Attending DWeb in August was quite transformative for Neighbourhoods. Not only did we connect with the broader DWeb community, but we had the opportunity to soak in recent development milestones in Holochain core.
These milestones reflect a maturity of both the code and the developer community. Happily, we realized that coordinating more closely with Holochain development would enable us to release demos and tooling at a faster clip.
To this end, we’re expanding our engineering team to include a few seasoned Holochain natives who are giving input on the architecture of the social sensemaker, reformatting existing hApps to work as Neighbourhoods-compliant applets, and helping us develop UI frameworks for Neighbourhoods, similar to Lightning Rod Labs’ We collaboration tool.
And what does this mean for NH releases? Through the end of the year, we’re preparing to show off multiple applets comprising a usable, sample neighbourhood that can be tested in the nearer term by our community. You can expect lots of action and commits from team NH, as well as a new 2023 roadmap that reflects our new priorities✨
Where previous demos have included one applet in two Holochain conductors and a swappable set of reactions, we are now poised to show off multiple applets connected to one sensemaker instance. This sensemaker will be able to perform basic operations on reactions and assessments of content in a group.
The social intelligence features you’ll see in future releases reflect the work we’ve done creating and refining of our design primitives for groupware. If you missed our last presentations of these design primitives, check it out and let us know what you think!