RightMesh Weekly Update: May 4, 2018

The big news this week is from our development team who demonstrated the power of a superpeer! In the demo they send a message from a phone in Canada, that isn’t connected directly to the internet, to a phone in Bangladesh, that also isn’t connected to the internet, powered by RightMesh. Our product team returned from their trip to Bangladesh and has been sharing their learnings with the rest of the team, and our website was translated into Japanese and Korean. It has been a busy week!

TL:DR; Summary

• Conducted a superpeer demo, showing the connection of two local meshes in Bangladesh and Canada to one another;
• Translated our website into Japanese and Korean;
• Updated the rightmesh.io website with supporter testimonials, partnership and advisory information;
• Parent company Left announced as finalist for a Technology Impact Award for Community Engagement;
• Contest: Final week to win a Trezor Wallet for the best RightMesh use case.

Press

• Published: Superpeer Demo, By Sachin Raturi
• Published: #WhiteboardWednesday: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Used For Good, by Brianna MacNeil
• Featured: How Blockchain Can Eradicate Poverty in Third-World Countries, by Coin Central
• Published: Meet RightMesh Here in May!, By Amber McLennan
• Published: Translated the website into Japanese
• Published: Translated the website into Korean

Tech/ Product Update

Superpeer Demo: This week we conducted a superpeer demo, showing how we can connect multiple local meshes into one giant mesh to connect different parts of the world. The demo showed two local meshes, one in Bangladesh and one in Canada, connected to a superpeer and transmitting messages in real time across the globe. The demo only illustrated two local meshes connecting, but with the superpeer, we will be able to connect multiple meshes across the globe.

Superpeer Demo

• Short Term Roadmapping: The tech team has been working on defining the short-term roadmaps for the platform (mesh networking software and associated protocols) and the products (developer portal, RightMesh app and superpeer), to be published in a few weeks.
• Bangladesh Trip: Fresh from their visit to the Dhaka and Khulna offices in Bangladesh, Saju Abraham and Benjamin Hughes did a debrief session with our team in Maple Ridge. The talk covered the learnings from the visit, the app and dev teams’ mutual goals for the next several months and the great work that took place by the Bangladesh team in terms of prototypes and experiments that will have a substantial impact on the RightMesh project.

Saju and Ben presenting to the Maple Ridge office on their trip to visit the Bangladesh team

• Unit Testing: The dev team has been hard at work doing unit testing for the library and platform.

RightLabs Update

Our research team has been zeroing in on a key focus area for RightMesh — the education sector. Our objective is to build an education app that will be beneficial for students or teachers in underserved regions that do not have access to connectivity or internet services. We’ve embarked on researching emerging markets education needs and are currently speaking with teachers in Peru, India and Bangladesh.

ATTN: If you are an educator, or know one in an underserved area, and have an idea you would like to discuss, please do reach out us at partnerships@rightmesh.io.

Website Updates

To better serve our community we’ve made some updates to our homepage at https://rightmesh.io/. Changes include:

1. Added advisor and supporter testimonials from WhalePanda, David Lee and Micha Benoliel;
2. Added a Team section which includes the Technical Leadership Team, Corporate Leadership Team and Advisors;
3. Added in new partner and supporter logos:
   - eNuk
   - BC Tech Association
   - Nunatsiavut Government
   - University of British Columbia
   - Natural Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
   - Memorial University
4. Simplified the TGE whitelist registration flow;
5. Translated website in Japanese and Korean:
   - Korean: https://www.rightmesh.io/ko
   - Japanese: https://www.rightmesh.io/jp

TGE Progress

Our Whitelist is open!

If you act quickly, you can still contribute — or add to your previous contribution.

Here’s how:

• Get whitelisted NOW if you have passed KYC/AML with Bitcoin Suisse: Here is the step-by-step Whitelisting Guide.
• If you have NOT passed KYC/AML with Bitcoin Suisse: There is still time…barely. Get started here.
• If you have any questions: We’re ready to answer questions 24/7. Come talk to us on Telegram.

Dates to Remember:

• May 17: Final Date for Whitelisting to ensure participation
• May 30: Crowd Contribution opens at 13:00 CEST (low initial individual cap to allow for maximum participation)
• May 31: Cap lifted to allow for contributions of any pre-authorized value

Contest

We are in the final week of our RightMesh use case contest! The winner will receive a Trezor Hardware Wallet. The contest ends at midnight (PST) on May 8th, 2018 so make sure to share your use cases before then!

How to Participate?

1. Follow Right_Mesh on Twitter.

2. Tweet your use case and include the hashtag #UsingRightMesh.

3. Remember to be creative, clear, and concise.

For full contest details make sure to review the guidelines here.

Community and Events

May 3rd: Representing RightMesh AG’s parent company, Left, a team of us attended TechBrew in Vancouver. This one day event brings together top talent, tech leaders, and local service providers to build connections while enjoying live demos of featured companies. This will also mark the countdown to the Technology Impact Awards. The team was excited to be selected as a finalist for the Community Engagement category at TechBrew. Fingers crossed for the awards in June!

Here’s where you can find us next week:

May 8th: RightMesh project Co-Founder and COO, Chris Jensen will be speaking at the Economic Summit 2018 in Coquitlam, Canada on the blockchain panel. He is looking forward to sharing the stage with Frans Tjallingli, Co-Founder & CEO of First Coin Capital, Dr. Peter Chow-White, Professor at Simon Fraser University, and moderator Kevin Rathbun, Transition Advisory Service at Rise Advisors.

May 8th: RightMesh project Co-Founder and CEO, John Lyotier, will be speaking on a panel on ‘Women’s Leadership in the Digital Economy’ put on by the WCT (Women in Communication and Technology). This is a topic that John is passionate about and has enacted several initiatives over the past few years to ensure parity in the workforce (for a more in depth view, read John’s article ‘Overcoming Gender Bias in Life, Technology, and Blockchain — One Man’s Opinion’). John will be joining Shann McGrail, Co-Founder of Devreve Inc; Zara Gray, Senior Advisor, Diversity & Inclusion of Goldcorp Inc; and Joanne Stanley, Executive Director of WCT.

Stay in Touch

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