REMINDER: Hear Top Talks from DWeb Camp at our Virtual Meetup this Thursday, Oct 3

At DWeb Camp we embrace the concept of JOMO -- the Joy of Missing Out. In other words, you can't possibly experience everything you wish you could attend... or can you? We've asked our Stewards to recommend some of the best talks from DWeb Camp 2024, and at our next virtual meetup, you can get a taste of talks you may have missed from different tracks.

Andor Kesselman on How to Monetize Decentralized Tech -- sustainable business models that align with our ethos.

Jason Morton reprises "Making machines rage, love, and cry with cryptography" -- a look at how cryptographic tools can create AIs that commit and cooperate more with human society.

Vic Spindler-Fox shares some of the seminal work that came from the D:Food/Web agricultural tech track.

Nathan Hewitt shares some lessons from his time as a leader of Open Collective that just may help you navigate your future path.

Join us for our next virtual meetup since DWeb Camp on Thursday, October 3 at 10 AM Pacific to cast aside JOMO and experience some of DWeb Camp 2024's best talks, and learn what organizers have planned for 2025!

Speakers include: - mai ishikawa sutton, Senior Organizer, DWeb - Nathan Hewitt, Community Technologist - Vic Spindler-Fox, Tech Coordinator, OpenTEAM - Jason Morton, CEO, EZKL - Andor Kesselman, Founder/CTO, Andor Labs.

Whether you were there in the redwoods, wished you could come, or long to learn anew, be sure to join our virtual meetup next Thursday. Following the hour of presentations, we will meet in Gather.town for an informal hang out where you can meet friends old and new!

WHEN AND WHERE: Thursday, October 3, 2024 10am - 11am Pacific Time Virtual

Share your DWeb Camp Photos

Unfortunately, our official photographer, Brad, encountered a technical issue and lost a significant portion of the wide-angle photos he took – approximately 2000 out of 3000, including the group photo. To help fill this gap we're turning to you, our community, to crowdsource photos from the event. In the meantime, we've managed to save some of the photos and have uploaded them to the Internet Archive. You can check out what we have so far at the following links: - https://archive.org/details/2024-dweb-camp-images - https://archive.org/details/2024-dweb-camp-002-images - https://archive.org/details/2024-dweb-camp-03a-images - https://archive.org/details/2024-dweb-camp-004-images

We'd love to add your photos to this collection! If you have photos from DWeb Camp that you'd like to share, please follow these steps:

• Gather your photos and store them in a file-sharing platform of your choice (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).
• Send a link to the stored photos to our archivist, Nick, m.nick@archive.org
• Provide your name and a brief description of the photos.
• Confirm that you consent to licensing your photos under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

We’ll then upload and add them as photobooks to the DWeb Camp 2024 collection. By sharing your photos, you'll help us create a comprehensive and vibrant archive of the magic that happened at DWeb Camp. We're grateful for your contributions and look forward to seeing your photos!

Project Presentations from DWeb Camp 2024 Fellows

We’re thrilled to have hosted 21 out of 25 DWeb Fellows at this year’s DWeb Camp in the beautiful Redwoods of California. These incredible fellows represent a wide range of professional backgrounds and hail from 21 countries spanning Europe, North and South America, East and South Asia, West and East Africa, and the Middle East. If you didn’t get a chance to meet them at Camp, you can still learn more about their inspiring work here.

COMMUNITY NEWS, UPDATES AND OPPORTUNITIES

• Apply here by October 4: Open Call to join the Open Social Incubator. The Media Economies Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is launching a 5-month process of mentorship and peer-to-peer learning, empowering veteran community builders to adopt emerging open social networks. Participants will commit to making strides toward community-building in open social media. The program will hold from November 2024 to April 2025 and will be compensated with a stipend of $3,500 USD. Anyone can apply, regardless of institutional affiliation. No prior technical experience is expected or required—just a desire to learn. Learn more and apply here.
• October 4-5 in in Berlin, Germany: Causal Islands Berlin 2024 is scheduled  for next month. Causal Islands is a conference about the future of computing and a home for new perspectives ranging from deeply technical insights to sharp socio-political analysis. It will explore themes including malleable and local-first software, programming systems, new hardware and computer interfaces, p2p protocols, and challenging ideas about what software is, how it's produced, and how it could be different. For more information about tickets, agenda, announced speakers and submitting presentations to speak, visit https://berlin.causalislands.com/.
• October 22 & 23, 2024—Internet Archive Annual Celebration: Join the Internet Archive on October 22nd & 23rd for a tour of the physical archive and the annual celebration of the vital role of libraries in preserving our shared digital culture. This year’s gathering, “Escaping the Memory Hole,” explores the vital role that libraries play in protecting our digital heritage. As corporate decision-makers increasingly control what stays online, libraries like the Internet Archive stand as guardians of our shared digital culture, ensuring that it remains preserved and accessible for future generations. Register and learn more here.
• DevOps/SRE Engineer Opportunity at the Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is looking for an expert DevOps/SRE engineer to join the UX Team. This role is for one of the primary engineers responsible for the Archive.org website (a Top 250 website) and related services. This is a rare opportunity to become a critical member of a small team making a huge impact in the world. Learn more about the postition and apply here.
• Stop Surveillance Copaganda Call for Short Stories: Fight for the Future, RightsCon, Strange Horizons, and COMPOST Magazine have launched a call for short stories at StopCopaganda.org. This call invites the digital rights community to showcase their creativity by submitting unpublished, original pieces of fiction in English of 5,000 words or less to highlight the harms and realities of surveillance technologies. The stories submitted will be used as the foundation for a new toolkit with more just and accurate depictions of centralized surveillance technologies. Five stories will be purchased and published in a special issue of Strange Horizons and in the toolkit. One author will be invited to participate in an expenses-paid trip to the 13th edition of RightsCon, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, in Taipei, Taiwan from February 24 to 27, 2025. The deadline to submit a story is November 21, 2024. Find out more at StopCopaganda.org.
• NEW Guide to Local Digital Community Building: After months of collaboration with local digital stewards from across the United States, New_Public just lanched Creating a Flourishing Digital Public Space for Your Local Area, a guide for local digital stewards that provides practical advice around a range of important topics, including things to consider when starting a new space and different approaches for setting guidelines and navigating conflict. This is a resource for admins, moderators, and other local digital stewards. If you lead a local online group or space — whether that’s a Facebook group for your neighborhood, a Discord server for your city, or something similar and strive to make it inclusive, uplifting, and public-spirited, then this guide is for you.
• Enjoyed the music at the DWeb Camp Friday Night Silent Disco? The playlist is available on soundcloud to enjoy! Tune in here.

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