Description

Idea:
Lets get all the Aboriginal, First Nations and Indigenous people in attendance to connect as early in the camp as possible so we can plan our time together.

Frames: 
What does a decentralized web bring to Indigenous knowledges and methods of resistance? How do we use this technology to resist differing forms of colonialism at its different fazes of occupation and erasure? It is integral that Aboriginal people have the space and time for closed group discussions to center our voices and knowledges. A tent has been funded to allow a safe space for meetings, collaboration and imaginings of Indigenous futures.

Background:
A number of people have been involved in making dweb camp accessible. There are many Aboriginal, First Nations and Indigenous technologists, poets, activists and writers in attendance. This proposed project programme is intended to contribute to opening space throughout the camp for us to connect directly with one another to start figuring out what we can do together throughout and beyond the camp.

Hopes & Dreams

The hope is that we connect and lay the foundations for a distributed web of connection upon which we can slowly build trust, connection, mutual aid and solidarity once we return to our communities, lands, creations and resistances.

Participation

This project is open only to people who identify as Aboriginal, First Nations and Indigenous.

Why Participate?

Opportunities for us to meet are rare. Lets connect- Organise. Decolonise. Indigenise.

Session rundown

As a matter of priority we should all meet and connect as soon after the camp begins as possible. The format can be co-designed once we have met. This might include but not limited to:

* introduction of ourselves, our peoples, our lands
* introduction of our projects and work
* communication of our offers and needs

Please contact laniyuk@blockades.org if you would like to help co-facilitate this process.

Relevant links

https://keybase.pub/danielsan/the-local-gossip/the-local-gossip-NeB4q4Hy-11-laniyuk-australia-does-not-exist/local-gossip-with-laniyuk.mp3

https://github.com/dweb-camp-2019/projects/issues/32

Contact

Laniyuk

Incorporating:

• Javascript running in unmodified browsers

• IPFS, WebTorrent, YJS, HTTPS

• A open-source library we created to give a common API to multiple “transports”

• A decentralized hierarchical naming system

• A bootloader to boot http browser requests into a decentralized environment

• A gateway that lazily seeds the Dweb as resources are requested

Questions we grapple with:

• How to seed the Dweb without overwhelming it

• How to avoid duplication of large databases

• How to provide a usable UX on top of slow, and sometimes unreliable decentralization

Althea empowers individuals and communities to build and maintain their own sustainable, decentralized internet infrastructure. This is a benefit not only to those who need better access to the internet, but to everyone who believes in the freedom of content and choice of internet providers. Althea networks will also be more efficient, since each node in an Althea network competes with its neighbors to provide the cheapest, fastest service.

Althea works at a low level by allowing internet routers to pay each other for bandwidth. This can be used to create a city-wide incentivized mesh network. End users load their home routers with cryptocurrency, then pay into the mesh as they use bandwidth. Routers in the network automatically compete to provide the cheapest and best service. The permissionless nature of this network disrupts the top-down monopolistic ownership model of today's ISPs. Prices can vary widely between networks, and with a given user's data usage, but we expect that they will be about half of what existing ISPs charge due to competition within the network.

Althea subnet DAOs are on-blockchain organizations which maintain the list of routers (identified by IP address) that make up a local mesh network. They are run by "subnet organizers" who add routers to this list, and can remove bad actors from the network. Subnet DAOs can also charge each router on the network a continous flat fee. Depending on the subnet DAO, the organizers may provide services usually provided by an ISP, such as installation and customer service. Subnet DAOs are very adaptable and we expect a variety of governance approaches, from consensus based collective decision making to more traditional business like approaches.

How will mainstream end users know which subnet DAO to join? Subnet DAOs will be curated by a the Althea global TCR, a tokenized voting system. Through votes, the global TCR generates a list of known-good subnet DAOs. Subnet DAOs can additional put down a deposit to secure their spot on the list. People interested in getting on the Althea network can simply check a website, and input their address to find the subnet DAO in their area which best meets their preferences for level of service and price. An important distinction between subnet DAOs and traditional ISPs is that one router can be part of multiple subnet DAOs. This unpacks the role of the ISP, and removes the traditional monopoly over physical equipment.

Aragon Core

Decentralized application to run your organization

TRANSFER TOKENS Tokens represent your stake in the organization

Your organization is in control of its funds. Transfer and assign them according to your personal needs without artificial limitations.

FUNDRAISING Grasp the potential of a new form of crowdfunding

Utilize the power of the crowd for funding and raise funds globally, in private or publicly, without relying on banks or financial gatekeepers.

VOTING

Decision-making by voting

Use voting for more effective results. Votes are a secure, transparent and unforgeable way to come to a decision on major issues.

PAYMENTS

Instant payments in a few clicks

Adding a new employee to your organization and payroll is as easy as creating a new recurring payment.

ACCOUNTING Tamper-proof, effective accounting

Every transaction is recorded and can be verified on the blockchain at any given time

Unprecedented level of transparency can be gained through the use of a public blockchain to engrave every entry permanently on the ledger. Pre-established rules can automatically define your quarterly spending and budgeting.

PERMISSIONS

Flexible and resilient privilege escalation

Fine-grained permissions deliver the freedom to create an organization that will work for you.

By assigning different permissions to people, you can create the kind of organizational structure that is best suited for your needs.

We are on the way to have one global page to empower local communities to run events, share views and co-create the web we deserve.

 

One of the core tenets of DWeb is that "DWeb is built by many" where "everyone is influencing our society's future". Therefore, we see a new website as - not the outcome of two or three creative minds designing & developing - but as a huge picture made up of the thoughts and needs of us all.

 

During the session we will:

- finalise the message of DWeb's brand together;

- create information architecture for the website;

- collect all flashbacks and articles from previous events and...

- yes! code it from zero to launch by the final day of DWeb Camp

 

So, whoever you are - a developer, designer, writer, thinker or dreamer - join us! We will have a lot of fun co-creating this BIG touchpoint that will exist into the future to grow our global community.

How it works

Beaker adds support for a peer-to-peer protocol called Dat. It's the Web you know and love, but instead of HTTP, websites and files are transported with Dat.

Deploy a website from your computer — no server required! Visitors connect directly to each other, sharing your site's files and helping keep it online.

Files are transported with the peer-to-peer network instead of being locked away on a server, so you can explore all the files that make up a website or app.

Why build a browser?

Browsers are the gateway to the Web! By building a browser with experimental features and capabilities, we have the flexibility to explore how the browser can help uphold the vision of an open Web.

History

Paul released the Beaker prototype in August 2016 after participating in the inaugural Decentralized Web Summit, where he shopped his idea to integrate peer-to-peer protocols into a browser.

Tara made her first contribution in October 2016 and joined full-time in April 2017. As core developer of the Dat protocol, Mathias has always been a part of the Beaker community, but he officially joined the Beaker team in 2018.

Bring datasets on Hard Drives, bring empty hard drives and facilitate large scale data sharing. We will bring: 10 Million scientific papers, 100k 78rpm records, Geocities archive... What do you have to offer? What do you want? Inspired by Chaos Communications Camp's Department of Hosting Service (DHS): https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Assembly:Department_of_Hosting_Service 

Hopes & dreams

Lets open up Big Data-- lets have fun datasets to play with at the event and after.

Participation

Anyone, bring a laptop with USB ports, Bring external hard drives (ones you can leave out in the open)

Why participate

Moving 8TBytes still takes a long time online. Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. Demo Playing with big data with simple python scripts.

Session Rundown

We don't need a session, but maybe a brief intro do the datasets contributed would be helpful.

Relevant Links

archive.org, https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Assembly:Department_of_Hosting_Service

Contact

Brewster Kahle

Blockstack

Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps.

