AI that is used, the results will be different for each individual no? There's no guarantee that the AI isn't fed any video file though..
Edit: never mind, the outcome of the AI can be faked. Like I said, really hard.
Edit 2: unless the outcome of the AI is private data that nobody else sees. Like a private key. It's data embedded in your iris, combined with a password. Still, really hard... :P
