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3 years ago Cursory assessment of existing entities a little similar to warp-lane
mix:analog
The mix:analog case is good to look at maybe for a few reasons.
- They are extremely limited by what they offer and how they are structured. They have equipment that they provide and that's it. There is no community, no network. It's almost like a traditional recording studio, just online. warp-lane is structurally very different from this and open to much more organic growth (Bauwens' Encyclopedia Britannica versus Wikipedia example).
- They received EU funding. This would need to be researched further, as it could be simply funding that was encouraging economics in a poorer country. But still, perhaps there are equivalent funding options in the UK.
- They have some code online. Perhaps it's of use? I've not examined it.
- They have preprepared some ideas on how funding might work.. We could learn from this and not have to invent it all ourselves.
iO-808
- It's a nice web interface and it works.
- It might be a little like what a proposed modelling of equipment with machine learning etc. could look like, assuming this project is pursued/successful.
Cursory conclusions
The cursory examination I've made leads me to think that warp-lane is conceptually and structurally very different. Those examples I've listed have limited themselves by providing only their own hardware and not permitting any community or organic growth to happen. Where they may be of use is in their existing thoughts on how their income works and (maybe) in what code they have put out there. The more I was looking at them, the more I think warp-lane is totally different.
Ideas that have some structural similarities to warp-lane
Bitcoin mining pools
I and Gavin ran Bitcoin mining devices. Each device was controlled by a simple and standard Raspberry Pi (RPi). The RPi was set up with some standard ISO file which enabled the user via a screen and a keyboard to enter credentials for some server of the user's choosing. The choice of server was voluntary and a user could run in isolation if the user so wished, which as far as I am aware is an ethical way of doing things -- like it's basically voluntary association, right? (assuming there was a big choice of mining pools, which there was). The individual Bitcoin miners got their fair cut of cash from the server based on the "work"/electrical power/computing power they contributed and the server took a cut of money made, presumably for running costs and for profit.
I think the architecture of this has some similarities to some of what warp-lane proposes. Users connect their sound-processing device(/s) to a computer (perhaps a RPi is suggested, with a standard ISO provided) and these RPis connect to the server of the user's choice (and hopefully the warp-lane server is chosen, based on a variety of factors -- being ethical, being first etc.).
Monopoly darknet market
In this model, a website enables a buyer to pay a seller directly (usually using Monero). Sellers pay the maintainers of the market at a regular (e.g. monthly) interval.
IBM Quantum Experience
The IBM Quantum Experience is one example of a server being offered to multiple users in order to provide access to a scarce computing resource. Ignoring the advertising aspects of this offering from IBM (while acknowledging that learning what the beginnings of what writing code for quantum computing might look like is pretty interesting) this also is a template arguably similar to what is proposed by warp-lane.
Ideas that have some similarities to warp-lane (perhaps worthy of background research)
I am no expert on this topic, but I can see there are a few things in existence that are at least a little similar to what warp-lane proposes. We should understand these things and make sure that warp-lane is different in being FOSS, ethical etc.:
mix:analog
Access Analog
Goodhertz
iO-808