Concept submission for Long Now Lab 001.1 — Book of Time. rCal: a spatio-temporal calendar of cones of possibility.
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Long Now — Book of Time application

Lab 001.1 of the Protocols for the Long Now series. Deadline: Jun 5, 02026 — https://longnow.org/labs/001/1

This repo is Jeff Emmett's submission. The proposal is rCal — a federated event substrate (TimeAnchor holon) rendered as a cone of possibility. The substrate is operational; the cone is one consumer. Both this prototype and the live work it derives from inform the application.

What lives where

  • application.md — final paste-source for the Google Form
  • drafts/concept.md — the 500-word concept (v2: substrate-first framing)
  • drafts/previous-work.md — list of relevant prior + in-flight work
  • drafts/affiliations.md — community list
  • supporting-media/ — diagrams, interactive demos, animation, screencast script
  • research/jmjmj-holonic-event-storage.md — internal design note (predates the live work; retained as background)
  • PLAN.md — milestones to Jun 5

The actual work this application is about

The TimeAnchor holon ships across multiple repos and is the primary subject of the submission. See drafts/previous-work.md for the full list with links. The most load-bearing pieces:

  • holon-service — the canonical federation server (Phase 1 content_hash dedup just landed; Phases 24 planned)
  • rcal-online — calendar consumer
  • encryptid-sdk — the federation client (TS + Python)
  • rspace-registry — Space provisioning + ontology specs
  • Spec: event_addressing_and_storage.md in rspace-registry — the eight-phase evolution plan

Form fields (mirror)

  1. Name *
  2. Email *
  3. Concept (≤500 words) *
  4. Supporting media (≤10 files, ≤10 GB each)
  5. Previous work + links
  6. LinkedIn
  7. Personal website
  8. Affiliations / social profiles
  9. How did you hear about this Lab? *