Urbit Foundation’s Director of Developer Experience Neal Davis discusses the philosophy of development on Urbit in a wide ranging conversation that covers everything from the spirit of objects and why it’s not obvious that nuclear fusion would be of benefit to mankind.

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Professor Neal Davis Discusses why Urbit computers have souls, Shinto philosophy, and more

Software as Soulcraft and the Metaphysics of Engineering with Neal Davis

Studio is an application from [Tirrel](/organizations/tirrel) which enables Urbit users to turn a Groups notebook into a public blog with just a few clicks. 

One can enable comments, multiple templates, and even integrate with Sendgrid to send new posts as email updates.

![Screenshot](https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/applications/studio.png)


Tirrel has announced on their blog that Studio’s next release will include USD payments integration, allowing individuals to use Urbit to make a storefront and accept USD.

While most Urbit applications are focused on activity within the Urbit universe, Studio is unique in its focus on connecting the fiat and clearweb worlds to Urbit.



Need a personal website, fast? Studio can set one up in under a minute.

Studio


The Mars Review of Books is the first literary publication hosted on Urbit.  Its inaugural issue includes an article on nuclear fusion from Urbit Foundation's [Neal Davis](https://urbit.org/ids/~lagrev-nocfep), book reviews from writer and man-about-town [Christian Lorentzen](https://twitter.com/xlorentzen), and reflections on millennial romance from Twitter personality [Default Friend](https://twitter.com/default_friend). The MRB can be purchased in [physical form](https://store.marsreview.org) or [read online](https://marsreview.org).

![Mars Review in Print](https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/spotlight/marsreview-issue1.jpg)



The Mars Review of Books is a magazine in print and on Urbit covering both contemporary arts and culture as well as global sociopolitical issues.

The Mars Review of Books


Josh Lehman, Executive Director of the Urbit Foundation and CoinFund discuss web3 leadership, the importance of community, and  what reimagining the internet means for all of us.


Josh Lehman

CoinFund

CoinFund x Urbit – Rabbit Hole Talk


Last year we showcased the release of software distribution which enabled other developers to use Urbit as infrastructure for their creations. This year we’ll be showcasing an entire ecosystem of New World Energy.

Visit assembly.urbit.org for information on speakers, scheduling, and registration.



Urbit Assembly 2022 is the second ever Urbit confluence coming to you this year from Miami Beach.

Assembly


~littel-wolfur will be talking about the history and state of %khan, a new thread orchestrator vane in Urbit. He will go over its usage in apps like the discord bot by ~midsum-salrux, how it makes thread interaction much easier, and how future %khan clients will make native noun communication possible. There will be a simple demo of a naive client at the end of the talk.

~littel-wolfur is a longtime Urbit contributor currently working on devex for smart contracts at Uqbar.


Neal Davis

Developer Call: The Future of %khan


Please join us for a park meetup (picnic optional!) at Alta Plaza Park in Pacific Heights, SF, on Saturday, 8/27. We'll meet at 1:00PM and stay as long as people want to chat. Bring a jacket and your choice of food/drink.
Interested friends and the Urbit-curious are always welcome!

**Time and date:** 1:00PM, August 27th, 2022

**Place:** Alta Plaza Park, San Francisco, CA


Urbit Outside: Alta Plaza Park


This month ~wolref-podlex of the Urbit Foundation is back with another Fireside Chat. This time to update you on Assembly 2022. Make sure to list your questions upfront via [this form](https://airtable.com/shrAH7d8CAPtp62IA) or ask them during the stream. See you there.


Urbit Fireside Chat #2 – Assembly 2022


Join us this August 4-6, as we launch into the Urbit universe in Cheyenne, Wyoming! Taking place in the historic Colony Building, we are gathering individuals from around the world; community members, projects, and yourself, to learn and discuss what a clean-slate OS & network for the 21st century is all about. Whether you just launched a ship, never heard of urbit or even own a galaxy, we invite all to attend! Food, snacks, drinks and swag will be available for attendees.

## Accommodations

We've partnered with the Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham for group rate of $109/night.

Located at 1400 West Lincolnway, Cheyenne, WY, 82001 a 5 minute drive to the event. To take advantage of this rate, please call to make your reservations at +1-307-274-4593 and mention 'urbit' as the group name.

## Websites

Urbit: https://www.urbit.org
Tacen: https://www.tacen.com



Join us this August 4-6, as we launch into the Urbit universe in Cheyenne, Wyoming!

Tacen Inc.

Reassembly: an unofficial urbit conference


This week the Urbit Foundation and Uqbar are meeting at the iconic LùBar in Milano! Come by for a drink on Thursday at 19:30 CET. Make sure to RSVP to Thomas if you plan to come to the meetup, let him know via: thomas@urbit.org or ~dalweb-donfun. The spots are limited.

Ci vediamo tutti giovedì!


Urbit Meetup Milano


![Urbit Outside](https://media.urbit.org/meetups/FWW0KPAVsAAuhYs.jpg)

Please join us for a park meetup (picnic optional!) at Alta Plaza Park in Pacific Heights, SF, on Saturday, 7/23. We'll meet at 1:00PM and stay as long as people want to chat. Bring a jacket and your choice of food/drink.
Interested friends and the Urbit-curious are always welcome!

