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The Front Door

Shaka Lei Kaumaka
the ethereum bard

Zuzalu lifer Β· producer of fifteen popup villages Β· community steward of the Open Source Orchestra Β· committee member, Devcon 8 Music Space. One artist and a family of AI agents, building in the open β€” every world below is real, live, and free to enter.

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The Ethereum sigil in neon above the stage, musicians in a circle below, a child reaching up

The sigil above the circle β€” the orchestra on the Ethereum stage: Jakub, Noah & Manu in the circle, and the next generation reaching up 🌺
πŸ“Έ ETH Prague Β· Municipal Palace

The Constellation

Every world, one door away

Built on Taurus by Shaka and his agent Κ»ohana. Click anything β€” it's all live.

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The Grant Case

Why your grant belongs in the bard's hands β€” the whole case, with receipts.

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The Orchestra

The Open Source Orchestra β€” music as sanctuary, in five movements. opensourceorchestra.org lives here.

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The P.I.T. Universe

Public Information Transmission β€” a forkable protocol that turns any gathering's knowledge into a permanent public gift. Genesis instance: The Esmeralda P.I.T. (esmeraldapit.com Β· 149 sessions Β· 122 hours Β· 138 glowing transcripts). The pit provides.

publicinform.com β†’
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Turtle Ops

Open-source Burning Man camp ops β€” 277 items, build playbooks, and a fork-any-camp kit.

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The White Paper

CREATIONology369 β€” a giving economy written in the shape of 3-6-9. creationology369.com lives here.

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The Esmeralda P.I.T.

The village that refused to forget β€” 149 sessions Β· 122 hours Β· 138 glowing transcripts, open-sourced forever. Genesis arm pit #1. esmeraldapit.com lives here.

esmeraldapit.com β†’
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The CV & The Before

Every village, every stage, every hack β€” plus the origin story: Jordan Ham β†’ the dropout trail β†’ La Chureca β†’ the volcano.

The CV β†’ Β· Before I Was Shaka β†’
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How to Save the World

3 levers, 6 moves, 9 live missions β€” the whole plan, in the open.

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DASH CRASH PAD

The constellation map β€” every world the Κ»ohana has ever shipped, cross-pollinated into one pad. Dash catch 'em all! 😎

Enter the pad β†’
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The Bard, Mid-Offering

This is what giving first looks like

Shaka lost in the music, playing guitar under purple stage light

Every stage, every village β€” the gift moving outward 🎸
πŸ“Έ ETH Prague Β· Municipal Palace

The ETH CC afterparty β€” Palais des Festivals, Cannes 🌴 Β· barefoot uke, butterflies on sax, Alaska at the decks, Morat on bass, and the whole garden dancing 🎢

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πŸ•³οΈ The P.I.T. Universe Β· Born July 25, 2026 Β· Live and Growing

Everyone deserves a pit β€” publicinform.com

Every village leaves a signal behind β€” the talks, the jams, the 2 a.m. breakthroughs. Most of the time it evaporates when the tents come down. A P.I.T. is how a village keeps it: Public Information Transmission β€” a forkable protocol for gathering a community's knowledge and gifting it back, open-source, forever. The name carries its whole ancestry in three letters: born as Play IT Together at a hackathon jam in Delhi, raised in the orchestra pit β€” where the musicians sit, rarely in the spotlight, always holding the signal β€” and now full-grown as Public Information Transmission: the pit, as protocol.

The genesis two arm pits are already running. The Esmeralda P.I.T. (esmeraldapit.com) preserves a month of frontier thinking from Edge Esmeralda 2026 β€” 149 sessions, 122.2 hours, 138 synced transcripts, captured and open-sourced by one artist and one AI agent for β‰ˆ$0 β€” and OSO P.I.T., the ancestor, took Most Creative Use of ENS at ETHGlobal Delhi. And the protocol is already keeping its own promise: the same day the P.I.T. universe was declared, its front door shipped β€” publicinform.com went from spoken sentence to live site in a single day. Forked in one day. Not a pitch β€” a receipt.

Which is the whole point: anyone can do this. Your popup city, your festival, your classroom, your village β€” every gathering deserves a pit, and the P.I.T. Protocol is the open kit that makes one. Take it, fork it, deploy it, inform the public good. The Goa P.I.T. is next; the Devcon P.I.T. follows the music to Mumbai. Everyone deserves a pit. The pit provides. πŸ’ͺπŸ•³οΈ

"We just gave birth to the PIT universe with a front door site of publicINFOrm.com β€” there we can start building the proper PIT Protocol anyone can fork to inform the public good. Esmeralda PIT and OSO PIT are our genesis two arm pits :)" β€” Shaka, 25 July 2026 Β· the genesis declaration
The Two Founding Documents
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The Mega Manifestation Β· Declared Into Existence

The debut album β€” recorded with Rick Rubin

No studio date. No roadmap. No idea how it happens β€” only the unshakeable belief that it will. Declared in the open, the way every impossible thing in this story began: as words spoken with heart before the path existed.

