Team:

We’ve added Beau Gunderson (@ beau in Slack) and Dave Hoover (@ redsquirell in Slack) to the back-end team as contractors. Beau will be working on our tooling and deployment pipeline, while Dave is working on contributing towards the Solidity migration. Welcome them aboard and say hello if you see them in our chat!

We will be having one more back-end developer joining us full time starting next month, and potentially one more full time front-end developer. The Augur team is growing, shown by our weekly call (missing a few people!):

IDEO v3 Client:

Last week, we had four new PR’s merged to the new Augur client. Our front end team is really ramping up, and changes can still be seen at dev.augur.net. That instance is now served via IPFS! All out front-end engineering power is now focused on the new client.

Solidity Migration:

The new contractors are helping us chew through the remaining task list. We are nearing the tail end of the migration, with another few weeks remaining. It’s been going relatively smoother than expected, which is always a plus in software development. We hope to have a more concrete completion date for you very soon.

Documentation:

John Danz has been working on updating docs.augur.net to reflect our current API, with a new update pushed today. Please note this is still a work in progress and some information is out of date/missing/lighter than it will be. The changes this publish include a reorganizing of the table of contents, the removal of some redundant/outdated sections, the addition of a new glossary section which aims to outline terms. Documentation updates will be pushed weekly on Wednesdays.

News:

Jack gave a great interview on a podcast about Augur and its origins, a must listen for anyone who’s been following us. Plus, it’s always nice to hear from the real brains behind Augur! Augur was also mentioned in PCMags “10 Must Have Elements of a Tech Startup”.

We’re growing and making solid, meaningful progress week over week. We aim to be as transparent as possible each week with these updates. If you have any recommendations on how to make these better, please reach out. You can also always join our public Slack!