Hello, As some of you may be aware, one of the platforms from which I am advocating for the renewal of Apache Wave development is to devise communications that will be well-configured for "the next billion people" coming online. The specific project that I am starting to gear up towards this end is called Project Nkommo, which in sum suggests turning Web development on its head and building the "internet of everything" from the village level on up rather than from the cities on down. A PDF overview is available at: https://docs.google.com/file/d/10COolk_Equ_fK7nMFEZ-GWZhRH1Ew9_fZHbtL5jzHd_tx34ql73YHRgm_8eeqhU7zz3Cz1XZMg0ePmqA/edit?usp=sharing
WaveTek, a Nigeria-based company, is now a technology partner for Project Nkommo and we're exploring actively how to build this "bottom up" approach in the months ahead on a demonstration project basis. Companies such as Google and Microsoft have expressed interest in seeing how WaveTek and Nkommo can create more receptivity to their products and services. So as the committed team of Apache Wave looks at issues such as offline performance and OT for P2P-style communications in a high-performance mobile mode, bear in mind that there may be a very real, cutting-edge project that may benefit from these concepts - in other words, you're not just designing to wind, you're designing something that will hopefully help real people with real needs. On the other side of the equation, my contact for an enterprise project targeting movie production collaboration has fielded an initial proposal with investors, who are reviewing the opportunity. I think that this may take a while to unfold, but as you may know things can happen either way unexpectedly when it comes to funding entrepreneurial adventures. For funding Nkommo, I am looking at a combination of nonprofit grants, corporate investment and crowdsourcing. If you have some specific thoughts and recommendations on these fronts, especially on the crowdfunding side, I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts offline. There are so many choices now that I may not be up to speed on the most fruitful channels. That's it for now, I am so very excited to see Apache Wave moving forward at a time when it may just be the next big thing for the next big step in Internet growth.