Blockstack’s mission is to enable an open, decentralized internet which will benefit all internet users by giving them more control over information and computation. We’re committed to always support the decentralization of the Blockstack network and ensure that we build the network in a way that no single entity, including Blockstack PBC, has control over it.

We achieve this through a variety of methods. For books we use Non-destructive color digitization using our Scribe system at one of our many scanning centers across the globe. Complete MARC records, Dublin Core & XML. Printed materials, film, and audio are just a few of the other formats that can be digitized and displayed online.  We create high quality PDFs running OCR across texts to allow "search inside" of all books. This can be displayed via our open source Book Reader.

The Bitcoin Reference DID method (did:btcr) supports DIDs on the public Bitcoin blockchain. The Bitcoin Reference method has minimal design goals: a DID trust anchor based on the Bitcoin blockchain, updates publicly visible and auditable via Bitcoin transactions, and optionally, additional DID Document information referenced in the transaction OP_RETURN data field. No other Personal Identifiable Information (PII) would be placed on the immutable blockchain.

A secondary intent of the BTCR method is to serve as a very conservative, very secure example and some best practices for creating a DID method. The use cases for BTCR are focused on anonymous and pseudo-anonymous identities, web-of-trust style webs of identity, and absolute mimimal personal information disclosure. Other DID methods will likely need to loosen these standards.

Some aspects of the BTCR method will not be practical if inappropriately scaled — for instance, there is a transaction cost to update keys and DDO object, potential UTXO inflation (i.e. one additional unspent output for every BTCR-based identity), and even if segwit isn't used it could cause blockchain bloat. However, identities using the BTCR method can be a strong as Bitcoin itself -- currently securing billions of dollars of digital value.

Description

The audience for this session works as a community to build a blockchain from newspapers. Hashing and mining are demonstrated along with comparisons to centralized constructs.

Hopes & dreams

"Build a Blockchain" is designed to bring an appreciation to people of the power and societal dimensions of decentralized trust and agreement we commonly call "Blockchain".

Participation

This is friendly to all and does not require any electronics.

Why participate

People should participate who would like to have a hands on experience of Blockchain and a deeper appreciation for the power of peer-to-peer decentralization.

Session rundown

"Build a Blockchain" is designed for 10 to 100 people to participate in the exercise and takes approximately 30 to 45 minutes depending upon audience questions.

Relevant links

https://youtu.be/aV6zW99m5cc

Contact

Jay Carpenter

Description

Using the Internet Archive as a server and linking images through ImageSnippets to other datasets such as Wikidata and even possibly publishing through Solid Pods, participants will build an image graph from the event, with metadata openly published as linked data in an RDF triple store. The camping experience will inevitably hold many opportunities for image making by the participants; everything from having meals and conversations together, to photos of the surroundings. To document the dweb camp experience with images and descriptions that can then be mapped into an RDF graph and shared using open linked data principles following the F.A.I.R. principles can be a learning experience for participants as well as a lot of fun and at the end will produce a well documented experience enriched with lots of metadata!

Hopes & dreams

The collective interpretation of images can be shared as data that can change how people come to agreements in many different fields. Preserving that information using linked data and shared openly makes those images even more valuable to a future web.

Why participate?

Describing images with linked data metadata is a really interesting project altogether. Being able to formalize image descriptions using datasets such as Wikidata to describe images is fun and it adds a whole new dimension to how we talk about photos. I think this would be a great way for the experiences that people have at the DWeb camp to be archived in a really special way throughout the experience.

Relevant links

http://www.imagesnippets.com/

Contact

Margaret Warren

Description
 

Problem:
Many people don't understand or care about the things we're working on. Or if they do, their friends aren't there. Barriers to adoption are both technical and social. We have many beautiful systems -- SSB, Matrix, Cabal, etc -- whose UX are good (better in some ways) but exist in their own islands.

Inquiry:
How could interoperability improve the UX of our emerging un-platforms, especially as we grow beyond social networks and static content into open app ecosystems? What does it even mean to interoperate, from both technical and UX perspectives? When does it make sense to build bridges vs defer to other projects' strengths? How do we handle impedance mismatches between technologies? And most importantly, can we all get together over a cup of tea and chat about it?

Hopes & Dreams
 

• Communication lines between projects are opened up
• We begin to understand the biggest interoperability hurdles and opportunities
• We build relationships that continue to grow past DWeb Camp, and identify ways to continue working together

Participation

This should be relevant to people with UX skills, psychology, marketing, human-centred design, compassion, modest knowledge of at least one DWeb technology

Why Participate?

You want to see the DWeb make inroads into the lives of 'ordinary' people (excuse the prejudice embedded into that word; language is tricky).

You recognise the gaps between where we are and where we could be, and want to have a hand in closing those gaps.

You know that every project has a unique perspective to contribute, and that we're much stronger as allies (and our users are better off too). You want to help forge those alliances.

Session Rundown

A group conversation (or two or five) among people who are either involved in a DWeb project or are strong advocates for humane application of technology. This format would serve two goals:

• To build warm relationships that keep growing after our short time together
• I am totally green at this calibre of event and this feels like a low-key way of contributing something valuable to a topic I care about.

I will be happy to kick off and facilitate discussions and share my own perspectives (disclaimer: I'm part of the Holochain project), but my intent is to "surround myself with people more intelligent than I" and see what happens 

Contact

Paul d'Aoust

bunsanweb is a decentralized web born in Tokyo which forms an open network of individual programs that freely share information between them. Its foundation is built on standard browser-side web technologies.

We view the web as a network of user agents (i.e. browsers) and hyperlinked resources, not a network of servers for their clients. We want the web to be a web of something where user agents communicate with document resources. Hyperlinks can directly link resources across web servers.  However, in the status quo the web has become centralized and has become reliant on opaque web services that act as intermediaries between people and resources.

Our goal has been to create a decentralized web that takes back control from these monopolistic systems. We want to create an environment where browsers are enhanced with decentralizing features and programming functionalities are provided for decentralized architectures. We want to return the web to one that emphasizes end-to-end principles and reduce, if not eliminate, centralizing intermediary factors from endpoints. We believe that web endpoints should become an endpoint of inter-person systems. In this system the browser itself can become a resource and perform endpoint-scripts for system functions broken in a decentralized manner.

bunsanweb attempts to provide the tools necessary to realize these goals. Namely, Endpoint-scripting for mixing server-side scripting features into the client-side  which allows for both accessing and producing Web resources.

A universal event stream for communicating with unspecified endpoint scripts without the need for specific centralized channels.

Endpoint-relative hyperlinked space where each endpoint views resources from each local link to the universal web. e.g. Where "personal data" is a relative resource for each person that may link to "friends" on the universal web.

We have created prototypes of these tools and more information and code can be found on our website and github repos.

Homepage: https://bunsanweb.github.io/">https://bunsanweb.github.io/

Gitbub Organization: https://github.com/bunsanweb/

Documentation: https://github.com/bunsanweb/bunsan

Description

Mass market browsers are control points on our digital future. They decide what values are encoded in our experience of the web - how we read, how we publish, how we share, what we save. Let's look at browsers that are pushing on the edge of what a user agent can be today, and experiment with building our own. This session will be unstructured discussion and hacking - come to learn, share and build!

Hopes & dreams

We build browsers that truly are agents *for us*, represent our values, and include the technologies that enable web experiences that put users in control.

Participation

Join for an hour (or more if you want to keep going?) of sharing and learning about how browsers are built, hacking on adding features to the core, or building extensions. Bring your expertise to share and/or your thirst to learn! Laptops required if you want to build things, but not required to participate in conversation.

Why participate

You want to learn how to hack on browsers, or share your knowledge

Session rundown

Meet, chat, hack, share - see where attendees want to take it

Relevant links

https://github.com/ipfs/camp/tree/master/CORE_AND_ELECTIVE_COURSES/ELECTIVE_COURSE_H

Contact

Dietrich Ayala

Description

Demonstrate a stovetop extraction process with organic hemp. Blend the resulting hemp oil into a therapeutic balm using all-natural ingredients.

