🇦🇺 Australia — https://t.me/foamaustralia

🇧🇪 Belgium — https://t.me/foambelgium

🇺🇸 California — https://t.me/foamcalifornia

🇨🇳 China — https://t.me/FOAMChina

🇨🇾 Cyprus — https://t.me/foamcyprus

🇫🇷 France — https://t.me/foamfrance

🇩🇪 Germany — https://t.me/foamgermany

🇮🇳 India — https://t.me/foamindia

🇮🇹 Italy — https://t.me/foamitaly

🇯🇵 Japan — https://t.me/foamjapan

🇲🇾 Malaysia — https://t.me/foammalaysia

🇺🇸 Midwest USA — https://t.me/foammidwestusa

🇳🇱 The Netherlands — https://t.me/foamnetherlands

🇳🇴 Norway — https://t.me/foamnorway

🇵🇭 Philippines — https://t.me/foamphilippines

🇵🇱 Poland — https://t.me/foampoland

🇵🇹 Portugal — https://t.me/foamportugal

🇷🇺 Russia — https://t.me/foam_ru

🇸🇬 Singapore — https://t.me/foamsingapore

🇪🇸 Spain — https://t.me/foamspain

🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada — https://t.me/foamtoronto

🇬🇧 United Kingdom — https://t.me/FOAMUK

Mark Pereira, Australia community

— https://t.me/foamaustralia

How did you discover FOAM?

I discovered FOAM through word of mouth, then got invited to the FOAM Aus telegram group which really opened the doors up to FOAM for me.

What applications/use-cases for FOAM are you most excited about and why?

I’m excited for FOAM applications which can be used in urban navigation systems because with more accurate, efficient and programmable location protocols it opens up a lot of possibilities for smart cities. It can be hugely important for easing congestion in local areas and also issuing in the communication between anchors and smart cars to tap into their sensors for even more informative real-time communication. I’m also excited for the possibility of assisted guidance for autopilot landings within air carriers.

What do you anticipate being most involved with? (Developing on the protocol, operating a Zone, being a FOAM Cartographer)

I anticipate being involved with developing on the protocol, operating a zone, and being a FOAM cartographer.

Did you want to start a local community/get involved for any particular reason?

I will be starting a local community and getting involved because I believe that better location protocols are very much needed and FOAM’s incentive mechanisms to encourage zone anchors can mean incredible things for IoT devices. The technology FOAM uses is also very interesting and the functional programming aspect of it interests me from a learning perspective as real-time reactive data pipelines are so powerful.

Do you anticipate any factors in your region that will affect the local growth of the FOAM network, both positive and negative? For example, local blockchain culture, land topography (hilly, heavily forested, dense urban environment etc.).

The Sydney and Australia region have a very promising chance at widespread adoption as the things network is a very strong movement here. Also, the interest in all things IoT is very strong here as well. Negatives I see are existing infrastructure and how reluctant governments would be to install cryptocurrency associated IoT devices.

Trenton Van Epps, Toronto Area Community

— https://t.me/foamtoronto

How did you discover FOAM?

Back in 2015, FOAM as a design collective had participated in a number of exhibitions focused on the relationship between cryptocurrencies and space. Working as an architect then, I stumbled across one of their exhibitions online and appreciated their novel approach to forecasting crypto-spatial possibilities. I have made sure to stay up to date on the team’s progress as they build their vision of a trustless geolocation protocol.

What applications/use-cases for FOAM are you most excited about and why?

Given that FOAM paradoxically ties characteristics of ‘place’ to cryptocurrencies (widely touted as borderless mediums of exchange), I am very interested to see how designers will leverage location and urban forms as an integral part of mechanism design. This moves beyond the initial use-cases like POIs and static / dynamic Proof of Location. I imagine there will be some interesting products that link back to the idea of relationships between physical space and crypto; this includes provably decentralized mining, local currencies, bounded airdrops, games with real world quests, etc.

What do you anticipate being most involved with? (Developing on the protocol, operating a Zone, being a FOAM Cartographer)

I am looking forward to running multiple Zones in my city. It will be interesting to help work out the inevitable hardware, software, and incentive bugs that might compromise the network. I think there are some great opportunities to start exploring this as a new design space.

Did you want to start a local community/get involved for any particular reason?

The project itself is a fascinating combination of several components, which, when linked together, create a powerful self-sustaining, self-propagating and trustless network for geolocation. The fact that it pushes the boundaries on geolocation is a great start *but* it’s also a rabbit hole to start thinking about the many second and third order effects that might result from relative network maturity. Getting involved with the community early on seems like a great way to begin exploring these ideas with people of similar interests.

I’m also looking forward to creating a mutual growth network of people interested in sharing knowledge related to the FOAM network.

Do you anticipate any factors in your region that will affect the local growth of the FOAM network, both positive and negative? For example, local blockchain culture, land topography (hilly, heavily forested, dense urban environment etc.).

Rochester is a pretty low density rust belt city. Nothing that would necessarily set it apart from other cities — there will be sensitive package tracking, ride-share tracking, local attractions that participate as Points of Interest.

Philippe Henrotte, Belgian Community

— https://t.me/foambelgium

How did you discover FOAM?

When I started to learn about Blockchain and other DLT’s, I discovered the concept of decentralized applications and how a service provided by a community could be more reliable and secure than their centralized counterpart.

Also, I learned different concepts like “Proof of Work”, “Proof of Stake”, “Proof of Burn” etc, and thought that a “Proof of localisation” would be very useful. As I like to do, I imagined how to solve the problem with a system of satellites, paid by the community but when I started to do my research I quickly found FOAM. An amazing team that solves the problem in an elegant way and that is far more realistic!

What applications/use-cases for FOAM are you most excited about and why?

The possibilities with Dynamic localisation are endless, I think about 3 applications in particular:

-It will be particularly useful when autonomous cars will need a reliable way to get their location.

-Location based authentication can be particularly interesting for Cyber security applications.

-In the long term, it would be nice to have a “Global local currency” where the money could be spend everywhere in the world but the value would decrease if the money is spent far away from where it is earned. The goal is to encourage local market.

What do you anticipate being most involved with? (Developing on the protocol, operating a Zone, being a FOAM Cartographer)

At first place I intend to participate as a Cartographer for Belgium and then I intend to operate a zone (in the Brussels Area).

Did you want to start a local community/get involved for any particular reason?

The involvement of communities are essential to the development of the decentralised network. The local groups will allow to coordinate our actions to get a faster implementation.

Do you anticipate any factors in your region that will affect the local growth of the FOAM network, both positive and negative? For example, local blockchain culture, land topography (hilly, heavily forested, dense urban environment etc.).

I think the small size of Belgium and the high density of population are major benefits! I hope to get a good coverage quite fast.