There’s a lot to tell you so I’ll just start in with the news:

Yesterday, David Irvine, CEO of MaidSafe sent me a link to the SAFE Network Visualizer and suggested that I share it when I go on air with Jamie Nelson live on YouTube in about an hour:

On Jamie’s show, When the Bit Hits the Fan, I’ll be discussing MaidSafe, Project SAFE and its many exciting developments. Among these, MaidSafe has now established two SAFE Pods (San Francisco being led by Paige Peterson and Montreal being led by Francis Brunelle) of OSS developers who will be learning to maintain and enhance the functionality of the SAFE Network’s C++ core program. These SAFE Pods will support the core. The developers who do this important work will be the ‘Guardians of the Core’ as I like to call these talented hacks, a veritable roundtable-in-the-making of Project SAFE knights who will protect the core and promote operability of the SAFE Network.

Also, one of the most important new developments is the beginning fledgling adoption of the SAFE Network by independent application builders such as Chadrick Mahaffey and myself who are not only building two important applications, BuildItHub and SAFEx but we are inaugurating a largely new structural innovation for heterarchal community-based application development called the open value network (OVN). The big picture here is that people OUTSIDE of MaidSafe are beginning to ‘own’ the SAFE Network:

This is the bonafide birth of the human half of the SAFE Network.

We recognize and appreciate MaidSafe’s burgeoning success in creating a brand new internet capable of giving EVERYONE privacy, security and freedom. Thank you, MaidSafe!

Here’s the link David Irvine sent me for anyone to see the latest and most important BIG NEWS:

Testnet 1 went live for the first time yesterday!

http://visualiser.maidsafe.net:8080/client/timeline.html#?ts=2014-07-12T16:24:02.623Z

If you open up the visualizer, you’ll see a 12-vault SAFE Network coming up and then storing and distributing data chunks, performing network health checks, signing on and signing off. This visualizer link has a playback feature where if you play it, you are watching test 1 coming up and go live.

This is historical!

The SAFE Network Visualizer will be used by OSS developers to check how well their applications function on the SAFE Network. The tool itself is an achievement for Viv RajKumar and the MaidSafe team.

Since the last update, I’ve noticed a lot more people learning about MaidSafe. Not only have I begun to give interviews but I’ve noticed David Irvine, CEO and Nick Lambert, COO giving more and more interviews. I recommend that you go to the MaidSafe Press Page and take a look at all the great articles and interviews that MaidSafe has been getting:

http://maidsafe.net/press

If you are a technical person or OSS developer and want to receive regular updates on the technical progress of the testnets, I highly recommend that you follow Ross Muir’s weekly update here:

https://maidsafe.org/t/dev-update-week-beginning-7th-july-2014/668

Also, Ross, when he’s not over-busy does update the MaidSafe Roadmap on Github here that outlines the progress of the three testnets as we proceed through them to beta launch:

https://github.com/maidsafe/MaidSafe/wiki/Roadmap

The bottom line for people who are following the story like me is simply this:

Substantial progress has been made. Testnet 1 is a success so far. The SAFE Network Visualizer tool illustrates the functionality of the SAFE Network well.

We can KNOW for a fact that the SAFE Network is for REAL and NOT a fantasy of wishful thinking and certainly NOT far from becoming available to the rest of us.

Yet, patience is required: the beta will NOT be released until MaidSafe are ready. Even if this requires delay of launch, Project SAFE’s commitment to delivering the REAL deal is the first priority.

Go MaidSafe, Go Project SAFE Pods in San Francisco and Montreal! Go SAFE Network app developers like Chadrick Mahaffey, founder of BuildItHub and SAFEx! Go OSS developers and everyone else who is now getting it that:

MaidSafe are changing EVERYTHING!

And, as always…

Thank you for following the SAFE Network Blog, the premiere news and information source for all things interesting, new and exciting about applications being built for the SAFE Network, MaidSafe & Project SAFE as well as reporting on the rise and development of the new alternative SafeCoin economy. Remember, you can email me directly at dl99pr@gmail.com with any questions or comments.