# new Contributor call | SSBC

an open scratchpad for the upcoming call!

> Is there scratchpad etiquette?
> [name=mix] only to leave a little space around others writing to avoid collisions

## Agenda

- [x] setup
- [x] check consent on audio recording
- [x] mix's recording didn't work (should have pre-flight tested ...)
- [ ] dinosaur recorded parts, will see if that works
- [x] ask for a note-taker
- [x] dinosaur is happy to take notes
- mix : :heart:
- [x] Mischa also contributed
- [x] welcome / purpose of the call

- [x] check in :
- who are you?
- how are you doing today (not so much about code )

- [ ] from people who've been contributing:
- what have you been working on?
- what's important?
- do you have any asks

- [ ] from brand new people:
- hi!
- same questions as above ^

Mix: there might be a max Number, Cel is fixing it now.
Try NOW
raised max users limit -cel

## purpose of the call

- To check in with Scuttlebutt contributors, we haven't had a call in a _while_, new people have joined, we have grants!

- How can we support contributors?

## introductions / check-ins

- Mix(@ye+QM09iPcDJD6YvQYjoQc7sLF/IFhmNbEqgdzQo3lQ=.ed25519)
- calling from Wellington
- summer in New Zealand!
- 10 week old daughter
- moid(@Sur8RwcDh6kBjub8pLZpHNWDfuuRpYVyCHrVo+TdA/4=.ed25519)
- calling from New England (no mic)
- main interest in databases and programming languages
- recent renewed interest in P2P (possible healthcare apps)
- modulo ramping up on node, interested in replication, secure scuttlebutt
- nanomonkey(@+D0ku/LReK6kqd3PSrcVCfbLYbDtTmS4Bd21rqhpYNA=.ed25519)
- calling from Oakland, California
- noffle(@C3iYh/12sO1uvKq1KcZXLFxSySzxOkHxXN8rtNB5MGA=.ed25519)
- calling from Toronto
- open source / nodejs
- writes amazing guides!
- piet(@U5GvOKP/YUza9k53DSXxT0mk3PIrnyAmessvNfZl5E0=.ed25519)
- in Dev Academy space
- robert ()
- from Wisconsin
- works on medical software
- first time open source!
- staltz (@QlCTpvY7p9ty2yOFrv1WU1AE88aoQc4Y7wYal7PFc+w=.ed25519)
- in Finland
- opposite of summer
- mobile apps!
- stanley
- east bay California
- front-end engineer
- lost laptop, have new account
- writing GraphQL wrapper around scuttlebot
- tim(@7yWpL1UMhWvwR40oeTLjqcd4uYY144UnTknwfG15bQY=.ed25519)
- in London
- human communication!
- can be light or dark
- excited about Scuttlebutt as a community of purpose
- vtduncan(@Wbmkx0zKN/zFC1Li7Mz3IEQlcnHT7gAQ38i3hRCqyp4=.ed25519)
- excited about Summer, perfect temperature!
- currently writing protocol documentation
- Zach!!!( @ZqH7Mctu/7DNInxuwl12ECjfrAKUX2tBLq1rOldNhg0=.ed25519)
- from New York City, USA
- like writing about technology and feelings
- Aljoscha (@zurF8X68ArfRM71dF3mKh36W0xDM8QmOnAS5bYOq8hA=.ed25519)
- writing Scuttlebutt client library in Rust
- arj(@6CAxOI3f+LUOVrbAl0IemqiS7ATpQvr9Mdw9LC4+Uv0=.ed25519)
- live in Denmark
- on ssb for 2 years
- Craig
- on ssb for over a year
- australia
- worked on social enterprising
- not sure what to work on yet
- dinosaur(@6ilZq3kN0F+dXFHAPjAwMm87JEb/VdB+LC9eIMW3sa0=.ed25519)
- mikey!
- on ssb for a few years
- woo summer
- boo work
- dominic(@EMovhfIrFk4NihAKnRNhrfRaqIhBv1Wj8pTxJNgvCCY=.ed25519)
- first contributor
- frankie(@plo0t5t1G3h4Y+Zaxw2q5NNE+SsensLDx0TbcYhj8WY=.ed25519)
- likes bees
- in hawaii at spiderfarm
- on ssb since march 2017
- enjoying lurking
- here with cel & rosie
- rosie: learning lots
- cel: works on patchfoo & git-ssb & ssb-npm & more
- happy0(@RJ09Kfs3neEZPrbpbWVDxkN92x9moe3aPusOMOc4S2I=.ed25519)
- in scotland
- on ssb for 5 months
- ssb-chess
- Joey
- `(@bsoM86axaL6qoGHJnehEOMSbQY1rfuXeounGDqDnvzw=.ed25519_)`
- worked at canonical
- living in colorado
- joined ~week ago
- woo vim
- Jolyon(@dfCIY3rP5idQFdjuOHrBJqrv6EgsSiNyn1NKz87UTJw=.ed25519)
- in NZ (christchurch)
- ~1 year on ssb
- excited about ssb
- Kaotikus(@S8ZISkzSqn9l7uqU7cbuzQBWJEm/QkIKKGB9GvYb4EY=.ed25519)
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- Marcos (@RmClT86x/o66QdW1dqAfj5Jek4qxUf8rtmvAlhZeZFg=.ed25519)
- I'm from Argentina with my partner and my little daughter. I am living in the middle of nature, I like to be aware of the latest technological changes and their effect on society but also on what is handmade, handcrafted, diy, and cultivate the earth. I am on my way to an off-grid life but always within a community.
- Mikl(@70mCOxEUBDup8sP1ec7XjCQqJmN6/XQDVf7wRKyjEvQ=.ed25519)
- from portland, OR
- software developer / musician / dancer
- excited about ssb
- around for 2 weeks
- wants to help ssb grow
- Mischa(@VNRcdXl1qBueKSuIAWV8SI33ejYyxKNrsige+Y4YSF0=.ed25519)
- living in Wellington, NZ (originally Canada)
- on ssb for ~1 year
- learning to be a web developer
- want to bring in web dev skills
- junior
- unnerd in colorado patched in thanks to tim
- ssb 5mo
- cel(@f/...)

