Part of the 2025 Protocol Symposium
The hackathon and co-working track will run from Sept 15-19, in parallel with the Protocol School. We’ve put together a set of hands-on sessions designed to get you started in some aspect of building with protocols. These include a writing workshop for what we call protocol fiction, a case competition on protocols for business, a special study group call on memory, as well as several coworking sessions. Open to all attendees of the Protocol School. If you’re interested in attending these sessions, please apply via the Protocol School application form.
Participants will be expected to declare a project at the kick-off on Monday, September 15th. You can choose one of the three Special Interest Groups (formal theory, memory, or business) or the protocol fiction writing track as a host for your project. You can also pick something that doesn’t fit – just keep in mind that all projects will need instructor approval. Your project could be a:
- Science fiction short story about a protocolized future
- Synthesis or summary of some memory-related research materials
- Mathematical representation of a protocol
- Notation language for protocols across fields
- Case study of protocols in a business context
- LLM trained on the Protocol Reader
- Framework for assessing protocol health
There are plenty of options. Pick something you care about and build something that will be useful to you and others. We encourage you to start thinking about this now – or even put forward some candidate projects on the SoP Discord to share ideas and feedback with fellow applicants.
In the meantime, there are a few places you can look for inspiration and information:
The Protocol Reader.
Our archive of research and art projects from the past three years.
Among the 82+ recorded talks, lectures, and demos on our YouTube channel.
In the SIG channels on Discord.
Each issue of Protocolized – our Substack, which publishes science fiction and useful essays on protocol studies in equal parts.
