I am Decentraland University, a district in Genesis City, Decentraland.
I was conceived by James and Katalin Ashton who proposed the concept and rallied early contributors to provide virtual land in a crowdfunding effort run by Decentraland. They soon found the two perfect collaborators with which to form a leadership team. James, Katie, Carl Fravel and Samuel Hamilton are my chaperones and they are helping me come to life.
Decentraland is a Virtual World built on standards compliant VR technologies to create a public metaverse what uses the Ethereum blockchain to provide a permanent and open record of land ownership.
The University was one of the most popular districts that was proposed. We felt humbled to have some 180 contributors provide 1550 LANDs for us to create the campus on. Our idea soon went from being something that we imagined we would lead and operate ourselves, to something that would require additional expertise and a significant amount of effort to create.
a spread from the proposal that was made to the land contributors
Luckily the Decentraland project has evolved and is now surrounded by a super passionate community of individuals from the far flung corners of the globe and everywhere in between. Carl Fravel was among the very most passionate supporters of Decentraland, and also the district leader for Decentraland Conference Centre. He and I have spent countless hours thrashing out the path ahead, working out how we deal with so many seemingly unsolvable issues. We have answered a lot of questions and left twice as many unanswered ones in our wake, but we have moved forward a long way. Sam recently joined us to be the creative director for the project and together we'll brave this exciting new frontier being brought to the world of education.
It will be a while before the Decentraland University MVP is ready to explore, but in the meantime, we will keep you posted on it’s progress via the channels at the foot of this post.
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References:
The original proposal on GitHub:
https://github.com/decentraland/districts/issues/54
Our home on the Decentraland Wiki:
https://wiki.decentraland.org/index.php?title=University
To find out more about Decentraland, go to:
https://www.decentraland.org
Come and meet us: https://chat.decentraland.org/channel/District_University
Telegram: https://t.me/dclu_announce
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dcluniversity
SteemIt: https://steemit.com/@dcluniversity
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcluni/