Just checked the last couple of pages, the website, and the front page of this thread, but the information available seems rather thin.
Other than the whitepaper, is there any reading material of substance available for one to get familiar with IOTA? Perhaps a git repository, or a beta client, or... something? Thanks!
Other than the whitepaper, is there any reading material of substance available for one to get familiar with IOTA? Perhaps a git repository, or a beta client, or... something? Thanks!
Ask for an invite to Ryver from the IOTA rep. lots going on.
Not everyone wants to join Ryver though, so it's important that all updates and information are posted here as well.
For sure. But to be honest, those that do not even care to enter a chat are most likely not the ones that have true intention for their IOTA tokens. Rest assured I am sure the community will continue to keep the threads alive here on BTT, that is always the case. We are setting up a stand-alone forum for IOTA and will continue to use Ryver for chat. Ryver UX is not as good as Slack, but Slack is too expensive for thousands of users, so if UX of Ryver does not improve we'll move over to RocketChat.
Right now people should rather focus on meet-ups, events and use-cases instead of relying on us doing everything.
I am sorry but that's not how it works. We have had the information that beta is 'soon' and GUI 'in days' and it's getting frankly a little annoying. Without a functioning client and launch do you really want us to go to meetups with a whitepaper and smile? We need at least a Beta with GUI client to be able to show something to people. When we have a client and a testnet I will happily drag people by the hair to check it out!
It is indeed how it works. The features of IOTA has been known since day 1, we've already presented the vision of IOTA successfully in front of 200+ people, we're already bringing on board people who want to use it. They don't need a GUI to understand the concept and usage of IOTA, just like people did not need Ethereum to start working on projects for it.
The beta + GUI will be a really nice way for people to use IOTA in terms of sending transactions etc. but it wont magically make people think up use cases they can't already think up and start work on.
As for ETA annoying, welcome to the world of development. As we stated we outsourced the GUI and so we can't really do anything to boost it up other than provide them with input.
So yes, I am genuinely suggesting that more people start approaching companies (personally I'm in touch with over 15) that may have use of IOTA instead of just waiting around for GUI.