This bounty covers the creation of infrastructure (gall agents) required to enable a Bitcoin-based payments system from within Landscape.

Bitcoin Full Node Provider and Wallet

Add WebRTC support to Urbit, including call/stream setup and teardown messaging and ICE/STUN/TURN advertisement and authentication.

WebRTC Gall Agent and external app

A package for the generation of custom Linux images with Urbit running as service, for the backend of a turnkey Urbit appliance or IoT hub.

Urbian: a customized Linux distribution for Urbit appliances

A brief update from urbit.org for ~6.16.2021

A brief update from urbit.org

Twice a year we distribute address space to those that have made valuable contributions to Urbit. Now called our Gifts program, the gifting of address space has been part of Urbit long before we had a grants program.

Gifts Q3 2020

A brief update from the Tlon team for ~2020.2.6.

~2020.2.6 Update

Announcing an upcoming Urbit grants program and star gifts for Mid-2019.

Urbit Grants and mid-2019 Gifts

A short update from the Tlon team for the week of ~2018.2.17.

~2018.2.17 Update

Matilde Park

Urbit Feed Aggregator

Work with the content manager in producing content

Content Producer

Runtime Apprenticeship: Improve Page Tracking

Runtime Apprenticeship: Segfaults

Runtime Apprenticeship: Stack Overflow

Bitcoin Wallet Maintenance

Userspace Apprenticeship: Contacts App

Create high performance JSON parsing/serializing jet.

JSON Parsing/Serialization Jet

Create new high performance string parser jet.

Nuck Jet

Tune slaw/scot jets for better perfomance.

Tune slaw/scot Jets

Urbit needs champions! The Urbit Foundation is looking for community members to host local or online meetups to spread the word.

Host Two Urbit Meetups (12)

Our Layer 2 scaling solution is nearing completion, and the Bridge UI/UX needs to be refactored to take it into account.

Bridge UI/UX Revamp for Layer 2

A line-based editor for looking at text and code.

Userspace Apprenticeship: Collaborative text editor and annotator

An application that allows peers to upload files to managed storage, either on or off Urbit, and share files with each other.

Filesharer

A fun client app that would be a good way to get acquainted with Urbit's networking and p2p abilities.

Userspace Apprenticeship: Heads-Up Poker

A system to request and record payments made and received.

Invoice system

A marketplace in which users can post items for sale and browse goods for sale by other users.

Userspace Apprenticeship: Marketplace

Create a bot that that will relay messages between Urbit chatrooms and IRC rooms, allowing users to communicate on a singular platform.

Urbit <-> IRC Bridge

Extend the Urbit Calendar (ucal) to integrate with other calendaring systems.

ucal Google and Outlook Integration

Write a generator that exports chat data into a CSV.

Analytics Script

One of the killer pieces of missing functionality in the ecosystem is to seamlessly "login" to Urbit web apps at the click of a button.

Login with Urbit ID

Provide concierge service assisting new users in the Urbit Community Group

Urbit Community Concierge - East Coast - 2Q2021

Urbit Community Concierge - West Coast - 2Q2021

Provide concrete examples of React UI driven by @urbit/http-api to quickly start building on top of Urbit

Urbit React Cookbook

Help the Urbit community grow internationally by translating key resources, guides, and documentation to Norwegian.

Translate key parts of Urbit.org into Norwegian

An Urbit-native Lightning client and integration with `lnd` on 'provider' ships.

volt: Lightning on Urbit

Help the Urbit community grow internationally by translating key resources, guides, and documentation to Spanish.

Translate key parts of Urbit.org into Spanish

Contribute an easy-to-follow guide on self-hosting an S3 storage solution for use with Urbit to urbit.org.

Guide to S3

Build a public, open HTTP API for exploring metrics about the Urbit network.

Network Explorer: Data Pipeline & HTTP API

Network Explorer: Data Pipeline and HTTP API

Urbit LFS - filehosting

Implement a basic text search in groups channels

Search in groups

A native app that makes running Urbit near friction-less for everyone.

Cross-Platform Desktop Urbit App

Rework urbit.org to encourage participation with the project.

Overhaul the urbit.org website

Document, explain, and give simple howtos for the usage patterns of threads in the Dojo and Gall agents.

Thread Documentation

A website where prospective Martians can experience the Landscape interface without any technical chops.

Try Urbit Website

Explainer, tutorial, and cookbook for `graph-store`

Graph Store Documentation Guide

A proposal to build an Urbit HTTP Api for the Elixir language, bringing to Urbit its state of the art concurrency capabilities.

Urbit API for Elixir

Urbit Community Concierge - East Coast

Urbit Community Concierge - West Coast

Keep your finger on the pulse of video content produced by the community, and ensure that it's made visible.

Video Content Manager

Host Two Urbit Meetups (11)

Series of three videos:1) Purchase planet, install and run on a local machine2) nginx setup3) Explaining Urbit to my tech illiterate mum 

Comprehensive local, server and mum explanation video

The content found on urbit.org/understanding-urbit/ and urbit.org/using/install/ is only in English. Translation will be helpful to Koreans.

