The First Indiesky Grant: Northsky

Today we’re announcing our first Indiesky grant, a $5000 USD contribution to NorthSky, their PDS migration tools and the migration efforts for their community.

We started the ATProtocol Community Fund to grow a healthy, robust, and independent social and dev community around ATProto. We believe that ATProtocol is a key, evolving set of technologies and standards for building a stronger and open internet. We see the ATProto's potential to bring users and developers new options and opportunities to take control their experiences and lives on the internet through ATProto apps and tools.

As part of that work the Community Fund runs a grant program to encourage and support the development of projects which turn these opportunities into real and usable software for users and communities. This initial IndieSky granting effort is thanks to funds raised through Free Our Feeds.

We’re excited to announce that the first Indiesky grant will go to NorthSky, a worker owned cooperative comprised of and serving the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, hosted in Canada.

NorthSky has set out to build the tools and educational resources that allow their community take unrevocable control of their accounts and data, and migrate accounts onto servers run by the communities they trust.

This grant comprises of two pieces, the first being PDS account migration tools for all users of the ATProto ecosystem, and second educational resources and a migration campaign for the NorthSky community as they move to NorthSky's PDS.

We look forward to NorthSky's contributions to the ATmosphere and more tools that provide users sovereignty over their data and accounts, and communities the capabilities to build the apps and infrastructure that their particular needs and goals.

If you're interested in the ATProtocol Community Fund's granting program, drop us a line to [email protected], or join the new ATProto Community Forum and ask us any questions you have.