I got serious about tech in 2017, and began learning about Bitcoin, Blockchain, and everything related, seeing great opportunity amidst all of the confusion. In the following year, having gone down the rabbit-hole, I turned my attention to Self Sovereign Identity.
I realized the potential of this technology, when learning about Hyperledger Indy, and the Sovrin Foundation. I also realized that, despite its potential and history, hardly anyone knew about it in the tech scene.
I knew I had arrived with perfect timing to contribute to this information ecosystem: to make its inter-relationship with everything more easily navigable, and help to spread the word about decentralized identity and Verifiable Credentials.
Inspired by @peacekeeper's [blockchain-identity](https://github.com/peacekeeper/blockchain-identity/) list, I began working on my own **curated list of resources related to decentralized identity**.
From the amount of information spread across the web, but not quite accessible to the uninitiated, I knew this community could appreciate aggregation and organization of its information ecosystem.
What began as a single page of links in a Readme file on GitHub, has grown to become the largest web-directory for information related to Self Sovereign Identity.
In 2018, I connected with [Kaliya 'Identity Woman' Young](https://identitywoman.net) who has ever been working on similar efforts, to map out the organizations and protocols surrounding decentralized-identity.
In 2020 we launched a reboot of the original identity management feed aggregator [planetidentity.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20161029051802/http://planetidentity.org/).
The [Identosphere Blog Catcher](https://identosphere.net/) aggregates hundreds of RSS feeds, with pages for personal, business, organization, and web3 blogs.
Once the feed aggregator was established, we began a weekly newsletter called [Identosphere's Weekly Digest](https://newsletter.identosphere.net), using the Blog Catcher as its primary source, along with a weekly twitter search.
Now with over 2 years of content collected in the newsletter, we've begun to bring in that content to this directory, upgrade the processes by which its stored and displayed, while improving all of the old-outdated content that was created as I was first learning and establishing these processes.
