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Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium

A distributed and secure peer-to-peer protocol and social network

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Projects

Support the following initiatives from Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium.

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Support butts to be able to attend IRL gatherings

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Allocating some donations through a vote from SSB stakeholders.

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Events

Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium is hosting the following events.

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06:00 AM-07:30 AM UTC
An online workshop for the Scuttlebutt community

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01:00 PM-02:30 PM UTC
The basics on selecting hardware, getting the firmware and setting-up a node on a mesh network us...Read more

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Connected Collectives

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Scuttlebutt Maintenance
Collective to manage grant funds from Dfinity to support maintenance work for Secure Scuttlebutt

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Scuttlebutt Grantwriting

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European Scuttlebutt Collective
A group of European individuals dedicated to coordinated efforts in developing SSB forwards

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patchbay
An alternative Secure Scuttlebutt client interface that is fully compatible with Patchwork

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Patchwork
A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).

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Planetary
open source secure scuttlebutt apps

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Scuttlecamp
Bringing Butts together

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Sunrise Choir
a team working on solarpunk social protocols with Scuttlebutt

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Manyverse
A peer-to-peer social network

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ACCESS
Développement d'outils de communication et d'organisation basés sur le protocole Secure-Scuttlebu...

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PeachCloud
a team working on solarpunk social hardware with Scuttlebutt

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Hermies club
Scuttlebutt community room server

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scuttleships
scuttlebutt scholarship programme

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Patchfox
An add-on to bridge Web Browsers and the Decentralized Web

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Top financial contributors

Organizations

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Planetary

$1,150 USD since Apr 2022

2
Open Collective

$475 USD since Dec 2018

3
Least Authority

$419.35 USD since Apr 2021

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Patchwork

$245.5 USD since Dec 2021

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Biome Fund

$237 USD since Jun 2018

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Backtracks

$100 USD since Dec 2019

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Bitcoin Contributions

$100 USD since Sep 2020

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Triplebyte

$76 USD since Feb 2019

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Protozoa

$70 USD since May 2018

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WebCookies.org

$25 USD since Apr 2020

Individuals

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martin ➬

$2,100 USD since Aug 2018

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Timothy Robinson

$1,400 USD since Nov 2019

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Andrew Lewman

$850 USD since Jan 2020

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Ryan Singer

$700 USD since Oct 2022

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Peter Dolan

$680 USD since Jun 2021

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Josiah Witt

$575.43 USD since Jun 2018

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Lance Wicks

$556 USD since Jun 2018

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Filipe Farinha

$355 USD since May 2018

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Denis Goddard

$350 USD since Nov 2020

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Incognito

$350 USD since May 2021

Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium is all of us

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Thank you for supporting Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium.

Alanna Irving

Admin

$300 USD

Rômulo Alves

Core Contributor

$122 USD

Charles E. Le...

Admin

$60 USD

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Joey Stanford

Core Contributor

$25 USD

Erick Lavoie

Admin

$25 USD

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Admin

$20 USD

Dan Hassan

Core Contributor

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Today’s balance

$8,539.54 USD

Total raised

$20,089.53 USD

Total disbursed

$11,549.99 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,704.45 USD

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News from Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium

Updates on our activities and progress.

Scuttleverse Newsletter #20 (Summer-Fall 2022)

Scuttleverse Newsletter 2022 (Summer-Fall 2022) · Hi-ho butts, and friends, and extended internet-family! It looks like we're making these newsletters annual! Jokes aside, to catch up on current and previously-current events this edition is...
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Published on December 2, 2022 by Alexander Cobleigh

Scuttleverse Newsletter Interviews: Arj

Scuttleverse Newsletter Interviews: Arj · Hello butts nouveau & vieux—it's time for another edition of the Scuttleverse newsletter!This edition brings another community interview. Like...
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Published on February 23, 2022 by Alexander Cobleigh

Scuttleverse Newsletter #19 (2022 Edition)

January 2022 Edition · Hi-ho butts, and friends, and extended internet-family! Seeing as it's been a while since last, this will cover a wide timespan of posts and dip into recent events as well as happenings from half a year ago. Without f...
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Published on January 26, 2022 by Alexander Cobleigh

About


Scuttlebutt is an ecosystem designed and built for off-grid living, interstellar travel, and disaster resilience. Its form also happens to do away with the walled-garden model, which warps platforms with things like advertising, addiction-driven-design, and lock-ins.

Come play a game of chess, or commit some code, or hang out with your family and discuss gender-identity, solarpunk, or vegan-junkfood.

Why?

If you use Scuttlebutt (with a client like Patchwork) and believe in the future being built, this is an easy way to help.

If you are a dev, co-op, or company building tech on the Scuttlebutt stack, help give back. The stack is all Free and Open Source.

What?

There are lots of things to improve in the ecosystem, such as:

  • Better documentation
  • Improving onboarding performance (initial sync)
  • Squashing bugs
  • Support for different transports (e.g. Bluetooth LE, UTP, WebRTC)
  • Plugins for muting, blocking, and removing undesired content
  • Seamless integration with CJDNS
  • More tools for pub servers
  • ssb-viewer (HTML portal for pub servers) and git-ssb improvements
  • etc!

There are so many #somebodyshould tagged ideas that would be amazing to nail. Let's collect them and start making the scuttleverse ever more awesome.

Who?

Scuttlebutt is the underlying protocol and database. The Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium (SSBC) is a group of some of the programmers and community-gardeners who have been heavily involved with the development of the tools and the growth of the social space. It's these lovely people here.

We've had experience with receiving and distributing grants over the past year, and are excited to use Open Collective to help make our process more transparent.

Our team

Rômulo Alves

Core Contributor

Joey Stanford

Core Contributor

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Admin

Dan Hassan

Core Contributor

Gordon Martin

Core Contributor

Scott

Core Contributor

mnin

Admin