Last Notes
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Some participants come to Soveng carrying more than their laptops. They arrive with large backpacks and cases full of equipment to build. We saw this again at SEC-08, which just ended, with hardware projects such as Totem and Tollgate. Without a shared workshop or access to the right tools on the island, some builders could not do everything they had hoped to do.
A couple of participants decided to change that and began planning a small, shared fab lab for the community and were prepared to fund it themselves. Then @nprofile…6t7h generously offered to fund part of it, and other donors came forward too. What began with a couple of participants choosing to solve a problem has become a shared effort, with 3 million sats raised so far. 🫶
We are starting small. Those sats will buy a 3D printer, workbench, storage, tools, chips, devices and other materials the community can use. The lab will be set up at https://nostroffice.nobios.ai/ . A big shoutout to them for giving it a home. They have built something special and have been great friends to Soveng. We are grateful to be building this next piece together.
This is exactly the kind of initiative we love to see and want to encourage more of. Someone sees a need and takes the first step, then a community gathers around them and helps make it real. We want the workshop to grow in that same spirit.
If you'd like to help us put it together, you can contribute here:
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If you have something you want to build, come build with us.
We waiting for you to join! Next one!
Its week 5 Demo Day of SEC-08 and the mood
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No wonder it makes even the clankers happy
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We scheduled SEC-08 in summer specifically to make it easier for legends with family to make the pilgrimage .. there is still time 😁
Swag game on point 🤙 https://relay2.sovereignengineering.io/589ae5a7a3fde53d1dde6fed6bbfac09d033f9dd1961823a72113e7f6a5fc0db.jpg https://relay2.sovereignengineering.io/580f21d5ff7578e1ee73664d07b357d703a1eb6daa0bd42c99e8d8f6c9fec6dc.jpg
Prep for the first Demo day of SEC-08 going strong! Heavy fuel for heavy demos!
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You need to come! There is no other way!
Kicking off SEC-08 in style! #SovEng https://relay2.sovereignengineering.io/9da4088629441d6a372781b1d337efacce4dedd384634ad49d9025a323f6b68f.jpg
@nprofile…m2ve please reach out to us as our printer needs help with the design file 😅
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Think Alexandria mirrored across the globe, cared for and maintained by the people
SEC-08 applications close tomorrow midnight. If you have been on the fence, act - now!
https://sovereignengineering.io/#apply
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Build with us:
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Archives today are very fragile and are a problem that we deeply think about. We have been thinking about doing a cohort dedicated on that.
Raise your hand if you'd like to solve it and tag someone who you'd like to solve it with.
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We are also hyped you won and would like to share our hype with you if you'd only got in touch with us 😅
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Can you please reply to our DM? 😅
Love certainly does make us blind sometimes )
Tim and his friends seem to disagree it seems 😄
yes, that is what we meant 😄
GM good people of Nostrverse! As promised, the SEC-08 t-shirt contest results are in.
Firstly, we thank you, to the people that participated and shared with us such great designs to make our lives harder Then, to the people that shared them, engaged with them and sometimes provided us something to chuckle about. And finally, to all the Nostr (Bitcoin, LN & Cashu) developers and users that have made this tiny little garden of ours where we flourish. We are eternally grateful to not have to deal with logins and passwords, captchas and verifications to prove our humanity, KYC just to fucking get an account or zap someone 1 or 10 or a MILLION sats, auto spam filtering - because, WoT & PoW, bots and the cacophony of the clown world - because only autists and masochists(sometimes) can actually bear the "friction" and novelty of this beautiful nascent protocol - and now we know that art people can too.
Most importantly, we are grateful that we didn't have to gatekeep this contest, use emails or create some special system for it because as far as we are concerned Nostr does work and it works pretty well. This started as a small experiment, and it turned into a proper gallery of very good, very weird, very Sovereign Engineering designs. This was a very human experience.
Phew.. now that that's out of the way, let's get to the meat.. so, the winners of SEC-08 T-shirt Design Contest are..
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- 1st goes to @nprofile…vhew for the "Tin Can" design! 🤌🏻
- 2nd goes to @nprofile…5ds4 for reading the times so well! Well done!
- 3rd goes to @nprofile…6s0u for exciting the nerd in us! Great work!
For the rest of the voting and scores see: https://tshirt.sovereignengineering.io/results
Honorable mention: @nprofile…cg4q for such a great concept, but just missed it! We would definitely like to do something with it.
P.S. These t-shirts are usually exclusive for SEC participants.. Now, if people are really interested in specific designs, do let us know and maybe we can do something about that 😉
Keep on piratin'
Appreciate your efforts, but just a bit too late
Thank you every who participated in the t-shirt contest. This was one of those experiments to test the open waters as we do at SECs and we are surprised and happy about it! We've got some really good designs and we're really going to have to make some hard choices!
Stay tuned, we'll be announcing the winners pretty soon. Until then, you can view all the submissions at:
https://tshirt.sovereignengineering.io/
#SovEng
Oi! Just a wee bit late, were we..?
Wholesome! Thank you for your submission!
Nice! Thank you for your submission!
We concur.. last couple of hours until submissions close.. the mystery shall be revealed soon!
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Keys are very important! Thank you for your submission!
Grateful for your submission, despite all odds! Thank you!
That's a good system! Thank you for your submission!
Would make a great cover art! Thank you for your submission!
Nice! This will come in very handy for SEC-08!
"How many clankers you got under that floor?"
Thank you for your submission
Lovely! Thank you for your submission!
One day to go!
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We love pixels too! Thank you for your submission!
Thank you for you submission again!
Neat! Thank you for your submission!
Thank you for your submission!
Thnk you for your submission!
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Arrr! Thank you for you submission!