UCAN Community Website Kick off Call Dec 13th, 2022

[bmann]

Thread for follow ups

Repo: https://github.com/ucan-wg/ucan-community-web

Discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/1002414684579827792/1044692478609072179

[bmann]

@bmann

@bgins

Design
Content

Joel:

• could be a learning experience -- too much text
• love the tools
• UCAN validator and other tools front and center

JChris

• we already have the depth! yay more tools
• get people to come back
• it should be a verb rather than a noun
• more tools -- place to get all of them
• delegation composer
• verb is showing off that there are power features, regardless of whether the developer made that
• if we want to raise awareness
• Raft / Consensus -- learning UCAN
• shows up on threads for computer programmers several times per year
• UCAN are discovered not invented
• "crypto signatures are inevitable"
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BKY1SV88vbT7W8rZojNrfapdWMS0Tsd9WL0Tn9uLv7g/edit?usp=sharing

CData

• https://www.passkeys.io/ as inspiration

Awareness
Learning
Adoption
Ecosystem

• wall of logos

UCAN Registry

• type management
• care about own types
• Postel's law
• TypeScript headers
• useful for validator

Cdata: generalized capability definition
JChris: spaces at this level, "free plan"

Boris: "UCAN as IAM for the Open Web"

Cdata: Web3Storage has most useful delegated service today
Knowing that a thing exists
Can I store something somewhere?

UCAN Adventure - https://ucan.lol

• curl or Postman
• certificate of completion

JChris: DAG House designer

Becky: UCAN Video script

• explainer video
• what else should it do?
• CData: for some people -- what makes UCAN special?
• analog for OAuth - call out, like this other thing - single sign in with Apple, Google

Brian:

• Intro to GunDB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTQXzhm8w_8
  Link to all of the implementations

CData: Kubo syndication -- need to figure it out wi

Becky: how to edit via Github?

• bgins to do a walkthrough for people who want to learn

JChris: OpenLinks

• voice over on Name Name
• MongoDB - MEAN stack Mongo Express Angular Node
• what's the stack? UCAN, IPFS, IPLD,

DAG Summit

• inviting folks hang out in Portland
• Unconf
• yes, Causal Islands is confirmed Apr 25 - 27th in Toronto
• IPFS thing either week before CI, or march 27th week around Paris
• May 1st - May 5th - save the date!

[meghansinnott]

Here's a list of web3.storage-related UCAN resources:
https://blog.web3.storage/posts/ucan-delegation-with-w3up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OznUYYhC1o&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtSEv2DM9J7nSvN7dnVFMM6q&index=89&t=17s
https://blog.web3.storage/posts/recap-web3-storage-in-lisbon
https://blog.web3.storage/posts/intro-to-ucan
https://www.notion.so/UCAN-talk-a2267c87fb3248d1a6a55beea971bbd8
DRAFT - https://hackmd.io/XgHeooJ1RrC5wuJ_2upGiw?view

[bmann]

Thanks @meghansinnott !