Crypto Shaolin, France Community

— https://t.me/foamfrance

National Geographic

How did you discover FOAM?

I discovered FOAM through word of mouth. In January I had a discussion with a friend who is an early bitcoin dev and always up to date on protocols that aims to solve big problems at scale in the most disruptive ways. We were talking about location and privacy issues and I asked my friend why there wasn’t any crypto project to bring location to the blockchain by building a map of the world based on consensus. My friend answered with a reference to Peter Thiel : “ There is one and I strongly believe it can go from 0 to 1. It is called FOAM.” I discovered FOAM that day and it blew my mind.

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

There are so many use-cases for FOAM I’m already excited about. And so many I can’t envision yet!

There is a blog article written by Arthur, Creative Marketing Director of FOAM, called The Future with FOAM, which explores what is currently seen as the biggest verticals for FOAM : Mobility, Geospatial Data, Gaming, Supply Chain, IoT & Location Intelligence. I encourage everyone to read it, it includes the use-cases I’m more excited about:

supporting the growth of mobility services and autonomous vehicles through location tracking and fraud prevention

Enable decentralized data markets with spatial data that can be verified

Offer location-based rewards and tokens through secure location services

Track goods with verifiable and secure spatial attribution

Secure location verification and localization for networks of IoT device sensor data.

Adding spatial attribution to the toolkit of blockchain-enabled analytics.

All these use cases are developed by Arthur in the article with fictional examples that greatly help understand the powerful potential of FOAM. They are all very exciting and in the near future there will certainly be some highly disruptive use-cases we can’t even imagine yet!

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

In the beginning, I anticipate being involved as a FOAM Cartographer and operating multiple zones in France. Once I get more familiar with FOAM I will start developing on the protocol and operating zones at a national level if demand is high.

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

When I first heard about FOAM I was so curious that I read everything I could find about FOAM on the website. Then day after day, I became more and more impressed by the ability of the team to execute fast with intensity and focus, to solve a big problem with a big vision. I had and still have the gut feeling that FOAM will accomplish something BIG and never seen before worldwide. To make FOAM’s inspiring vision become a reality, building a solid international community is paramount, so I decided to get involved to help in that direction.

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.).

In France the blockchain culture is expanding rapidly and Paris being more and more startup-friendly over the years. With a dense urban environment, I think these factors will positively affect FOAM local growth there.

My biggest concern regarding FOAM growth anywhere in the world is what is referred as the chicken-or-egg problem. In order to work and expand, FOAM needs both a vibrant community of developers on one hand, and a vibrant community of cartographers and zone operators on the other hand. I’m curious to see how FOAM plans to address the chicken-or-egg problem which I consider as a big obstable for widespread adoption.

danthedecentralist, Midwest USA Community

— https://t.me/foammidwestusa

How did you discover FOAM?

I would call it more of a stumble as opposed to discover, but I started to come across it in my twitter feed around the end of March and quickly started digging. The discovery happened when I started to interact directly with Ryan John King & the FOAM team on twitter, this is what solidified my interest.

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

I am most excited about being able to offer decentralized location services for locally focused apps. This could range from Non fungible token style gaming; like scavenger hunts that incentivize interaction with urban spaces to a verifiable proof of location rewards program for local businesses.

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

I have been wanting to find a project that will allow me to have skin in the game as well as learn more about the blockchain ecosystem and token economics. Being involved with FOAM is the catalyst that will allow me to dive in and learn more. To do this, at first I plan on operating a zone with a minimum of four anchors to experiment with family and friends but with the plans to expand into a collective/DAO of sorts. I am also very excited to experiment with other Blockchain protocols that may have synergy with FOAM, or that make economic sense to run and build out simultaneously.

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

I wanted to start a local community to hopefully expand my individual interest into a local collective of interested “players” with similar ideology of decentralized city infrastructure. I also see this as the easiest way to facilitate learning and development.

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 feel that Chicago, has a vibrant Blockchain culture as well as a thriving tech community, this will most likely help with the adoption and development in building out the FOAM protocol. I also started @hyphalab to hopefully be the link between facilitating participation between the neighboring communities of Milwaukee & Madison in Wisconsin. By expanding into these locations it also opens the door to covering the more rural communities that are in between. Some factors that may need to overcome in these communities will be the density of the buildings and the distance between the communities we plan to work with.

Azhar, Singapore Community

— https://t.me/foamsingapore

www.changiairport.com

How did you discover FOAM?

While researching on blockchain for logistics and real estate use cases.

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

Dynamic PoL for mobility and logistics. Singapore is a great test-bed for such use cases as trade & logistics is one of our economic drivers. Tracking the movement of goods and delivery vehicles are key to optimising supply chain operations.

Singapore is also moving towards a car-light nation, costs of owning a car in Singapore is quite prohibitive which makes ride-sharing services become more popular and a regular way of mobility. And soon we will have autonomous vehicles on our streets. Navigation tech currently relies heavily on GPS. With FOAM however, it promises a better alternative. What’s exciting is that there is possibly many use cases for FOAM. If FOAM had been around a few years ago, it would have made a great use case for our Electronic Road Pricing (charging vehicle owners based on road usage).

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

As a Zone operator and cartographer. Maybe play a part in developing dapps too.

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

Get the community to explore the use of blockchain for PoL use cases and promote the development of innovative geospatial PoL blockchain solutions and services.

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.).

FOAM as a geospatial PoL platform definitely fits in well with Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives. However the growth of FOAM may possibly be affected by regulations (on blockchain or radio). Trust is another key factor as public perception of a decentralised service without any authority behind it is still a new concept to most people. Singapore being an urban jungle with tall buildings may also pose challenges on effective Zone coverage.