2024 Quarterly Roundtable #3

hello and welcome it's October 1st 2024 and we're in quarterly Roundtable number three for the active inference Institute welcome to the ACM Institute we're a participatory online Institute that is communicating learning and practicing applied active inference you can find more information at these links this is recorded in an archive live stream so please provide feedback so we can improve our work all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome and we'll follow a video etiquette for live stream okay today in the quarterly Round Table we'll go over a few Institute updates look at some developments occurring in projects and then talk a little bit about what'll be happening in the last quarter of 2024 how we'll be setting up for next year before we jump in blue or Alex want to make any comments or say hello sure hi uh excited to round this year out with the ecosystem paper and the Symposium and um yeah looking forward to 2025 and all the updates we'll make then yeah hey everyone and possibly I will bring it into the live what we shortly discuss in the beginning and before the stream that uh looks like for our current and next uh round tables we will talk more and more about some project results and that's great that we see more and more projects and more developments not only some specific plans all right so people watching live feel free to write any questions or anything in the live chat we'll keep an eye on it all right first at The Institute scale here's an overview slide you can screenshot a bunch of stable links that'll help start you on your journey email us join the Discord check out some projects learn about the ecosystem find out more structured ways to get involved stay updated with video or newsletter check out fellows programs organizational Partnerships and provide fin cial support bunch of short links okay as blue alluded to our main Institute level focus and collaboration for the next six weeks or so is the versioning of this ecosystem and Institute paper so we wrote the first version as a big team in 2023 with visuals and a lot of different discussion and hammering it out a lot of really interesting points and now we're in the versioning the first versioning heading towards the second snapshot version of what'll be a large living document that'll provide many entry points and many paths through different things happening at the Institute and also at the ecosystem and clarify the relationships between them like what would be impactful for the active inference ecosystem to do what kinds of capacities could it build what kinds of differences could it make what would the Institute have to do and be in order to support that and what would we need from a support or participation perspective for how that would come to be so over the next six weeks there'll be a lot of collaboration and discussion synchronous and asynchronous no one is going to add everything to every page but just like it always is except more this is a project where we just jump in and make many light touches and it's been awesome already to see how people have added things to these different pages and made structural suggestions there's one week left if you want to register go to ecosystem. active influence. Institute and fill out the form and you'll jump in and then for the last five weeks with whoever's on board then there's already 20 or 30 people who will be co-authors and are writing in these pages over the next 5 weeks we'll come together set up a few synchronous and asynchronous ways of people focusing their contributions and then we'll snapshot the version two in the days before the Symposium and it's really an important way for people whether they've been largely on the sidelines watching or whether they've been involved for years how can we hear from people at the end of this year and help set a course for next year so there'll be new visuals new fun discussions blue or Alex want to give any thoughts on this document or how we use it or or…