Boris Mann

@bmann

Mostly building Open Source. Community. Future of Work.

Vancouver, BC
blog.bmannconsulting.com
Joined October 2006
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  1. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    The good news, is AWS Firecracker is a further nail in the old "we're being locked in" argument. I expect a future conversation of ... X : We're being locked into Firecracker. Me : Open source! X : Yes, but we can't run it as well as AWS. Me : That's called finally being honest.

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    15 hours ago

    It’s a really curious sociological thing that the fact that folks are exploiting the OSS devs here, and I’m not choosing that word lightly, is what gives them social permission to hold their own engineering practices blameless in the process of doing the exploitation.

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  3. 18 hours ago

    Notes posted to from the JSON-RPC spec call -- a good kick off meeting, going to try and get 1474 to last call and spin up testing.

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  4. 21 hours ago

    30 minutes from now, at 8am PST, I'm hosting a call about Ethereum's JSON-RPC spec - how to standardize it, test it, and collaborating on maintaining it. Links to Zoom & agenda in the HackMD notes

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  5. 21 hours ago

    Great commentary on one of the first Amazon OSS projects. Previously they had mainly open source SDKs. This is another tipping point of everything open source, even at the corporate level. Which means it’s time for open source to evolve — hence new license discussions.

    One of the interesting things about AWS Firecracker is that it is (one of?) the first OSS projects *originated* by AWS. It will be interesting to see how outside contributions and community are curated. Some comments after a 2 minute look at the repo/docs:
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  6. 22 hours ago

    Import for discussions, this is the eWASM roadmap proposal. Great to see this collected for review and feedback.

    We just published the working group proposal as part of the roadmap. Find it on the forum: . We'd love your input! 🙏 to , , , Hugo, Paul, Jared, Jake, Guillaume & the other contributors!
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  7. Nov 26

    Pretty impressed by the team. They’re working on Plasma chains and organizing themselves using Holocracy and bounties. Check their community page for more details

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  8. Nov 26

    Rainy Save on Meats neon, waiting for my bus.

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  9. Nov 26

    Why yes, I do have one more community call announcement! Hosting a call about properly standardizing the JSON-RPC spec for Ethereum, running tests / validations on this, and who wants to maintain this over time. 8am PST tomorrow, Nov 27th

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  10. Nov 26

    Posted the notes / action items from our call to -- moving ahead with getting EIP615 Static Jumps accepted & deployed, more clarity needed on eWASM upgrade path, and LLVM & other IR usage for security needs

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  11. Nov 26

    Open source licenses, maintainership, payment, and the entire software industry that is built on open source are going to continue to go through some big changes. If you are building on top, those “free” externalities of dependencies are about to start costing.

    is worth taking a look at. is good. I'd like to see the marketplaces of FOSS modules experiment with payments.
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  12. Nov 26

    OK, getting started now, here's the zoom link

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  13. Nov 26

    A guide to funding opportunities for crypto projects collected by "a list of all the ways people can get funded for crypto work without giving away equity or issuing a token." I added this link to the funding taxonomy on

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  14. Nov 26

    call this morning at 10am PST. Brief kick off call, looks like we'll spend some time discussing 's work on LLVM to EVM. Meeting thread with Zoom details is here

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    Nov 26

    Pre-EIP State rent document can be discussed here: The actual doc is here:

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  16. Retweeted
    Nov 20

    It's never too late to do the right thing! So here are the notes from the Token Ring we held at in Prague (Bottom of the page)

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  17. Retweeted
    Nov 25

    Here's my Ethereum extension. It can send ether, deploy token contracts and send token transactions.

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  18. Nov 25

    I wrote up an overview of types of funding, from grants to long term, and related issues around supporting the Ethereum ecosystem -- thanks for feedback & draft review.

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    Nov 25

    New folks: Thanks for following! Feel free to send thoughts and questions. Meantime, the Guide is the official, down-and-dirty doc:

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  20. Nov 24

    It’s not unfair to call ’s creation of the PPL as radical & indeed he says it himself “Rule 3 is new. Rule 3 is radical. In many situations, Rule 3 is necessary.”

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