Gristle Crüe Weekly Call, 3-29-2022

Dove deep into the world of DeWi Grants with the Head of the Grant pro­gram, Claris­sa Red­wine. Great chance for us to learn about what the (now) Heli­um Foun­da­tion is doing to sup­port the growth of the Net­work, and how we might help out with it.

https://vimeo.com/693703450/7d1e597e84

Notes & Time Hacks

0:00:00 — Intro
Gris­tle Crue is brain­storm­ing an idea for a group DeWi.

0:01:17 — Who are you (Claris­sa) and what do you do?
Back­ground with Hard­ware Star­tups. Worked with Qual­comm with Accel­er­at­ed Robot­ics Pro­gram, Kick­starter Design and Tech­nol­o­gy Out­reach.
NYU Law with Open Source Soft­ware
Job at DeWi is to run the Grant Pro­gram. Help fund com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers that have ideas to help secure the net­work, increas­ing adop­tion, and build­ing applications.

0:03:46 — Kev­in’s Uni­ver­si­ty City Project
Met with the May­or, plans on deploy­ing a hotspot on his house. May­or is real­ly into tech and wants to be known as a smart city.
Ear­ly talks, plans on peo­ple or traf­fic track­ing, work­ing with infra­struc­ture. Poten­tial­ly 5G.
A good way to sell it is with Smart Meters, Garbage Col­lec­tion, things to help make the city’s job easier.

0:09:33 — What does DeWi look for ?
Is this project a pub­lic good, can it be owned by the pub­lic.
Is it open source, can it be repli­cat­ed and be used in oth­er places.
Does the team have the skills to bring the project to life.

0:11:45 — Mike’s project ideas
Mike would like to know the skill set peo­ple have in our group and have that lead us.
Vine­yards, soil sen­sors. Easy prac­ti­cal project.
Fun project. Katy Trail, Track hik­ers, turn in your track­er at a burg­er joint and get a free burg­er.
Pig farms los­ing 3G. Is there a way to upgrade to less expen­sive hard­ware.
Wal­let Automa­tion relat­ed project.

0:18:31 — Two Parts of the Grant Pro­gram
Infra­struc­ture for the Net­work, Tools to help peo­ple use Heli­um.
IoT Appli­ca­tions, Trackers/Sensors.

0:19:12 — How many appli­ca­tions has DeWi Approved ?
All the Appli­ca­tions are pub­lic. There aren’t a ton and most are by ded­i­cat­ed user, so a lot have been approved.
https://github.com/dewi-alliance/grants/issues

0:20:02 — Bron­son’s project ideas
Work­ing with Local Gov­ern­ment, Regen­er­a­tive Agri­cul­ture, NICA (Nation­al Inter­scholas­tic Cycling Association)

0:21:57 — Is there an oppor­tu­ni­ty for an affil­i­ate pro­gram (like Cross­Fit Affil­i­ates, basi­cal­ly a fran­chise) to get resources to opti­mize the net­work?
Min­er­Match, con­nects peo­ple with hotspots with peo­ple who have loca­tions.
Work Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Boun­ties
Lit­tle con­fus­ing, but no, Min­er­Match is not PirateRadio.

0:27:53 — Stan­dard­iza­tion
Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for installers, con­sul­tants, etc.
Trav­el­ing Team. Going to con­fer­ences pro­mot­ing IoT. Etc.

0:31:49 — What are the sen­sors out there ?
We would like to see a cat­a­log or spread­sheet of sen­sors and what they do.
Yes. A list will be help­ful with sen­sors with cer­ti­fied Heli­um approval.

0:33:40 — Is there an age lim­it for peo­ple who apply for Grants ?
There is no age lim­it. We encour­age it. If they want to set up a cou­ple sen­sors or devel­op­ment kits they are wel­come to apply.

0:36:51 — Isaac Off Grid farm­land ideas
Soil Regen­er­a­tion
Regen­er­a­tive Agri­cul­ture
Still look­ing into dif­fer­ent types of devices

0:40:59 — What are the things we can ask for funds ?
DeWi does­n’t give funds for min­ers. But, Devel­op­ment Time, Sen­sors, oth­er hardware.

0:43:28 — Is there a time­frame on projects ?
DeWi likes 12 month projects. If it’s a large project we would break it into sep­a­rate grants with dif­fer­ent phases.

0:47:36 — Build­ing Edu­ca­tion Resources
DeWi would like to fund Edu­ca­tion Pro­gram Open to the Public.

0:48:34 — What are Val­ida­tors writ­ten in ?
Val­ida­tors are writ­ten in Erlang. Rust would be a com­mu­ni­ty booster.

0:50:38 — Team­ing up with Cal­Fire
Par­ley Labs had a project for wild fire sens­ing
Huge project. Can be bro­ken down into small­er projects with local Fire Depart­ments.
With Cal­Fire’s per­mis­sion you can prob­a­bly used a tow­er or some struc­ture with pow­er.
CERT (Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team)

0:54:21 — How to Start ?
It’s easy to pitch a cou­ple sen­tence idea to see if you are on the right track

0:55:19 — Next Week
Tax­es. Next week we will have a Heli­um Tax Expert.

0:56:25 — Will High Endurance SD Cards be need­ed when light hotspots ?
There will be less reads writes need­ed for light hotspots. Keep­ing the one in there is fine.