**Time and date:** 13:00, 2022-07-2022

**Place:** Alta Plaza Park, San Francisco, CA



Tlon and the Urbit Foundation are hosting a meetup at Le Comptoir Général. RSVP on the meetup page and come by on Thursday, we will be ready with snacks and a drink.


Urbit Meetup Paris


Holium is one of the rising stars in the Urbit Community. Earlier this year they launched the Ballot app and will have much more to show at [Assembly 2022](https://assembly.urbit.org). Holium is focused on building a full OS experience around communities and DAOs, where the software that the community runs on — think chat, calendar, files, voice and video calls — are integrated in the computing environment like never before. Developers and especially fresh Hoon School grads should keep their eyes on Holium's roadmap, as opportunities to work with them are dropping regularly. On this call, Trent (~lomder-librun) will tell us all about their plans, their roadmap, and how you can help out.

Trent has worked in software for almost a decade. He spent his first 3 years in the corporate world before building various startups. A recent Urbit convert, he believes in a pro-human future and is fighting for humanity to keep its soul as we enter the neon age.


Trent

Developer Call: Holium's Community OS


~wolref-podlex of the Urbit Foundation will be holding monthly “Fireside Chats” to share what’s going on at the Urbit Foundation and network more broadly, and take questions from the community. If you have a suggestion for a topic or already have a question in mind you can ask it [here](https://airtable.com/shrAH7d8CAPtp62IA).


Urbit Fireside Chat #1


The Urbit Foundation is sponsoring a prize in the [HackFS](https://fs.ethglobal.com/) competition with the [InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)](https://ipfs.io/) and [Filecoin](https://filecoin.io/) communities.

IPFS and Filecoin are distributed data storage and access solutions for a decentralized Web.  Building Urbit compatibility tools will lead to new ways of decentralizing file storage and distribution.

- [Urbit challenge](https://ethglobal.com/events/hackfs2022/prizes#urbit)
- [Apply for Hack FS](https://ethglobal.com/auth?use_redirect=events/hackfs2022/apply)


Hackathon: HackFS with ETH Global


This time Tlon’s ~palfun-foslup will join Neal Davis to discuss Urbit’s current terminal stack and the improvements he is building for it. Multiple sessions and apparently a mouse has been spotted in the upcoming release. All in all some very exciting terminal improvements are coming up shortly. For the long-term ~palfun-foslup is aiming towards native UI which he will describe as well. Be sure to join the hangout after the Developer Call to ask ~palfun-foslup everything you want to know.

~palfun-foslup has been part of Tlon for over 4 years and works in the Infrastructure team.


Developer Call: Urbit’s improved Terminal Stack


The theme of this event is “Urbit: the Past and the Future” ~ribben-donnyl will give a talk about the history of Urbit from its accidental leak up to today. We will also discuss visions for the future of Urbit, and how we’d like to get there. If you have an idea on writing code for Urbit (or if you just want to talk Urbit runtime), we’ll have seasoned veterans on hand.

Join the group to discuss logistics, coordinate travel, and whatever’s on your mind: ~ribben-donnyl/no-coast-assembly-22


Urbit No-Coast Weekend Meetup


On the 26th of April the Urbit Foundation is coming to Kingsnight in Amsterdam, we will host you all in one of the oldest Botanical Gardens in the world. A short series of talks will introduce you to the technical background of Urbit, the vision on social computing by ~palfun-foslup from Tlon and an introduction to the first Urbit blockchain by Uqbar.

Bring your orange Tee and we will sort the drinks and lots of cool people, come join us from 18:00 at the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam.


Thomas

Urbit Foundation Meetup - Kingsnight


This time Uqbar’s ~hodzod-walrus will join Neal Davis to discuss Uqbar’s latest developments in building what will be the first Blockchain on Urbit. ~hodzod-walrus will go into Uqbar’s basic outline and how they will make their plans reality. Why their ZK interpreter, Zock, is the perfect form for smart contract integration on Urbit. How they will execute parallel smart contract on Hoon and the endeavours with uHoon.

~hodzod-walrus is a programmer working on Uqbar. Previously he built Pokur as an Urbit Foundation apprenticeship grant. He’s quickly become a Hoon evangelist and hopes to showcase its strengths in the world of smart contracts.


Developer Call: Uqbar and Urbit’s first Blockchain


On April 5th it’s time for the second Swedish Urbit-meetup! The plan for this time is to look a bit more closely at the technical details with ~millyt-dorsen (Founder of Ursverige and urbit.nu) and ~wicrum-wicrun (Dalten Collective and Quartus), as well as reviewing what’s happened online since the last meetup.

**Time and date:** 18:00, 2022-04-05

**Place:** Drottning Victorias Örlogshem, Teatergatan 3, 111 48 Stockholm

No registration is necessary, but if you want to receive emails about any changes as well as future events you can sign up [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSci5wzl1nPK9pe3QOKzc37jrdV7UZp0AT-CBMIyEfhbgZ0VqQ/viewform) (this is not necessary if you have signed up previously). You can also DM ~wicrum-wicrun your email address.

Välkomna / Welcome!


Martin

Urbit Meet-Up Stockholm


Quartus Corp's ~rabsef-bicrym will join Neal Davis to discuss his ongoing endeavours to make useful software on Urbit. ~rabsef will explain three visions Quartus has for Urbit’s use - Urbit as Personal Data Assistant, Urbit as Building a Better Syllogism, and Urbit as STEAM Toy.

~rabsef-bicrym is a long-standing member of the ~dalten Collective. His path to Urbit development is non-traditional, coming from the world of the practice of law prior to working on Urbit. Quartus’s products on Urbit include `%gora` and `%crow`. They’ve also submitted several updates to the main code base including, most recently, an update to the ring signature library.

If you’d like to know more about the work Quartus is doing, join their group at ~mister-hilper-dozzod-dalten/quartus.


Developer Call: Urbit Three Ways with Quartus


We'll discuss mapping out the current Urbit technology complex, how to promote ongoing developer engagement and cultivation, and the upcoming Hoon School Live reboot.

Neal Davis has taught computer science at the University of Illinois since 2015. Trained as a nuclear engineer, he moved through high-performance computing into training engineers to use computers well. He has joined the Urbit Foundation to work on all aspects of our developer experience.

[Sign up for Hoon School Live here](https://hooniversity.org/enroll/).


Neal Davis discusses Urbit education and the upcoming Hoon School Live

Developer Call: Building the Next Developers on Mars


Austin, Texas martians - come hangout and talk Urbit Friday, January 21st at 6:30 pm at Distribution Hall. We will be joined by ~poldec-tonteg, the director of The Combine (the-combine.org), which is the Urbit Foundation's incubator that invests in teams building on Urbit. He will give a presentation around 8pm on The Combine, its purpose and how to get involved as an entrepreneur. It will be followed by a more technical presentation by Edward Amsden (~ritpub-sipsyl), an Urbit kernel developer who is currently rewriting Vere, the Nock run-time environment and Urbit's virtual machine. Team members from many Urbit companies will be in attendance including ~Tirrel, dcSpark, Tlon.io, Urbit Live, Wexpert Systems, Native Planet, and Holium. Hosted by Assembly Capital and the Urbit Foundation.

If you haven't joined the network yet, bring a computer and we will help you get set up. Other than that we'll have some food, beverages and a fire, but be sure to bring a jacket too. See you there!


Meetup: Austin


What is the Urbit??

Philosophers, mathematicians and other timewasters have pondered this tough question for aeons. Many went mad, others grew long beards or even buried themselves alive, thinking the riddle unsolvable. So did we... until now.

Urbit Brisbane are proud to announce that we finally have found an answer: yes, we have figured out what is the Urbit!!

We'd like to share this important knowledge with you, so join us among the fair hills of St Lucia this Friday night. The Secret Venue will be announced on Friday arvo. RSVP and stay tuned to the event page so you don't end up walking around Guyatt Park accosting joggers for clues.

Come along and learn about the Urbit with us. You will gain access to an eldritch power far beyond the frail grasp of worldly things. If that isn't enough to tempt you, we also have beers and pizza with your name on them.\*

\*If your name is Asahi or Godfather Supreme.


Morg R

Meetup: Brisbane Australia


As many of you know, Urbit runs best when hosted, seeing that it's a server and all. The problem of course is that hosting an Urbit ship isn't the easiest of things to do for most people. Hosting Urbit ships in production is actually pretty tough though—doing it right requires wrangling the complexity of traditional "Earth" infrastructure in addition to a strong sense of how Urbit works.

In this call we're joined by Brendan Hay, the lead behind Tlon Hosting, and Lukas Bühler of UrbitHost, in what's sure to be an entertaining and informative conversation. Bren and Lukas have both been the masterminds behind their respective hosting architectures, and were somewhat surprised to learn that they'd independently settled on highly similar architectures.

This will be an unscripted conversation that's sure to span a gamut of topics including, but not limited to: the unique technical challenges of hosting Urbit ships, the upcoming %khan vane, Kubernetes operators, product roadmaps, custodianship of (or plans to do away with) private keys, and probably a ton more.

Hosted by Josh Lehman, the Director of the Urbit Foundation.


Brendan Hay

Lukas Bühler

Developer Call: Running a Hosting Provider


We wish we could get everyone together at once for Assembly, but travel still isn't as easy as we wish it was. For those that can't make it to Assembly, join Urbit Foundation Director and Tlon CPO Josh Lehman for an online-only AMA about Urbit's new software distribution capabilities.


Assembly Software Distribution Q&A Live Stream


Join us for the Assembly 2021 introduction, keynote and demos on Saturday, October 16th. You'll hear from Galen Wolfe-Pauly, Josh Lehman, Edouard Urcades, Jake Miller and Ted Blackman for five separate talks spanning roughly two hours.


Assembly Keynote Live Stream


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Assembly 2021 marks a pivotal moment in Urbit: software distribution. Yes, Urbit is ready to be built upon. We’ll spend three days together doing just that.

- Learn about building applications on Urbit (it’s easy).
- Find out how to work and create on a platform that is fully owned by you.
- Meet with the growing ecosystem of communities and businesses built on Urbit.

If you’re simply into calm computing, well, there will be plenty of that too.

You’ll choose between two tracks:

- Assembly: Assemble software or work together on projects in small groups
- Workshop: A two day workshop taught by Neal Davis, Urbit for Developers



Please join us for a deep dive into Urbit Visor, a brand new web extension which transforms your browser into a first class Urbit client. Robert Kornacki from dcSpark will be taking viewers step-by-step through the history of how Urbit Visor came to be, starting off with his initial work on the Rust airlock implementation, moving into Login With Urbit, and finally arriving at the final product of Urbit Visor that we have today.

From there Robert will hit on many topics including:

- Live demonstration of how Urbit Visor works
- How Urbit Visor improves and increases the security of the Landscape login experience
- An overview of the first Urbit Web App: Urbit Dashboard
- Ship hot-swapping
- Streamlining the developer experience for any JS/TS dev to jump into the ecosystem and start building immediately
- UV Extensions and how they will allow Urbit and the current web to integrate seamlessly
- The long term goals and vision of Urbit Visor

Robert Kornacki (~mocrux-nomdep) is CSO at dcSpark and has been in the Urbit ecosystem since 2019. Robert has significant experience working in the crypto industry over the past several years, developing tooling and smart contract protocols which hold millions of dollars of assets to this day.

Hosted by Josh Lehman, the Director of the Urbit Foundation.


Urbit Visor transforms your browser into a first-class Urbit client

Robert Kornacki

Developer Call: Urbit Visor - Transforming the Web Browser Into an Urbit Client


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For our second post-Covid Urbit IRL, we're heading to the East Bay!

Please join us at Sibley Preserve for a hangout and (optional) hike.

We'll meet at the Sibley Staging Area at 3:00PM, and leave for a casual walk to the caldera and labyrinth at 4:00PM.

Hiking shoes, snacks, water, and picnic blankets/chairs are encouraged! There are restrooms and water at the Staging Area.

Please join the channel 'Urbit Outside ~[masked]' in ~bitbet-bolbel/urbit-community to get in touch with the gang.


Urbit Outside


ETH Gas prices are too high! The growth of Urbit has been greatly hampered this year by the cost of activating planets. Join Philip Monk (`~wicdev-wisryt`) and the entire L2 team as they present the work completed to date to implement Layer 2 naive rollups. Come see a demo of the new Bridge front end, first migrating a star and spawning some planets, then activating a planet, all on L2.

This call will be a great opportunity for galaxy owners to get their questions answered for the upcoming vote on Layer 2 implementation. It will also be good for anyone in the community that wants a comprehensive look at how naive rollups will work to bring down planet activation costs. If you're technically inclined, be sure to check out [Philip's walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQdqCwYIBoU) of the naive rollup code ahead of time so you can ask questions.


Discussion of Layer 2 Architecture and Implementation

Jimmy Young

 Jose Cisneros

 Tom Holford

 Mark

 Poprox

 Will Galebach

Philip Monk

Developer Call: Azimuth, Scaled


This week Jake Miller (~littel-wolfer) will be giving us a look at his development process, walking through his "urbit-emacs" setup and how he uses org-mode and tmux for hoon development. He'll also be giving us a quick demo of his work-in-progress Roam importer.

Jake considers himself a recovering Fintech engineer currently working at Tlon. He is interested in building learning systems and tools in Urbit.

Please join us for Happy Hour after the talk to ensure all your burning yakshaving questions get answered.


A look at ~littel-wolfer's Hoon development setup

Jake Miller

Developer Call: Urbit Yakshaving


Please join us for a look behind the curtain at the Urbit Runtime. Host Ted Blackman (~rovnys-ricfer) will be interviewing Joe Bryan (~master-morzod). Topics will include event log truncation, plans for storing more than 2GB, multithreading implementation, and much more.

Ted Blackman (~rovnys-ricfer) has worked on Urbit since 2017, mostly on the kernel, with forays into the runtime and userspace. Before Urbit, he worked in sensor fusion, robotics, web development, distributed systems, and data engineering. He has a degree in physics from MIT.

As always, join us for happy hour after the talk.


The current and future thinking about the Urbit runtime

Joe Bryan

Ted Blackman

Developer Call: The Urbit Runtime and its Future


The Urbit community has grown at a rapid clip throughout 2021. There are so many exciting things going on that it's hard to convey them all, even with Developer Calls happening every two weeks. This event will function as a virtual "mini-conference" where we'll give a series of important and exciting announcements, including both formal and informal talks from many members of our community.

Here's a rundown of what we'll be discussing:

## Introduction: State of the Network

_12:00 PDT, Josh Lehman_

Urbit is under heavy, active development by both Tlon and a wide range of contributors. Josh Lehman will discuss some of the most important areas of work being undertaken, provide a picture of where Tlon and community efforts are going in the future, and even has a few exciting announcements to make.

## Taisho, Urbit's Port City

_~12:20 PDT, Hunter Miller_

Piloting an Urbit ship requires expertise that many lack. To achieve the rich and prosperous ecosystem we've all envisioned requires making that journey easier. In this talk, Hunter Miller introduces a new way for users to join the network with minimal effort.

## Keynote: The Revenge of Teleology

_~13:00 PDT, Justin Murphy_

Teleology—or inquiry into ultimate ends—has been out of fashion since the seventeenth century, when Francis Bacon said that, “like a virgin consecrated to God,” it “produces nothing.” I argue that the digital revolution is inverting Bacon’s claim. Baconian instrumentalism is now suffering from diminishing returns—it is what the youth today call a Boomer Ideology. Rather, the greatest gains are going to individuals and communities with teleological attitudes. This talk will observe some examples and present a model consistent with the observations. Bitcoin inquires after the telos of money, the most winning independent “content creators” inquire after the telos of media, and Urbit inquires after the telos of personal computing.

## Lightning Talks

_14:00 PDT, you?_

After the scheduled talks we'll break out into a series of 30 minute talks led by community members. There will be up to three talks given in parallel at each of 14:00 PDT, 14:30 PDT and 15:00 PDT (so nine talks total).

If you'd like to give a talk, please use [this form to sign up](https://airtable.com/shr0Xmqcv1HSy47EP). You can see the full list of [proposed talks here](https://airtable.com/shreGQ4kCU8RA5GJS/tblTZxCpqedJBwSkE), and if you'd like to voice your support for any of these specifically, [cast a vote using this form](https://airtable.com/shrhNRUAGCqZ38VXA).


A virtual mini-conference for the Urbit community featuring a special keynote talk from our friend Justin Murphy.

Hunter Miller

Justin Murphy

Town Hall


Building solid networking infrastructure has been a major focus of the Urbit project since its inception. There's a lot going on under the hood
that ensures our servers reliably stay connected. Liam Fitzgerald (~hastuc-dibtux) will be explaining how Urbit is able to deploy changes without breaking the network. Anyone designing userspace applications will be interested in the approach he has designed.

Liam is an Interface Engineer working at Tlon working on the Landscape team. He will be discussing networking userspace applications in depth and going into detail about the new versioning system.

As usual, there will be an opportunity to jump on the call with us afterward to ask questions and hang out.


Versioned Networking for Application Developers

Liam Fitzgerald

Developer Call: P2P Versioned Networking


Video chat on Urbit? It's nearly here using the WebRTC protocol. Edward Amsden (`~ritpub-sipsyl`) will be giving us a look at the WebRTC Airlock library that he has developed that handles all the hard parts of WebRTC. This will allow developers to simply call or answer calls by ship or app name. Edward will also be giving us a live text-based demo of WebRTC on urbit. Please join us for an exciting presentation.

Edward is a software developer and the principal of Black River Software LLC. He has several years experience building both backend and IoT software in Haskell, and in particular building IoT control and software deployment infrastructure. He also has academic background in programming language research.

As usual, there'll be an opportunity to jump on the call with us afterward to ask questions and hang out.

## Resources

- [Urbit WebRTC on GitHub](https://github.com/black-river-software/urbit-webrtc)
- Check out WebRTC progress reports on `~ritpub-sipsyl/webrtc-on-urbit`


Video chat on Urbit? It's nearly here with WebRTC.

Edward Amsden

Developer Call: Real-Time Communication on Urbit


Bitcoin is coming to Urbit! With the upcoming release of the Bitcoin Wallet, you will be able to pay Urbit ships directly with BTC.

We’d like to take a moment to show it off, and discuss the future of commerce on Urbit. First, Christian and Josh will demo the wallet, then, our good friend Marty Bent will moderate a panel with Christian, Tim, and Ed. We will have time at the end for questions.

The event will have a live stream on Youtube, and a live-chat on Urbit, links to come.

Join the Bitcoin dev conversation in the Urbitcoiners group: [~pindet-timmut/urbitcoin-cash](web+urbitgraph://group/~pindet-timmut/urbitcoin-cash)


Bitcoin is coming to Urbit! With the upcoming release of the Bitcoin Wallet, you will be able to pay Urbit ships directly with BTC.

Marty Bent

Urbit Foundation

Bitcoin Launch


Some exciting work has been going on behind the scenes to provide the foundation for 3rd party software distribution. In this talk Phil (~wicdev-wisryt) and Raghu (~sovmep-ripsum) will discuss the work they've been doing to clay to provide "virtual desks"—an integral part of the infrastructure needed to have safe, generic software distribution.

Raghu is a software engineer at Hudson River Trading who is perhaps best known for his work on ucal, the Urbit calendar application. The work he's doing with Phil on virtual desks is being done through our Scholarships program, in which community developers pair up with Tlon infrastructure engineers to work on infrastructure projects. We'll spend some time at the beginning of the call to introduce Raghu and hear about his experience working on the Urbit kernel.

As usual, there'll be an opportunity to jump on the call with us afterward to ask questions and hang out.

## Resources

- [Original mailing list discussion of 3rd party software distribution](https://groups.google.com/a/urbit.org)
- [ucal](https://github.com/taalhavras/ucal)


Some exciting work has been going on behind the scenes to provide the foundation for 3rd party software distribution.

Raghu

 Philip Monk

Developer Call: 3rd Party Software Distribution


Urbit provides a powerful and extensible platform for all kinds of app development. It can serve as a general-purpose datastore, decentralized network, and identity solution for a variety of front-end applications. The client that ships with Urbit, Landscape, provides one example of the kind of applications that can be built on the platform. However, other developers can use the same tools used to create Landscape to power their own interfaces and clients for Urbit.

Tyler Brown Cifu Shuster (~radbur-sivmus) has worked with the Landscape team over the past few months to extract these tools into reusable Javascript packages. In this talk, he will explain how to use them to develop a client for Urbit independent of Landscape. He will cover the basic lifecycle of a client and explain how Javascript interface and state frameworks pair with Urbit's data model.

This talk should enable anyone familiar with modern Javascript development and HTTP grammar to build an application on top of Urbit without writing any back-end code.


In this talk, Tyler Brown Cifu Shuster (~radbur-sivmus) explains how to use Javascript tools to develop a client for Urbit.

Tyler Brown Cifu Shuster

Mike Osborne

Developer Call: JavaScript Apps on Urbit


Landscape was an experiment. Now it’s Tlon's flagship client for the Urbit project: a product, a full-stack application, spread across a variety of Gall agents and libraries, lighting the way forward against the dwindling unknowns in the reality of Urbit userspace development and distribution.

Matilde Park, Landscape team lead, talks about the distinctions between the Landscape product and basic Urbit development, and the significance of building Landscape for Tlon — the role of “high-pressure experiments” in forcing our computer toward something rock-hard, diamond-perfect. With a few examples of ongoing deployments, she also outlines the problems being solved right now and the ones still a touch further out.

As usual, join us after the talk on the call to ask questions and hang out.


Matilde Park, Landscape team lead, talks about the distinctions between the Landscape product and basic Urbit development, and the significance of building Landscape for Tlon.

Matilde Park

Developer Call: Pressure and Protolith


Urbit engineer Philip Monk will be discussing the solution space to scaling Azimuth, the infrastructure for Urbit ID that's built on Ethereum.

Unless you're living under a rock, you know that Ethereum is thoroughly congested and, as a result the cost of working with it is quite high. Most pertinently for Urbit, this means that the cost of bringing new planets onto the network is unacceptably high.

Phil has been doing a ton of research for the past few months on different approaches to scaling Azimuth. In this talk, he'll lay out the what's been explored so far, the relevant considerations for Urbit, and the emerging solutions that are being pursued.

As usual, this talk will feature a presentation, a Q&amp;A period and a follow-up video call that anyone from the audience can join.

See you there!


Urbit

Developer Call: Scaling Azimuth


Tlon Engineer Philip Monk is interviewed by Poprox in an "Architectural Idea Maze" discussion, where Phil will discuss the choices made, and possibly more importantly, the choices _not_ made in the design of a component of Urbit. In this discussion, Phil will be focusing on subscriptions in all their forms throughout Urbit.

Developer calls are focused on the technologies that underpin Urbit, from the top of the stack to the very bottom. They’re an opportunity for the people developing and contributing to Urbit to share their knowledge and expertise, including things that typically don’t make it into the docs, such as how and why Urbit works the way it does.

The livestream will be held on YouTube, and a group video call will be made available via Google Meet after the talk for casual discussion and in-person conversation.


Lane R.

Developer Call: Architectural Idea Maze


This call will feature a discussion by well-known developer in the Urbit community, ~timluc-miptev. ~timluc will be discussing the work he's been doing to provide access to a Bitcoin full node, which will enable Urbit ships to make Bitcoin payments to other ships. More generally, he'll be discussing the patterns that he's using to manage an Urbit ship's connection to externally-running infrastructure, and how access to that infrastructure can be provided to other Urbit nodes.

Developer calls are focused on the technologies that underpin Urbit, from the top of the stack to the very bottom. They’re an opportunity for the people developing and contributing to Urbit to share their knowledge and expertise, including things that typically don’t make it into the docs, such as how and why Urbit works the way it does.

The livestream will be held on YouTube, and a group video call will be made available via Google Meet after the talk for casual discussion and in-person conversation.


Developer Call: Injecting External Services into Urbit


This call will feature a discussion by Tlon engineer Mark Staarink, also known as ~palfun-foslup, about writing an HTTP BitTorrent tracker and command line app in 1500 lines of code.

The livestream will be held on YouTube, and a group video call will be made available via Google Meet after the talk for casual discussion and in-person conversation.


Developer calls are focused on the technologies that underpin Urbit, from the top of the stack to the very bottom. They’re an opportunity for the people developing and contributing to Urbit to share their knowledge and expertise, including things that typically don’t make it into the docs, such as how and why Urbit works the way it does.

Developer Call: BitTorrent tracking on Urbit


Developer calls are focused on the technologies that underpin Urbit, from the top of the stack to the very bottom. They’re an opportunity for the people developing and contributing to Urbit to share their knowledge and expertise, including things that typically don’t make it into the docs, such as how and why Urbit works the way it does.

