The Holochain Project Database - Update and News!
Curious about what is being built on Holochain?!
It’s been 1.5 years since AnSam Enterprises, LLC (Anita & Sam of hAppenings.community) started the Holochain Project database (on the AirTable platform). We currently have listings of 81 projects and 29 developer groups in the database! (Note: The above link is our “public” view, with projects currently in Alpha & Beta, and In Development).
We continually update the database as we learn of exciting new projects, and then every 6 months we’ll do a thorough “scrub” to research what’s what with each project. We divvy up the list, contact each Project’s team, and connect as they are available. It’s clear most developers are rightfully super busy programming on their projects and sometimes don’t have the bandwidth to connect. Some Project creators meet with us in delightful zoom conversations where we can learn so much, which helps us help them and you, the community! And, when no contact can be made, we rely on publicly available research about the projects.
Here are some of the updates on the projects we thought you’d find super interesting!
Established Projects:
Gather - This hApp is for co-creating, accessing, and managing emergent events by darksoil studio is currently in Alpha and is available to use via the Holochain Launcher. Guillem, Eric, Viktor, and Matthias are building lots of cool hApps and modules. We’re excited about the new developments!
Acorn - Acorn is an open-source, peer-to-peer project management application currently in Alpha. Sam and Anita had the opportunity to play with Acorn with a group on DEV.HC! Acorn is so agile and easy…we’re so impressed! You can download it and try it out! Join the Acorn alpha testing list to get the latest news.
Neighbourhoods - Neighbourhoods are a way for groups to organize. Community activators can select and bundle generic social apps - think docs, chats, forums, and feeds. They now have a beautifully updated website, where Devs can find out how to build “applets” and get compensated with Neighbourhoods native currency, NH. Check it out!
Here’s a sampling of some of the New hApps (added since Fall, 2022):
HabFract - a new hApp providing visual cues which help to build and break down habitual behaviour over time.
Project Liminality - a project designed to find, support, and share the collective route to collective intelligence. Working with AD4M.
DeepKey - Deepkey is a hApp providing a decentralized public key infrastructure for keys associated with Holochain conductors and applications.
Lair - Dev tool for managing encryption on Holochain. “The Lair Keystore is the secure keystore that holds private keys and seed and performs any and all cryptographic functions, which need to use private keys for the various Holochain subsystems requiring decryption, encryption, or signing.”
Mova - A community-led database of video fingerprints for a community-run database of rights ownership claims for both Creative Commons and Web Monetizable videos, matched with their ISCC fingerprints.
Realms of Ludos - a collaborative dungeons and dragons style game built by Eric Harris-Braun using syn for the first Holochain Game Incubator. It’s available to download and play with on Holochain Launcher.
New Developments/Partnerships:
Red Grid has entered a strategic tech & investment partnership with Urban Green Innovation. UGI brings an impressive pipeline of projects, resources, and advanced Generative AI capability to Redgrid’s Community Energy solutions.
Flux and AD4M unite! In April 2023 AD4M, Flux and Perspect3vism merged. Together they will steward AD4M and complete the development of Flux. They facilitate making visible themes and patterns from within group data by revealing connections that might not be immediately apparent on their own.
Kendraio - a nonprofit interoperability advocacy initiative integrating hREA into their Kendraio app, a rights management system for music and other creative assets, where professionals can manage and track their digital assets and associated metadata, delivering easier and faster administration of assets across multiple digital services.
Obviously, we don’t know everything going on in the Holochain ecosystem, so if there’s a hApp you’ve heard about that we haven’t got in the database please get in touch!
Add/Update Your Project NOW!
If you have a Holochain Project that’s new or if you’d like to update your Holochain Project listing, please feel free to:
Go directly to this form, and just give us the updates you need us to make!