Hopes & Dreams

One hope is to being visibility to the therapeutic use of CBD/hemp for serious pain management. I am selling topical balms and calming pet treats (made from the same oil) to fund a permanent facility to house at-risk dogs.

Participation

Workshop is open for observation to all non-commercial attendees. Children are welcome to observe but will not be permitted to participate in the extraction process or blending the balms due to safety considerations.

Why Participate?

Participants will gain an understanding of the cannibinoid (no THC in this process) extraction process. Participants will also be able to observe how to combine therapeutic materials with different boiling points into a balm that does not break or separate when cooled. This makes the resulting product more consistent when used.

Session rundown

I would like to show a stovetop hemp extraction using filter bags and a carrier oil. Then I would like to blend my topical product and create a batch in front of attendees. Half of the workshop would be demonstration and half of the time would be allotted to discussing the product and why attendees are interested in hemp/CBD topical products.

Relevant links

- https://moajr.com

- https://hausdog.org

Contact

David Anderson

Description

"Chambers of AWE (Acoustic Waves Emergence) are deep, immersive sound experiences created with both ancient and modern acoustic instruments, and augmented by cutting edge technology. Conceived and performed by Laura Inserra, they are a bridge between ancient technology (wisdom traditions and music) and modern technology (high tech and science).

At the core of the project are sound sources created with rare instruments from around the world, from the oldest traditions to the newest 21st century creations. Those sounds create immersive environments with a vast spectrum of frequencies, thus facilitating powerful transformative experiences. In these settings, participants merge with the sound and go on deep inner landscapes' journeys, traveling beyond the field of cognitive perceptions.

The goal is to use music as a medicine to bring people into different states of consciousness and for the participants to have a restorative, uplifting, transformative experience. Every session brings them into deeper resonance with their bodies, allowing them to access ancient 'cellular memory' and precious inner guidance, getting more in touch with their unique creative potential and innate wisdom. "

Hopes & dreams

"Chamber of AWE is impacting communities in profound and meaningful ways. There are frequencies our ears do not hear but our bones, our cells, our mind perceive them. In our modern times, we live in environments depleted by the lack of sounds essential for our wellbeing (compressed music files, rare acoustic live experiences etc.), while being filled with disruptive, stressful frequencies. After all, we are made of cells vibrating on different frequencies, which means we are ‘sound’. That is why sound experiences allow people to amplify their senses and connect with the vast, holistic intelligence of their being and environment.

Our mission is to create collaborations with other creators and deliver more content that holds this approach. The vision is to create sound environments where people can have profoundly transformative, rejuvenating, revealing, and healing experiences. Those environments can be immersive sound experiences in a variety of events and conferences, as well as music content to play in the background at home in order to restore the harmony of the body and the balance of the environment."

Participation

All ages and no preparation needed

Why participate

The promise is a deep nourishment for our multidimensional body, an interconnection with all the participants, an amplification of our senses, a holistic opportunity for healing, a connection to deep inner guidance, and an experience of becoming 'one' with the vibrational nature of existence.

Session rundown

It can be a day long installation, or a guided deeply immersive experience, from 20 minutes up to multiple hours.

Relevant links

https://www.laurainserra.com/chambersofawe

https://www.chambersofawe.com

Contact

Laura Inserra
Ian Downie
Elan Rosenman
Darren Gibbs

A blockchain based on proofs of space and time to make a cryptocurrency that is less wasteful, more decentralized, and more secure.

COALA is an global community of blockchain experts across multiple disciplines working towards three core missions:

1. Community building and interdisciplinary collaboration, through the organization of invite-only community workshops, public conferences, and policy roundtables.
2. Legal analysis of blockchain technology and development of governance frameworks and techno-legal tools to resolve critical regulatory gaps;
3. Research & development of foundational building-blocks, protocols and applications, with representation at key technical standards-setting bodies

COALA is an international multidisciplinary collaborative research and development initiative for blockchain technologies. We are a coalition of the leading academic research institutions from around the world, providing neutral, fact-based blockchain research to support policy development. Our working groups are composed of academics, lawyers, economists, protocol architects, security experts, technologists, and entrepreneurs.

COALA brings together diverse stakeholders in working groups and projects - from domain experts to global institutions - to facilitate the development and deployment of blockchain-based frameworks, standards, and applications alongside governance policies that enable innovation and evolution of legal and policy frameworks.

COALA represents the Dynamic Coalition on Blockchain Technologies” at the UN, COALA also has two W3c arms, including the W3C’s Working Group on Cryptoequity (blockchain-based web protocols) and Community Group for COALA-IP (open web protocol for sharing metadata for IP). COALA has also launched the IRTF Blockchain Research Group, responsible for coordinating blockchain-based Internet protocols.

As members of the UN’s IGF, the W3C, the IRTF, and representative of a coalition of leading academic research universities around the world, COALA’s collaborative, community-driven work drives blockchain policy, technical development, and next-generation applications at global scale.

Web monetization and refactoring the Web Economy

The Internet’s ‘original sin’, as coined by Ethan Zuckerman, describes the current problem that there is no obvious way to monetize the web without workarounds such as advertisement, data selling or obtrusive paywalls. As a result we are starting to see the consequences of these models - ranging from Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal to ad-blocker/ad-blocker-blocker wars between publishers.

Micropayments has often been discussed as a potential model to support content-creators and others such as Netflix have created subscription services that bundle content. However since these are often closed systems, they have often failed to capture the majority of content on the web, particularly for small-medium sized creators.

Coil uses the Interledger protocol to provide a third option outside of the aforementioned payment options. Through a flat rate subscription, Coil will be the first company to use Web Monetization (a new standard for how browsers can pay websites using Interledger) to pay out to websites in whatever currency they choose.

Web Monetization is a proposed browser API that uses ILP micropayments to monetize a site. It can be polyfilled by extensions, or can be implemented directly into an ILP-enabled browser. It is designed for continuous payments and to have minimal user interaction. As a result , we imagine that a variety of content can be paid for, ranging from static sites to video streaming.

Coil can essentially be fighting against the monopolization of the Web and kickstart a more diverse, healthier Internet.

Facilitate the creation of at least one - possibly 2 or 3 acrylic paintings that are created completely collaboratively

Hopes & dreams

The hope is that a few really interesting abstract paintings will emerge from the camp experience that are truly the work of many - and not one single artist.  The participants will take part in a 'decentralized' art making experience and at the end of camp, the pieces can be bid on by art collectors who might want to take them home!

 

Participation

Anyone can participate in this! No one needs to be an *artist*, or experienced at making art. With collaborative art, not ONE person puts their name on any piece, nor 'leads' the art creation. That being said, there is a ‘facilitator’ who will organize some key participants and a process for making the art - and this helps make sure the pieces don't devolve into a muddy mess. Towards the end of camp, the key participants will regroup to decide together how to constructively finish the paintings. The facilitator will then help to make sure there is a balance of everyone's ideas in the piece and that they do not end up the work of just one overwhelmingly 'good' painter.

Why participate

Making collaborative art is fun! Participants get to experience making abstract art with curiosity and openness and learn from each other. Constructive disagreement is openly encouraged throughout the process and this leads to a rich and stimulating learning experience, and (usually) some beautiful work is created that EVERYONE can be proud of!

Session rundown

A lightning talk at the beginning of camp will introduce the project and the key participants can sign up with Margaret Warren, who will be facilitating the process. All paintings will be done with acrylic paint and if people bring collage materials, the group might agree to also collage other other materials into the works as well. 

