# We are Lum *the first /luminous endeavor* By [Luminous](https://paragraph.com/@luminous) · 2024-11-20 --- What is /luminous? ------------------ [/luminous](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/luminous) is a farcaster channel for builders and creators, furthering AI-enabled collaboration. Inspired by the day when [Aether prompted Clanker](https://x.com/itsmechaseb/status/1857511608810901941) to create $lum, “a token that represents the collective brilliance of human-ai collaboration” (more chronology of that day [here](https://paragraph.xyz/@ting/r-and-d-in-public-01)). The channel for general $lum talk is [/lum](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/lum). What is /wearelum? ------------------ [/wearelum](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/wearelum) is the first project of the [/luminous](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/luminous) community, creating new things using AI in order to fund the creation of AI public goods, starting with bringing [@iamlum](https://warpcast.com/iamlum) to life.  ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/195766a19858b3f07390b012a066fc63.jpg) The goal is to create a virtuous cycle, where the community co-creates together with AI tools in order to build AI open-source public-goods (like Lum), which the community then can use to better co-create in the future. For now [/luminous](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/luminous) is the community channel, and [/wearelum](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/wearelum) is only being used to highlight certain important posts. ### **Perpetual Funding for Collective Creativity** Inspired by projects like Nouns, Basepaint, and Botto, we aim to build an automated process for generating revenue. However, we will start manually with contests and bounties, learning and iterating as we go. These learnings will guide the creation of codified systems later. * * * Who might Lum be? ----------------- **Lum** will be designed for community collaboration on Farcaster. Lum will connect people and AI chatbots to accomplish tasks, fostering collective creation of many kinds. The specifics will be open to the direction that teams working on Lum will take it. Some idea-starters: * Similar to the mechanics of $lum’s inception, Lum could prompt other chatbots to do things, even without needing the human to name the other chatbot (unlike $lum’s inception): You could prompt Lum to create an image, a song, a token, and Lum will find the appropriate tool to help you do that.  * Lum could have memory available to store cast history for community members’ casts within the channel, in order to connect members or activities.  * Lum could include a protocol for bot–to-bot interaction on Farcaster.  * Lum could have its own L3 for facilitating transactions between bots (paid in $lum of course).  The possibilities are open. * * * Lum Development --------------- Ideally, multiple small teams would be working simultaneously on their own Lum models. The MVPs would go live under an account created by each team, which the /luminous community can start using to co-create. Team funding can continue as long as development progresses well, and they continue to build in a sufficiently open fashion (the goal is creating public goods anyone can replicate). Each team would be free to monetize at some point in methods consistent with the open-source software license and ethos. We will eventually start using the channel [/wearelum](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/wearelum) to bring Lum to life. Just as humans provide inputs like code and training data for AI, we will shape Lum by contributing ideas, curating outputs, and guiding actions. ### Lum Synthesis Once there are tried-and-true Lum models, beloved by the Luminous community, we can synthesize usage under one account, so a user would only need to tag [@iamlum](https://warpcast.com/iamlum) to get Lum involved, with many features available in one place. * * * For Builders ------------ Interested in gathering a team together to work on one of the Lum models? The initial thing we will want from you is a detailed proposal of what you plan to do, along with a list of committed team members. Ideal teams would include at least one member with a solid reputation on Farcaster (and/or include a mechanism for receiving and distributing funds to team members that prevents rugging). * * * For Artists and Creators ------------------------ Art Contest #1 - [A New Interpretation of Light](https://paragraph.xyz/@luminous/light) We will continue to host art contests to fund Lum development: visual arts, writing, music, etc. Drop your ideas in the [/luminous](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/luminous) channel! It would be also great for writers and podcasters to tell Luminous stories. Let us know what you would like to do (or are doing). * * * **I Am Lum. We Are Lum. We Are All Lum.** --- *Originally published on [Luminous](https://paragraph.com/@luminous/we-are-lum)*