Status Town Hall, 28 Sep 2020

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From YouTube: Town Hall #66 September 28th 2020

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Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sdklq6L_BVsHfINT8zXFbzQBwJJhCUGiDUMDseY7zb8/

A

Hello, everyone to the 66 star of town hall. uh We skipped one because of uh reasons which were probably just people not being available to present anything, but we'll have some some stuff for you today.

A

We're going to start with some updates from people that are going to be presented by simona. uh Let me use her.

B

Guys, I think it's teodor is doing people out.

C

Yeah, yes thanks, I I I thought you wanted to add something and I was just waiting for you to kind of jump but uh yeah, I'm okay, to pick up uh the conversation for uh people operations. So um what we would like to talk about on this town hall session is just say. A massive congrats to jonathan zara johnny has been leading marketing for the past three years with status.

C

uh We also want to say congrats to michelle uh balisteri uh for the past three years as well. That's that's an awesome coincidence guys um he has been an engineer for a keycard and has helped develop the keycard vision and bring it to the masses jakub. Can we move to the next slide.

C

C

So in terms of hiring updates status is looking for a few people at the moment. I think what is important for us is uh nimbus and vax, so we're continuously looking for distributed. Networking engineers for protocol engineers, people that love working on peer-to-peer protocols that aim to minimize centralization so for vac protocol engineers would have will play around at all levels of the stack, including transport protocols, peer-to-peer, overlays and routing with nimbus.

C

uh The team is working on translating the latest ethereum 2.0 research like via bonding curves bls signatures, randomness games and put them into practical, practical performance and reusable libraries.

C

We need a closure script engineer to help develop or for or further develop key card and ios integrations. The finance team is looking for an accountant that um has his head around crypto. So aside from daily accounting, uh reconciliation, price classification of expenses, taxes and so on, this person would play around with crypto. Payments would have to do accounting for crypto assets, uh basically someone that understands the industry and can understand how to translate crypto to fiat and the other way around.

C

um Also, team dapps is looking to revamp the project, so we need someone an architect that doesn't call himself an architect, although this is strange that this person would propose new features for the apps and would get involved in the direction of the project.

C

I'm passing on to core, I think, or finance.

A

uh Let's see what's next yeah, I believe the next slide's gonna be core and it's gonna be presented by andrea yeah.

D

Hi, uh thank you very much, uh so just an update from car development, so what we did in the past month. Essentially um so we have finalized the work of mentions. um We have private group chats invite links so that you're able to basically send an invite to someone who does not have an app um he's. Gonna install it and it's going to see it. um You know you're going to be able to join the private group chat. um We finalize the work on remote, ios notifications, which are concurrently sorted in beta.

D

They will be out with 1.7 and we also worked on local nicknames and, as you probably know, there was with some issues with spam. So there was a fair amount of firefighting involved to make sure that the cluster was okay and so on and so forth. Then you know. Definitely um we noticed some issue with that respect, and so we have a plan release which is 1.7.

D

You know like it's been cut so far the testing has been doing fine, you know no blockers, so hopefully we'll push it forward and it's going to be the play, store and uh test flight.

D

So what we're going to be working on next is basically like moderate, the public trust, which is what we refer to also as organizational channels. That's something that we decided to push uh because also the spam, because this essentially gives us a way to have moderated chats and we're also going to be working on local notification for transactions. That's for both android and ios, so that you're notified locally when a transaction is received, then as well.

D

We're working on profile, status updates, which is basically sort of like a bit of a social media feature where user will be able to um push out, basically updates on their profile, and people will be able to follow and also link up a link. So essentially like you will be.

D

If someone publishes a link in a public chat or a private chat, you know you're going to be seeing a preview and that's all from core.

A

Thank you. Thank you. Next, we're going to have some updates from yuri on the desktop project.

E

All right, so we launched a desktop. Last week, uh the first official beta version. uh We had to release uh five alphas before if you had been, if you seen in the discuss post, but this is the first uh proper beta that we're pushing to the to the public and from now on on, hopefully, there's be more updates in the town hall about the progress of desktop and future releases.

E

So, in terms of the stack uh I'll just put in here very grip description of the stack in case, anyone wants to uh to contribute so at the top of the stack is status. Go then there's nymph status in the middle as a as sort of a shame layer currently uh between the two. We make you so also this library's qml and the other side.

E

This we have our own forks that we we fix some things as well as added some functionality that uh it's specific to uh to our software and then finally, we have the the desktop client that name starters. Client most of the code is actually qml and and then there's some also nim code.

E

A lot of that nim code will eventually be moved to uh nymph status and um you can find the readme. uh This is still a work in progress, but this read me: we have a lot of documentation uh that you can. You can read documentation and hopefully feel like comfortable to contribute.

E

uh It's it not only describes architecture. It also has some tutorials uh in case. You know you want to add a new section or you want to change this exactly what you have to do to to do that then next slide, you can see here just uh a screenshot about the chat, so it the chat currently has a full feature priority pretty much um so from public channels, private, chats group, chats. We have the emojis the stickers, you can purchase stickers, you can send or receive images.

E

You have. This chat comments to send receive funds mentions. Usernames also have international internationalization support. We have notifications uh teams, we have uh also works offline uh contact management, markdown support, emojis, probably already said emojis uh local usernames, um you name it uh only thing. That's kind of missing still is that you cannot record voice message or so you can. You can play them that that one is still still in progress, then next up, we also have the next slide.

E

Please we also have the wallet, so the wallet is currently hidden, so you actually have to go to the settings to to really enable it because it needs some further testing, but it also has the the same like feature parity, so you can not only receive and and send and receive ads and and other erc20 tokens. You can also see your collectables transaction history.

E

You can generate accounts, you can import accounts, uh add accounts which is what's recommended right now, perhaps to use you can watch add the watch only accounts and, of course you can also generate the qr codes and and configure what tokens you actually want to be present in your wallet. I want to be visible in your wallet, then. The next slide also have the settings, and here is the tip. uh If you want, if you like the dark mode, I know a lot of people like that kind of a more dark uh team.

E

Then you can, you can go to the settings appearance and enable it. We also have another one that is uh the compact mode, which I'll show it soon in the next slide and in the profile you can, you can also do other things. You can change the language you can enable disable other tabs sync devices to and, among other things, from config notifications, to the contact management and and here's an example of all the dark theme looks like and also the dark modes.

E

The dark mode makes it a bit more um like you would expect in other apps like slacker or discord. So it's a bit more compact makes more use of the of the space. So there's an optional thing that you can enable or disable uh in the settings, then next slide uh up. So up next we'll work in the browser.

E

uh Initially, we we actually removed the browser, uh but we decided that actually the depth browser is very much part of the status experience, so we are re-adding it, so it should be. Maybe even a next release, or so uh it's currently being worked on and next also I'll, be analyzing uh and adding plugins and extension support. Does it discuss post about this?

E

So if you have ideas for what you would like to see in the plugin api, please comment in that post and also we're adding a tab for the node management over a status node. And finally, if you want to try the new desktop, please go to status.net get and you can download it thanks.

A

Thank you very much. Next up we'll have some infrastructure updates without security. This time around some major desktop changes. We've been having are windows, continuous integration builds. This is almost done. We have a windows host that can be provisioned easily, so we can have multiple identical built environments.

A

This the ca builds work. They just need some polish to get into the the master branch of the status clients, so that should happen. Sometimes this week uh we also had some issues with ios signing, but that's nothing new, because apple loves breaking signing uh and that has been resolved sometime around 1.6.1, but other major updates. We had an upgrade to terraform 0.13, which enables quite a lot of cool things.

A

For example, we have a new way of managing secrets using a provider and terraform that directly accesses secrets in our password store without the need for hacking make file scripts. That's nice. We also have some new hosts for nimwaku test fleet v2 is being tested there.

A

I've been doing some debugging on the nimbus fleet, because we've been having some outages caused by most probably a high network usage, but it's not fully confirmed yet still fighting with it. uh There's been also issues with uh status, d and nodes, not fully seeing ips of of clients and we're trying to resolve that. We actually use a port for for free for connections to essentially avoid various firewalls and public, wi-fi and stuff like that.

A

But that's not uh something that I think is supported by go ethereum by default and it causes issues and we're trying to make that work uh by essentially making saturday listen on that word rather than redirecting with firewall rules, but that's tricky so still working on that we've had a lot of updates to our site. This includes the our satoshi and blog post and the main site, and this coincides with the desktop release as you've seen from the screenshots from the new get page which includes desktop.

A

We also have a bunch of other documentation related to the terraform updates and various providers for terraform that have changed. uh So that's pretty cool, that's most of it for infrastructure. Thanks next up, we'll have marketing and simona as correctly right now not before.

B

Yes, it is me it is me, um thank you so much um hi everyone we are um in the middle of, um I guess the final um few events that are happening um towards the kind of running to the tail end of the year. We've got the hcpp congress happening this weekend um and we're gonna have I'm gonna mention some of the um activations that we have running um for that over the weekend. The weekend just coming up, we've got uh corey has been um in action for um these past few weeks.

B

He did a great chat, um a great talk at live chain um all about the um lessons from the future of work and a lot of talk on security. Obviously he's also chatting today um at money, dance powered by avalabs on self-sovereign sovereignty and the transformation of online security, so um check that out and we'll um share the live stream, the link and any takeaways from that. um Then we have, if online again kicking off uh this weekend.

B

um I will be judging and mentoring during that hackathon, so I will bring you any interesting insights and any uh status use during that hackathon. We are also prepping for the vancouver biennale that is gearing up for november.

B

We have a few interesting engagements uh planned up and we are working with uh just angel, who is one of the the key artists um exhibiting um at the event, both online and offline later on uh in the year and next year, so stay tuned for all of those interesting engagements next slide, please.

