Tonight the @pan_quake Community was called on to hit our GoGetFunding.com/panquake Beta Development target by June 26th. An ambitious target but an important one. Why? Because we revealed that doing so will trigger Beta Delivery & Support phase. That means: Panquake in your hands!
The major success of April's fundraising meant in May, we brought on multiple new devs & as you'll see in the tweets that follow, those devs have performed so well that we are currently ahead of our production schedule. More project funds directly translates into faster delivery!
Thanks to YOU Panquake now has TEN paid contractors working on our project! That's why things are moving so fast! Here is May's updated Key Campaign Statistics which we transparently release to the public like clockwork on the last Saturday of every single month:
Keen followers will remember back in March we talked about having identified 128 code references for the back end build & promised there would be more. We have completed our mapping of the back end of our application: Panquake is 278 objects strong!
We completed our Organisation of Data & Methods charts. That means for EVERY single piece of data generated by our application, we know the:
* Originating source
* Object Attributes
* Where every piece is stored or passes through
* Methods of transmission
* Governance structure
But wait, there's more! We've:
* restructured our Git so it's ready to house a codebase of this magnitude in a cohesive way
* tasked devs & pairs to code every step of our dev pathways
Now we're scoping our service components & config specs because coding phase begins June 5th!
The extensive, professional & thorough planning & documentation produced in the Panquake build means our devs already have most of their code elements at hand - it's now simply a matter of piecing them together. This means our code phase will be MUCH smoother than other projects!
Now - on the front end:
In previous months we've given a high level overview of the development pathway for our user interface. This month, since we've begun showing it to select media & influencers (under NDA), we're comfortable getting more specific about what's been achieved:
As for next steps in the UI dev process: here's what we have completed drafts but not yet final screens for:
Now comes 2 HUGE announcements: what Panquake will be getting up to in June -
1. Launching "Talk Liberation TV" hosted by @_taylorhudak - a weekly investigative deep dive into global news events relating to Big Tech censorship, surveillance, privacy, security & freedom of speech
2. Launching an accompanying weekly long form article series on Substack so that you get amazing written & video content from us every single week...
IN 6 LANGUAGES!
- English
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Norwegian
In this month's State of the Business report, we presented an open letter from our Social Media Coordinator to the @pan_quake community:
Given all that has been accomplished with your support, it's incredible to think that in only 4 months we have gone from "do you want this? Can we do it?" to serious production progress, to delivery planning.
Panquake is a major win for humankind & we don't hope: we deliver!
You answered "if" there would be a @pan_quake: in the coming weeks, you'll answer "when".
We're here working our butts off dawn til dusk (& beyond) every single day & it's your support & advocacy that gives us the strength to do this.
Lots of people wondering why I've been so quiet - I'm really sorry, the truth is because I have been heads down & tails up with the development team for hours and hours every single day building the greatest social media application we've ever seen, for you all! We progress daily
...and often when my head and my focus is constantly immersed in technical detail like that, the outside world blurs and the days melt into one another and my awareness centers around build requirements & delivery deadlines (which I never, ever miss as I'm sure you've noticed!)
In the not too distant future, someone far cooler, more adept, more interesting & better at the role than me will become the public face of @pan_quake & I'm really excited for that.
In the meantime, I'm building them & you all a product that lives up to all promises & beyond <3
I think the Fediverse is a wonderful thing. That's why I've ensured @pan_quake will be interoperable with it. PQ will contribute to the strength & growth of the Fediverse.
But those telling you that the Fediverse is "free" are lying to your face.
While being promoted as free, paid Fediverse hosting services are attractive to some users precisely because of the hardware costs, technical know-how barrier & ongoing funds required if you self-host instances. The more users in your instance the higher the costs you must meet.
Better worded: while the Fediverse is promoted as "free" participating in it often isn't free at all. Nor is it effortless. Should we invest effort in obtaining digital freedom? Absolutely. Is the Fediverse better than Big Tech? Vastly. But barriers to mainstream adoption remain.
As usual, we kicked it off by reviewing the updated campaign statistics for the last 4 weeks.
Huge news that THANKS TO YOU! we now have 4 full time development contractors & 1 part time paid contractor working very hard daily to deliver this groundbreaking next gen product
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Remember last month when we announced 3 new marketing projects? We've delivered on all 3.
The first short thematic vid premiered at the end of the event & will be up on Instagram & other social media shortly.
On the surface, I'm the target of the lies but in truth, we all are.
Because I am live-blogging my response, please periodically update the page to see new content. It may take several hours to complete. Once finished, I will present the key evidences in the below thread.
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OK, here we go. The article is finished - for now - and here is the tl;dr thread as promised.
How to become a beloved mainstream liberal politician:
1. Smile no matter what you're saying 2. Embrace Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, & every other war criminal you meet 3. Secretly facilitate US-led drone bombing "missions" & kill POC daily
4. Use "diversity" as a cover for reinforcing the military industrial complex & your business-as-usual (ie. killing for $$) stance 5. Spend tens of millions of dollars of public money on PR campaigns to teach people how great you are, then celebrate your greatness at every chance
6. Advance "total awareness" intelligence agency agendas, violating your citizen's homes, schools, workplaces, vehicles, streets with ubiquitous spying hardware & software at a level that would put China to shame 7. Make your citizenry a police force, turning them upon each other
Only 4 weeks on, we've had a 50% increase in donations, a 30% increase in donors, 4 new campaign updates posted, 6 new media appearances and some very dodgy and untrustworthy new follow stats from big tech that may or may not be accurate!
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Second: more techy geeky stuff
You may remember from last month, we'd completed our use cases, workflows, & mockups.
This month we've been mapping our application properties: the objects, methods & data structures that our code will reference & which define our application