## status / requests / offers

- Aljoscha
- writing Scuttlebutt client in rust
- grant proposal: %pYNveoqk1n1YobhscETnI/EE8aZd0itL0bnPqXIASzw=.sha256
- dev diary: `%H+FY5tBY2mjm6zO07ao5tKrx3VSQ0e+cxlgu5d5p9rY=.sha256`
- if anyone wants to help contribute in Rust, that would be a great opportunity!
- development will soon reach a point where most of the remaining work is providing statically typed interfaces to the different muxrpc methods. Writing these shouldn't be too difficult and can be done by multiple people in parallel.
- arj
- been working on patch-book
- interested in working on benchmark proposal: `%j4opufqPRxHoi2v/3mFp03XGQcyLKxByv0CPu+6x+8s=.sha256`
- if more people use patch-book, they could join in on the fun
- dinosaur
- usually work on scattered things
- over the holiday break,
- started #ssbaas with https://github.com/ahdinosaur/butt-as-a-service
- `%1TVZigDql9VAQaZZVX/QegKan18urBuXQikOWE1uTMk=.sha256`
- so close! if anyone can try running this to check my notes, would be sweet
- started ssb-bot: https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-bot
- `%2JaltAdhcWnJwOXJPbHvGE9+SlVrR7Vfq+RhJbMhVUM=.sha256`
- if anyone wants to contribute bots, that's be sweet!
- ask: keen to support other contributors!
- Dominic
- ask: help with backend!
- Frankie (+ cel + rosie)
- made a holiday list
- looking forward to putting ssb in the web
- can start helping on that in a couple weeks
- ask: who to go to for ssb on the web
- staltz: search for "websbot", there are some threads about that, soapdog also tried another approach
- cel is working on git-ssb
- this is taking a longer time than expected
- no asks
- happy0
- working on chess app (ssb-chess)
- want to share the knowledge gained from this to help other people build other plugins/apps
- wanted to make a plugin to visualize social graph over christmas, contributed to patchwork instead
- ask: could use some design ideas for ssb-chess (frankie says happy to help happy)
- offer: writing up some tutorials for learning observables, pull streams, patchcore
- Joey
- work in emergency services
- learning js because of interest SSB
- ask: appreciate any electron / nodejs / client tutorials to learn from
- noffle: have you seen http://nodeschool.io ? I have now :-)
- noffle: bret has a good guide too: https://github.com/bcomnes/node-handbook
- noffle: oh oh and https://github.com/maxogden/art-of-node
- Jolyon
- worked on browser based viewer
- inside petri (sp?) browser
- working now with dat where people can write their own vue components to build their own client
- how to standardize apis especially for the web
- ask: how to avoid duplicating effort?
- ask: good search functionality?
- offer: happy to write up tutorials/docs
- Marcos
- privacy web app
- connecting mexico nicaragua
- contributed some code for internationalisation
- asks: keep working :)
- Mikl
- newer, looking for direction
- skills are as a web dev (full stack, strong frontend)
- questions: how to standardize api's, make it easier to write front ends, avoid duplication of efforts
- offer: front-end experience
- thinking about writing a go game
- dominic: "if you see a job that needs doing, that is your job"
- Mischa
- ask: be clear with exciteds, asks, offers, and questions
- Mix
- excited to be working on "mix-helps you build it"
- ask/offer: remember to ask mix for help and tell him what you want stremed, document etc.
- ask: help coordinating things (calls, grants etc.) on ssb

