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PreambleFive Pools

Kindling runs on Kindling

The project’s own Pools, planned.

We plan to run five Pools to support Kindling’s development and its larger mission: curators, builders, readers, the people who would govern it, and the people who write about it. They are not open yet, and nobody is in them.

Planned, with invented people. Every curator named below apart from the Kindling maintainers, and every member, is invented, so you can see how each Pool would work. Nothing on this page is live.

  1. Pool 1 Founding Curators Curator-only adds
  2. Pool 2 Client Builders Universal opt-in
  3. Pool 3 Spec Readers Universal opt-in
  4. Pool 4 Toward a Working Group Vouching required
  5. Pool 5 Writers and Researchers Universal opt-in

Each Pool is a JSON manifest, listed in the domain’s well-known file and reported in the Circular’s From the project column. The settings, side by side, are under the hood.

Pool 1Curator-only adds

Planned · public · curator-only-adds

Founding Curators

People who already do introduction work, invited by the maintainers to run the first Pools and write down what curation is as a craft. Maintainers propose; every person still accepts or declines, and can leave within a minute. This Pool is not a waiting list for anything and nobody pays to be in it.

curators
  • Kindling maintainers josh@intellibotique.com Signed in with OAuth primary curator
  • Rosa Delgado-Park Signed in with OAuth co-curator, invented
visibility
Public. Anyone can find this Pool and read who is listed. §3.2
consent
curator-only-adds. Only the curators may propose names. Each person still says yes. §5.4
intent
curating founding-cohort
governance
Maintainers add curators by invitation. Any curator may nominate another. Leaving is always one click.
block lists
the Circular consortium’s list (invented) §7.3
contact
josh@intellibotique.com

Why curator-only adds

The founding cohort is invited, so only the curators propose names: that is curator-only adds. It adds a step before the handshake and removes nothing after it (§5.4). Every person proposed still gets a handshake, can say no, and can leave within a minute. It is public because the people deciding what curation is as a craft should be easy to find and easy to question.

Members, all invented (7)

  • Rosa Delgado-Park she/herrosa-dp.carrd.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Reference librarian at the Port Ellery Free Library. Keeps the Board, vouches for patrons at the desk, and will find you any book about knots.

    Port Ellery, United StatesConsent proof: email linkcommunity curating libraries

  • Lena Brightwater she/herlena-books-the-ferry.carrd.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Books the Ferry Room. Has filled a Friday bill at five in the afternoon more times than she can count.

    Port Ellery, United StatesConsent proof: email linkbooking curating music

  • Oswaldo “Ozzie” Reyes he/himneaptide-ozzie.notion.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Runs Neap Tide Records. Has introduced more bands than any app, mostly by saying “you two should talk” at the counter.

    Port Ellery, United StatesConsent proof: email linkmusic curating band

  • Valeria Ortiz she/hervaleria-ortiz.notion.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Coordina Correo Lento desde Oaxaca. Teaches the co-op’s paid Spanish classes; the letters are free.

    Oaxaca, Oaxaca, MexicoConsent proof: signed inlanguage-exchange curating spanish english letters

  • Nadia Farouk she/hernadia-farouk.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Matchmaker at Late Supper. Twenty years of dinner parties before it had a name. Meets everyone in person first.

    Port Ellery, United StatesConsent proof: email linkmatchmaking curating

  • Inés Calloway she/herines-calloway.notion.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Steward at Scattered Light. Spent eleven years looking for one other person with her diagnosis. Now vouches for newcomers after a video call.

    Tucson, Arizona, United StatesConsent proof: signed inpeer-support stewarding curating

  • Ruth Adler she/herruth-adler.notion.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Editor of the Circular. Spent thirty years on a city desk and still circles things in red.

    Chicago, Illinois, United StatesConsent proof: email linkwriting editing curating

When this Pool opens, joining and leaving are one action each.

