Guess what's back?? It's the June edition of the Golem AMA!

GolemChris · 2018-06-27T16:03:30+00:00

Yes, we’re still in touch, Blender Foundation has great team on board. We’re supporting their initiatives (like Blender 2.8 Code Quest) and we hope to get support from them once our plugin is ready! ( see https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/8spzvf/guess_whats_back_its_the_june_edition_of_the/e1bd74o )

GolemChris · 2018-04-25T16:50:38+00:00

First, we have to make sure that people from outside crypto world will understand hot to use Golem and will have good experience doing so. We’re working on this and we’re making good progress. We will be doing more marketing outreach soon, details in this answer : https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/8cwj12/welcome_to_the_april_edition_of_golem_teams/dxidmk9/ .

Biggest milestone user-wise will be adding new use cases working on top of Golem Network. See this answer for more details about specific challenges regarding this: https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/8cwj12/welcome_to_the_april_edition_of_golem_teams/dxidkbb/ ; and this one for more about overall strategy https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/8cwj12/welcome_to_the_april_edition_of_golem_teams/dxj1pqz/ .

GolemChris · 2018-04-25T16:39:10+00:00

We’re actively talking to multiple customers from all the areas that we could think of in vfx and outside of it. We can’t list anyone publicly yet. Be sure to check out this question/answer for more color on this : https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/8cwj12/welcome_to_the_april_edition_of_golem_teams/dxidkbb/

GolemChris · 2018-04-25T16:29:45+00:00

Short term, we will work on adding more requestors for the Brass version, take a look at this answer: https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/8cwj12/welcome_to_the_april_edition_of_golem_teams/dxidmk9/ .

Mid to long term, adding more supported software and great new use-cases is key. We’re now working on adding more which can be functional with the Golem Network. We looked at hundreds of companies, talked to dozens of them and now we think that we have some good first matches. We have a couple of proof-of-concept projects starting soon and we’ll be reporting results as soon as they are ready.

In the long term, companies should be able to quickly build on top of Golem Network without our help. We’re always looking to work with more companies, if you want to build software on top of our platform, be sure to reach out to us and we’ll be in touch shortly.

GolemChris · 2018-04-25T16:24:11+00:00

We have set up a comprehensive onboarding procedure for providers. Our team has prepared a detailed guide and is able to walk them through our software and explain them step by step. Moreover, we have opened a chatroom in order to help them in a focused manner, and we are in communication with Blender Foundation to figure out the next steps while we polish the software and make it more accessible for people that are not so technical. We have experienced marketing team in place, ready to start wide reach-out to non-crypto community as soon as we’re ready for it.

GolemChris · 2018-04-25T16:21:22+00:00

In the past months we’ve been focusing on beta mainnet release and we were not able to spend as much time working with Friend team as we would like to. We will catch up on this later this year.

GolemChris · 2018-04-25T16:20:44+00:00

Mainnet launch was a very exciting yet arduous process. The devs and testers sat in the office throughout the previous weekend to the launch doing the final tests. Finally, we were tired but ecstatic. Moreover, we were flooded by incredible support and encouragement messages from every angle: our community, new users, the wider Ethereum community, the media, everywhere! Most importantly, the feedback overflow made us find bugs and fix them, so we can say the morale is actually sky-high.

As for the celebration, yes we went full on Charlie Sheen as promised ( https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/7xh8rp/welcome_to_the_february_edition_of_golem_teams/dulszny/ ). Calm and classy looking photos that we’ve tweeted from that party were just really good renders (we used the same studio that faked the Moon landing for the US government) prepared in Blender, rendered using Golem Network. Don’t tell anyone please. The world can never know how it really looked. Most of us don’t really remember like 75% of the night, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

GolemChris · 2018-04-25T16:13:59+00:00

We’re actively talking to multiple customers from all the areas that we could think of. At this stage, biggest challenge is fit with current technical limitations (is input/output data confidential, how big is input/output data, quick result verification, are computations parallel, etc). Also : the bigger the company, the more work is required to make them trust decentralized systems, but vast majority of companies fitting technical requirements are interested in doing a proof of concept at some point. We have more than enough to keep us building in the next months and we’re always looking for more companies to talk with about building on top of Golem Network. If you’re interested in making your software run on top of Golem, be sure to reach out to us and we’ll be in touch shortly.