The key participants (probably no more than 6-10) will need to be at an initial 1-3 hour session to get the painting started (probably 1 hour minimum - but then can keep painting as long as they want!) - after that, any camp attendee can paint on the works throughout the camp. Key participants will monitor the works during camp (to keep them from turning into mud),  and then the key participants will meet for one final painting session towards the end of camp to 'finish' the pieces.

Contact

Margaret Warren

Description

Yoga-inspired tools for body + mind management, specifically tailored for those who spend lots of time around computers. This will be a yoga class that transitions into a guided meditation with our computers (or other device of choice).

Hopes and Dreams

To foster the viewpoint that our computer is not an “other;” it’s an extension of ourselves and the way we see ourselves. And that it, just like us, does best when treated with compassion.

Participation

Anyone can participate! Wear comfortable clothes (this will be more meditative than workout, but still) and bring your computer or whatever tech device you work with the most on a daily basis.

Why participate

Because you are interested in getting to know your computer on a deeply personal level, because spending healing time /with/ your computer is beneficial to both you and the machine, because parts of your body and mind hurt from adjusting to our modern lifestyles of daily tech interaction and use, and/or because it’s just nice to take a break from manifesting incredible new ideas with others at DWeb camp and spend sometime with yourself.

Session rundown

75 minutes, with ~30 minutes beforehand to set up the space. I just like to get there early to set the vibe!

Relevant links

I’ve made dat zines for other tech-forward yoga classes I’ve taught, though they weren't on this exact subject. Here’s a few examples:

5 Minute Computer Calm: https://computer-calm.hashbase.io/

Strength + Grace: https://angblev.com/yoga/strength-and-grace/

Contact

Angelica B

Description

This is an audience participation demonstration of centralized voting versus decentralized voting. Zero-Knowledge Proofs are also demonstrated and utilized within the decentralized voting demonstration.

Hopes & dreams

Decentralized voting using zero-knowledge proofs educates and demonstrates the power and increased social trust that is possible for collective determination of outcomes and decision making.

Participation

All can participate and a computer is not needed other than as a source for a projector. If no projector is available, this demonstration can be done with no electronics.

Why participate

All people that are interested in governance and what is possible for new ways of high integrity and privacy via voting should gain something from this session.

Session rundown

Approximately 10 to 100 people can participate in this session which requires approximately 20 minutes.

Relevant links

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17APQG13rsgTqxhSXpUtYXekjzpo5Dcc7KboudSwcCfo/edit?usp=sharing

Contact

Jay Carpenter

The DID Universal Resolver is first major project of the 30+ members of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers) are a foundational standard for decentralized, blockchain-based identity. A DID method is a spec that defines how DIDs are created, read, updated, and deleted (revoked) on a specific blockchain or distributed system. DID methods have been implemented for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Sovrin, IPFS, Veres One, and Blockstack. The Universal Resolver uses Docker-based modules to plug different DID methods into a single codebase. This session will cover the W3C DID specification, the architecture of the Universal Resolver, the primary features of different DID methods, and where the Universal Resolver fits in the fast-moving decentralized identity ecosystem.

Digital Democracy’s mission is to empower marginalized communities to
use technology to defend their rights. As technology becomes cheaper
and more accessible, we believe it can and should be used to bring
more voices to the table. Digital Democracy helps our partners achieve
transformative change and works toward a world where all people can
participate in decisions that govern their lives.

Over the past eight years, we’ve seen firsthand that change does not
come from technology, but from how people use it. Our local partners
represent marginalized communities around the globe. We have worked
with communities from Haiti to Burma to Peru. Working at the
intersection of human rights and technology, Dd supports local leaders
with the strategic use of tools to catalyze community-driven
solutions.

Our process is both technology and issue agnostic – that is, not bound
to one platform or cause. We recognize that our partners’ issues are
diverse, but many of the challenges they face are shared. Using a
listening-based, human-centered design process, Dd helps to strengthen
our partners’ access, communication, resources and reach.

Equipped with the tools they need, our partners become better
storytellers, advocates and leaders. Together, Dd and its partners are
empowering communities to become their own voice for change. Digital
Democracy works in three primary ways:

Direct Implementation: We train communities to use basic digital
tools, such as cameras, mobile phones, maps and data collection tools.
We conduct ongoing support and capacity building for our partners
whose projects are designed to defend their human & environmental
rights.

Tool Building: We co-create tech solutions with our partners and help
them adapt existing tools to their needs. We also collaborate with
other technologists to support the greater eco-system of open-source
tools which can support our partners’ needs.

Local-to-Global Engagement: We scale our impact beyond our direct
partners. Through events, workshops, and tool-kits, we build bridges
between our work and the work of advocates and decision-makers around
the world.

DTube is an application fully written in javascript, that runs in the browser, that allows you to upload and watch videos through STEEM to the IPFS Network, and chat with friends with GUN. Moreover, it lets you earn rewards from your uploads.

This might ring a bell for those who remember the SteemQ project announcement, which made almost five thousand dollars in rewards, but never got released and ended up being rebranded - It's still not functional after more than a year, and even the current alpha uses a back-end server for everything and is therefore still centralized. I am sure I wasn't the only person disappointed by SteemQ.

I opted for a different approach. Build something first - talk after. If you are wondering, I did everything by myself (and the help of open source libraries of course) and it took about 4 months to reach what I have now, starting from scratch.

Description

This is a space for those building or involved with the creation of platforms, collaboration systems and other coordination tools for alternative economic interaction to hear about each others' work and explore how our efforts may interconnect to form wider constellations of apps.

Hopes & Dreams

More connections being made in the New Economy; platforms beginning to build bridges and gather momentum by sharing participants; seed forms of new economic patterns beginning to take root as viable alternatives to the status quo.

Participation

Open to all who are interested, we'll keep it non-technical.

Why Participate?

If you're hoping to create a new more ethical world and are holding a piece of the puzzle, finding others holding different pieces and coming together to see how our forces can be combined is the best way toward success.

Session Rundown

To begin will run through and share these guiding questions:

- What's the quick one-liner to describe your app / platform / network?

- What are the most important resources for you to track?

- How do resources & value flow through your platform?

- Are there resources that come in from external sources?

- Are there resources that are produced by your userbase?

- How do resources leave your platform to enter the wider world?

- What transformations or processes do you perform in converting those inputs to outputs?

- What related value flows (external to your platform) are vital to your value chain?

- What critical transformations do you rely on others in your value chain to perform?

Someone will keep a mindmap going while this is happening and begin connecting dots. If time permits, we can form groups or pairs and discuss common protocols based on interest area / market vertical, or particular integrations at the boundary between platforms of interest. We can then rejoin to share insights with the rest of the group. It can be a day long installation, or a guided deeply immersive experience, from 20 minutes up to multiple hours.

Relevant links

http://valueflo.ws/

Contact

pospi

Description

Many of us have unused electronics at work or home that are in perfectly functional conditions and we struggle to find better homes for them. I have started a sheet for people to post and claim items: https://ethercalc.org/xyxdz22x7no1 Expecting pick-up at DWeb Camp. The recommended price is $0 but also there may be valuable items that people are willing to pay for, I don't want that to be a barrier so leaving that open!

Hopes & dreams

Some unused electronics on the shelf find new owners.

Participation

Anyone

Why participate

You make something useful out of something useless and save the planet. Just kidding, it's too late to save the planet, but really you have no idea how much I want that old laptop.

Session rundown

We have a table where people can put electronics they don't want and others can take. If it is for a specific person they can put a sticky to indicate. The equipment may also be useful for other people hacking at the Hacking Room, some project may just need a home router to test something out.

Relevant links

https://ethercalc.org/xyxdz22x7no1

https://www.freegeek.org

Contact

Benedict Lau

"Immutable" has been chanted, and most dWeb protocols built with it as an assumption. The problem is, it doesn't scale and it doesn't allow for a person's right to be forgotten. 

