Wed, Dec 13, 2017

[xanbots]

Yesterday

• Call with MyTalengi and one other app development team
• Update call for Signature Berlin
• Worked with Patrick and Ryan on refining scope for new bounty

Today

• Finalize bounty and draft email and press release copy
• Call to see a demo of a chat/slack MVP created by 2 developers Satraj & Megha
• Call with an app developer looking to create digital assets in the form of clothing (t shirts) that can be bought/sold (like Cryptokitties) but are also redeemable in the real world

[GinaAbrams]

Yesterday:

• full list of new roles from Ryan
• wrote introductory job postings for those
• wrote a first draft of internship program - looks like we may not have bandwidth for it
• did some research into intl brand ambassadors
• Helped move forward with payments / coinbase increase

Today:

• Meeting with Ryan
• Product reach out
• D&O E&O insurance forms
• Quick call for R&D
• Finalize and post all jobs
• Quick pass over blockstack.org quick fixes (e.g update press page etc.)

[larrysalibra]

Yesterday:

• Call with a potential partner site with Patrick and Xan
• Meetings with Gina & Patrick
• Traveling

Today:

• More traveling
• Sleep :-)

[jackzampolin]

Yesterday:

• Call with dotpodcast team on crawling namespaces
• Forum & Email support
• Researching Blockstack's key derivation techniques

Today:

• Forum & Email support
• Supporting teams building apps on blockstack
• Testing blockstack.js changes when they are available
• Plan work on developer default getting started experience

[yknl]

Yesterday

• Changes to browser for lightweight multi reader storage
• Updates to .org pages

Today

• blockstack.js changes for light-weight multi-reader storage
• Open up voucher registration on blockstack.com for early browser users

[kantai]

Yesterday

• blockstack.js changes in https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/tree/feature/direct-gaia-hub
• Moving gaia hub signing code: Move gaia hub bearer token generation code from browser into blockstack.js hirosystems/stacks.js#310
• Direct getFile/putFile on gaia hub: Implement direct-to-hub gaia hub storage client hirosystems/stacks.js#311
• Adding hubUrl to authentication: Pass gaia hub root url as part of generating an authentication response hirosystems/stacks.js#309
• Add 0.21.4 windows build to the browser-releases
• Fix the content-type handling of the gaia/hub
• Gave talk at Princeton Systems Seminar -- will upload slides today
• Met with Mike Freedman and got some feedback from students building on blockstack, will wrtie that up today.

Today

• Work on browser-side changes for the above blockstack.js issues (Update storage auth paths to take advantage of direct gaia app access blockstack-browser#1119):
  1. removing core-session-token generation path when the request version is high enough
  2. update Windows/Web build path so that it allows sign-in to storage requesting apps (if version is high enough)

[shea256]

Yesterday:

• Prepared for my talk and spoke at The Next Web
• Made contractor payments
• Investor meeting
• Meetings with and about potential hires

[guylepage3]

Quick Links:

• Blockstack Projects

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monday & tuesday:

• Monday weekly meeting
• Catch up on email and Slack

today:

• On vacation from Dec 11 — Dec 31
• Review of all GitHub issues
• Catch up on email and Slack
• Blockstack.com – Live design token mechanics page https://github.com/blockstackinc/blockstack-dot-com/issues/543
• Bounty – Design Encrypted Chat bounty eventbrite card Design Encrypted Chat bounty eventbrite card designs#586
• Browser – Add Token Portfolio Apps to browser Add Token Portfolio Apps to browser blockstack-browser#1108
• Blockstack.org – Docs/BlockstackJS 404 error on mobile devices Docs/BlockstackJS 404 error on mobile devices blockstack.org#467
• Blockstack.com – Add FAQ back to site https://github.com/blockstackinc/blockstack-dot-com/issues/549

ahead:

• Auth – Update Blockstack auth button set to latest brand Update Blockstack auth button set to latest brand designs#596
• Auth – Design new Powered by Blockstack badge Design new Powered by Blockstack badge designs#597
• Browser – Wallet form text disappears on blur Wallet form text disappears on blur blockstack-browser#1088
• Start going through issues that are back-logged as discussed w/ @shea256

Link to today's open source design contributor standup:

• #600: design standup – Wed, Dec 13, 2017