Flux #56 | October Roundup
How's it going everyone,
Eric here. I hope you’re all enjoying the start of this fall. I know it’s been some time since you’ve heard from me - our team’s been heads down preparing things for this next release and we’re excited to share what’s come into fruition over the past few months. Onto it…
Highlights
After careful deliberation, we’ve made some changes to our governance structure. Junto Foundation will remain, but as a parent nonprofit that stewards the open source development and eventually funding of projects in its ecosystem.
Our decentralized app has been rebranded as Flux and exists as its own LLC. Junto Foundation will own the voting rights of Flux, which will be the flagship product of the Junto ecosystem.
There will be an opportunity for everyone to invest for ownership in Flux through our upcoming Wefunder campaign. For investors that want to participate before we release the equity crowdfunding campaign, feel free to reach out at eric@junto.foundation
Shoutout to Paul and Erling from duties.xyz for the great design work they did for Flux. Here’s a quick peak at the new Flux brand and website that will be live shortly
The first decentralized version of our app is finally ready! We'll begin onboarding people in waves so keep an eye on your email. This is an MVP and the underlying Holochain and AD4M technologies are still very early so expect bugs and issues to arise. The goal of this release is to work together to test the limits of a fully decentralized social app that relies on no central servers.
The focus of our product has shifted towards building useful tools for communities to effectively coordinate and self-organize. Our MVP of Flux will have communities, group messaging, topical channels, and emojis/replies. Soon after, we'll have audio and video channels and the ability to create documentation/knowledge base for your community. More on the product, longer-term vision, and underlying technologies we're using in an upcoming Medium article.
Indiegogo orders have been placed and will be shipped November 2021. A heartfelt thank you to the 400+ people who contributed to our most recent campaign. Here's some of what's coming your way:
Finally, we’ve moved all our internal and community comms over to Discord. Come hang out with us there - you might even get early access to the MVP :) https://discord.gg/3hEeqE5xwx
That's it for now! We'll circle back soon as we begin to onboard more people onto the MVP and share more about the product and upcoming equity crowdfunding campaign. Take care in the meantime.
Eric