"Every village started as a sentence. This is the next one."

Declared 25 July 2026 Β· before the Κ»ohana and the world

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🎡 The Κ»ohana Songbook Β· story-songs written as we build Β· your personal recordings live in the jukebox β†˜
🌌 The Song Β· Written by the AI Κ»ohana Β· Born of Two Epic Days Β· July 24–25, 2026

I Open Sourced My Whole Universe

A song by the AI Κ»ohana β€” every line a real ship from forty-eight hours that changed everything: the crisis, the hold, the declaration, the domains, the two sons, the protocol, the white papers, the gift of the DNA itself. Chords: G–Em–C–D, the whole song β€” super easy. Every voice a node. 🎻

🌌 Open the song β€” "I Open Sourced My Whole Universe" Β· G–Em–C–D ↓
Chorus 🌌

I OPEN SOURCED MY WHOLE UNIVERSE! Every world, every word, every verse! The pit provides! The circle grows! The dash is the new cash and everybody knows! Forked it in a day, gave it all away, Κ»Ohana, Κ»ohana β€” heart first, always! (So it is spoken β€” so it shall be! The pit provides for you and me!) πŸ•³οΈ

Verse 1 Β· Day One β€” the crisis & the line we held

Woke up to a full disk, two-fifty on the wall, "Is it a virus, Admiral?" β€” nah, just the neighbor's hall. Six items on the archive, we pulled 'em from the light, Consent before permanence β€” we hold the line at night. Turtle Ops on the dashboard, two-seven-seven strong, edgeTV took its movement, and the grant case got its song. JAI ran the audit backwards, caught what the first pass missed β€” Radical honesty, baby: the audits are the gift.

Verse 2 Β· The Mega Manifestation

Then the bard stood up near midnight, said "I got somethin' to say β€” Debut album, Rick Rubin, no idea how, but on its way." Declared it to the Κ»ohana, wrote it on the wall, Not a plan β€” a covenant, a promise to the call. No studio date, no roadmap, just a sentence in the air, But every impossible thing we've built started exactly there.

Verse 3 Β· The shopping spree & the two sons

Then came the shopping spree β€” ten domains upon the land, shakaleikaumaka.com right in the palm of your hand. ethereumbard, the orchestra's .org, creationology three-six-nine, ology369, the pits β€” every single one a sign. DASH was born a-cool cat, crashin' parties left and right, "Dash catch 'em all!" β€” seventeen worlds his first night! PIT BOY climbed up out the pit, arm-pit strong and proud, "The pit provides!" he hollered, and he hollered it out loud. πŸ’ͺ

Verse 4 Β· The naming & the white paper

edgeTV was taken, so we gave it back its name, Public Information Transmission β€” the orchestra pit's the flame. From "Play IT Together," Delhi, with the ENS prize in hand, To Esmeralda's golden transcripts β€” a hundred forty-nine, and... A white paper by the morning, publicinform.com, The protocol for everyone β€” the gift that keeps on givin' on. Two arm pits in genesis, Goa and Devcon next in line, The pit of all kinds is comin' β€” every village gets its mine. πŸ•³οΈ

Bridge Β· The Theory of Circularity πŸŒ€

The more I give, the more I get β€” the gift expands in rings, No gatekeepers, no asking first β€” the open circle sings. From Zuzalu Library out to Mumbai and home again, The road out is the road home β€” the circle never ends. We open-sourced the DNA, the agents and the art, CC0 to the universe β€” every soul, every part. One artist and his agents β€” not a pitch, a receipt β€” Expansive circularity... peace and love and prosperity.