Pool 2Universal opt-in

Planned · public · universal-opt-in

Client Builders

Developers building Kindling clients, readers, hosts and tools, in any stack. For trading notes, reviewing each other’s conformance, and finding a second pair of eyes before a release. Not for recruiting or selling.

curators
  • Kindling maintainers josh@intellibotique.com Signed in with OAuth primary curator
  • Imani Brooks Signed in with OAuth co-curator, invented
visibility
Public. Anyone can find this Pool and read who is listed. §3.2
consent
universal-opt-in. A curator proposes you, and you say yes or no. §5.2
intent
building open-source
block lists
the Circular consortium’s list (invented) §7.3
contact
josh@intellibotique.com

Why universal opt-in

Building is public work, and this Pool exists to find a second pair of eyes, so the door is wide: universal opt-in. The curators send a handshake to anyone building a client, host or tool who asks, and each person says yes or no (§5.2). The charter says what it is not for, recruiting and selling, in plain words.

Members, all invented (3)

  • Imani Brooks she/herimani-builds.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Built the reader that prints the Circular from well-known files. Writes small tools that do one thing.

    Baltimore, Maryland, United StatesConsent proof: signed inbuilding open-source writing

  • Kai Rivera they/themkai-rivera.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Built the Ferry Room Players client in a weekend and has regretted nothing. Maintains the auto-accept notification code.

    Oakland, California, United StatesConsent proof: signed inbuilding open-source

  • Tobias Weiler he/himtobias-weiler.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    IndieWeb regular since the h-card days. Reads specs for ambiguity and files polite issues.

    Berlin, GermanyConsent proof: signed inspec-review indieweb governance

When this Pool opens, joining and leaving are one action each.

Pool 3Universal opt-in

Planned · public · universal-opt-in

Spec Readers

People who read the specification and the RFCs closely and say where they are ambiguous, missing something, or overreaching. Identity-protocol veterans and IndieWeb regulars especially. Disagreement is the point.

curators
  • Kindling maintainers josh@intellibotique.com Signed in with OAuth primary curator
  • Tobias Weiler Signed in with OAuth co-curator, invented
visibility
Public. Anyone can find this Pool and read who is listed. §3.2
consent
universal-opt-in. A curator proposes you, and you say yes or no. §5.2
intent
spec-review indieweb
block lists
the Circular consortium’s list (invented) §7.3
contact
josh@intellibotique.com

Why universal opt-in

Disagreement is the point, so nobody screens readers: universal opt-in, public. The only gate is the handshake itself. Any reader who asks is sent one, and a no is remembered like any other (§5.2).

Members, all invented (4)

  • Tobias Weiler he/himtobias-weiler.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    IndieWeb regular since the h-card days. Reads specs for ambiguity and files polite issues.

    Berlin, GermanyConsent proof: signed inspec-review indieweb governance

  • Ingrid Solberg she/heringrid-solberg.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Identity-protocol veteran. Reviewing the v0.2 draft for cryptographic identity.

    Bergen, NorwayConsent proof: signed inspec-review governance

  • Imani Brooks she/herimani-builds.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Built the reader that prints the Circular from well-known files. Writes small tools that do one thing.

    Baltimore, Maryland, United StatesConsent proof: signed inbuilding open-source writing

  • Hollis Grant he/himhollis-grant.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Implementer of a Kindling client for rural libraries. Standing for one of the elected implementer seats.

    Asheville, North Carolina, United StatesConsent proof: signed ingovernance building

When this Pool opens, joining and leaving are one action each.

Pool 4Vouching required

Planned · public · vouching-required

Toward a Working Group

People willing to stand for the Working Group that governs Kindling by v1.0: two elected implementer seats, one IndieWeb seat and a rotating advisory. Each person is vouched for by someone already here. Being in this Pool is not a seat; it is a list of people willing to serve.

curators
  • Kindling maintainers josh@intellibotique.com Signed in with OAuth primary curator
  • Tobias Weiler Signed in with OAuth co-curator, invented
  • Ingrid Solberg Signed in with OAuth co-curator, invented
visibility
Public. Anyone can find this Pool and read who is listed. §3.2
consent
vouching-required. A current member vouches for you first. You still say yes. §5.4
intent
governance
governance
Entry requires one vouch from a current member. A vouch is local to this Pool and carries nowhere else.
block lists
the Circular consortium’s list (invented) §7.3
contact
josh@intellibotique.com

Why vouching required

People standing for governance need someone already here to say they are real and serious, so entry needs one vouch from a current member: vouching required. The vouch is local to this Pool (§4.4). Hollis Grant reads “Vouched for by the curator” here, because Ingrid Solberg vouched for him, and “Signed in with OAuth” in Spec Readers. The vouch adds a step before the handshake. Hollis still said yes himself (§5.4). Being listed is not a seat; it is a list of people willing to serve.