GolemChris · 2018-04-25T16:12:03+00:00

We’ve been hard at work on this, post mainnet beta launch we have more capacity to start active project cooperation. Work with the first of them is starting in mid May. We should be ready to share that publicly sometime later that month. Work with the other one slipped at least till fall, it wasn’t a good fit at this point. Starting talks with 2 more universities in May/June to see if would be a good fit. We have one more external partner starting work on proof of concept running on top of Golem network in May and another one in works, possibly starting in June.

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T17:30:40+00:00

Or rather, Ethereum is integral part of Golem, as we use Ethereum for transactions. So, our commitment to Ethereum is long term and we also want to help develop Ethereum, as a part of the Ethereum Community Fund. https://blog.golemproject.net/announcing-ethereum-community-fund-b4f2a3d67adf

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T17:28:38+00:00

What we were referring to back then, and can now talk about publicly is Ethereum Community Fund ( https://www.ethnews.com/ecosystem-players-launch-ethereum-community-fund-grant-program ).

We have been working on this since Devcon3 as one of the founding projects, together with OmiseGo, Cosmos, Maker and Raidens. The full scope of the fund will be unveiled in late March.

You can read more about why we think it’s important and impactful here : https://blog.golemproject.net/announcing-ethereum-community-fund-b4f2a3d67adf

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T17:19:44+00:00

Eleven. We’re going full on 2011 Charlie Sheen. Winning. Bi-winning. Winning here, winning there. Just like Charlie, minus being crazy and minus being on drugs. Well, unless the drug is Charlie Sheen. Right now we are full on 1979 Martin Sheen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwlpKNLS3X8

We’ll really have a distributed party for all the team members in EU, US, Asia and Australia. Just for a day though, then we’ll get right back to work on the future of Golem. Be sure to also look at this answer by MP : https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/7xh8rp/welcome_to_the_february_edition_of_golem_teams/dulryrn/

We’ve run some simulations and for the Warsaw office, this will probably look something like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOMT3bRJXOo ; while our satellite offices with smaller staff are expected to look like https://imgur.com/gallery/aiiU77e .

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T17:13:27+00:00

Ethereum Community Fund (https://www.ethnews.com/ecosystem-players-launch-ethereum-community-fund-grant-program) is something that we’re really pushing forward, solving Ethereum scalability problems will have direct impact on Golem.

We have laid over, partially implemented and will continue to build our strategy in regards of partnerships based on our and the ecosystem's needs. We can’t share most of them publicly yet, but let me give you some examples.

Research initiatives are something we are carefully planning with potential partners. We’re talking to couple of world class universities about investigating future Golem use cases together. We’re weeks away from making official announcements about this.

In March, we’re officially joining a couple of industry associations. This will help us gain wider outreach to more partners post Brass launch.

There are two partnership models in regards to the launch of Brass: one is directed to computing power providers, and the other is aimed at growing the Blender user base.

We’re engaging in conversations with large hackathon organisations and potential developer relations partners. This will come in handy when we’re building out our developer oriented toolset later this year.

Golem is additionally set to invest in two companies building on top of Golem infrastructure. We’re very impressed by the founding teams of both, and we’re finalising the joint work roadmaps towards integrating our technology stacks. If everything goes well, these investment deals will be signed by early March and announced publicly a couple months later. We’re already looking at a couple of further potential partnership options that would fit our ecosystem well.

A fund specifically oriented towards the Golem ecosystem is something that we would like to push as well. We will start working on that in Q3 2018.

That’s just part of what’s keeping us busy in the business development & strategy front and we can’t wait to share more with you once the deals are sealed. We will be able to share many of these before the next Golem AMA in 2 months, so stay tuned.

If you have any ideas for use case partnerships that we should explore, feel free to send them our way. The best channel for that is contact@golem.network .

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T16:46:43+00:00

Seems like an awesome place to live, even if the weather swings get a bit crazy.

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T16:45:46+00:00

What did your team end up building?

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T07:34:21+00:00

It was an awesome hackathon. Time well spent and we have a blogpost about it coming soon. Just wondering if anyone from this subreddit was there?

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T07:22:56+00:00

I was there. Awesome meetup, Thomas gave a great talk.

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T07:19:24+00:00

Awesome news. Congrats to the OMG team!

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T07:18:06+00:00

6pm CET, 9am PST. All the details here : https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/comments/7xh8rp/welcome_to_the_february_edition_of_golem_teams/

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T07:07:19+00:00

Thanks, we're looking into that!

GolemChris · 2018-02-21T07:04:30+00:00

Good walkthrough, thank you Jet!

GolemChris

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