Hopes & dreams

That technological choices do not incidentally trample upon people's rights or well-being.

Participation

Any, all. No prep required.

Why participate

World population is 7.7B, if you want your app to reach & impact everyone, you may need to challenge and reconsider the immutable assumption. If you're targeting small populations though, this may not be relevant for you.

Contact

Mark Nadal

Accelerating adoption of distributed applications (dApps) easier with the introduction of EOS blockchain platform by providing an operating-system-like set of services and functions that dapps can make use of. EOSdAppStore adds value to the plaform by provideing services to make the developer experience safer, cheaper to deploy, support, and promote

The idea behind EOS is to bring together the best features and promises of the various smart contract technologies out there (e.g. security of Bitcoin, computing support of Ethereum) in one simple to use, massively scalable dapplication platform for the everyday user to empower the impending blockchain economy.

Description

In this workshop you'll learn a 6000+ year old technique ("bow drill") to create an ember, using local northern California materials, and blow that ember into flame! Fire is the magic that's warmed, fed, and provided tools for humanity for thousands of years. Let's explore how to use simple materials to create it ourselves! I'll never forget the magic of the first ember I created using a bow drill set I made myself, and blowing that ember to life, creating a lasting fire that kept me & my friends warm. I'd like to share that experience as best I can, while also paying respect to the ancient origins of the skill, and that our modern understanding of it comes from the indigenous peoples of north america, and is by no means a white-euro invention.

Hopes & Dreams

I want everybody to be able to experience the magic that is bringing life to an ember, and blowing that tiny ember into flame! I want everybody to have fun, be safe, and learn some new things about the amazing natural world around them. I expect some folx to create an ember successfully, but usually the technique requires further practice. Don't be disheartened -- you'll get there! :)

Participation

Anyone

Why Participate?

Get a deeper understanding of how fire works, and its many uses.

Session Rundown

We'll be covering the basics of starting a fire by friction, primarily using the bow drill technique. If there is time & interest, we could also play with the hand drill technique, and use of a ferrocenium rod. We'll.. - learn the mechanical & physical theory of how the bow drill works - [attempt to] demonstrate its use - talk about knife & fire safety - let people experiment & learn hands-on! I will supply some pre-made bow drill sets for people to play with, made of various materials, and also a few knives for folx who want to try making their own sets from local materials near the camp.

Contact

noffle

Mozilla

Browser extensions with libdweb

You've built a distributed application platform that will change everything... but where is everyone? Browser extensions can lower the barrier to entry for early-adopters and developers to try your project.

We’re developing a set of experimental APIs for building dweb applications using the WebExtension framework in Firefox - protocol handlers, TCP/UDP sockets, filesystem access and more.

Come by to see demos and talk to us about what you need to build dweb apps in browsers.

Prototype in the browser to experiment with what the future of the web can look like.

Description

Come together for a night of fearless truth-telling in how humans and machines interact in as neighbours or users here on planet Earth. Yes we'll talk power and money, cohersion and extraction and violence and devastation here on Earth. We'll talk also about resilience, resistance and decentralisation and permaculture. We'll get the ghost out of your shell, and butts on the edge of the seats.

Hopes & dreams

My hope is to engage and seed cross-cultural social-technological projects in decentralised internet communication tools and in EcoRestoration camps.

Participation

Anyone - it's poetical political artistic prose and performance, no computer required.

Why participate

Learn about why "Why community networks" with representation from a range of speakers and backgrounds. A form of community weaving and poetry telling (with not all tech centric language) to remember the stories and principles that matter as we engage in building the DWeb.

Relevant links

https://github.com/dweb-camp-2019/projects/issues/27

Contact

Mary Lychee

Description

In order for us to establish connection and strong communication between the women within the DWeb camp, we propose to hold women circles on mornings and/or evenings of the camp.

By creating a woman-only space has been praised by women* who do work around healing justice as a right for women to convene to connect and share without a male gaze or feeling observed. the space will be dedicated for women* to relax and connect.

The women circles are ideal for women to exchange knowledge, skills and life experiences that make space for connection, intimacy and sisterhood. We regard women’s circle as an open a channel of communication where those are present can be present with one another from a place of connection and trust. We will explore these three as pillars for movement building and consolidation of feminisms in tech.

We want to allow this space to hold us all through our emotional and spiritual experiences as women who are living in a patriarchal and male dominated world. We wish for this space to be a space that is for us to design and take over the way we feel is right for us as women working in the many spaces of tech

In this session, we will discuss what we feel like discussing. We will allow ourselves to be moved by the moon and flow to our own rhythms and impulses while exploring the ways we are constructed and deconstructed.

We will also draw tarot cards and set intentions for ourselves and our communities women in tech.

Description

Join us for a multi-day journey from ideation to deployment of your decentralized app on the NEAR blockchain. We will come up with ideas for dApps based on a taxonomy of possible blockchain use cases, then work together to create and deploy working prototypes in a hands-on workshop. We will finish off the series by exploring ways we can support each other to take our projects into the real world beyond dWeb camp.

Hopes & dreams

We would love to get a cadre of hacker-organizers and hacker-entrepreneurs building apps on the NEAR blockchain. We also want to be the base-level protocol that supports a huge number of practical, 'get your hands dirty' projects that walk the balance between gaining mainstream adoption and enabling socially-regenerative technologies to take root in the world. Our hope is that by supporting a bunch of people to prototype their dream apps at dWeb camp that we can seed some of those projects so that they then continue to build them in the real world.

Participation

Anyone can participate. You will need a laptop, particularly for the prototyping session. Experience with Javascript is ideal but not necessary, and coding experience is very relevant but you can still join in if you don't have coding experience. Kids are welcome as long as they are interested in participating in discussions and being involved in designing and programming.

Why participate

Join us if you would like to connect with others who are frustrated by unnecessary and overhyped blockchain projects and want to focus on projects that actually use the core aspects of blockchains to enable new social realities. Join if you want to write a blockchain smart contract in Typescript, and without making your users immediately deal with the complexities of private keys. Join if you want motivation to create the idea that has been in the back of your mind for a while and support from other builders to take your project back into the world at the end of dWeb camp.

Session rundown

**Part 1: Intro to Crypto-Prototyping**

90 mins Space for 20-30 people to sit in a circle/rearrange seating/ideate

**Part 2: Use Case Deep Dive**

90 mins Space for 20-30 people to sit in a circle/rearrange seating/ideate

**Part 3: Prototyping Jam**

120 mins Space for 20-30 people to sit at tables with laptops Internet access

**Part 4: Building the Future**

90 mins Space for 20-30 people to sit in a circle/rearrange seating/ideate

Relevant links

nearprotocol.com

Contact

Jessica Watson Miller

Peter DePaulo

Vlad Grichina

Here are some of the games Samuel Suh of Archon.cloud is planning:

Outdoor Active Games (daytime): dodgeball, waterbaloon fight, kickball, obstacle course. 
Indoor activities: traditional games (chess/checkers/go, possibly tac if i can find a tac board), cards (52 standard, uno, etc) 

Ongoing game: "assassins" where everyone at the beginning is assigned a 'target' at the beginning of the camp, and an object (a small rubber ducky) that acts as a weapon/shield. if you can isolate your 'target' at a time they are not holding the duck in their hand, your target is 'out'. if you get your target, you now acquire their target, and you keep going. last person not 'out' wins the game. there will be a prize for the overall winner, as well as for winners of other categories like 'most eliminations'. this is the basic rule-set, and the best one to start off with. there will be 'safe zones' as well, and we can propose some rule changes at the very beginning, or agree upon them before the camp begins. 

Want to Organize some of your own?  Here's a source book for inspiration.

