This Thursday: DWeb Meetup 12/3—The Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem
Hear from 12 Projects: challenges, milestones & lessons learned
Even amidst the COVID lockdown, builders of the Decentralized Web have hit new milestones. At our next DWeb Meetup, we will hear from a dozen projects about their breakthroughs, challenges, and roadmaps for the coming year. As with all of our DWeb Meetups, these lightning talks will provide an opportunity to learn from others and explore potential partnerships and collaboration. (We ask for less “product pitch” and more sharing important lessons.) Join us for lightning rounds of 5 minute talks with 2 minutes of Q&A in Zoom. Afterwards we will head to Gather.town for socializing and networking.
Here are some of the 12 Presenters:
Mauve Signweaver, Founder, Agregore
Agregore: Local-First Web Of Everything Agregore is a local-first web browser which aims to simplify application development across different peer-to-peer protocols while staying as minimal and customizable as possible. Twitter: @RangerMauve
Tom Trowbridge, Founder, Fluence Labs
Fluence Labs was established in 2017 by 3 founders, Dmitry Kurinskiy, Tom Trowbridge and Evgeny Ponomarev. Fluence Labs has developed an open application platform that leverages blockchain to enable new software business models. Applications share data and users and are radically easier to create, allowing developers to build on each other and be rewarded as their services and applications are used. Twitter: @Fluence_Project
Maria Bustillos, Co-Founder, Brick House Co-operative
Megaplatforms from Amazon to Facebook to Penguin Random House have flattened and centralized the human imagination. The Brick House Cooperative, launching December 8th, is addressing this problem as writers and artists, ‘from the other side’. They’re looking to join forces with technologists and others interested in decorporatizing media. Maria will also share how her previous experience with Civil, a blockchain-based media platform that aimed to fund journalism, will inform her work with The Brick House.
Twitter: @mariabustillos
Dietrich Ayala, Ecosystem Lead, IPFS
Big is Small is Big: IPFS Usage, Users and Use-cases in 2020 As adoption and availability of IPFS grew in 2020, we saw it used across a broad spectrum of applications, varying widely in industry category, use-case, architecture and more. IPFS ecosystem lead Dietrich Ayala will speedrun through a sampling of these, sharing what was learned and how our users are guiding the IPFS project into 2021. Twitter: @dietrich
Adam Souzis, One Commons
“At the DWeb Camp in 2019, I led a brainstorming session on how we can build a cloud providing the same openness and freedoms to users and developers as open source. One year and a pandemic later, I'm excited to finally release the first step in pursuit of that vision: "ensembles," git repositories that package open cloud services. They are designed to be the building blocks of an open and decentralized cloud infrastructure: reproducible, relocatable and shareable. Decentralization is obtained via a notion of a persistent identity that is defined not by a network location but rather a reproducible state.” @onecommons
Travis Vachon -- ItMe.company (The first Co-op Data union built on top of SOLID)
Centralized tech monopolies and other large corporations capture the vast majority of the value of the world's data in 2020. In order to create the conditions necessary to return this value to the world's users, we need new politico-technical-social institutions that give users the ability to provide and retract informed consent over the ways their data is used. itme is building the world's first cooperatively owned and operated data union built on Tim Berners-Lee's new Solid web standard to let users reassemble their digital bodies and capture the value of the data they create. https://itme.company @itmepress
Paul Frazee, Founder, Beaker Browser
Beaker Browser 1.0: Share P2P Websites Unless there was a disaster between now and Thursday, then Beaker Browser 1.0 will be available! Join us for a quick overview of building and sharing peer-to-peer Websites with this newest release. @pfrazee https://beakerbrowser.com
SCHEDULE:
DWEB NODE TIMES San Francisco: 5:00 PM / Austin: 7:00 PM / Boston-New York: 8:00 PM / Buenos Aires-São Paulo: 10:00 PM / Shanghai: 9:00 AM next day / Sydney: 12:00 PM next day / Auckland: 2:00 PM next day / London: 1:00 AM next day / Prague-Berlin: 2:00 AM next day / Perm: 6:00 AM next day Please note that we organized this DWeb Meetup at a different time to make it easier for people in the Asia Pacific region to join us. The following times are in Pacific Time: 5:00 PM - Welcome & Announcements 5:15 PM - Lightning Talks Begin 6:45 PM - Closing Remarks 7:00 PM - Post-Event Socializing on Gather.town Questions? Write to dweb@archive.org with questions, to volunteer, or more.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SAVE THE DATE DWeb Meetup: Winter Holiday Social Please save the date for our winter holiday DWeb Social! We will start off with some interactive games & music, but this will be a purely social event. Come by and reconnect with familiar friends or meet new peers in the community. WHEN: December 29 10AM - 12PM Pacific Time / 19 - 21 CET WHERE: Gather.town COMPOST Magazine Call for Pitches Interested in making art about the digital commons and building new decentralized web infrastructure in the process? DWeb Camp 2019 co-organizers, Mai Ishikawa Sutton and Benedict Lau, are launching a new online magazine! The publication is a pilot of Distributed Press, a larger project to build decentralized publishing infrastructure that is managed collectively and horizontally.
They invite writers, artists, technologists, and organizers to submit creative pitches for the first issue. Learn more about the Call for Pitches here: https://compost.digital/
Our mailing address is: 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118
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