Schedule an appointment with either Sam or Anita to chat about updating your listing
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🌟 Latest Official News from Holochain and Holo
Holochain Powers Local-First Software - “Holochain applications function peer-to-peer and thus don’t rely on a central server, the application’s network scales to whatever devices are actually able to connect at that time. This means that if you can form a local connection over whatever networking protocol you share, from Bluetooth to TCP/IP, then you can interact with the people in the next room.”
Dev Pulse 135 - Holochain 0.1.5 Released - This Dev Pulse brings a new release for the 0.1.x branch of Holochain. We’re still recommending that you stick with this branch for now, as we’re still troubleshooting performance issues in the 0.2.x branch. Meanwhile, a goodly number of our team and community are en route or at DWeb Camp, where we’ll be involved in all sorts of ways — including being a sponsor!
🌟Latest News from the Holoverse:
The Power of Holochain: Apps that Work Without Internet Connection! - A community member produced video about hApps that work without an internet connection like Emergence, that was demonstrated at dWeb camp last weekend! Check out their YouTube channel for other videos.
If you have a Holochain Project and have news, events, articles or videos you’d like to submit for possible Newsletter inclusion, please contact us and/or become a Creator/Member and submit on hAppenings.community!
🌟Other Related News & Events
Microsolidarity Summer Camps 2023 - Skamokawa, Washington State, USA July 15-21 & Berlin, Germany July 18-23. “Microsolidarity is a community-building practice. We're weaving the social fabric that underpins shared infrastructure. Come practice with us! In the spirit of microsolidarity, the purpose of this event is for the network to come together, cultivate relationships of trust, cross-pollinate across different communities and practice meaningful co-creation. So whether you are a seasoned microsolidaritarian or just becoming familiar with what we’re up to - we’d love to have you!” Register here for the EU Camp & here for the USA Camp
Regenerating the Earth with ProSocial - 6 week learning journey beginning July 17th! “Together we will explore the question “How can we collaborate in service to the regeneration of the Earth?” Over 6 weeks, we will explore the planetary predicament humanity is in with an empowering focus on how to guide the intentional cultural evolution of trust and cooperation at different scales. This includes real-world examples of landscape restoration where diverse people come together around the shared purpose of restoring rivers and bringing forests back to degraded landscapes. Each week we will meet for 1 hour seminars as a whole group to introduce key content; then you will have the option of attending one or more 90 minute smaller group conversations, which are more like workshops.”
Responsible Tech Summit: Reimagining Social Media for a Better Future - September 14th at the SVA Theater, NYC. All Tech Is Human is a non-profit building a global, multistakeholder, and multidisciplinary network to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. This gathering for 275 will bring together a mix of individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia. Tibet Sprague of Hylo.com will be attending!
Sociocracy For All Youtube Videos - A series of videos from SoFA about; Sociocratic Agile: How to Marry Sociocracy and Scrum, tips on how to How to safely implement a sociocratic governance model?, and 5 things we didn't expect when introducing self-management.
Decentralization and Centralization in Sociocratic Organizations—Dynamics, Combinations, and Hybrid Solutions - by Ted Rau of Sociocracy for All in The Journal of Nonprofit Innovation at Brigham Young University. “The article discusses the interplay between decentralized and centralized aspects of governance in the context of decentralized self-governance and shares learnings from Sociocracy For All’s (SoFA) experience, including that decentralization is an active process that requires preparation, budget, strategy, and information can act as centralizing forces, and decentralization requires different ways of thinking about responsibility and leadership.”
🌟 Job Board
RUST Developer, Holo Americas, Holo - 100% Remote Work
Holochain Application Developer, Holo - 100% Remote Work
Also:
NextGen Software: “Our current priority is getting as many devs as possible into our ecosystem, working with the OASIS APIs. Anyone who is interested might like to join our HoloNET group chat - as it's where our conversation on documentation currently is. https://t.me/holonetchat
Remember, if you are a developer looking for gigs, check out the leads on Dev-HC on Discord, at the Gig-Matching Section!
If you have a Holochain Project or Supportive organization, and have job openings, please do let us know so we can post your listings!
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