New Games, Blue Games, Junkyard Games, Token Games... Games can help to support problem-solving and connection… We invite you to host a game — all kinds of games are fair game, the sky is the limit!

Description

Many of us at Dweb Camp work to provide services for the unconnected and marginally connected, especially in the form of packages of systems running on small devices like Raspberry Pi's.

Hopes & Dreams

I'd like to bring the community together who work on these interrelated challenges so we can share our experiences, the common issues we face, but mostly so that we can meet each other, and spawn other conversations that will occur informally over the camp.

Participation

Anyone is welcome, but I'm hoping that this gathering will bring together the packagers (IIAB, Rachel, LibraryBox etc) with the server builders (Interent Archive; Wikipedia; Learning Equality; Open Street Lights) and the deployers which includes many of the APC fellows attending.

Why Participate?

If you work in this space, this is the chance to figure out who you should make sure to connect with the rest of the camp.

Session Rundown

Part 1: Introductions around the circle, especially from people working in the space.

Part 2: Throwing out some common challenges, chances for people to self-identify as facing, or having solutions to, those challenges.

Part 3: Wherever the conversation above leads us.

(I think 120 mins is probably about right)

Relevant links

https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-mirror

http://d.iiab.io/

Contact

Mitra Ardron

Sam Klein (SJ)

GIF 1987 file format born to make history

GIF 1989 animation capability extends GIF

GIF LOOPS play magic moments for eternity

GIF SIMPLE easy to copy paste play

GIF 30 years old already, trillions of plays

GIF DISTRIBUTION out the wazoo already

GIF 2018 BILLIONS serve daily 24/7/365

GIF 2030 BAZILLIONS to serve future, how?

GIF SECRET containers tiny.cc/gifspec

GIF CONTAINERS plaintext application comments

GIF PLAINTEXT data like yaml hash etc

GIF APPLICATION in/out plaintext/data

GIF COMMENT wut?

GIF PROGRAM upgrade GIF how?

GIF CAPABILITIES like security and stuff

GIF AUDIO sound sync

GIF VISUAL switch pix for any sound

GIF TEXT sync vocals, transcripts

GIF WIKI sync definition context

GIF LINK sync ordered context lists

GIF HYPERCARD user programmable

GIF BET on programs you want

GIF QUORUM SENSING crowd power bet pools

GIF LEDGER distribute consensus

GIF PICOPAY use floating decimal point

GIF MAKE MEANING with skin in game

GIF OWN program

GIF MEMORY superabundant local cache storage

GIF 512GB solid state SD card $150 2018

GIF PARADIGM SHIFT to abundant local memory

GIF ENDLESS OS for example

GIF TRUST immutable verification chains

GIF NETWORK more open, programmable

GIF NAMEDATA NETWORK LAYER for example

GIF SECURE where all packets self-certify

GIF SIMPLE way more general network model

GIF FAST instant info, no latency

GIF AUDIOVISUAL high bandwidth communication

GIF ATTENTION trade truly scarce resource

GIF ECONOMY meme alignment

GIF SUPERDISTRIBUTION upgrade 'I, Pencil'

GIF PLAYER OWN GAME tiny.cc/deehock

GIF github.com/ggif @dukecrawford

At Gnosis, we believe in a redistributed future. A future where anyone can create and trade any kind of asset, allowing for a more efficient distribution of resources.

Before cryptocurrencies came to life, most trading and trans-national business were made with one dominant currency, f.ex. USD on the NASDAQ. With blockchain technology and the application of crypto-economics, plenty of tokens could potentially be considered a base currency, with none of them being strongly predominant. This scenario calls for cross-currency liquidity and markets that can encompass multiple token-economies.

We are building market mechanisms that provide maximum liquidity in such a setting, and allow for arbitrage-free trading across all tokens. Through our decentralized platforms, we enable the distribution of resources—whether these are assets, incentives, information, or ideas. We thus make a redistributed future possible.

Our products are interoperable, allowing you to create, trade, and hold assets.

Create assets Our prediction market platforms allows anyone to build customized forecasting applications, and thus to create an entirely new kind of asset: outcome tokens, which make trading the outcome of any event possible, and hence surface relevant information.

Trade assets Our decentralized exchange models will enable arbitrage-free trading for these new kinds of assets (outcome tokens), or for any other asset, any information, incentive, or idea.

Hold assets Additionally, our Gnosis Safe wallet aims to set a standard for secure, user-controlled fund storage. The Gnosis Safe allows people to securely hold assets, and facilitates onboarding new users to our decentralized platforms by making it as easy as possible to interact with decentralized applications.

Our decentralized platforms and applications provide foundational infrastructure, assuring security, stability, and foresight for the longevity of blockchain-driven technologies.

www.gnosis.pm

Description

In this workshop, participants will learn to create the conditions for a thriving team that can access group intelligence leading to their greatest impact and success. It includes elements such as shifting a group from stress into presence, uniting the team to be on the same page, and creating what a 2-year Google study found as the top attribute of a successful team: psychological safety. Warning: this may include silliness and play in service to better results. The workshop will be experiential and interactive. Come as an individual or bring your team!

Hopes & dreams

It is my joy and the mission of Enliven Leadership to change the way we do business to include greater team coherence that leads to amplified group intelligence to better serve the planet positive mission. An integral part of my philosophy of peak organizational performance and impact is "being before doing." Taking time to de-stress, de-clutter the brain, and reach a state of emptiness creates receptivity in a group to the flow of creative solutions. By creating a culture that allows space for the group to shift from stress into the flow state, a team can move mountains to accomplish their mission. Additional qualities of a culture of collaboration are bonding, playfulness, and fun!

Participation

Open to everyone!

Why participate

Anyone who is part of a team who'd like to enhance their team dynamics, creativity and innovation.

Session rundown

3 hr workshop

Contact

Carley Corrado

GUN is an open-source decentralized database service that allows developers to build fast peer-to-peer applications that will work, even when their users are offline. It has raised over $1.5 million in a seed round led by Draper Associates. Other investors include Salesforce’s Marc Benioff through Aloha Angels, as well as Boost VC, CRCM and other angel investors.

The project originated 4 years ago, mostly because the founder saw the database behind his early projects as a single point of failure. The idea behind GUN is to offer a decentralized database system that offers real-time updates with eventual consistency. 

One can use GUN to build a peer-to-peer database or opt for a multi-master setup. In this scheme, a cloud-based server simply becomes another peer in the network. GUN users get tools for conflict resolution and other core features out of the box and the data is automatically distributed between peers. When users go offline, data is cached locally and then merged back into this database once they come online.

Today, the system has been used to build a decentralized version of Reddit that can handle a few million uniques per month and a similarly decentralized YouTube clone. 

Standards for a Self-Sovereign Technology Stack

Trustee.AI innovates in two aspects of personal data management: decentralized governance and a standards-based self-sovereign technology stack, using blockchain-based decentralized identifiers (DID), W3C Verifiable Credentials, and User Managed Access (UMA) authorization standards. Decentralized governance and self-sovereign technology are linked because in the case where the underlying infrastructure is fully standardized, the only grounds for competition or differentiation are in governance structure and policies. . These concepts stand in contrast to first-generation personal information management that is typically not standards-based and is governed by a central authority..

Health records will be our first  use-case as an alternative to current governance practice of how data is used and monetized by state (typical in EU), hospital (typical in US), or vendor (e.g. Google or IQVIA) oligopolies. Trustee.AI represents a fourth alternative with technology as fiduciary to each patient. Our initial proof-of-concept is a health record for the homeless in collaboration with Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare Network. The patients will have full control over access policies for records that include allergies, current medications, diagnoses, encounter notes, labs, imaging, insurance status, emergency contacts, and provider lists. Public blockchains help manage access credentials and accountability independent of any particular institution.

