Re: [projectvrm] Call for participation: Blockstack Summit 2015 - September 12 @ NYU

[John Light < >]

Thanks for sharing that, Philip. I met Joseph and some of the other
Consensys founders at Cryptoeconomicon earlier this year, really cool
stuff they're working on. There's definitely some overlap between these
projects. I've been following Ethereum from the beginning, great team
working on important technology.


On 08/19/2015 04:21 PM, Philip Browning wrote:
> FYI NY based ethereum aligned https://consensys.net/    have just also 
> released a press release and emerging program of Dapp based projects:
> 
> http://www.coindesk.com/press-releases/consensys-emerges-stealth/
> 
> I have found overlapping conversations and core ethereum developers on 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum P.
> 
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> Subject: [projectvrm] Call for participation: Blockstack Summit 2015 - 
> September 12 @ NYU
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> Blockstack (http://blockstack.org) is a community of developers coming 
> together to work on common infrastructure for decentralized applications. 
> We've discussed before on this list how the blockchain and similar 
> decentralized technology can be used to promote user autonomy and give 
> users control of their digital identity and personal data - Blockstack is 
> where that rubber meets the road. If you're in or plan on being around the 
> NYC area on September 12th, this is an event you will not want to miss. The 
> full CFP is shared below.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> John Light
> 
> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
> 
> Blockstack Summit 2015
> 
> http://www.blockstack.org/summit
> 
> September 12, 2015
> D'Agostino Hall
> New York University
> 108 W 3rd St
> New York, NY
> 
> You are invited to participate in Blockstack Summit 2015, hosted by NYU 
> Professor Dr. Lakshmi Subramanian at New York University in New York City 
> on September 12, 2015. This is the first community event of Blockstack, a 
> community whose mission is to create a common infrastructure stack for 
> decentralized application development. This event will bring together 
> researchers and developers from industry, academia, and open source 
> projects to discuss topics such as:
> 
> Distributed hash tables
> Blockchain scalability
> Decentralized identity
> Secure messaging
> Smart contracts
> Decentralized storage
> Peer-to-peer reputation
> Electronic voting
> Blockstack governance
> Peer-to-peer markets
> Autonomous organizations
> 
> Event Overview
> 
> The first half of the day will be dedicated to five-minute Lightning Talks. 
> You can see the list of Lightning Talks that have been scheduled at 
> http://blockstack.org/summit.
> 
> The second half of the day will be spent in three workshop sessions with 
> five tracks each, for a total of fifteen workshop discussions. The workshop 
> agenda will be determined by attendees using an “unconference”
> methodology the day of the event. Attendees will first propose topics 
> during an agenda planning session, and then vote on which topics they wish 
> to discuss. The top fifteen topics will be the ones which get discussed.
> 
> To close out the day, Blockstack Summit 2015 will host a Q&A panel 
> moderated by Princeton Professor Dr. JP Singh and featuring Albert Wenger 
> of Union Square Ventures, Jalak Jobanputra of Future/Perfect Ventures, 
> Naval Ravikant of AngelList, and William Mougayar of Startup Management.
> 
> Sponsorship
> 
> Bitseed
> Chord
> OB1
> Onename
> Tierion
> 
> Sponsorship opportunities are still available - please contact 
> 
 
>  if you are interested in sponsoring Blockstack Summit 2015.
> 
> http://www.blockstack.org/summit
> 
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