Inspiration
Research/Innovation collaboration at scale is hard, and it is preventing open source communities to be shipping products that are competing with centralized organizations.
We have been running experiments about decentralized scientific collaboration for the past 7 years. We have been focused on building Just One Giant Lab for the past 12 months.
What it does
Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is a platform that supports decentralized and open source collaboration and decision-making (governance, funds allocation).
How we built it
With volunteers, grants, and a small pre-seed.
Challenges we ran into
All communities have slightly different needs.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are getting out of alpha. We have ben iterating with research institutes, networks of engineering schools, and open source communities to design a platform that enables collaboration across communities and organizations of different kinds.
What we learned
Agents have a huge role to play in scaling highly efficient open source communities. We will see agents of knowledge (e.g., trained on a specific scientific problem), and agents of convenience. The most important agent of convenience would make sure that contributors that have 5 hours per week can contribute as well as full-time contributors. Today they cannot, they get buried in discord notifications, and can't catchup.
What's next for Just One Giant Lab
- Playbook for integrations (e.g., Arxiv, NEAR AI hub, github, hugging face etc ...) so anyone can add useful integrations
- Playbook for agents so anyone can bring their agent (e.g., from NEAR AI Hub of Hugging Face)
- Governance primitive
- Call for proposals
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