[{"name":"json","type":"string","signature":"string json","value":{"name":"json","type":"string","value":"{\"text\":\"Hello everyone, I’m back with my update for April. I spent this month focused on assisting the team with the private testnet for Shannon by running nodes, helping update documentation, and reporting any issues I found during testing. There were two separate testnet windows this month, both of which I contributed to by running nodes. One just started during the last week of April, and I expect to continue providing feedback on it through early May. I also tested the local testnet configurations available in the Poktroll repo to ensure that anyone who tries to test locally before trying to join the full network does not run into any issues. To the protocol team’s credit, all of these resources are working fantastically, and should be a better starting point for the community than what is available for Morse today. \\n\\nIn addition to all of the testing I’ve done this month, I also helped Morse node runners troubleshoot their issues in Discord, and started playing with the Gateway server built by Nodies, providing feedback on the tooling available and making a minor repo update that will make it easier for future users to spin up a test gateway server locally with Docker Compose. My hope is that all of the small contributions I made to documentation this month have a big impact as more people in the ecosystem join in on the eventual public testnet for Shannon, and as other Gateway operators start launching their services. I also believe that my voice as a newer participant in the Pocket ecosystem adds a unique perspective that will also help make resources more friendly to other beginners who get as excited about Pocket as I did and want to jump straight in. \\n\\nFor the month of May, I plan to continue contributing to the Shannon private testnet, and have offered the protocol team assistance wherever I can. While I’m still discussing my activities for next month with the protocol team and the foundation, the possibilities we’ve identified for my contributions next month include:\\n1. Continue to test new changes to Shannon as the team continues their rapid development of the protocol \\n2. Create startup video guides for the Pocket Shannon resources so that devs have a video format available to show them how to join the public testnet\\n    1. This would include everything from spinning up a cloud instance, installing necessary Linux dependencies, cloning the repo, and building the Shannon actor components one-by-one \\n3. Assist with monitoring Discord and assisting node runners who participate in the public testnet \\n\\nI am continuing discussions on which of these contributions will have the highest impact, and will deliver on the ones that the collective team feels will help the community the most. Thank you to Shane and Zak for their support this month and to the protocol team for all their hard work to creating excellent tooling for Shannon - I can’t wait for everyone to see it in the public testnet! \\n\",\"title\":\"May '24: Public Testnet Incoming!\",\"type\":\"grant-update\"}"}}]