MichaelJ on Nostr: I want to emphasize that we're building a product on Nostr because we believe in ...

I want to emphasize that we're building a product on Nostr because we believe in Nostr's mission of protecting freedom of speech. Thus, our product, #Alexadria, focuses on the uniqueness of Nostr as such, and we are using its momentum to give back to the protocol.

Our core concept of open publications has already made its way into a NIP proposal, which others have begun to adopt. This will make Nostr a haven for independent writers, publishers, and scientists.

Our work on publications illustrated the need for a Nostr citation format, and the recently-proposed NIP-A4 addresses that, providing a means of citing physical and digital works, as well as LLM-generated content.

The Euler edition of Alexandria will utilize our in-development C++ SDK for Nostr, which we intend to support the needs of all clients developers, not just the needs of our project.

Your support of Alexandria lets us contribute to fortifying and growing Nostr as a whole. Thank you for all the ways you support this effort.

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Planning Alexandria

People keep asking what features GitCitadel (npub1s3h…75wz) has planned for #Alexandria, but they’re not set in stone because we’re an agile project.

What we do have, is lots of tickets on our Kanban boards and a naming scheme, where we use a famous person’s last name, to signify the release goals.

Gutenberg v 0.1.0

(after the inventor of the printing press) will contain the features needed to read and write NIP-62 Curated Publications, as well as encompassing the complex infrastructure, architecture, documentation, and personnel we require to make this all run smoothly and look easy.

Euler v 0.2.0

(after a mathematician credited with establishing graph theory) will contain the features for deep-searching, visually exploring, and smartly navigating the data set, wiki page display, annotating and citing the publications, exporting to other formats (like PDF, ePUB, and LaTeX), and commenting/reviewing. To help with the heavy lifting, we will be swapping out the core with our own Nostr SDK called “Aedile”.

Defoe v 0.3.0

(after an author who perfected the novel format) will be all about our favorite writers. We will be focusing upon profile data, payment systems, book clubs and communities, and stylesheets.

That is everything we have planned, for the v1.0 edition, and we consider that version to be a true product.

As for after that, a teaser…