@semuelle, per your last message, please see the changes from 'developed materials' to 'raw data'.

Thanks for this application. I have renamed some of your deliverables to make them more expressive and left two questions. Other than that, I am happy to support this.

@semuelle, I have now responded to these questions. Thanks again for your review and assistance on this.

Thanks for the quick reply, @jgophd, but my questions were how you would make them accessible, and if it would be also the raw data. It would be nice if you could phrase the specification accordingly.

Thanks for the quick reply, @jgophd, but my questions were how you would make them accessible, and if it would be also the raw data. It would be nice if you could phrase the specification accordingly.

@semuelle Thank you for this. I updated each section with the following comment. "All developed materials and raw data will be publicly accessible and public domain via a GitHub repository."

@jgophd thanks a lot for your application. This looks great and we're generally interested in supporting more research projects. However, please note that as a rule of thumb we only fund the development/research work itself, not any related costs such as infrastructure or, in your case, in-person presentations and travel costs. See our FAQ in this regard. The treasury is a much better-suited source of funds for such activities. I suggest you remove deliverable 1a. from milestone 3 and apply for Treasury funding to promote the article when you're ready.

Feel free to redistribute the costs among all milestones, since I think deliverable 1 currently also accounts for the actual writing of the article but only covers the submission costs.

@alxs Thank you for your feedback. I have redistributed the costs for more researchers, which will provide a more well-rounded study. Please let me know if this is what you are looking for.

Thanks for the quick reply, @jgophd, but my questions were how you would make them accessible, and if it would be also the raw data. It would be nice if you could phrase the specification accordingly.

@semuelle Thank you for this. I updated each section with the following comment. "All developed materials and raw data will be publicly accessible and public domain via a GitHub repository."

@semuelle, are the revisions what you were looking for?

Thanks @jgophd. Could you please fill in your first comment, which I've replaced with our PR comment template?

Thanks @jgophd. Could you please fill in your first comment, which I've replaced with our PR comment template?

@alxs, thank you for your quick response. I have populated the first comment per your request.

Congratulations! Your application has been accepted, but the bot didn’t post the welcome message here, because it was merged into the wrong folder. I updated it. And here is the official text:

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Hi @jgophd just checking in to see how milestone 3 is coming along?

Hi @jgophd just checking in to see how milestone 3 is coming along?

@keeganquigley, I hope all is well. The team is waiting to hear back from IEEE, and the submission is under manuscript ID Access-2023-06036. Per direction in Milestone 2, the pre-print of article was uploaded to arXiv - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11074 - and can be found at Google Scholar - https://bit.ly/3oDJLxt - and at university libraries just as Penn State University - https://bit.ly/3LofgEZ.

After discussing this research with projects from other ecosystems, the team has been working with Safe Haven in the VeChain ecosystem to integrate some of the findings from this study into their base product. The overall goal is to hopefully introduce a solution on Kusama in the future. Please see more about that collaboration here - https://bit.ly/3N53Erv.

Finally, for the dissemination of the research, I will be discussing this study at Coin Bureau Live on June 10th https://live.coinbureau.com/. The Coin Bureau has 2.25 million subscribers on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@CoinBureau - many of which will be reviewing the livestream of the event, as well as in-person. This is the first of many engagements where I will be discussing the research as well at academic conferences in the Fall of 2023.

I will keep you updated on IEEE as I assumed you all wanted a report once the study was published in IEEE instead of arXiv.

Hi @jgophd just circling back on this to see if you ever heard back from the IEEE. Also, I think I found the correct video stream of the Coin Bureau conference but it is 8 hours long. Are you able to point to where your panel/presentation was? Just curious to watch it.

Regarding milestone 3, after talking internally with the grants team, I think you can probably go ahead and submit the delivery as is, since the arXiv version is published. That way we can finish up the grant, as waiting for IEEE could still take a long time. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

Hi @jgophd just circling back on this to see if you ever heard back from the IEEE. Also, I think I found the correct video stream of the Coin Bureau conference but it is 8 hours long. Are you able to point to where your panel/presentation was? Just curious to watch it.

Regarding milestone 3, after talking internally with the grants team, I think you can probably go ahead and submit the delivery as is, since the arXiv version is published. That way we can finish up the grant, as waiting for IEEE could still take a long time. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

@keeganquigley, sorry for the delayed response. The Coin Bureau video above is on the main stage. I discussed the digital inheritance session in another session. Also, I make revisions to the IEEE article and am waiting to hear back after those revisions. I will submit the final milestone now.