Deadline Upcoming: DWeb Social Media and Community Manager
DWeb Bay Area Meetup: Decentralized, Local-first Solutions
Join us Tuesday, February 11, 6PM - 9PM at the Internet Archive HQ in SF, for dinner, networking, and demos! We'll be focusing on local-first technology, where data stays on users’ devices rather than relying on cloud infrastructure. Come try your hands at new projects including TinySSB, Basic.tech, and Bubble.
1 week left to apply:
DWeb Social Media and Community Manager
There’s one week left to apply for the DWeb Social Media and Community Manager position. This role will help drive effective communication across multiple platforms and communities as well as support the smooth execution of decentralized web projects and events.
We are looking for applicants with exceptional writing and verbal communication skills, experience in social media, community engagement, digital organizing, facilitation, and event planning. This is a part-time contract position.
More details: DWeb Social Media and Community Manager
The deadline for submission is February 7. Please forward this job opening to those who may be interested.
COMMUNITY NEWS, UPDATES AND OPPORTUNITIES
- Sunday, February 2, 2025—Deadline to apply to be a part of the Cultural Memory Lab: Gray Area, TechSoup, and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web have teamed up to launch the Cultural Memory Lab, an incubator and microgranting program that seeks to sustain publicly accessible digital archives. The Cultural Memory Lab invites organizations from around the world to propose a project that leverages decentralized technologies to preserve stories historically excluded from archival practices. Selected projects will receive up to $5,000 in funding, access to Gray Area’s DWeb for Creators course, and dedicated technical support from the Filecoin Foundation. Find out how to apply here.
- Saturday, February 22, 2025—Lofi Hackathon for Local First Apps in SF: Come build local-first x AI apps in SF on February 22 from 8am to 6pm. This event is organized by Basic.tech and cosponsored by Hugging Face with support from the Mozilla community. It will be a day of hacking with community demo hour to showcase projects and meals provided. Sign up at lofihack.com.
- Sunday, February 23, 2025—RightsCon DigiResiTh0n Workshop RSVP and fundraiser: Will you be in Taipei for RightsCon? Join the workshop at the g0v DigiResiTh0n (Digital Resilience Hackathon) in Taipei on February 23 to gain practical insights into building and sustaining local community networks. Community networks are transforming how underserved communities access and control internet infrastructure, safeguarding their privacy, autonomy, and digital sovereignty. It’ll cover technical setups, funding models, policy challenges, and the real-world impact of digital empowerment. Register here.
- Interested in attending What Hackers Yearn (WHY) 2025? WHY2025 is a nonprofit outdoors hacker camp taking place in Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands (approximately 42km north of Amsterdam), from August 8 - 12, 2025. The event is organized for and by volunteers from the worldwide hacker community. There will be knowledge sharing, technological advancement, experimentation, connecting with your hacker peers, forging friendships and hacking (everything from computers to food) are at the core of this event. If you’ll be interested in collaborating around this event, reach out to DWeb Camp’s Creative Director Ira Nezhynska who is planning to attend via email iryna@nezhynska.com.
If you have any events or community updates to share, email us at dweb@archive.org so we can share them with everyone!
DWeb: Looking Ahead to Another Big Year Together
We are looking forward to what comes next this new year. 2024 marked the eighth year of DWeb—since 2016, we have gathered in the redwoods, in the halls of Greco-Roman buildings, on the beaches of California and Brazil, in hackerspaces, on the Playa and online, spanning international time zones, languages, expertise, and interests.
Over the years, DWeb has become a dynamic community of dreamers and builders creating alternatives to the dominant, centralized and corporate internet. We want to build a web that manifests trust, human agency, mutual respect, and ecological awareness. DWeb is a space for thoughtful conversation and finding the collaborators and resources to bring decentralized, distributed, and local-first networks to life.
With all the challenges in the world and a shifting landscape in the U.S., we don’t know what’s in store for us in 2025. But as the DWeb Organizing Team, we truly look forward to continuing the conversation and maybe even seeing you at some of the events planned this year.
The DWeb Camp 2024 Media Collection is Live 📽️
Our time in the redwoods at DWeb Camp 2024 was a beautiful time. We had a blast creating memories, sharing lots of conversations, ideas, and connections. Unfortunately, due to a series of technical set backs, we were severely delayed in uploading and archiving the photos and videos from Camp this year. However, the full archive from DWeb Camp 2024 is now live! Check out the full collection of photos and videos from our time together. Thanks for reading!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.