General Announcements & Updates
- We hired a new Team Lead, Johannes, who has already started contributing to the Radicle Community. Welcome, @Kuehle
- We made progress in finding the first contributors to the new Tokenomics Working Group and plan to announce them in August.
- Ele has been offline for a few weeks in July due to a serious family health issue.
Quarterly Objectives Updates
- Hire and onboard new engineers We made progress by hiring a Team Lead. Together, we plan to scale our efforts to hire at least one or two more engineers immediately.
- Conduct and publish research on decentralized alternatives for content retrieval and assess their feasibility We continued researching existing alternatives but haven’t concluded this research due to Ele’s unavailability.
- Start a Tokenomics Working Group to consult the team on mechanism design and pricing of developer services We have made progress with the Tokenomics Working Group and already have an agreement with an established econ group that will consult on pricing and mechanism design. We will announce them in August when Ele is back online.
Additionally:
We started running Radicle nodes.
@Kuehle has started engaging actively on Zulip with the Radicle community.
We are experimenting with the Radicle library.
We collected issues/ideas from Radicle core that fit into the RSN story (programmatic config, ask to be seeded, private repos, organization nodes).
Build a page for “Ask to be seeded”.
Run a node without propagation to allow people to try out Radicle without leaving a permanent record.
Start advertising this “community node” and collect feedback.
Collect feedback from organizations that would want to have their own community node.
Timeline & Budget Update
We are on track to be within budget by the end of the year.