collections/projectinca/farming/inca_farming.md

@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 
 ## INCA Farming = **Become a Cloud Service Provider**
 
-Farming means a person or company offers compute, storage and network capacity to the network
+The process of farming consists of a person or a company offering compute, storage and network capacity to the network.
 
-- Farmers buy a INCA Node
+- Farmers buy INCA Nodes
-- A farmer connects the INCA Node(s) to internet and get rewards for providing capacity
+- They connect the INCA Nodes to internet and get rewards for providing capacity
-- A farmer earns rewards mainly for utilization but there are also lots of rewards available for providing capacity.
+- Farmers earn rewards mainly for utilization, but there are also lots of rewards available for providing capacity.
-- A farmer is helping his/her community to get access to sovereign Internet & Cloud applications on an unbreakabale co-owned Internet/Cloud.
+- Farmers help their community to get access to sovereign Internet and cloud applications on an unbreakabale and co-owned Internet and cloud.
 
 ### Income for the Farmers: Mainly Based on Utilization
 
@@ -22,36 +22,37 @@ The recommended pricing is:
 - $0.005-4 for Cloud Block Capacity  (VM, Containers, Kubernetes, ...) (per hour)
 - $0.2-2 for Storage Box (100 GB of storage) (per month)
 
-- ** farmers can also make money with other services e.g.
+- Farmers can also make money with other services e.g.
   - $0.01-0.2 for 1000 messages over LoraWAN (long range wifi)
 
-> 80% of these fees goes to farmer, 20% to the *TFCOOP, exception for a twin which is 50-50% split.
+> 80% of these fees goes to farmer, 20% to the *TFCOOP, exception for a twin which is split 50-50%.
 
 ### Farming Boosters = Additional Rewards for Providing Capacity
 
-Our aim is to have millions of nodes in the field to evingly create the biggest network of Cloud & Internet Capacity in the world.
+Our aim is to have millions of nodes in the field to eventually create the biggest network of Cloud & Internet Capacity in the world.
 
-There are Farming Boosters (additional rewards) available for supporting special locations, providing more uptime & SLA's, ...
+There are Farming Boosters (additional rewards) available for supporting special locations, providing more uptime & SLA's, etc.
 
-Cell's get colors in line to need of service:
+Cells get colorized in line with the service needed:
 
-- green (enough nodes, no rewards)
+- Green (enough nodes, no rewards)
-- yellow (can use some extra nodes)
+- Yellow (can use some extra nodes)
-- red (let's do it, this region needs help)
+- Red (let's do it, this region needs help)
 
-For red cells the additional farming booster reward is highest.
+For red cells, the additional farming booster reward is the highest.
 
 
 ### How to Become a Farmer
 
-- buy a *INCA NODE (Compute/Storage/AI node) or *INCA ROUTER (Mycelium Network Node).
+- Buy a *INCA NODE (Compute/Storage/AI node) or *INCA ROUTER (Mycelium Network Node).
-- or assemble your own Node, our software makes it easy to get started (see threefold.io for version 3).
+- Assemble your own node
+  - Our software makes it easy to get started. Check [ThreeFold](https://threefold.io/) v3 for more info.
 
 ### Rewards for Being a Farmer
 
-Typically a Farmer can earn the investment of their node back 2 to 10 times over 5 years if succesful.
+Typically a Farmer can earn the investment of their node back 2 to 10 times over 5 years if successful.
 
-> For a [simulation](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D6Q3Yav_SS356zAILwN4SrmqwYfLibT3E6oWrVPU4c8/edit#gid=170998100)
+> For a simulation, [consult this document](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D6Q3Yav_SS356zAILwN4SrmqwYfLibT3E6oWrVPU4c8/edit#gid=170998100).
 
 ### Farming Pools
 
@@ -59,22 +60,21 @@ Some farmers will chose not to manage, market or operate their 3node, in that ca
 
 A Farming pool takes care of
 
-- marketing the capacity
+- Marketing the capacity
-- giving support to the userbase (developers)
+- Giving support to the userbase (developers)
-- managing the best possible pricing
+- Managing the best possible pricing
-- monitor all nodes and optimize uptime
+- Monitor all nodes and optimize uptime
-- monitor available bandwidth and make optimizations where possible.
+- Monitor available bandwidth and make optimizations where possible
-
-If a farmer uses a farming pool he/she will have to give a part of their reward to the farming pool, each farming pool can decide how much that needs to be.
 
+If a farmer uses a farming pool, they will have to give a part of their reward to the farming pool, each farming pool can decide how much that needs to be.
 
 ## Remarks
 
 ### Network Rewards requires Unblocked Incoming Internet.
 
-"Incoming internet traffic should be enabled to earn rewards from network bandwidth.
+Incoming Internet traffic should be enabled to earn rewards from network bandwidth.
 
