Applications open for DWeb Fellowships 🤝
DWeb Camp Fellowship 2024 Applications Now Open 🫱🏼🫲🏾
The DWeb Fellowship application process is now OPEN! We're looking for those working with and for marginalized communities such as community organizers, educators, technologists, researchers, activists, journalists, designers, and everyone in between to make network technologies more just, inclusive, and accessible.
As a Fellow, we will cover your costs to travel to and from Camp, as well as your campership and accommodations. Our Fellows are outstanding individuals creating or employing technologies to uplift communities facing systemic inequality and help bring about justice and social equity. Be part of an amazing cohort of people who are not only imagining a better Web but are building it for and alongside marginalized populations.
Fellows will be expected to: - Attend online and in-person orientations and team-building activities before and during the event - Share their knowledge, skills, or experience with other DWeb Campers, by giving a talk and/or leading a workshop or discussion during the event - Write or give a presentation of their reflections following the event at a DWeb meetup - Participate in Camp Build and Takedown
Join us at this Jitsi meeting room for Q&As information sessions at the following times: - Tuesday, March 5th, 9 PM PDT / 6 AM CET / 10 AM IST - Monday, March 11th, 9 AM PDT / 6 PM CET / 10 PM IST
Attend the DWeb SF Leap Year Social
Celebrate the extra day we get this Leap Year at the DWeb SF Community Social! This is an event for anyone interested in building a better Decentralized Web based on the values of equity, trust, and distributed values, to meet new friends and see familiar faces. We’ll gather around a firepit, share some drinks and snacks, and find passionate people and projects with which to connect. We'll have a few lightning talks from DWeb community memebers mid-way through the evening. This is an in-person, indoor-outdoor event. You can also get a tour of Internet Archive headquarters, home of the Wayback Machine.
So, let's gather for an evening of fun, networking, and decentralized tech.
WHEN: Thursday, February 29, 2022 from 5:30 to 8 pm PT WHERE: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118
Help us plan for DWeb Camp 2024
DWeb Camp 2024 is on the horizon so get ready to gather at Camp Navarro. Meanwhile, we will be having a planning meeting the first week of March. It would be super helpful for us if you could fill out this survey to help us plan for Camp and allow us incorporate your ideas into our planning. If you indicate an interest in volunteering, stewarding, or sponsoring Camp, we'll be following up with you later in March.
COMMUNITY UPDATES
- Social Impact Summit 2024: The inaugural Social Impact Summit is coming up tomorrow, Tuesday, February 27. Hosted by the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center (BL4SG) and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW), this event will center on the future of emerging tech – from AI to blockchain to decentralized tools – and dive into how these technologies can create lasting impact, empower communities, and foster collaboration across diverse industries. Register on Eventbrite.
- Bay Area DWeb Community Co-Working Day: DWeb Co-Working 💻 is moving to Fridays at the Internet Archive. Enjoy amazing wifi, a nice workspace, snacks, coffee, tea and good company. Most of the DWeb core organizers will be there. RSVP to help us prepare if you plan to be there and come by between 10am–5pm PST. We are located at the cross section of Funston and Clement in San Francisco. There’s free street parking but you have to move your car every 2 hrs. It’s also a short walk from the California and Geary MUNI lines. Come to the black iron gate to the right of the main doors, along the grass-lined path. There will be signs outside to help find it. Ring the bell when you arrive. Feel free to bring a friend! If you have questions, ask in our Discord and Matrix channels.
- Governable Spaces—Tech for Democratic Communities: On Saturday, March 2 at the Brooklyn Public Library, Nathan Schneider, professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, will be speaking on what it would look like if online platforms were designed with democracy in mind. This event presents projects that are doing just that—building values like transparency, collective decision-making, and accessibility for all into their designs. It’ll hold from 4pm to 5:30pm at the Central Library, Info Commons Lab. Come learn about ambitious, NYC-based projects that enable ordinary users to co-govern their online lives. Learn more and register here.
- Decentralized Social Media Workshop at Princeton University: On Monday, March 4, 2024, folks who study, build, and manage alternative social media platforms will convene at the Princeton University Friend Center to discuss the past, present, and future of decentralized social media. Register to join this day-long unconference style workshop bringing together interdisciplinary experts to discuss needs and opportunities in the world of decentralized social media.
- You can still register to join the DWeb for Creators Course: Calling all next-generation artists, archivists, gallerists, activists and creative professionals! Join DWeb for Creators - an 8 week interdisciplinary online learning adventure into the heart of the decentralized web from Wednesday, Mar 6, 2024 - Sunday, Apr 28, 2024. This course is produced by Gray Area, and supported by Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. This is a learning adventure to understand the language, philosophy and culture of the decentralized web. In optional praxis sessions you will learn the basics of many decentralized methods and tools. The cohort of artist-educators will guide course participants into the political and social organizing power that can transform your art practice, for you and your community. You can learn more about the course here. The deadline for scholarship applications is this Friday March 1.
- Causal Islands Los Angeles (Save the Date): Some of the Fission team will be in Los Angeles the third week of March 2024. They’re gathering interest in putting on a one day Causal Islands-style event: talks and discussion about the future of computing. You can get a sense of the topics and attendees by looking at the Causal Islands 2023 Toronto event, as well as watching the talks on YouTube. Check out lu.ma/causal-islands-la if you’re interested in learning more or attending.
If you have any updates you’d like to share with the community, let us know.
SAVE THE DATE 🗓
DWeb Camp 2024: August 7-11
We’ve locked down the dates for DWeb Camp 2024. Join us as we return to Camp Navarro to bring together the dreamers and builders of a better web. Questions? Write to dweb@archive.orgStay in touch via our Matrix Channel, Discord, Bluesky, Mastodon, or X. Our mailing address is:300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118Want to change how you receive these emails?You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.