- moid
- excited: by the SSB community, reminds me of usenet before the word "flame" came into usage
- status: wrestling with mumble
- ask: more #ssb-learning, would love overview of internals
- offer: willing to help with secure-scuttlebutt (testing metrics, review of code)

- nanomonkey
- aka scott
- working on interfacing sbot with lisp languages
- starting with emacs
- before holidays, started working on ClojureScript client
- have grant proposal for recipe collaboration tool: want to build collaboration tool from walk-away
- `%i/CluNPnEq+5GsRaAL6v6EXa1V8xm8djkMuFYbcP+ok=.sha256`
- request: how to efficiently find messages (dinosaur: flumeviews, happy0: flumereduce)
- noffle
- this call is so great! <3
- want to make public utilities that empower
- writing guides to help people use p2p systems
- in the process of making hyperpad
- https://github.com/noffle/hyperpad
- want to integrate with ssb
- polish git-ssb-web
- ask: help me figure out what i want to do
- offer: I know a bit about coding on ssb; ask me for help /w making things or code reviews
- piet
- loving this conversation :)
- excited to try and build Loomio on ssb
- Loomio is a way to do collaborative decision-making (aka democracy)
- also includes things like grant votes or scheduling polls
- been collaborating with Loomio dev team
- they gave us their best data structure
- request: if you're excited, let me know
- also been enjoying writing rust
- offer: want to continue supporting ssb-in-rust with @Aljoscha
- code reviews and such
- want to make a process for our code of conduct
- what is our process?
- how do we deal with problems?
- interested in tools to help the community deal with things
- keen for ssb bot (`ahdinosaur/ssb-bot`) to help detect abuse
- robert
- Since my mic makes me sound like an electric guitar and I'm not a musician, I'll just type this.
- I'm new (only been here a few weeks), so I'm still getting familiar with everything. I'm really interested in learning how this works, so I've been reading about gossip protocols, crypto, capability systems, etc. My ask would be for any resources or readings to learn about these types of things, and my offer is to work on any code that would help me to learn how the core of SSB works.
- staltz
- excited about how many people have joined
- excited about mobile app, it's getting there! can almost use it!!!
- have some beginning-of-year consulting gigs to pay the bills
- goal: take at least two months to work on ssb full-time
- ask: am maintaining a roadmap svg with things to be done, pitch in!
- roadmap: `dat://10037a2d4c7c583673b9b3a816fe15710b4012023bbb065364731445c3bb63bd`
- some tasks are very independent, standalone modules
- should we get the multisig btc wallet to use, and publish it?
- stanley
- thanks to the documentation cats!
- great to understand the _why_ behind what we are doing here
- offer: front-end engineer skills
- styling help?
- design help?
- simplification
- excited: mental models of ssb are confusing
- hashtags, channels, or groups?
- ask: started a GraphQL layer to wrap sbot, want to finish an MVP
- vtduncan
- writing Scuttlebutt protocol documentation. [Link!](https://vltf.org/scuttlebuttprotocolguide)
- has lots of pictures!
- thanks to everyone who read the guide and posted feedback
- hopefully people reading guide wont have to read/parse through the source as much
- tim
- Excited: by the enthusiasm - and slightly intimidated at the same time :)
- My main goal for the year is to make a prototype of Lillypad - I've linked to post in my profile https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25wvDiKxZYOlYtstY2t7uDLvGNm4upf7iKwZAhk%2B5utUs%3D.sha256 - and I have a lot to learn before I can do that.
- Asks: deferred for now as I'm still learning :)
- Offers: trying to use soft skills to help in community building, connecting people, guiding newcomers, etc. Also willing to help with writing as time permits - disaster.radio crew, I have not forgotten you.
- Also excited by: the possibility of a calm client but I can't offer much at the moment beyond participating in discussions of this
- Zach!
- Hello.
- Thanks/Excited: whoever made the dark theme is one of my favourite things. You joined, wanted a darktheme, and pull requested to patchwork, as well as adding spanish and kickstarting the settings functionality
- added folks public keys to the notes
- worked on non-dev resources grant in November
- led me on a spiral of thoughts
- anyone who is contributing things, experimentation is un-avoidable
- everything here is brand new!
- November ended and I got through the prepwork but still need to do the actual work which I am hoping to do in the coming months
- ask: tell me what you need, what you hope these resources can offer
- ask: what experiences have you had when introducing this to friends?
- ask: sharing y'alls feelings and hearts more
- junior ([e-mail])
- listening in thanks to @tim and thanks to you all!! gotta go
- th.ai/ggif sync audio+gif, mix /wiki pages, own your own meaning
- tiny.cc/pix8 inject player owns context while browsing
- ASK: seek hacker to inject player owned PIX IN SSB
- offer: make 8 billion players own memory
- why: make players own game not viceversa
- Craig
- keen to get involved in small areas, am an experienced developer in most languages
- offer: will use Scuttlebutt as a uxer
- bencevans
- am a Computer Science student
- interested in learning and exploring what people are up to