-If a farmer lacks this capability, their INCA Node will connect to a neighboring INCA Node with good internet connectivity and public incoming access. In this case, the neighbor farmer will earn money from the internet traffic, while the farmer will continue to earn rewards for compute and storage."
+If a farmer lacks this capability, their INCA Node will connect to a neighboring INCA Node with good internet connectivity and public incoming access. In this case, the neighbor farmer will earn money from the Internet traffic, while the farmer will continue to earn rewards for compute and storage."
 
 All traffic is end2end encrypted over the Mycelium network = our P2P Network which lives on top of current Internet.
 

collections/projectinca/farming/inca_nodes.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 - 512 GB SSD
 - min 4 logical CPU cores
 
-Will cost less than 500 USD.
+It will cost less than 500 USD.
 
 ### INCA Node Gold
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Will cost less than 500 USD.
 - min 8 logical CPU cores
 
 
-Will cost less than 1000 USD.
+It will cost less than 1000 USD.
 
 ### INCA Node Platinum
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Will cost less than 1000 USD.
 - min 16 logical CPU cores
 
 
-Will cost less than 1800 USD.
+It will cost less than 1800 USD.
 
 ### INCA Node Datacenter
 

collections/projectinca/farming/inca_routers.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 ## INCA Routers
 
-The INCA Routers allow everyone to connect the users of our network with the INCA Node
+The INCA Routers allow everyone to connect the users of our network with the INCA Node.
 
 ### INCA Router Indoor
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ This INCA Router is super fast and has lots of connectivity.
 
 ![](img/TFRouter_2b.png)
 
-> This INCA Router can be bought right now.
+> Purchasing this INCA router is currently possible.
 
 ### INCA Router Outdoor + Long Range
 
@@ -40,14 +40,10 @@ Currently, we rely on fiber or existing internet connections to link between loc
 
 ![](img/TFRouter_lr.png)
 
-> We are looking for volunteers who will be rewarded to do reasearch and experiment with chosen equipment to test performance in real life situations, let us know if interest to help.
+> We are looking for volunteers who will be rewarded to do reasearch and experiment with chosen equipment to test performance in real life situations, let us know if you want to collaborate.
-
-
-
 
 ## Lo-RAN
 
 ![](img/loran.png)
 
-
+<!-- !!task.add story:'TFRouter_selection' title:'describe loran on INCA Router' -->
-!!task.add story:'TFRouter_selection' title:'describe loran on INCA Router'

collections/projectinca/farming/networkmap.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Network Map
 
+We are planning on creating a network map to visualize all INCA nodes, routers and also devices from partners.
+
 ![](img/networkmap.png)
 
-Above network map is from Helium see [the Helium Explorer](https://explorer.helium.com/) but we aim to have a similar map to visualize all INCA nodes and routers and also devices from partners.
+The Aaove network map is from Helium. See [the Helium Explorer](https://explorer.helium.com/) for inspiration.
-
-
 

collections/tfgrid4/boxes/cloudblock.md

@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ There are unlimited different configurations of cloudblock.
 
 A configuration of a machine defines the cloudblock which can be made.
 
-cloudblock can be aggregated to make a bigger cloudblock.
+A cloudblock can be aggregated to make a bigger cloudblock.
 
 The default cloudblock has 
 
 - 4GB memory
 - 2 virtual cores of CPU
-- minimal 50 GB of fast storage (can be more, as to be defined by provider)
+- Minimal 50 GB of fast storage (can be more, as to be defined by provider)
-- minimal availability of 1 mbit/s bandwidth at all times
+- Minimal availability of 1 mbit/s bandwidth at all times
 
 Terms
 
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ Terms
   - 120 GB of SSD capacity
   - 6.4 logical CPU core (oversubscription of 4, which means user can max use 4x CPU capacity if system allows)
 - when a user choses the full machine, then he/she will have reserved all Storage Blocks capacity which means the machine is now dedicated reserved for the user, the hoster specifies the discount for this typically 50%. On a dedicated machine the user has full access to the GPU.
-- min 2GB always needs to be left as buffer for memory and 10% of SSD capacity
+- Min 2GB always needs to be left as buffer for memory and 10% of SSD capacity
 
 How does it work:
 
-- When a developer wants to deploy a virtual machine, he/she needs to define the required capacity and will be able to make a choice based on these CloudBlocks, each CloudBlock has different base specs (mem, ssd, gpu, cpu) and reputation, the developer can now make a selection of how many of these Storage Blocks need to be given to the virtual machine. This defines the monthly price which will have to be paid as well as capacity available to the VM.
+- When a developer wants to deploy a virtual machine, they need to define the required capacity and will be able to make a choice based on these CloudBlocks, each CloudBlock has different base specs (mem, ssd, gpu, cpu) and reputation, the developer can now make a selection of how many of these Storage Blocks need to be given to the virtual machine. This defines the monthly price which will have to be paid as well as capacity available to the VM.
 
 ## Cloud Hour (CH)