A suite of tools and procedures to help schools move toward a sovereign bitcoin based standard.
School on a Bitcoin Standard - so far I've done almost nothing, but I do have 2 students so making progress....
The mission: in pursuit of both school and self sovereignty
Self sovereignty is the ability to control the direction of one's own life, and being the exclusive authority over one's own body and mind. Other synonyms for it are personal freedom, self determination, and liberty.
Basic Infrastructure Stuff
Solid network
Tablets for all kids
Tablets, computers, personal phones for teachers
Servers for required nodes
Blockstream satellite connection to avoid eclipse attacks - but really cause its fun
Optional - LSP if things get popular
MDM, JamfSchool and Apple School Manager for instance, to control student devices
Training
Kids - Sovereign Lions Club (SLC) - 5th - 8th grade Activity period (1hr/wk)
Finance/Money
Mi Prima Bitcoin Curriculum
Bitcoin/Lightning
Mi Prima Bitcoin Curriculum
Open source development
PlebLab Curriculum
Lightning Wallet
HTML/CSS/React/APIs etc...
Guest appearances with kids to meet real devs.
Ham radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s68py4rgo48
The Foxfire book for the 21st century
https://www.foxfire.org/
Staff Training
Monthly "meetup" style training with a new opening topic each time
Guest appearances by my new dev friends
Work with PlebLab to create general introduction courses for the noobs.
Parent Training
Starting with SLC parents and expand as needed for Fedi etc.
Work with PlebLab to create general introduction courses for the noobs.
Community Training
Work with PlebLab to create general introduction courses for the noobs.
Fedimint
campus circular economy that may grow into a local community bank
School Store Point of Sale
Student Savings Accounts
Staff learning, store
Parents learning, tuition, etc
Community learning, intro to savings
Solar School has lots of solar, need to find out current agreements with power company.
Heating classrooms with S9s
Heat the gym?
Any excess energy from solar to mine?
Donations
OpenNode payments on public website linked to bank and Unchained for deposits
Annual Fund - Parents, staff alumni etc donate on a yearly basis
currently single sig with marketing and dev holding the wallet
Payments - THIS IS MY HACKATHON PROJECT FOR NEXT YEAR!!!
Currently parents pay with cash or check.
Soon we will add the ability for parents to log into a PowerSchool SIS Parent Portal and pay
(currently they can only fill out forms and see fees and balances).
Vanco/RevTrak is the credit card and web interface company.
Their stuff links to our current student information system in PowerSchool SIS.
The parent will get routed to their website for the credit card payment
Fees are marked paid in PowerSchool SIS.
Need to incorporate a pathway for a Strike-like ability for parents to send the school dollars and we receive dollars
We use the bitcoin rails to avoid the 3.9% fee from Vanco.
Bounce to OpenNode option for folks that want to pay with SATs
Maybe build our own "VANCO/REVTRAK" so we handle the whole thing and do the credit card on our own backend?
Treasury
Unchained Capital vaults for the various needs like long term treasury, annual fund deposits, tuition deposits etc.
Upgrade to the various new features as we grow and need more complex key management.
Symbiotic School and Developer Beta Test Land Win-Win
Since we have a school with a great network and hundreds of potential users in a fairly controlled environment,
we are uniquely able to provide developers with a test bed to try stuff with a bunch of folks that will break your shit.
We can find a way for devs to support the school a bit and the school will support the devs a bit - win-win
Kids get to be on the front lines of bitcoin development right on their own campus.
Kids will getting exposed to this at a young age and will be the next gen devs coming up
As a private school, we can work with folks in really creative ways that I'm too dopey to think of, but you all will.