A new collaboration platform for the wider ASI community
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jan
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October 16, 2024
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Posted on behalf of the Workgroup for ‘a jobs and collaboration portal’
Our vision
As the Deep Funding Workgroup focused on a new ‘Jobs and Collaboration portal’, we would like to share the outcomes of our thinking over the past months. Technology won’t magically create good outcomes, but it surely makes things easier! On this basis, we want to develop tooling that will help us build a community around people interested in building a Beneficial Artificial Super Intelligence and foster collaboration between developers and non-developers alike. We see this new platform as something that will outgrow Deep Funding in its current form and become a connection point for all people interested in the vision, ideas, and technology of singularityNET and the wider ASI community.
Our current status
In Deep Funding, we have developed a platform that enables our community to create and showcase project proposals, give feedback, and follow the progress of awarded projects. On our community site we share information on events, explain how our operations and governance works, and present opportunities to participate. For communication, we rely mainly on existing internal and external social media platforms.
But could there be more?
Yes! We could create better ways for people to find each other. For example, there is not yet a directory of people working either within Deep Funding or in the wider SingularityNET ecosystem. People cannot explore the community, find people with similar interests, or discover contact information. It can take a little digging to find out who is involved in which projects. There is no clear way to search for colleagues to support projects or make opportunities available, except through informal channels.
A community of builders
Right now, Deep Funding is a small (but effective and supportive) community. We would love to increase the number of developers who are participating in Deep Funding rounds – but also provide a fruitful environment for top-level AI researchers, for ethics experts, for designers, for opinion leaders, and for all people that care about our future with ASI. We want to grow!
A collaboration platform would provide a dynamic space to stay up to date; contact like-minded people; answer questions and share ideas; and display all kinds of opportunities, including paid opportunities but also early phase ideation. It could boost awareness of RfPs, expanding the range of developers contributing to the platform and offering greater opportunities to work towards SingularityNET’s core AGI goals.
To this end, we envision a new collaboration platform, which could offer some or all of the following features:
- Communication channels for practical information, like important announcements about Deep Funding rounds, new RFPs, work opportunities, and important ecosystem updates.
- Rich profiles and search functions for people to find and contact each other, showcasing contributions on and outside the platform.
- Work listings and opportunities, along with the possibility to push these opportunities to a wider audience on existing relevant job portals
- Ways to present and explore new ideas and find other interested people
- Groups where people can organize around interesting themes or common experiences
- A dashboard with flexible search functions on funded projects
- Integrations with projects created on the ASI Alliance technology stack
We believe that providing such spaces to connect and find opportunities would expand the community, helping people make and maintain meaningful connections, and stay up to date with information that can be tailored to be relevant to them.
A governance tool
Based on rich, user-controlled profiles, such a platform has significant potential to distribute power and agency in the network. It could increase efficiency and autonomy by giving people more freedom to self-curate relevant experience and information and connect with the right people at the right time. Profiles could show at a glance the individual’s contributions within the ecosystem, and display their open and completed projects. While some of these functions are available through standard social networking sites such as LinkedIn, a key difference would be that this collaboration system could also connect to reputation-based voting, which has long been SingularityNET’s long-term governance strategy. In addition to governance decisions, an individual’s actions and accumulated contributions on the network could, in time, provide ways of granting access to decision-making processes or resources. That is, the collaboration platform profiles could provide rights, permissions, and privileges, increasing individual autonomy in the network in the long term.
We believe that a new system for connecting community members would bear rich fruit, providing new spaces to connect and new visibility for teams and prospective entrants into the community. And there may be features we haven’t even thought of yet, which you will be able to add to the collaboration platform as the need arises!
Starting small, thinking big
Since this could take some time, we would start by building on the existing functionality of deepfunding.ai and, in parallel, we would create an MVP of the collaboration platform. This would enable the community to utilize basic functions through the DF community site, for example, to create listings, updates, and even basic profiles while the main system is in development.
The collaboration platform itself would be open-source. It would start by means of an RfP, creating a flexible, adaptable system that has a pluggable architecture. This would enable multiple teams to work in parallel on features that they would like to see. Some of these may be funded by Deep Funding since it would have a direct benefit for the AI platform to bring new people and fresh ideas into the community! It could also improve communication between existing community members. In such a way, we would grow participation, while aiming to produce a new system to accommodate a larger, healthy, dynamic community of developers.
Share your views!
But we could also be wrong. So, we’ve created a few visual examples for you to look at and comment on.