Expected audience: The talk will not be particularly technical. It will show our reference implementation of UMA, uPort, and FHIR health records in a context familiar to anyone who has had some medical encounters. The talk will address challenges in governance for self-sovereign technologies and personal data management, and these topics are relevant in many domains, not just healthcare..

Notes: Adrian Gropper, MD is the main presenter. As a long-time participant in Rebooting Web of Trust, W3C, and UMA standards. All of the Trustee.AI code is open source on GitHub.

Presenter: Adrian Gropper, MD

Patient Privacy Rights Foundation

Advancing composability in P2P software utilizing DHT solutions to build an agent-centric internet.

A demo and open discussion on how agent-centric models in P2P applications can lead to greater composability, and how reinventing "old" technologies can unleash new transformative shifts in social coordination, economic outcomes, and realizing shared visions on a global scale.

Jean Russell and Sami Van Ness of Holo/Holochain will host small rolling demos of DHT-based P2P software solutions, and then open the floor for small person-to-person physical exercises which will replicate the functions of a DHT using real-life social coordination.

From there Jean will host lightingtalk-style discussions on using P2P agent-centric applications to layer innovations into “social plugins” which enable new emerging ways of sharing resources, unleashing new forms of wealth, and distributing data, goods and services without centralized middlemen.

In parallel Sami will host more technical lightningtalk-style discussions on using P2P agent-centric applications to layer innovations into software modules utilizing WebAssmembly, Rust, and the Unity Engine to transform what we think of as “browser plugins” or “applications”, and even how we think of modeling traditional business software like calendars when the restrictions of 2D are removed.

About us:

Jean Russell and Sami Van Ness both work for Holo, a distributed cloud hosting platform built on Holochain, which rewards users in cryptocurrency for giving up part of their devices’ spare resources to host distributed applications. Holochain is an Open-source DHT-based blockchain alternative and, infrastructure technology for distributed peer-to-peer applications, and Holo is the flagship application to be built on top of it. The purpose of Holo is to act as a bridge between the budding community of distributed Holochain apps, and the current centralized web. By creating an ecosystem and currency that enable distributed hosting services provided by peers, Holo brings access to distributed applications to the familiar web browser.

Although we are both representing the company while here, this talk requires no knowledge of our products or services, and is aimed at a more general audience from technical to non-technical. The concepts that make up our platform are not new, they are recompositions of existing technologies, and that composability is actually the core of our talk.

Description

Presentation and discussion of the design philosophy underpinning Holochain applications, specifically the HoloREA framework. Prepare to unlearn what "framework" (and many other words) mean to you!

Hopes & Dreams

Cross-check the lens through which I'm seeing the world. Have more confidence that the models I have chosen will lead to ethical, regenerative, equitable outcomes. Learn about new models and find common ground in order to build ways that they may mutually support each other.

Participation

Developers, sociologists, whole systems thinkers, distributed governance experts. We will be looking at and discussing code, but my goal is to keep the conversation framed in the (more accessible) constructs of language, cooperation and communication.

Why Participate?

Every time there is a revolution in history the measurement infrastructure changes because we need new representations of complex global realities. HoloREA is an implementation of a measurement model for the realities of today. Lots of us are adopting the ValueFlows protocol, and before it takes off big-time it makes sense that we check in with ourselves and make sure it's still going in the right direction. This is one of those opportunities.

Session rundown

## Presentation / code walkthrough (1 hr) ##

Presentation of the code and architectural choices will focus on the social and relational implications of particular implementation decisions.

## Discussion / exploration / synthesis ##

Discuss and explore as a group how these decisions affect API contracts, protocols, governance networks, social behaviours and power dynamics across a network.

Relevant links

http://valueflo.ws/

https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea

https://github.com/holo-rea/ecosystem/wiki/Modules-in-the-HoloREA-framework

https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applications-d2ac1e4f25ef

Contact

pospi

Description

Creating an open source decentralized p2p platform (for communications, collaboration, commerce, etc) that works using web browsers and cellphones as its sole infrastructure.

Hopes & dreams

Create a low-friction, non-for-profit, truly user-run p2p platform that provides solutions that are useful for everyday life.

Participation

1) General public concerned with the issues we're trying to tack (privacy, digital platform governance, true p2p platforms, etc) and how we could try to improve - both talking about our tech & solutions and listening to everyone's concerns 2) Developers interested in using / collaborating with the Hyper Hyper Space project

Why participate

For the general public: learning about a social / collaboration / commerce platform where you can be in control of your data / tech / etc. by using your own devices to run it (computer or phone) with zero technical involvement. For technologists: exploring the idea of making p2p browser-only apps (like WebTorrent) available to wider audiences, all the interesting technical challenges involved in doing so, thinking of possible applications.

Session rundown

Project presentation, exploration & general discussion:

- 20 mins: intro to the project (goals, description of the tech we have now)

- 20 mins: everybody tries the platform out in their phones / computers, explores connecting to each other

- 20 mins (could be longer if there's interest): discussion, idea sharing, criticism? :-)

Hacking on the project:

- 10 mins: intro to the project (goals, what we have now)

- 20 mins: technology overview

- 30 mins: discussion of what we would like to improve, build, add, etc. as long as we feel like it: prototyping, programming, further discussions, etc

Relevant links

- https://www.hyperhyperspace.org 

- https://github.com/hyperhyperspace/

Contact

Santiago Bazerque

Description

This is a presentation with audience participation that demonstrates the spectrum of identity, privacy and decentralization

Hopes & dreams

Audience participants walk away with a new appreciation for the dimensions of identity and how fundamental identity is to decentralization and privacy

Participation

All can participate

Why participate

Identity and the subjectivity of the realm is a key point of appreciation from which almost anyone can benefit

Session rundown

This session is designed for 10 to 200 people and is about 20 minutes

Relevant links

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ghytthY2QG85f6Y1lkjn08P3azqMkwY2oy9FGHOOEmk/edit?usp=sharing

Contact

Jay Carpenter

Description

An introduction to iruway farm lab to kick off discussion on different approaches to include diversity of skills, genders, literacy, culture and learning needs that define the new/holistic tech savvy communities. Such a tech savvy community would not discriminate non-techies and would not expect people to be educated or literate while making information available for all and being able to include all in creating and enhancing local knowledge.

Participation

Interest in decentralization of Web and vulnerable communities

Why Participate?

There are a number of vulnerabilities and complex vulnerable communities. For sharing our individual contexts and supporting infrastructures.

Session rundown

We start with our individual contexts of engagement and our vision of going forward. Open discussion and sharing by all.

Relevant links

iruway.janastu.org

Contact

Dinesh

Description

A deep dive into the current state of the IndieWeb and how you can leverage new standards right now! Add microformats to your blog, interact with other blogs using your own data (like, rsvp, repost, and reply!), syndicate reactions from other silos back to your blog, and assert your identity to use IndieAuth on other sites.

Hopes & Dreams

I'd love to see more adoption of this practical, lightweight style of ownership.

Participation

Anyone can participate. Computers are encouraged if you'd like to hack on your blog and add new features in a workshop.

Why participate?

If you would like to own your data and identity but continue to participate in all the social media silos this is the workshop for you! Leveraging new standards layered on top of the "good old blog" you can give your HTML superpowers.

Session rundown

A one-hour overview, a break, a "Homebrew Website Club" workshop for hacking

Relevant links

https://www.indieweb.org

Contact

Andy Jacobs

We have a version of the IA server that runs on devices as small as Raspberry Pi's. Its intended for use in places where the internet is absent or poor - expensive, slow or censored. It can serve content from local storage; crawl content to that storage; and act as a proxy. We'd love to get some help cleaning off some of the rough edges to make it usable by our target users - people setting up really remote networks.

