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At Block, we believe open source is at the heart of innovation and community empowerment. Our vision is to nurture a diverse and vibrant open source ecosystem that removes barriers to technology and fosters economic opportunities for all.
Today’s special: Goose à la Workflow. Had an amazing AI workflow? Good luck repeating it. Agentic workflows rarely behave the same way twice. Goose recipes let you lock in your exact setup so you can reuse it or share it anytime. 👨🏽‍🍳 Let’s cook!
📺 This week on Block Open Source events: - tomorrow, The Great Goose Off returns, Creator Edition, with Rizel Scarlett, Alexander Hancock & Spencer Martin; - also tomorrow, AI Agent Hack Night with MCP in Toronto! As part of Toronto Tech Week with W. Ian Douglas from Block, Lazar Nikolov from Sentry, & Shivam Ajmera from Temporal. Links ⤵️ Check out the upcoming events calendar: RSVP to Toronto MCP hack night:
If you want to run multiple AI agents in parallel, Solomon Hykes believes isolated environments are essential. Otherwise, you're just babysitting bots. Full video in the thread 🧵
Tomorrow, we're bringing top minds together to discuss MCP, AI agents, and open source: - Dhanji R. Prasanna - Nick Eayrs - Bradley Axen - Jackie Brosamer - Xavier Armitage - Mic Neale ...and so much more! 📍 Sydney · June 23 🔗 Save your spot:
Do the people shaping Goose know how to drive it? Alex and Spencer usually build Goose. Now they’re stepping into the prompt arena to build with it in under 10 minutes. Who will guide Goose to the better build? 📆 June 24 at 10am PT/1pm ET 📺 linktr.ee/blockopensource image
“Something like Goose had to exist.” According to @solomonstre (co-founder of Docker and Dagger), Goose stands out in a sea of AI tools with no strings attached. It’s open source, decoupled, and built for developers. 🎥 Full video in the thread
What happens when you connect an AI agent to a plotting engine? In this Wild Goose Case, Senior Data Scientist, Da Lu, shows how he built a custom MCP server that lets Goose generate live data plots & launch a Streamlit UI — all from a prompt. 📺: https://linktr.ee/blockopensource image
We’re bringing the MCP magic to Sydney 🇦🇺 Think building an MCP server sounds complex? Phil Nash from DataStax is about to prove otherwise with a live low-code demo using Langflow. 📍 Sydney, Australia 📅 June 23, 2024 🔗 Save your spot: image
Michael Shimeles doesn’t just build with MCP; he shows others how to use it. He’s used his platform to introduce Model Context Protocol to over 19,000 developers, and now he’s sharing those insights live in Toronto. 📍 Toronto 📅 June 24 🔗 lu.ma/ruit2le5 Hosted in collaboration with Sentry image
Goose is coming to Sydney 🇦🇺 And so is the person who built it. Bradley Axen, creator of Goose, will join us at our MCP Hack Night to share how he designed a local, open source AI agent. 📍 Sydney, Australia 🕐 June 23, 2024 🔗 Save your spot: image
Tons of exciting events kicking off this week! - Join us at RenderATL with talks from Angie Jones, Adewale Abati, and Ebony Louis 🍑 - The Great Goose Off with Rizel Scarlett returns🪿 - AI agent hack nights in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 - Monthly Contributor Spotlight: All-Star Edition ⭐ More info in the 💬