Open Position: DWeb Social Media and Community Manager
Open Position: DWeb Social Media and Community Manager
We are seeking a DWeb Social Media and Community Manager. 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 position will be open until filled but applications submitted by February 7 will receive priority. Please forward this job opening to those who may be interested.
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.
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.
COMMUNITY NEWS, UPDATES AND OPPORTUNITIES
- Wednesday, January 15, 2025—AMA Your Guide to Applying for the Cultural Memory Lab: Curious about applying to the Cultural Memory Lab? Join this Q&A to learn how this program empowers cultural organizations to preserve stories using decentralized technologies. Get insights on funding, resources, and crafting a strong application. RSVP here.
- Wednesday, January 15, 2025—Funding the Commons’ first Public Goods Town Hall of 2025: Funding the Commons is dedicated to fostering a vibrant and collaborative public goods ecosystem. The Public Goods Town Hall serves as a digital gathering space where community members can discuss, network, and collaborate on the future of public goods. Register and join here.
- Monday, Janurary 20, 2025—Deadline to apply for the Governable Space-Makers Fellowship: Over eight months, three fellows—an Artist, a Digital Governance Engineer, and a Speculative Digital Ethnographer—will collaborate on a novel experiment in making an already existing digital artwork or artifact into a governable space. Fellows will place this artifact in new digital contexts, using governance as a means to shape how it interacts with digital environments and to explore its capacity to foster shared decision-making and autonomy. Learn more, watch recorded Q&As, and find out how to apply here.
- Monday, Janurary 20, 2025—Deadline to apply for the Distributed Press’ Resilience grant 2025: The Resilience Grant for NGOs, non-profits, and individuals recovers lost websites and make them more resilient with the Distributed Web. The grant will support the recovery of 1 site for 2 organizations or individuals in February 2025. The selection criteria includes technical feasibility of the restoration and consent to share the story as a case study afterward. Find out how to apply here.
- 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.
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