This call will feature a discussion by Tlon engineer Logan Allen about graph-store, the general-purpose store that is gradually replacing the bespoke stores behind Chat, Publish and Links.

You can join the event by clicking the gotowebinar.com link posted here. Details for joining the conversation were also emailed to all registered attendees, and will be sent again shortly before the event starts. Please check your email inbox for a message from Meetup.com.


Developer Call: Graph Store


We've been busy building, testing and refining — and now it's time to show off what we've been up to.

We're going to do a live demo of Tlon's Urbit hosting solution, check out some of the new features of Landscape and generally catch up on what both we (at Tlon) and the community have been up to.

Since the OS 1 launch, back in April, we've been living on Urbit day to day. Urbit has gotten gotten a lot faster, more reliable and nicer to use. Most importantly, we've got an easy way for friends to come join us without running their own node. We're really excited to let people explore what's possible with Urbit and build communities without ever touching the command-line.

Join the waitlist for hosting here: [https://tlon.io/](https://tlon.io/)

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Got a group of friends who want to use Urbit together? We periodically give away blocks of planets and help people get set up. Apply for a community grant: [https://urbit.org/community/community-grants/](https://urbit.org/community/community-grants/)

Interested developing on Urbit? Hoon School is a community-run program to teach you the basics of the language and system. Sign up here: [https://hooniversity.org](https://hooniversity.org)

Mostly, you can find us on Urbit in the Urbit Community group. But you can also follow along here: [https://urbit.org/blog/](https://twitter.com/urbit)

[https://github.com/urbit](https://github.com/urbit)

[https://urbit.org/blog/](https://urbit.org/blog)

And if you're still confused about what Urbit is, try these: [https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/](https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/)


Urbit Hosting Launch Event


The presentation will begin at 7pm Pacific.

Join the live conversation on Urbit itself: `~/~dopzod/os1-premiere`

[There is also a VR viewing party for this event, hosted by `~naltyc-wornes`](https://account.altvr.com/events/1435581121923383472).

To receive the event merch, RSVP on this event page by midnight!

Ready to launch OS1? Check out our install guide:

[https://urbit.org/using/install/](https://urbit.org/using/install/)

Want address space for your friends? Apply for an Urbit Community Grant:

[https://urbit.org/community/community-grants/](https://urbit.org/community/community-grants/)

Interested in contributing to Urbit? Sign up for Hoon School:

[https://urbit.org/community/hoonschool/](https://urbit.org/community/hoonschool/)

Get the latest on Urbit:

Blog: [https://urbit.org/blog/](https://urbit.org/blog/)

Urbit Twitter: [https://twitter.com/urbit](https://twitter.com/urbit)

Urbit Github: [https://github.com/urbit](https://github.com/urbit)

Still confused about what Urbit is?

[https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/](https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/)


Urbit OS1 Launch Party


Before we go headlong into that unknown region, we're gonna have a party at basecamp (aka the office). Come hang out and have a drink with your fellow Urbit explorers.

Bring your laptop if you want to install Urbit.

And as always, drag a friend!


Urbit is a wilderness right now. A vast continent of possibility. We're gonna head out there and hack around. Join us.

Urbit IRL ~2020.2


It's 2020 and Urbit is accelerating. We've got a lot going live this year.

Replacing the internet is a thing to behold. Come by the offices to hang out, have a drink, and hear the latest.

Bring a laptop if you want help installing Urbit.

And as always, bring a friend!


Urbit IRL ~2020.1


We're getting together to savor the moment and get hype about what the next decade holds (the whole replacing the internet thing).

We hope to see you there!

Things to bring:

-A friend

-A laptop, if you want help installing Urbit

-Good cheer


Come celebrate, friends! Urbit has had quite the decade, transforming from an intercepted interstellar transmission to a functional operating system, which also functions.

Urbit IRL ~2019.12


We're calling it Urbit IRL. You can use it to see your friends face-to-face, converse about Urbit, even to share a beer. And we're trying it out Friday, November 15.

We hope to see you there! If you want help installing Urbit, bring a laptop. And bring a friend, especially if they are interested in replacing the internet.


Lately, Urbit has been having dangerous amounts of fun online. So we got thinking, 'Wouldn't it be smart to try having fun offline as well?' Thus, we invented something totally new: an offline chatroom.

Urbit IRL ~2019.11


We're calling it Urbit IRL. You can use it to see your friends face-to-face, converse about Urbit, even to share a beer. And we're trying it out Friday, October 4.

We hope to see you there! If you want help installing Urbit, bring a laptop. And bring a friend, especially if they are interested in replacing the internet.


Urbit IRL ~2019.10


Come have a drink on us, and bring friends! We'll be there 6–8pm.


Thanks to our friends over at Garage for offering to host another meetup in Austin, Texas.

Urbit Austin ~2019.8


Turning the music down has worked well, so we'll continue doing that. And if you want help installing Urbit, bring a laptop.

Feel free to bring friends!


Turns out that just getting Urbit fans in one room is pretty fun — so come hang out and chat with old and new friends over a beer.

Urbit IRL ~2019.7


This time we'll give a brief update on what we've been up to around 8pm. Turning the music down worked well, so we'll do that again. And if you want help installing Urbit, bring a laptop.

Feel free to bring friends!


Turns out that just getting Urbit fans in one room is pretty fun — so come hang out and have some beer and pizza.

Urbit IRL ~2019.6

Turns out that just getting Urbit fans in one room is pretty fun — so come hang out and have a beer, or wine.

Urbit IRL ~2019.5


By popular demand: we'll try to keep this one QUIET so everybody can talk.

Come for a quick update on what we're working on. Stay to relax and talk to a weird array of people who also want to replace the internet.

Feel free to bring friends!


Turns out that just getting Urbit fans in one room is pretty fun — so come hang out and have a beer (or wine).

Urbit IRL ~2019.4


Thank you to our friends over at Garage for hosting us. We'll be there from 5-7 PM.


We're coming to Austin, TX! It turns out that just getting Urbit fans in one room is pretty fun — so come hang out and have a drink on us. Feel free to bring friends and come early for Urbit shirts.

Urbit IRL: Austin, TX


8:00-9:00pm: AMA

Afterwards, have a beer, connect with Urbit developers, fans, and friends IRL.

Feel free to bring friends and share the primer. [https://urbit.org/primer](https://urbit.org/primer)


We thought we'd try something new this month. Come hang out and ask Galen questions about Azimuth, Arvo, or any part of Urbit.

After hours: Ask Galen Anything


Come have a beer, connect with Urbit developers, fans and friends IRL, and ask questions about the address space going on-chain (if you have them).

Feel free to bring friends!


We had a busy and productive 2018. This time around, we're just going to play music and relax.

After hours: It's just a party, man


~Schedule

7 - 8: Come on time for hot pizza!

8 - 8:30: Alejandro Machado, researcher, advocate, and member of the Zcash community will speak

8:30 - 9: Galen Wolfe-Pauly will tell you things about Urbit and our wallet

9 - 10: Hangout


We're all full and looking forward to seeing you tonight. After you check-in at the front door please come up to floor 2, room 222.

Urbit + Zcash: 'Blockchain Week'


Gavin will give an update on Urbit design at 8:30. Then it's time to hang, listen to music and meet up IRL. The room has tables and the internet is pretty fast. Impromptu demos and tutorials are the norm. Bring your laptop and we'll install Urbit for you. Or just relax and talk to the weird array of people who also want to replace the internet.

Feel free to bring friends!


Urbit IRL ~2018.9


Turns out that just getting Urbit fans in one room is pretty fun — so come hang out and have a beer.

No demos or talks this time, but we will be hosting Hoon School again soon. Just some time to hang, listen to music and meet up IRL. The room is full of desks and the internet is pretty fast. So impromptu demos and tutorials are the norm. Bring your laptop and we'll install Urbit for you. Or just relax and talk to the weird array of people who also want to replace the internet.

Feel free to bring friends!


UPDATE: Hey Everyone! Due to a conflict, we are rescheduling our gathering to the following Friday, August 17.

Urbit IRL ~2018.8

We’re hosting a last minute happy hour for our friends in town for the Decentralized Web Summit. All are welcome to join us tomorrow, Friday, August 3 at the Orbit Room from 5-7PM.

After hours 'decentralized web summit'


Ted will give a quick update on Urbit's new build system, ford. Then it's time to hang, listen to music (our friend Grayson will be playing records) and meet up IRL. The room is full of desks and the internet is pretty fast. Impromptu demos and tutorials are the norm. Bring your laptop and we'll install Urbit for you. Or just relax and talk to the weird array of people who also want to replace the internet.

Feel free to bring friends!


Urbit IRL ~2018.5


There's no lesson per-se, think of it more like an 'independent projects' class. A few of us will be around to help you get started working on whatever you're interested in. It's completely fine if you're new to the language. We're going to start with 20 spots so we can help everyone individually.


Come, bring your laptop, and we'll get you started building things in Urbit's language — Hoon.

~2018.4 Hoon School


No demos or talks. Just some time to hang, listen to music and meet up IRL. The room is full of desks and the internet is pretty fast. So impromptu demos and tutorials are the norm. Bring your laptop and we'll install Urbit for you. Or just relax and talk to the weird array of people who also want to replace the internet.

Feel free to bring friends!


Turns out that just getting Urbit fans in one room is pretty fun — so come hang out and have a beer.

Urbit IRL ~2018.3


There's no lesson per-se, think of it more like an 'independent projects' class. A few of us will be around to help you get started working on whatever you're interested in. It's completely fine if you're new to the language. We're going to start with only 10 spots so we can help everyone individually.


~2018.3 Hoon School


No demos or talks. Just some time to hang, listen to music and meet up IRL. The room is full of desks and the internet is pretty fast. So impromptu demos and tutorials are the norm. Bring your laptop and we'll install Urbit for you. Or just relax and talk to people.

Feel free to bring friends!"


Turns out that just getting Urbit fans in one room is pretty fun — so come hang out and have something to drink.

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