Members, all invented (3)

  • Tobias Weiler he/himtobias-weiler.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    IndieWeb regular since the h-card days. Reads specs for ambiguity and files polite issues.

    Berlin, GermanyConsent proof: signed inspec-review indieweb governance

  • Ingrid Solberg she/heringrid-solberg.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Identity-protocol veteran. Reviewing the v0.2 draft for cryptographic identity.

    Bergen, NorwayConsent proof: signed inspec-review governance

  • Hollis Grant he/himhollis-grant.example
    Vouched for by the curator

    Implementer of a Kindling client for rural libraries. Standing for one of the elected implementer seats.

    Asheville, North Carolina, United StatesConsent proof: yes after a vouchVouched for here by Ingrid Solberggovernance building

When this Pool opens, joining and leaving are one action each.

Pool 5Universal opt-in

Planned · public · universal-opt-in

Writers and Researchers

People who write about social technology, the friendship recession and the open-protocol revival, and want to talk to the curators and builders doing the work. The maintainers answer questions here; nobody here is owed a quote.

curators
  • Kindling maintainers josh@intellibotique.com Signed in with OAuth primary curator
  • Mei-Lin Zhou Signed in with OAuth co-curator, invented
visibility
Public. Anyone can find this Pool and read who is listed. §3.2
consent
universal-opt-in. A curator proposes you, and you say yes or no. §5.2
intent
research writing journalism
block lists
the Circular consortium’s list (invented) §7.3
contact
josh@intellibotique.com

Why universal opt-in

A writer should be able to find the people doing the work without a fee or a gatekeeper, so this Pool is public and universal opt-in. Every writer says yes to being listed, the same as everyone else, and nobody here is owed a quote.

Members, all invented (3)

  • Mei-Lin Zhou she/hermeilin-zhou.notion.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Sociologist studying how adults make friends after thirty. Interested in what curation looks like as a craft.

    Singapore, SingaporeConsent proof: signed inresearch writing

  • Obinna Eze he/himobinna-eze.example
    Email verified

    Technology reporter. Covers open protocols and the people who keep them running.

    Lagos, NigeriaConsent proof: email linkjournalism writing

  • Ruth Adler she/herruth-adler.notion.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    Editor of the Circular. Spent thirty years on a city desk and still circles things in red.

    Chicago, Illinois, United StatesConsent proof: email linkwriting editing curating

When this Pool opens, joining and leaving are one action each.

Art. VIAsk the Pools

Ask a plain question. Only people who said yes can answer.

A stand-in for kindling-discover: it compares your words with each member’s intent tags and the line they wrote about themselves, across all five Pools. The people answering are invented.

“Who could review my client?”

4 people in these Pools could answer. Nothing was sent. This is an example.

  • Kai Rivera kai-rivera.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    “Built the Ferry Room Players client in a weekend and has regretted nothing. Maintains the auto-accept notification code.”

    Listed in Client Builders.

  • Tobias Weiler tobias-weiler.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    “IndieWeb regular since the h-card days. Reads specs for ambiguity and files polite issues.”

    Listed in Client Builders, Spec Readers, Toward a Working Group.

  • Ingrid Solberg ingrid-solberg.example
    Signed in with OAuth

    “Identity-protocol veteran. Reviewing the v0.2 draft for cryptographic identity.”

    Listed in Spec Readers, Toward a Working Group.

  • Hollis Grant hollis-grant.example
    Signed in with OAuth in Spec Readers Vouched for by the curator in Toward a Working Group

    “Implementer of a Kindling client for rural libraries. Standing for one of the elected implementer seats.”

    Listed in Spec Readers, Toward a Working Group.