Building energy in Vancouver

(Note: v1, reposted from my wiki, where the latest version can always be found).

They and the founders of three other apps will speak in my workshop, along with representatives of a couple of European Universities. But it's not what I'm bringing to Vancouver which excites me the most.

Your research institute on the Atmosphere

As its title indicates, my workshop is part of the ATProto.science day preceding the main conference. It will explore how Universities and other research organisations can bridge the:

"structural gap between institutional knowledge (formal, slow, siloed) and the personal knowledge networks (informal, fast, distributed) of their faculty and students. The Atmosphere can bridge this gap because both layers can speak the same protocol" - Your research institution in the Atmosphere

It's one of the event's last sessions, so I'm hoping to draw together ideas explored throughout the day to develop shared visions of how these institutions can create win-wins for themselves and the researchers working within them. So I'm very fortunate to have contributions from the founders of:

As you might imagine I'm suffering from a major case of impostor syndrome, as I must be the only person coming to Vancouver who doesn't have an app either on or about to launch on the Atmosphere!

Simple sites, powerful communities

But the thesis I'm presenting in Vancouver - briefly: your website as scaffolding for your team's Atmosphere presence - is built on a year's work: my workshop in Hamburg at the Ahoy Conference last March, my presentation in Berlin at the Eurosky launch, and - since my last newsletter - two new posts:

Communities at AtmosphereConf

Inevitably, the weeks before the annual conference of this entire ecosystem have seen a flurry of major announcements, which will be further developed and discussed in Vancouver. I'm most interested in:

Three good explainers

Talking of explainers - if you're still getting up to speed, you might also enjoy: