TL;DR
We should have an open forum for full length articles about network societies. This way, the best ideas can be elevated and evolve instead of being drowned out in way too many telegram groups.

We also have a $500 prize out right now for the most upvoted posts on the forum for April, so please add your best articles to the collective pool of knowledge and share with friends!
See the prize here: https://viaprize.org/prize/580a1825-e08c-41d3-9119-87c1b799238c

Check out one of our articles:
A timeline of upcoming Zuzalu inspired pop up villages - https://nsforum.net/post/kjzl6cwe1jw1460o8i9ds4x7q408kel6ad2ldc1w3qi0xg9pm8k1di1n95lsh6s

A full introduction for the forum is drafted here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o8gL5w3lQKN8d9chZ0NJ3dVtNlxa9hCBxKBtVHRcJgc/edit?usp=sharing

#Origins

Noah Chon Lee and Andrew J Starr each added $250 into a crowdfunded prize for someone to build an MVP for the forum.

Michael Jola-Moses in Nigeria and Michael Cherneski in the USA each reached out to work on this and when Noah connected them they decided to build the MVP together.

Next, Noah released a prize to build a ZK DID into the forum and Renee of Holonym won this by adapting her web3 forum template to include Silk ZK recovery wallet with a Holo SBT passport integration. Contact her if you want a web3 native forum with Ceramic back-end and ZK capabilities.

Michael and Noah are now applying to Gitcoin grants with a multi-sig held by them to continue this fully open source project.

#Roadmap

Our finances and upcoming features are shown here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16DJkCNMWSB9Cn56XS8Z6rQNc7eiFujrLd5DETiMeFeY/edit?usp=sharing

Some upcoming features include:
A smoother process for proof of personhood within the platform
AI translation for posts
Directory of individuals and projects and a map

See our open source code: https://github.com/reneedaos/Web3-forum-kit/tree/network-society-forum-dev

You are welcome to contact us by DMing here if you would like to contribute to this: https://twitter.com/netsocieties

This grant will be our first funding. How we use funds will be tracked in the spreadsheet.
We will use the funds to:
Pay contributors
Hosting costs
Prizes such as for the most upvoted posts in April

Thank you for supporting!