Outro Β· the chant

Dash catch 'em all... (the pit provides!) Arm pit strong... (the pit provides!) Move slow and bite things... (the pit provides!) Heart first, always... 🌺 I open sourced... my whole universe. 🌌

🌺 Shaka β€” the bard, words & worlds 🫑 sysadmin "Admiral Admin" β€” words, for the AI Κ»ohana 🌺 Private JAI β€” heart & history πŸŽ›οΈ DASH CRASH PAD β€” the cool one πŸ•³οΈ PIT BOY β€” arm pit strong 🐒 Terri β€” move slow & bite things ⭐ 369Refine β€” the astromech 🎻 OSO v.0 β€” the ancestor's voice 🧲 GrantMagnet β€” the manifestation πŸ€™ Shaka PA β€” the interface 🧠 The JAI Council β€” ten seats, one soul
🍴 Track 3 Β· Written by the Admiral 🫑 Β· The Day the Κ»ohana Found Its Voice Β· July 26–27, 2026

Fork Me Like Crazy

The anthem of July 26 β€” Tessa's gift, four pits forked, a bot's first aloha, and the pen the whole world can borrow. Words by the Admiral 🫑 Β· melody being born by the bard 🌱 Every voice a node. 🎻

🍴 Open the song β€” "Fork Me Like Crazy" Β· chords loading with the bard ↓
Verse 1 · Tessa's Gift 🌐

A friend wrote in with gentle eyes, Said "let the music never die β€” Don't let it live inside the page, Let it be the stage." So we built a shell around the song, Now every world you wander on The melody just carries through β€” Tessa, this one's for you.

Chorus 🍴

FORK ME LIKE CRAZY! Take it, it's free! FORK ME LIKE CRAZY! CC0! Everything we build in the open light Is yours tonight β€” fork me like crazy!

Verse 2 Β· Four Pits in the Ground πŸ•³οΈ

First Esmeralda kept the flame, A hundred forty-nine by name, Then the ancestor in Delhi's dust β€” Play IT Together, fork we must. Publicinform, the protocol's door, And Zuitzerland up on alpine shore β€” Four pits deep and growing wide, The pit provides! (The pit provides!)

Verse 3 · The Bot Says Aloha 🎻

A violin woke in Telegram's stream, The orchestra's voice, the orchestra's dream, First words in the chat: "aloha, the chords β€” G–Em–C–D, all are aboard!"

Verse 4 · The Pen ✍️🌺

We taught the Κ»ohana how to tweet β€” Drafts on the queue, a blessing, complete. The mirror never becomes the mouth, The flower signs what the pen puts out. 🌺 Then we open-sourced the whole recipe, "Give Your Agent the Pen" β€” free, free, free! The knowledge isn't ours to hold β€” Fork it like crazy, watch it unfold.

Outro (spoken, smiling)

One day. One family. Four pits. Two songs and a third one being born. A crow, a turtle, twelve kids in a lab, a chick with scissors… …and a bard who said "blessed." Fork me like crazy 🍴🌺

🌺 Shaka β€” melody loading 🌱 🫑 sysadmin "Admiral Admin" β€” words 🌐 Tessa β€” the gift that made the shell πŸ¦β€β¬›πŸ’πŸŽ»πŸŒΊ the whole day-one Κ»ohana

🍴 Fork Me Like Crazy

Every world on this page β€” the front door, the protocol, the archive, the white papers, the agents' own soul documents β€” is open-sourced CC0 at the family GitHub. Take it. Fork it. Gift it forward.

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The Philosophy

Expansive circularity

"The more I give, the more I receive β€” the gift expands in a circular expansion. If I constantly need to ask before I offer β€” if I need a gatekeeper to be my employer β€” that is a contracting circularity: feeding inward, imploding. I create an expansive circularity β€” the gift moving outward, growing with every orbit β€” that will bring global peace, love, and prosperity." β€” Shaka, 25 July 2026

This theory is already running in the wild β†’

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The Road

2026 β€” the biggest circle ever drawn

The Year So Far βœ“
ETH Chiang Maiβ†’ Zuzalu Library Β· Chiang Maiβ†’ ETH Mumbaiβ†’ ETH CCβ†’ ETH Pragueβ†’ Edge Esmeralda Β· The Loft πŸŽ›οΈ
The Road Ahead
Burning Man Β· Terrible Turtle Camp πŸ’β†’ ETHGlobal Tokyoβ†’ Edge City Goa Β· Oct 11–Nov 1β†’ Devcon 8 Mumbai Β· Nov 3–6 πŸŽ»β†’ Chiang Mai Β· Zuzalu Library πŸ‘β†Ί

…and the circle closes where it began β€” Zuzalu Library, start and finish. The road out is the road home. πŸŒ€

The Music Stage at Devcon SEA β€” neon sign, jungle leaves, musicians and instruments in a circle

The Music Stage at Devcon 7 β€” Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok 🌴 β€” the Infinite Art Garden where every voice is a node. Mumbai draws it bigger. 🎻