questions/questions/index.yaml

id: /
name: What shapes us?
description: >
  redoal is a gesture-addressed network. Draw a line and it becomes
  an address — the drawing itself, ready to use the moment your hand
  lifts. Similar drawings land near each other, and everything else
  follows from that. Draw one below and see who's near.
responsible:
  name: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug
  contact: bl@uhhm.no
alternatives:
  - name: Draw a path and see who's near
    description: >
      By associating similar movements while facilitating discourse we
      discover signal within chaos. Draw a path — the network answers
      with the shape it heard, and with the places kept nearby. Pick
      one of those and it becomes your address.
    action: /shape/{curve.key}
    consequence: [Go to the place]
    record_as: redoal_gestures
    encouragements:
      - What you don't know — your collaborators will.
    features:
      - name: ""
        description: Start by creating a path
        icon: lucide:pen-line
        requirements:
          # optional: the widget's hidden input skips HTML required-
          # validation, so required would be unenforceable anyway
          # (see the schema notes in this repo's README).
          - name: curve
            label: Curve
            placeholder: Lines
            type: gesture
            relay: wss://relay.redoal.com
            optional: true

  - name: Meet a network you carry in your hand
    description: >
      The one trick, and what it enables — the parts that run today,
      said plainly.
    features:
      - name: A drawing is an address
        description: >
          The computer measures how your line curves, turns, and keeps
          rhythm, and boils it down to a twenty-byte fingerprint.
          Similar drawings get similar fingerprints — two spirals land
          like two houses on the same street, and that closeness is
          the whole network.
        icon: lucide:map-pin
      - name: Your machine asks the room
        description: >
          To find someone, your machine asks the machines around it:
          "has anyone been near this shape?" Your spiral finds my
          spiral directly, peer to peer. The whole directory is the
          shapes people know, passed along on a napkin.
        icon: lucide:users
      - name: Voices stay where you left them
        description: >
          A drawing is a place, and places hold voices. Listen to the
          recordings people left at a gesture, leave your own on top,
          and when someone stands at the same drawing right now, just
          talk — live, machine to machine.
        icon: lucide:mic
      - name: Sealed by your own hand
        description: >
          Every recording and every stored stroke carries a signature
          from the leaver's own machine — proof that it arrived
          intact and that the same hand made the same things. The key
          lives only with you: keep it and you're recognized, delete
          it and you were never here.
        icon: lucide:stamp
      - name: Draw and speak, and you're in
        description: >
          The primitives are the drawn line and the human voice. A
          child, an elder, or a newcomer still learning the local
          script arrives on the same terms as everyone else — that is
          the whole entry requirement.
        icon: lucide:hand
      - name: Carried by iroh, through varde
        description: >
          What is left at a place is kept and mirrored by
          [varde](https://project.uhhm.no/uhhm/varde), a small
          daemon that moves bytes between consenting machines over
          [iroh](https://iroh.computer) — verified, rate-limited, and
          legible to the network it runs on. Recordings travel that way,
          with no company carrying them.
        icon: lucide:waypoints
      - name: Built in the open at UHHM
        description: >
          [UHHM](https://uhhm.no) builds and carries the gesture math,
          the relay, and the portal this page runs on — and hosts the
          network's first node. It is a prototype and an artwork before
          it is a product: what you can touch is real and running, the
          transport that reaches across the internet is being built
          now, and the rough edges are where the interesting questions
          live.
        icon: lucide:anvil

  - name: Follow the build as it lands
    description: >
      The network as it is being built — and we need collaborators on
      every new surface it grows.
    features:
      - name: Communicate
        description: >
          A client, a relay, an instrument — if you want to put the
          network on a surface it isn't on yet, say so through the
          path above and we'll find each other.
        icon: lucide:message-circle
      - name: Releases
        description: Start exploring by running one of our applications.
        icon: lucide:package
        resource:
          source:
            kind: gitea_releases
            owner: redoal
            repo: redoal
          public: true
          empty: Nothing released yet — the first cut lands here.
          # url pinned to null while the repo is private - a private
          # release's html_url 404s for anonymous visitors, and the
          # card renders an unlinked heading instead (same lesson as
          # uhhm/questions 9b7162f).
          jq: >
            .[] | {name: .name, description: .body, tag: .tag_name,
            published: .published_at, url: null}

  - name: Hear from us when it matters
    description: >
      Notes from the build — sent only when there is something worth
      saying.
    action: /subscribed
    consequence: [Subscribe]
    record_as: redoal_subscribers
    encouragements:
      - Consider yourself posted.
    features:
      - name: Where to send it
        description: >
          Notes go to a person, not a list — a name and an address is
          all it takes.
        icon: lucide:mail
        requirements:
          - name: name
            label: Name
          - name: email
            label: Email
            type: email