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_journals/2024-06-17_1420.md
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title: June 17th, 2024
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date: 2024-06-17, 14:20:00 -07:00
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section: journal
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link: https://highlinebeta.com/highline-hub/
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tags:
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- Canada
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- Toronto
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- venturestudio
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via: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/byosko_founders-investors-community-ecosystem-activity-7208566640140062721-ida2
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[[Highline Beta]] is launching Highline Hub "a curated community & space that empowers pre-seed startups". 5000 sq ft in downtown Toronto.
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_journals/2024-06-17_1933.md
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title: June 17th, 2024
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date: 2024-06-17, 19:33:51 -07:00
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section: journal
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link: https://lu.ma/zlnfxgb5
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tags:
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- opensource
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- Vancouver
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- event
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I'm giving a talk next week here in Vancouver [[Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead]], followed by a panel discussion. Come join!
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permalink: /borisfund/
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title: Boris Fund
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I’m running a personal, independent [[Open Collective]] in order to further my interest in [[pooling capital and collaboration]].
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_notes/Git Butler.md
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link: https://gitbutler.com/
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tags:
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- git
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- app
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- organization
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- startup
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- berlin
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A Git client for simultaneous branches on top of your existing workflow.
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- venturestudio
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- organization
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- Canada
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- Toronto
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link: https://highlinebeta.com/
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A corporate venture studio based in Toronto
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## Highline Hub
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Announced [June 17th, 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/byosko_founders-investors-community-ecosystem-activity-7208566640140062721-ida2), a space in downtown Toronto
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> Highline Hub is a curated community & space that empowers pre-seed startups. Our community brings founders, investors, builders & corporate collaborators together to learn, share and work together.
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> Our 5,000 sq. ft facility located in Toronto’s Financial District offers open-concept space, private offices, meeting rooms and event areas. The Hub hosts in-person events, programming & services that helps accelerate new ventures from 0-1.
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> [Highline Hub](https://highlinebeta.com/highline-hub/)
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Listed on [[Peerspace]] as [bookable space for meetings](https://www.peerspace.com/profiles/65145812d1ad1a001f80fe4d)
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_notes/Ideas.md
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Large and small. Some look more like mini projects.
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## AI Research Lab
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How can one fund AI research lab? There are many of these, we can focus on specific areas like interface research
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## [[Proto Apps]]
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### Gaming
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A gaming social network that bootstraps by using your SteamID to OAuth link to a new account. Might also be able to cross-post various things.
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Nouns:
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* Game
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* Purchase
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* Achievements
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* Review
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* Image: screenshots as well as fan art and any other such image
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* Video: could also include live streams
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### Code
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Github is
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Some things that could integrate:
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* [[Radicle]]
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* [[Git Butler]]
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* [[Polar]]
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[[ForgeFed]] is the ActivityPub version of this.
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## Local first App
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_notes/Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead.md
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title: Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead
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Open source is no longer a radical act. From legal innovation to ways of working remotely and collaboratively, the past 20 years have integrated it as a common baseline. Can we get maintainers paid, make open source a job, and work alongside new tools like AI? What new licenses, ways of working, and principles power the next 20 years?
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**Open source is no longer a radical act.** From legal innovation to ways of working remotely and collaboratively, the past 20 years have integrated it as a common baseline.
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Can we get maintainers paid, make open source a job, and work alongside new tools like AI?
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What new licenses, ways of working, and principles power the next 20 years?
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## Presented June 26th, 2024
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Part of a mini open source series.
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* [Event registration](https://lu.ma/zlnfxgb5)
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* Slides (WIP)
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_notes/PDS Twitter Archive.md
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link: https://polar.sh/ATProtoApps/pdstwitterarchive
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tags:
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- pds
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- ATProtocol
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- Twitter
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Code to
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_notes/Peerspace.md
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link: https://www.peerspace.com/
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tags:
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- organization
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- app
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- marketplace
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A marketplace for "rentable places" in cities.
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## Comments
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I used this to book space for IPFS Mainnet in Denver at [[EthDenver]]
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Experimenting with adding [[Z-Space]]
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_notes/Polar.md
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link: https://polar.sh/
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tags:
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- organization
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- git
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- opensource
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Polar is a funding & monetization platform for open source & indie developers
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## Testing
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You can find my creator page at [polar.sh/bmann](https://polar.sh/bmann)
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I'm experimenting with Polar for [[PDS Twitter Archive]].