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Mozilla MOSS Grant #5

Open hackergrrl opened 4 years ago

hackergrrl commented 4 years ago

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/mission-partners/

The grant amount is $10k - $150k USD.

hackergrrl commented 4 years ago

Some ideas for specific enhancements:

end-to-end encrypted private messaging
a web client
a mobile client
UI/UX experiments in creating a more communicative of the sync details of a p2p environment

ghost commented 4 years ago

finishing up moderation (ui, workflows)
mixed networking capabilities (webrtc+websockets+tcp/udp) all in the same cabal swarm
getting web clients to work with upgraded capabilities in beaker and dat-webext
sending/receiving files in the terminal client

cblgh commented 4 years ago

blind peers: allowing seeding of cabals w/o reading contents
ephemeral messages (time-limited messages, e.g. useful for organizing for a deadline)
sneakernet replication (adding support for syncing data over usb, ftp, email)
invite-only cabals (by pre-authorizing public keys. disallows other public keys from syncing messages)
blocks, mutelists, and trusted peers (cblgh thesis-related. use trusted peers to filter views)
bluetooth sync (stretchgoal)
private channels
improve cabal(-core) documentation

joehand commented 4 years ago

The previous (partially successful) Dat applications is here: https://github.com/datproject/organization/blob/master/grants/2018-MOSS/application.md

I'd love for y'all to get this and would be happy to review the application!

okdistribute commented 4 years ago

To be clear, the grant they funded to Dat was only for documentation/community and landed into their bucket of "foundational technology" that mozilla relies upon. Cabal likely won't be able to make the same claim, so it would be better to go for the "mission partners" track.