Hello and welcome to another edition of This Month in Solid!

Solid is a set of open specifications, built on existing open standards, that describes how to build applications in such a way that users can conveniently switch between data storage providers and application providers and take the data generated along.

This is a monthly summary of Solid progress.

Want something mentioned? Contact the Solid Manager at info@solidproject.org. This Month in Solid is openly developed on GitHub. If you find any errors in this month’s issue please submit a pull request.

Updates

Events

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic Solid Events are moving online for the foreseeable future.

The first online Solid World will be on the 2nd of April 2020 at 1600 CEST. Tune in for two Solid app presentations by the people behind the apps. Solid World is a great opportunity to connect to other Solid app developers.

If you have any questions for the presenters pop them in this thread.

From now on, there will be an online Solid Event every first Thursday of the month.If you had upcoming Solid Events planned reach out to the Solid Manager on info@solidproject.org to arrange moving the content online with Solid World. Are you interested in speaking about what you have been building on Solid? Reach out to the Solid Manager on info@solidproject.org to get a speaking slot at the next event.

External Grants

SIDN Fonds has a grant called Je Data de Baas and there is an EU initiative called Dapsi that could be suitable for Solid app projects.

If you know of more grants that could be interesting for the Solid community submit a pull request to let others know about it via the next edition.

Job Openings

  • Digita is hiring a Full Stack Developer and a Linked Data Principal. Email tom@digita.ai for more information.
  • Inrupt is hiring a DevOps Engineer and Technical Writer. Email jobs@inrupt.com for more information.

Have you seen any articles or talks about Solid this week? If you’ve seen any talks, articles, or written blog posts about Solid please do send them over for next week.

This Month in Solid