Kicking Off

Kicking off work today on our BitDevs upgrade The goal of this project is to improve the educational impact of BitDevs meetups. We plan to do this by using UX/UI design and AI LLMs.

The Problem

BitDevs meetups are great places to learn about bitcoin and related technologies. However, this environment can sometimes be challenging for newcomers. For example, suppose the meetup's regulars want to talk about a very complicated aspect of bitcoin, but the newcomers may not understand or see how it is important to them. Furthermore, bitcoin-curious people may sometimes look at a BitDevs website, which has the appearance of technical documentation, and feel like "this is not for me."

Our Solution

• Update the website template UI

  • Less monotype fonts, more human-focused appearance

  • Ability for each meetup to customize their color palette

  • Ability to load artwork for the meetup

• Add AI summaries

  • Meetup topics lists are fed into an LLM to generate summaries

  • Additionally, there will be an ELI5 or "why does this matter" summary for true beginners

  • AI summaries are invoked automatically when a meetup organizer merges a PR into main/master and a new PR is opened

• Cross-compatibility

  • This new template should be backward compatible with existing BitDevs website markdown files

  • Ideally, a migration script allows a BitDevs website to migrate easily

• Nice to have: integration with an AI chatbot for people to further their education before or after a meetup