B

um We have had some very exciting um updates and activity over in brazil we have had a few influencers, crypto maniacos and also bruno hermano. They have been sharing and talking about status, pretty much in a lot of their uh weekly updates just generally on crypto, and we have had some very, very um high views and interactions. I think we're pulling just under 200 um thousand views on um their videos that have been mentioning status uh in the past few weeks, so that is very exciting.

B

Bruno as well is planning some instagram live sessions, so that'll be exciting. It's great to see crypto going across so many different um social channels. So again um we'll keep you posted on those as they evolve. But, yes, uh brazil is pretty much loving status, so that's good uh next slide.

B

Please, we've also been looking um as a team at all of the different points where we essentially are seeing um activity within the app both um at a you know, onboarding level, where we have all of these um videos shared by so many um interesting people in so many different regions, and we're really trying to understand what is working and what keeps people engaged. So we've been looking at. You know the the levels of activity daily, the levels of um sustained activity within the app across all of the different events that we have had.

B

So we have the influencer videos, but also we had the spam attack that um that happened a couple of weeks ago, so really kind of um trying to understand the behavior of our users. So hopefully we will, um you know, figure out the the sweet spot um so that we can get more people using status next slide, please and then upcoming. uh We have the referral program, um that's rolling out with our ambassadors. We have the influencer program, like I mentioned, with brazil, but also argentina. So that's coming up um product campaigns.

B

We obviously launched desktop. um That's going really really well and we're looking forward to a lot. A lot of very constructive feedback from our users um regarding the the dual use of the app both on desktop and uh and mobile. So we'll keep you posted on those uh spam prevention.

B

uh We have uh a post coming up um about all of the different um uh measures that we have taken all of the different considerations that we continue uh exploring to mitigate um spam within the app so keep um an eye out for that and then again, um testing, evergreen um campaigns and so on. Those are all upcoming and ongoing next slide.

B

Please, and then, with regards to community um ambassadors, we will have an update from jin ho next town hall, where we are wrapping and doing um you know the the final uh wrap up of q3 so um keep an eye on the ambassador uh figures and stats for that for community we have current ecosystem activations.

B

We have the obvious sticker competition that is ongoing, we're already receiving some really interesting and very um some funny, so very, very good uh sticker submissions, so um we'll hopefully have those ready for the ave team ii uh judge and also for the community to vote on uh very very soon.

B

The ave mma is happening this wednesday on the 30th um at 10 a.m. Est we will be um sharing all of that via twitter, so you'll be able to submit your questions for stani from ave, um so keep an eye on that. We will um tweet that out and share it within the channels today. So you have enough time to to submit um those questions. The hcpp speaker, amas, as I mentioned, are happening over the weekend to coincide with the event.

B

Again, we will be sharing those so that you can submit your questions um and- and the speakers can hopefully address them and we have the uh our ama with vitalik coming on thursday, the 8th of october so mark that in your calendars, 10 a.m est. We will again um give you enough time to submit your questions for vitalik um and we're really really excited about that one. um Our bitcoin partnership.

B

We kickstarted that it's a much much bigger and broader partnership, but we kick-started it with um the featuring of bitcoin grants within dapps. um So if you go in the dapps browser, you will see bitcoin grants round seven right at the top and we have enabled um contributions on the go, including layer, 2 checkout, with zk sync.

B

I've done three rounds of contributions all via status. I encourage you all to do the same. uh It really is a uh a very, very smooth uh flow on the go, so we'll be tweaking that and making that even um easier, so that's exciting and then we'll um make announcements of the next stages of that partnership. Very very soon we have a few educational uh initiatives that we've been working on for a while and I'm very very excited about them.

B

um We have an ave defy course, which is launching very soon um we have been working on it and um just putting um final touches on it. So I'm hoping that we'll be able to launch that next month, so that'll be very, um very interesting. It's essentially a guide on how to d5 responsibly, um introduction to d5 and so on, so that we can do a lot of uh the define within uh the status app. So that's exciting.

B

We also have a development and financial literacy course that we are working on in partnership with the blockchain academy, brazil. This is again something that will be rolling out, probably a little bit um closer to towards the end of the year, but it is something that is very, very exciting and it will blend a lot of education with a lot. A lot of practical um exercises for students to to undertake.

B

So uh we'll we'll be launching that very very soon, like I said, we'll keep you updated and then we have um the crypto and d5 courses happening in colombia. Status will be there as the gateway to ethereum, and we also have a udemy uh course which will launch. um I think it is uh towards the end of oh okay in october, and we're expecting about 80 000 students for that one, so very, very um cool um opportunity for status to be the um again gateway to ethereum and upcoming events.

B

As I mentioned, um we have hcpp over the weekend and then, if online throughout october, so very, very busy. Thank you.

A

Everyone cool. Thank you. I don't think we have any questions this time around. So that's going to be it thanks. Everyone for presenting uh see you in two weeks. I guess.