## closing check-outs

3 words to say good-bye

- mix
- grateful, excited, surprised
- Mischa
- mikl
- still excited, feels good to resonate with what others have said
- def want to join in more conversations with what's been talked about
- marcos
- kaotikus
- jolyon
- this is a really beautiful community
- great intentions and dreams about the world coming together in a better place
- thanks everyone for being awesome
- Joey
- Interested & thinking about what happens when more general non-technical users begin to join?
- interested in 'private pubs' and 'private groups'
- `%gWad+SQB1TSzMG1+5WwSddaZNZsUfrZG1n21HodOePE=.sha256`
- `%25YbZY%2Bdpskgsb7kqNpIR%2FrTEo7o3Ig%2FbzQmfUmggBLSs%3D.sha256`
- happy0
- excited, impatient to take over bookface overlords
- great community, happy to be a part of it
- dominic
- impressed with how timely this call has been
- started with 36% battery and am still here!
- biggest call we've ever had, congratulations
- dinosaur
- this has been great, love you all, thanks
- Craig
- inspired by quality and diversity of people tuning in around the world
- bencevans
- thanks for the crazy stuff happening in the network
- arj
- thanks everyone this is really inspiring
- Aljoscha
- came for the technical side of the things, been exposed to pretty interesting npn-technical stuff, glad for that
- frankie
- nice meeting you all, great to see what the future holds
- cel
- if anyone wants technical help, let me know
- rosie
- if anyone wants a non-technical view of Scuttlebutt, message me and i'll share my thoughts
- Zach!
- ask: if anyone can post links to relevant things, post to gathering
- vtduncan
- thanks Mix for hosting the call
- feeling super pumped about this
- tim
- Grateful! Excited! Inspired! Thanks everyone! Lovely to be able to attach voices to names :)
- stanley
- glad to be here, let's do this!
- staltz
- everyone is so nice, this is so nice, let's do this!
- i really like this
- robert
- Thanks to everybody who has made this possible thus far. This is the first thing that has made me excited about the possibilities of technology and the internet in a long time. My wife is really excited about this too, and she passes along her thanks. Seriously phenomenal work everyone!
- piet
- this is really lovely
- really really grateful that this conversation is happening
- this is a lot of people, communication has been excellent, nobody has gone down bad rabbit holes
- noffle
- been really great
- thank you every butt for sharing!
- nanomonkey
- love you guys, keep it solarpunk
- moid
- thanks mix

bye! <3

- dinosaur & Mischa