Developer Update - August + September 2022

[Denise.duncan]

Recently our contributors have been attending conferences, making major progress toward the development of the Frequency parachain, and producing steady movement on DSNP. Please pardon our gap! Updates from August and September are listed below. As always, we invite you to add your comments and questions to the posts and updates at forums.projectliberty.io - and thanks!

• Frequency Update - Summary of Progress

  • September
    • Working toward a launch feature freeze in October.
    • Rococo testing underway.
    • Progress on milestones available in the repo: Milestones - LibertyDSNP/frequency · GitHub
    • Frequency highlighted onstage at Unfinished Live: Unfinished Live 2022 | Free the Social Network From Platforms
  • August
    • Requested Rococo slot: Rococo slot request for Frequency parachain from unfinished labs with para_id 4044 · Issue #455 · paritytech/subport · GitHub
    • PR submitted and accepted to Parity repo: benchmark-cli: add child tree support by aramikm · Pull Request #12021 · paritytech/substrate · GitHub
    • Governance added into code base: [Governance] Create build with minimum democracy features required · Issue #248 · LibertyDSNP/frequency · GitHub

• DSNP Update - Summary of Progress

  • September
    • Weekly Spec meetings are now public. Please join the next one on Oct. 13! https://unfinished.zoom.us/j/89988843954?pwd=Q3BCYUZidkdSaVZoL2pxZzBlNEFiZz0 9
    • Draft spec of DSNP on Frequency: Frequency - DSNP Specification
  • August
    • Sept. 1 DSNP Weekly Spec meeting discussion, including discussion of Private Graph on Frequency:
      Weekly DSNP Spec Discussions on Vimeo

• Upcoming

  • Frequency parachain
    • Conferences: Let us know if we should look for you!
      • We are planning to be at Web Summit, Nov. 1–4, and Eth Lisbon, Oct. 28–30.
      • We will be at Polkadot Summit in SF, Nov. 3–4, to participate in a panel on Web3.
  • DSNP on Frequency
    • Next DSNP Milestones, including Private Graph, will be published to the GitHub project.