Inflekt: Event & Community Management

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so inflect came out of cultural lens at this technology movement I studied culture anthropology so when I read the etherion white Peter White paper I had a different experience than you maybe didn't walk away dreaming about Merkel trees but instead about the future of culture that this was going to catalyze so inflect when we look at the history of the web from a cultural lens sort of break it down into three areas which is probably different than your version of web one and two and three but for me I see the first era as about awareness so you have things like chat rooms leading

the things like Facebook it's all about communication leading to digital identity mostly digital identity and 2d so representations of the self and then that leads to mobilizations so we have things like Kickstarter things like uber and we see capital property ideas resources things that are moving around in different ways and forming different kinds of organizations and starts to change a little bit the nature of work work not for everyone obviously but a possibility and then also something like the Arab Spring so the Arab Spring is interesting because you have revolutions or protests that are popping up and for the first time those movements they're

very specific to where they're occurring but then they also can be connected on a higher level is part of a larger movement and so I think what we're entering is a reorganization where people are going to start to ground the capabilities of the web into different systems so a lot of people here today like balance wave fund these are all examples of flexible and dynamic and cryptographic systems that are going to enable organizations of the future so I think what's important about this is that we're envisioning the culture that we want to build and then extrapolating backwards with which to design the technology so that we're designing within context and not just

blindly creating things but actually sort of trying to create a conversation about what we want so I think when you look at economic models from this cultural perspective it's less about being centralized and it's more about moving from less or two more less concentrated model models so those little blurbs are like the ubers the face looks the Amazons so they're more concentrated in terms of capital resources and then energetically in the future we're moving to less concentrated and entities so we're sort of looking at communities that are already organized

this way and then we're designing technology that enables these systems to self-direct and evolve themselves in the future and that looks like ephemeral entities that evolve moment by moment and so in this example we're seeing the blockchain as the catalyst that is lowering the activation energy to make this possible I think that's important to note because that means that it's already occurring so the systems that we're designing or just helping to facilitate that shift and the blockchain does that by reducing the overhead required for trust building a collective memory so something that we can assume in terms of information reducing the abstraction of value which is where I'll

get into how inflect is going to help make that possible incorporating cycles and a binding reputation fabric so in order to get there and flex starts with event management so events are important i think events assert a lot about identity so the fact that you bought a ticket to come to this conference says a lot more about your identity and your reputation then fact that you like something on a Facebook post so they're already a place where people are mobilized they're already a place that requires a lot of cooperation with which to make it happen requires things like budget things like ticketing they're also important because they can bring people who into an

ecosystem of cryptographic identity so by buying a ticket for something like a conference you're now getting au port wallet with which you can start to access other daps and other services and then that also leads to starting to create community networks which I'll go into a little bit more about what that involves so the purpose of inflect is catalyzing communities to form using a shared reputation fabric and that's also going to form the basis for a cooperative economy at any moment so Maureen's going to show you a demo of inflect and after this but this is just a screenshot of an initial page to inflect an event in the future you'll be able to do things like set things like

ticket capacity and set roles of curation so setting tiers of invite levels of people of how many people certain people can invite setting bounties for roles that need to get done like security or ticketing check grand et cetera this is your dashboard so at the bottom you have different events that you're part of inviting people through the interface having shared docs shared budget so balance will be integrated into this to be able to manage your event and then this is your moment page so moments can be looking at specific events it can be looking at

your relationships with people over time and it can also allow you to have a way to start to see how your relationship with communities evolved over time so where we're going is this isn't just for actual events like Def Con but actually any of these could be isolated moments so we have everyone who participates in the release of image and keeps within the first hour of tiny human that can be a community people could participate in a crowd fund of a farm share project farm share as a community supported agriculture platform on a theorem people who participate in the in attending DEFCON 2 micro good and

Toronto declare war is in a parallel universe I would be running that project so why is this important because in every moment a transaction can be created within the perspective of that community and the value can be distributed transparently and fairly reaching an inflection point for pop-up X so any campaign or co-op a project that requires a shared reputation fabric or layer of trust so I think the back feed presentation that you saw earlier today is a good example of using a shared protocol to make something like this happen and then reflect as a way of catalyzing people to forum with which to make the protocol useful so this is kind

of where I see this going of you start to pull in different communities from different platforms like Cujo like foam which is an open architecture platform and the transactive Grid project which will hear about tomorrow from farm share and all of these communities can then start to collaborate together and I think what that leads to is there starting to move around value without the abstraction of money in certain instances so other things that you can see it being useful on creating like friend surance networks a better search that are dating or matching algorithms granular privacy sharing creating rewards for community contributors so if

you wanted to help manage Def Con to being able to get discounts on tickets and then maybe you use that reputation for other events in the future loyalty programs etc in order to make and select possible inflect is really just sort of a platform with which to allow all these other great projects to come together so you port identity and reputation management being able to have like a cryptographic form of google docs in the future through things like e-sign incorporating boardroom so any of those communities in any moment could instantiate a board to make decisions the same thing for balance and the same thing for wave

funds all of these things are either already integrated or on the product in the process of being integrated in marion will tell you about that so proposed funding model of inflect possibly a crowd fund possibly having paid membership model for being part of the community and then using boardroom to management manage it allocating funds to developers things like search algorithms things like services on top and also because it's open source it's also an open marketplace for developing services that communities might like to use such as loyalty rewards programs or secondhand ticketing markets so this is not to confuse you but just to sort of

try to ground this overall goal of moving towards using communities to move around value without abstraction of money so this is a proposal for some projects that we have going on in a place called callicoon New York which is at two hours outside of New York City so from here we can organize a specific community or set of intersecting communities that's start to use the blockchain to move around resources like agriculture and energy creating a collaborative space for education they already have a set of spaces set up there also for a co housing project that's going to exist there and so I think that as we begin to start to try to map these projects in the real world

that they'll begin to inform the future development of these platforms and then this is just to acknowledge my own personal web of contributors to this project and also for the inflection so thanks I'm going to turn it over tomorrow ok so I'm going I'm going to show you a

brief demo of what we can do now with inflect so I've got a the Deaf coming event created so oh yeah we can add venues total capacity or start date we could have we can have events that can be J noble or can be invite only we can set out the total budget at roles and this is the dashboard so for example i want to invite a person let's say let's

invite Stefan and I want to make him an attendee and yeah we we cannot also add expenses like ticketing let's say and that's it for the moment now I want to tell you a few details about the

technical about the contract so we have the database and in the logic completely different because we we want to keep adding features to it so let everybody benefit from from the additions that that we make so everybody can update the new version or we we also have inflect JS which job which is a JavaScript library or an interface that that you can use to add and retrieve information from from in flex so you can easily integrate it in your project or the code will be open source and we're working

really hard to release it as soon as possible