20170528 Update on Ceptr Organization and Technology by Matthew Schutte

May 28, 2017 Update on Ceptr organization and technology.

This is a conversation following our Ceptr Salon.

ORGANIZATION UPDATES:
-Recent Funding
-Org Structure Changing
-Summer Residency Programs
-Remote Participation
-Recognition of Contributions and Value Accounting (we're working on it)
-Inclusion
-Ways to Make Participation Easier
-Hackathons Planned for France and India

TECHNOLOGY UPDATES
-Holochain Security Pass and Alpha Release (This summer)
-Holochain App Generation Wizard (Scaffolding Tool)
-Holochain Directory
-HC Indexing App Module,
-HC DPKI (for identity)
-Multinode Testing Rigs
-Distributed Messaging Apps (ex: Twitter-like, or Slack-like)
and other applications
-Apps for non-programmers probably out this Fall
-Mutual Credit Currency Launch early 2018 (to scale already built infrastructure and launch ecosystem rather than "in a fiction phase")
-Commons Engine (repurpose our own patterns so that other groups can use them for powering and Self-Capitalizing Distributed Platform Cooperatives)