The following is intended as a starting point, a first draft towards establishing a shared charter that would serve to protect, support, and enrich the nascent Fediverse.
Technical Charter
This Charter sets forth the responsibilities and procedures for technical contribution to, and oversight of, Open Responses (the “Project”), an open, vendor-neutral specification for large language model APIs.
NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement | Net Mundial
Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance
7 Startup Agreements That Save Companies (and Friendships) | Signus
Founder blowups and cap-table surprises are mostly preventable. A focused seven-document set—Founders Agreement, SAFE (Post-Money), Mutual NDA, Independent Contractor Agreement, Advisory Agreement, Consulting Agreement, and PIIA—closes the early gaps that orphan IP, muddle equity, and stall deals. Right-size what you send; use the subset that fits the moment. Clarity beats memory.
Stellar | Together We Can - A Decentralized Vision for Financial Inclusion
In this post, our contribution to Financial Inclusion Week organized by the Center For Financial Inclusion @ Accion, we’ll share SDF’s vision for achieving financial inclusion globally.We’ll do this by first outlining how we define financial inclusion, wh
The Future Is Federated: My Fediverse Starter Guide
A starter guide for the Fediverse: what it is, how to join and its culture
operating-agreement
If you're interested in starting a worker-owned cooperative, this letter is for you.
Decentralization enables permissionless innovation
I’ve just started reading Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate. The opening chapters are great, narrating Paul Baran’s efforts at RAND to design a nationwide communication network. Baran had one design goal for this network—survivability. Specifically, survivability in the face of nuclear catastrophe.
Decentralisation as a shifting mental framework
Programming note: every week I send out an email newsletter. It contains all the articles I published that week, as well as an additional essay that has been not been published elsewhere yet. This is a republication of last week’s essay I send out. If you’re interested, subscribe below to get all the updates directly […]
PieFed - Explore Anything, Discuss Everything.
Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values with no corporate overlords. …
attested.network — Proof of Payment for ATProtocol
An open specification for decentralized, cryptographically verifiable proof of payments.
Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power
[This document serves as a memo for investors]
CID Congress #2: Big DASL
IPFS Project CID Congress #2 29 April 2025 Luma https://lu.ma/03gj3rrb Agenda + Notes https://hackmd.io/1mXZ9HzJQWyFHNaF9yZWKg
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025. His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It is adopting a teams structure and looking toward creating a steering committee, as well as bootstrapping a Request for Comments (RFC) process. If adopted, GNOME would require RFCs for design, user experience, architectural, and other changes that carry a major impact on the project.
Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol - Nick's Blog
attested.network is an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol, built on what we learned making atprotofans.com. It formalizes the three-party attestation model and opens it up for any app to implement.
Writing about attested.network, an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol. It builds on what we learned making atprotofans.com. Draft is up and feedback is welcome.
Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol
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