Tell us what you think in our Collaboration Platform survey!
jan
Published:
October 16, 2024
- Share:
-
-
-
Posted on behalf of the Workgroup for ‘a jobs and collaboration portal’
Our vision
As the Deep Funding Workgroup focused on a new ‘Jobs and Collaboration portal’, we would like to share the outcomes of our thinking over the past months. Technology won’t magically create good outcomes, but it surely makes things easier! On this basis, we want to develop tooling that will help us build a community around people interested in building a Beneficial Artificial Super Intelligence and foster collaboration between developers and non-developers alike. We see this new platform as something that will outgrow Deep Funding in its current form and become a connection point for all people interested in the vision, ideas, and technology of singularityNET and the wider ASI community.
Our current status
In Deep Funding, we have developed a platform that enables our community to create and showcase project proposals, give feedback, and follow the progress of awarded projects. On our community site we share information on events, explain how our operations and governance works, and present opportunities to participate. For communication, we rely mainly on existing internal and external social media platforms.
But could there be more?
Yes! We could create better ways for people to find each other. For example, there is not yet a directory of people working either within Deep Funding or in the wider SingularityNET ecosystem. People cannot explore the community, find people with similar interests, or discover contact information. It can take a little digging to find out who is involved in which projects. There is no clear way to search for colleagues to support projects or make opportunities available, except through informal channels.
A community of builders
Right now, Deep Funding is a small (but effective and supportive) community. We would love to increase the number of developers who are participating in Deep Funding rounds – but also provide a fruitful environment for top-level AI researchers, for ethics experts, for designers, for opinion leaders, and for all people that care about our future with ASI. We want to grow!
A collaboration platform would provide a dynamic space to stay up to date; contact like-minded people; answer questions and share ideas; and display all kinds of opportunities, including paid opportunities but also early phase ideation. It could boost awareness of RfPs, expanding the range of developers contributing to the platform and offering greater opportunities to work towards SingularityNET’s core AGI goals.
To this end, we envision a new collaboration platform, which could offer some or all of the following features:
- Communication channels for practical information, like important announcements about Deep Funding rounds, new RFPs, work opportunities, and important ecosystem updates.
- Rich profiles and search functions for people to find and contact each other, showcasing contributions on and outside the platform.
- Work listings and opportunities, along with the possibility to push these opportunities to a wider audience on existing relevant job portals
- Ways to present and explore new ideas and find other interested people
- Groups where people can organize around interesting themes or common experiences
- A dashboard with flexible search functions on funded projects
- Integrations with projects created on the ASI Alliance technology stack
We believe that providing such spaces to connect and find opportunities would expand the community, helping people make and maintain meaningful connections, and stay up to date with information that can be tailored to be relevant to them.
A governance tool
Based on rich, user-controlled profiles, such a platform has significant potential to distribute power and agency in the network. It could increase efficiency and autonomy by giving people more freedom to self-curate relevant experience and information and connect with the right people at the right time. Profiles could show at a glance the individual’s contributions within the ecosystem, and display their open and completed projects. While some of these functions are available through standard social networking sites such as LinkedIn, a key difference would be that this collaboration system could also connect to reputation-based voting, which has long been SingularityNET’s long-term governance strategy. In addition to governance decisions, an individual’s actions and accumulated contributions on the network could, in time, provide ways of granting access to decision-making processes or resources. That is, the collaboration platform profiles could provide rights, permissions, and privileges, increasing individual autonomy in the network in the long term.
We believe that a new system for connecting community members would bear rich fruit, providing new spaces to connect and new visibility for teams and prospective entrants into the community. And there may be features we haven’t even thought of yet, which you will be able to add to the collaboration platform as the need arises!
Starting small, thinking big
Since this could take some time, we would start by building on the existing functionality of deepfunding.ai and, in parallel, we would create an MVP of the collaboration platform. This would enable the community to utilize basic functions through the DF community site, for example, to create listings, updates, and even basic profiles while the main system is in development.
The collaboration platform itself would be open-source. It would start by means of an RfP, creating a flexible, adaptable system that has a pluggable architecture. This would enable multiple teams to work in parallel on features that they would like to see. Some of these may be funded by Deep Funding since it would have a direct benefit for the AI platform to bring new people and fresh ideas into the community! It could also improve communication between existing community members. In such a way, we would grow participation, while aiming to produce a new system to accommodate a larger, healthy, dynamic community of developers.
Share your views!
But we could also be wrong. So, we’ve created a few visual examples for you to look at and comment on.
Tell us what you think in our Collaboration Platform survey!
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