Winding Tree Foundation
Winding Tree Foundation is a non-profit organization incorporated in Switzerland. Its purpose is to develop software projects, data exchange standards and infrastructure with the goal of advancing the travel industry.
Winding Tree foundation currently supports these initiatives:
Team
Norm Rose
Advisor | USA
bio
Norm is a recognized expert on all aspects of travel technology and travel industry trends. For over two decades, Norm has been an analyst and consultant focused on emerging technologies and how they impact business practices in the global travel industry. He leads Travel Tech Consulting, Inc., a firm that partners with Phocuswright to provide technology consulting to travel companies.
Don Birch
Advisor | Switzerland
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After a career working in most aspects of travel and in particular travel distribution, Don has turned his hand to applying his industry experience by investing in and mentoring internet based travel startups and travel businesses that are striving to leverage the wonders of Web2.0 and the on-going evolutions thereof. Don has gained experience with the hype (founder: hotelrezexpress.com), with the technology (SITA) and with the important travel agent segment (CEO of Abacus). He is currently a Partner at Travel Innovation Partners.
Manuel Araoz
Advisor | Argentina
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Manuel is the Founder and CTO of Zeppelin Solutions, the leading blockchain security auditing company. Manuel also advises Decentraland, and has previously worked as a Software Engineer for BitPay leading the development of Bitcore. He also developed one of the first apps on Bitcoin providing Proof of Existence and proposed BIP 45 introducing multi-signature wallets on the Bitcoin protocol.
Nico Colabrese
Frontend Developer | Argentina
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Nico is an experienced UI designer and UI developer, passionate about CSS architecture (currently his primary role). During the last decades, he took part in the development of a wide range of projects, targeting nonprofit organizations, startups, fortune 500 companies, and the Argentine and US governments.
Julia E Pardo
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT | Argentina
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Julia is an enthusiastic autodidact and a power engineer. Her passion for travel and conviction about decentralisation have led her to join the team in pursuit of new horizons.
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Consultancy
One of the sources of income for the Winding Tree foundation is consulting services and development of proprietary software products for travel companies, with the focus on projects built top of Winding Tree platform.
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2017
- Foundation
- Team
- Roadmap
- Pre-ICO
- Legal status
2018 Q1
- Token Distribution
- ICO and Token Generation Event (TGE)
- Execute market validation mechanism.
- Developers Introduction
- Commence development and release workflow to the community.
- First release of api, js-libs and demo app.
- WT Hotels Smart Contracts
- Alpha version.
- WT API Architecture Design
2018 Q2
- Upgradeable LifToken
- Integrate proxy upgradeability model into LifToken.
- Move from ERC20 to ERC827.
- WT Hotels Smart Contracs
- Beta version.
- Booking using offchain signatures.
- Inventory information, availability and price through decentralized database.
- WT Hotel Testnet (WT Prototype)
- Integration with PMS and OTA using WT api.
- Líf Token Wallet
- Wallet for Lif and ETH ready to interact with WT network.
2018 Q3
- Open source data exchange standards for hotels
- API specification and documentation.
- WT Hotels Smart Contracts
- Stable version.
- WT Airlines smart contracts
- Alpha version.
2018 Q4
- WT Beta V1.0 (mainnet & testnet)
- Scalable
- Affordable
- Usable in real world (feature-wise)
- Runs on Ethereum mainnet
- Upgradeable
- Includes: API for PMS, Public Demo APP, WT Explorer, Lif Wallet
2019
- WT Stable
- Integration with airline industry
