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We Received A Grant To Port Our Web App To The Internet Computer
Can our web editor for slides work on the futuristic internet of the DFINITY foundation? Let’s figure it out.
Exciting news, we received a 25k USD grant from the DFINITY foundation to port our web editor for slides, DeckDeckGo, to the Internet Computer.
In the coming weeks we will build a proof of concept to validate the feasibility of the project. Here are some insights about the scope, goal and milestones of this inspiring project.
DeckDeckGo
DeckDeckGo is a web open source editor for slides. Unlike other tools, presentations can be published and viewed online or shared as Progressive Web Apps (PWA). The editor works on all devices (laptop, mobile, etc.), decks can be remotely controlled and interactions with the audience through live polls are also supported.
DeckDeckGo is a side project that my friend Nicolas and I - together with our community (2000+ registered users) and help of our contributors - have been working on for the last 2.5 years. Here are our values: open source, transparency and knowledge sharing.
DFINITY
The DFINITY Foundation is a not-for-profit scientific research organization based in Zurich, Switzerland, that oversees research centers around the globe. The Foundation’s mission is to build, promote, and maintain the Internet Computer. Its team is committed to building advanced experimental technologies to improve the public internet (source).
Internet Computer
The Internet Computer extends the functionality of the public Internet so that it can host backend software, transforming it into a global compute platform.
It seeks to address serious long-standing problems that bedevil IT, including system security, and to provide a means to reverse and undo the ever increasing monopolization of internet services, user relationships and data, and restore the Internet to its permissionless, innovative and creative roots.
The Internet Computer is formed by an advanced decentralized protocol called ICP (Internet Computer Protocol) that independent data…
