Neume Lore: Scope of Work

[estmcmxci]

Neume Lore — Scope of Work

Table of Contents

1. Request for Feedback
2. Purpose and Strategy
3. Development Milestones
4. Collaborations
5. Educational Content & Community Building
6. Neume Project Update (Lore 001)
7. Open Source Project Strategy

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Request for Feedback

• What aspects of existing writing on Neume Network Blog should be re-emphasized in Neume Lore?

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Purpose and Strategy

Overview

• Neume Lore Proposed on June 1:
  • tl;dr: Aim to improve Neume Network's accessibility in the Ethereum ecosystem by publishing educational content like thought experiments and use-cases. Targets include both new users and grant committees.

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Development Milestones

June Milestone

• Neume Grant Milestone — June:
  • tl;dr: Led by @il3ven, the team achieved architectural generalization for Lens indexing and transitioned to SQL databases. @neatonk also initiated research for indexing based on pre-determined wallets, leading to a new neuIP proposal.
  • In-Depth: Achievements also included overcoming scalability challenges and community engagement on GitHub.
  • Role of Grants: Discuss how grants are used to further development and what the purpose (use-case) of development should be.

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Collaborations

Neume and Lens

• Neume x Lens Collaboration:
  • Action Plan: Suggestion by Claire to collaborate with integrations lead (Bradley/Christina) to promote Neume within the Lens ecosystem. Plans to create educational content, developer collaborations, and identify use-cases.
  • Strategy Meeting: Recommended strategy meeting for alignment.

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Educational Content & Community Building

Focus Areas

• Neume Lore Focus — July 27th:
  • Content Strategy: Focus on explaining what Neume is and how it can be helpful for creators and developers. Develop educational outlines to help artists and artist teams understand their data better.
  • Community Building: Build a dev/creator ecosystem on Lens. Identify and build out use-cases for Neume.
  • Grants and Visibility: Prioritize core development updates to gain visibility for future grants.

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Neume Project Update (Lore 001)

Key Announcements

• Announcements: Bounties, hackathons, updates
• Neume's Value Proposition: Reminder that Neume focuses on building essential blockchain infrastructure to solve current market issues.

Overview

• Market Context: Explanation of how Neume fits within the current market landscape and why it's crucial now.
• Importance of Open Source: Discuss the role of open-source contributions in creating a defensive mechanism and maintaining agnostic approaches to avoid agency capture.
• Cross-Chain Layer: Describe how Neume aims to index and provide a cross-chain layer for seamless integration across various blockchain ecosystems.

Technical Insights

• Problem-Solution Mapping: Data silos, control of data, aggregation of restricted data, existing power structures.
• Commoditizing Access: Explanation on how Neume aims to commoditize access to data.
• Data Points on Blockchain: Elaborate on tracking and indexing anything that creates a data point on blockchain.

Supporting Information

• GRD Failure: On the failure of the Global Repertoire Database as a cautionary example.
• Value Points: Defensibility, permissionless & unstoppable layer, community drive.
• Additional References: Links to articles and community-driven initiatives for further reading.
• Community-Driven Content ID: Brief description on how community involvement can help in content identification.
• Onchain Music Ecosystem: Reference to Dan Fowler's article for additional insights.

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Open Source Project Strategy

Strategy

• Discuss how funding is allocated. Prioritize publishing updates over extensive communication efforts. Deepen the "lore" around Neume to foster community engagement.

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Link to hackmd: https://hackmd.io/@estmcmxci/neume-lore-scope-of-work

Reach out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16x_J1d8NyTdXEBXTSUedag8l4R6dapIvryzhEZ6AUu8/edit?usp=sharing

[djfnd]

Is there any specific need that you have from me for this @estmcmxci ?
The goals seems correct from my POV, and you should feel absolutely empowered to write and release anything that you think will help develop neume towards those goals within the time that you can dedicate to the project.

[estmcmxci]

Roger that. I'l get to work!