Translate key parts of Urbit.org into Korean

Staff the Urbit Helpdesk, East

A Linux based host OS with only the essentials needed to run Urbit, designed to help the process of getting Urbit running on bare metal

Minimal Urbit OS

Introduction, Urbit OS, Urbit ID, Interface, Roadmap: OS1-> OS N, People + History, and Install + Setup (analog to Korean translation)

Translate key parts of Urbit.org into German

Connecting Urbit with Emacs would enable all sorts of cool and creative apps. I'd love to be able to chat without leaving my editor.

Urbit HTTP API for Emacs (elisp)

Create sustained documentation and marketing efforts that will support and encourage new users to run Urbit on their own RPi devices.

-=[smol future]=- Sustained Knowledge Sharing and Marketing

WebRTC Gall Agent and External App

The goal of this bounty is to create a series of guides that can instruct a newcomer to Urbit as to how to go about creating a full-stack application from scratch.

Educational Guide: TodoMVC, Urbit Edition

Nix infrastructure to generate Docker images for Urbit releases. Images would be suitable for cloud orchestration in e.g. Amazon ECS

Docker image for cloud container orchestration

This proposal seeks to create an API to interact with an Urbit ship over HTTP written in Rust.

Urbit HTTP API for Rust

Staff the Urbit Helpdesk, West

Antechamber is an initiative to provide a group within Landscape that is restricted to only galaxies and delegates of galaxies.

Antechamber

This would be a python bot to connect urbit to any Matrix server. It would act as a bridge, mirroring messages between the two platforms.

Matrix(Riot.im) bridge/bot

Create a Ruby language HTTP library to connect to Urbit.

Urbit HTTP Library for Ruby

Write an urbit HTTP API (aka Airlock) for Kotlin.

Urbit HTTP API for Kotlin

This proposal seeks to implement an HTTP interface to an Urbit instance in Java, and also seeks to build various related tooling.

Urbit HTTP Interface — Java Edition

A series of community-focused events to create a new knowledge base for urbit.org, and help new community members learn about Urbit

Urbit Event Series

The Urbit HD Wallet allows for many different keys to be generated from a single master ticket. Your task is to use this mechanism to generate Bitcoin keys and expose ways of interacting with them.

Bitcoin Key Derivation

We want to make a short animated video that introduces Urbit to a wider audience.

Urbit Explainer Video

Allow small scale spatial data to be stored and retrieved in Urbit, for use in landscape and external applications, and shared across ships.

﻿A Collaborative Web Mapping System for Urbit

Art by Urbit will provide a monthly digest of art produced by & for Urbit, on a publicly available website & social media presence.

Art by Urbit

User docs for ship/star owners around best practices for hosting

Urbit Ship and Star Hosting and Troubleshooting Docs

Towards creating a political-econometric of federal legislation people can read as easily as a stock ticker: Llelogram

Llelogram

A short book about Urbit, on Urbit, including Urbit-centric sections about the wider world of computing

A book about Urbit

Calendar UI

reate a mapping tool which allows Open Street Maps data to be imported into Urbit.

Open Street Maps Data Importation

Create a library for the Typescript language to be used for Airlock, the API suite for outside communication with Urbit.

Typescript Airlock Library

Create a library for the Go language to be used for Airlock, the protocols for interfacing with Urbit.

Go Airlock Library

Create a library for the Haskell language to be used for Airlock, the API suite for outside communication with Urbit.

Haskell Airlock Library

A full text and video course on every aspect of creating Gall and Landscape apps. Students will create their own full application to finish.

The Complete Guide to Gall and Landscape

Add links to our reference doc pages so that people can easily discover new concepts

Links in Urbit Reference Docs

I teach a Python class online. Many students would be interested in learning about Urbit too. I'd give a lecture and help them host planets.

Urbit online meetup.

An Arvo calendar agent based on the iCalendar spec.

Calendar

Tor Nodes Relay Search Tile

Tlon is not Urbit; Urbit is owned by its community. So we want to decenter the Urbit brand into cities outside of San Francisco, and watch the community’s independent visions of the project take wing.

Host Three Virtual Urbit Meetups

Create a landscape tile that tracks the Boston T train.

Boston T Train Tracker Landscape Tile

Content Saver

Build an app to track the schedule of the Chicago Transit Authority.

CTA Train Tracker Landscape Tile

I have made an up-to-date version of the Urbit Hoon reference card and will maintain it.https://github.com/natareo/hooncard

Up-to-date Hoon reference card

Create a Gall app that takes the bytecode for a contract ABI.

Ethereum ABI Parser

BART Train Tracker Landscape Tile

Hold a meetup and presentation about Urbit.

Host Three College/University Urbit Meetups (2)

Host Three College/University Urbit Meetups (3)

Host Three College/University Urbit Meetups (1)

Matrices in Hoon

Help Urbit users with their various problems.

Staff the Urbit Help Desk (2)

Staff the Urbit Help Desk (1)

Create a Gall app that links Urbit identities with Keybase.

Verifying Urbit ID on Keybase

Create Hoon learning resources catered to learner efficiency, with orienting materials for Hoon & coding, learning examples, videos.

Hoon 001: Learner efficiency and early-learner resources

It is often useful for archival purposes to pull down an entire website, however many sites have a complex network of pages that would be difficult to download one at a time.

Web Scraper

The Urbit identity system uses a suite of Ethereum contracts as its PKI. As such, a lot of Ethereum-related functionality is available within the system.

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