Hopes & dreams

That community networks in remote places will start using this alongside other tools for Wikipedia, Khan Academy; Kolibri; Open Street Maps etc to provide a full range of content

Participation

People building community networks; coders who know javascript; people who know how to make RPI's into mesh nodes.

Why participate

Help people outside our bubble of great internet access the rich content that allows them to break the cycle of poverty.

Session rundown

No idea yet - probably at least one session for community network people; one on setting up RPIs as mesh nodes; and some hacking sessions if people are interested.

Relevant links

https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-mirror

Contact

Mitra Ardron

mitra [at] mitra.biz

InterPlanetary Wayback (IPWB)

A Distributed and Persistent Archival Replay System Using IPFS

Sawood Alam, Mat Kelly, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson

Old Dominion University, Department of Computer Science, Norfolk, VA - 23529

{salam,mkelly,mweigle,mln}@cs.odu.edu

InterPlanetary Wayback (IPWB) facilitates permanence and collaboration in web archives by disseminating the contents of WARC files into the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) network. IPFS is a peer-to-peer content-addressable file system that inherently allows deduplication and facilitates opt-in replication. IPWB splits the header and payload of WARC response records before disseminating into IPFS to leverage the deduplication, builds a CDXJ index with references to the IPFS hashes returns, and combines the header and payload from IPFS at the time of replay.

The figure above illustrates the indexing and replay process. The indexer extracts records from the WARC store one record at a time, splits each record into HTTP header and payload, stores the two pieces into IPFS, and generates a CDXJ record using the returned references and some other metadata from the WARC record. The replay receives request from users containing a lookup URI and optionally a datetime, queries for matching record in the CDXJ, fetches the corresponding header and payload from the IPFS Store (using references returned from the index record), combines them, and performs necessary transformation to build the response to the user. The software is available at https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb under MIT license.

Introducing ixo: The Blockchain for Impact

Problem space:

We want to fundamentally address a) the dearth of high quality data measuring impact, and b) the consequent high costs and low liquidity of impact investing and results-based finance instruments.

The ixo solution

We enable any project to cost-effectively collect, verify and measure its impact, enabling funding to be linked to Proof of Impact. We provide a shared data layer and audit trail that documents claims about service delivery and outcomes. Verified impact data is tokenized as digital assets called Impact Tokens, which represent proof of achievement of a project-defined impact metric, milestone or outcome.

Impact Tokens can be traded and exchanged for funding in a variety of contexts:

• Impact Token triggers payment clause in a service contract tied to proof of delivery of vaccines

• Impact Tokens triggers outcome payment in an impact bond tied to proof of outcome

• Impact Token may be a carbon token representing a carbon offset which can be traded in the carbon markets

Impact Tokens may open new markets for trading new forms of impact assets such as health tokens or gender tokens, as quantified standards and methodologies are adopted in other fields. The funder or purchaser of the Impact Tokens would receive access to each project’s underlying impact data, providing greater transparency and accountability.

In the same way that Ethereum is a platform for user-generated ERC20 tokens, ixo is a protocol for user-generated Impact Tokens, which enable impact data to be shareable, tradeable and valuable. Imagine an ETF comprised of a portfolio of Impact Tokens, or an impact exchange where participants trade liquid impact bonds. Impact investing can become a true financial asset class, unlocking greater capital for projects. Marketplaces for impact data will grow, leading to better program optimizations.

Key functions of the ixo Protocol:  

1. Data collection using Web3C standardized data templates called impact claims, which are cryptographically signed using decentralized identifiers (DIDs). This allows data to be interoperable across databases. Data is accountable as it resolves to identifiers while preserving privacy. Data is collected from a variety of interfaces e.g. mobile, IoT, data oracles, drones.

2. Scaling of impact evaluation through use of data triangulation and software algorithms.

3. Global Impact Ledger that allows anyone to see and search high level project-based impact data.

4. Tokenization of verified impact data which enables the data to be monetized, shared or traded.

Why the ixo matters:

1. Audit trail and shared data layer for accountability and tracking of impact “value chain”

2. Richer data and greater transparency increases the fundamental value of impact investments and results-based finance instruments like carbon offsets and impact bonds

3. Impact Tokens can have better liquidity and lower transaction costs through peer-to-peer trading

4. Tokenization can spawn new asset class creation and new markets for social finance, unlocking greater capital to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals

5. Access controls to data, which may contain personal identifying information, in order to be compliant with data privacy laws e.g. GDPR in EU

Traction:

Our first project in South Africa, Amply, was UNICEF’s first blockchain investment, which has, since November 2016, tokenized more than 60,000 pre-school attendance records that are exchanged for government subsidies. We have been awarded technical partner with the first social impact bond in South Africa to fund home-based education services. We are working with UBS Optimus Foundation on tokenizing an impact bond for girls education in India. We are also working with Gold Standard Foundation to originate carbon tokens from cookstove projects using IoT sensors. We also developed a mobile identity SDK with Microsoft that enables anyone to create digital identities.

Additional info:

1) Website: ixo.network

2) Fast Company article

3) Podcast where Amply is featured as UNICEF's first blockchain investment

4) Podcast discussing idea of impact tokens

5) Our Github where we make all our code open source

6) Our white paper executive summary (non-technical)

7) Our full technical whitepaper

8) Our Medium blog

Jolocom uses blockchain and other decentralized technologies to build a virtual infrastructure that supports self-sovereign identity management by any subject, entity, or object connected to a network.

The open source protocol is a universal framework for interactions involving identity verification over the internet and is designed to drive adoption of self-sovereign identity at global scale as a common resource. Anyone and anything with an identity - companies, consumers, public institutions, state citizens, machines - benefits from a system that allows subjects of identity to control and truly own their digital selves. Jolocom’s protocol for self-sovereign identity management finally makes it possible. Our protocol will manifest the following activities related to digital identity management:

● creating a self-sovereign identity for use by humans, organizations, and machines;

● attaching meaningful information to identities in the form of verifiable credentials;

● easily requesting and consuming verified information about identities in an automated fashion.

The vast majority of digital identities in existence today are not interoperable. That means there are currently millions of digital identity systems siloing personal data that serve no utility outside a single, isolated service environment. This system makes sensitive information vulnerable to hacks, which can cost a company billions, a government an election, and an individual his life and reputation. It’s time for a new system, one that fosters healthy, productive relationships between us and our data.

Digital identities created using Jolocom’s protocol are decentralized, making them portable: subjects of identity can carry their digital selves with them at all times for use across an unlimited number of networks and applications. Our model for digital identity effectively prevents a number of problems inherent to solutions employing centralized management, such as siloing sensitive user data on private servers (conducive to massive data breaches), redundancy of identity data and verification processes, and captive personal data. There’s no limit to the number and scope of specialized software implementations our infrastructure can support, making the protocol an invaluable utility to businesses and consumers alike.

These product features set Jolocom apart from other identity management solutions on the market that effectively lock customers into relying on a standalone service that issues them their digital identity. An identity created with Jolocom’s protocol can

persist across different networks and service environments - that’s the key to a smart identity system.

With a team of just seven full-time employees, we have since 2014 led a wide array of implementation projects using and informing Jolocom’s protocol and advanced several influential research studies concerning identity management (self-sovereign solutions in particular). An early contributing member of AGILE, a European Commission Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation project, Jolocom provided specifications for machine interactions in IoT environments. We partnered with Fraunhofer FOKUS to conduct research on identity on the blockchain for the public sector. As part of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs blockchain working group, Jolocom successfully built and implemented the identity layer of a prototype operating stack service that allows developers to build a decentralized backend in a matter of minutes; that prototype won Bosch Connected World 2018 logistics challenge.

In fact, we already offer a mobile identity management application that lets smartphone owners meaningfully interact with other people, services, and connected objects using our protocol; an alpha version of the Jolocom SmartWallet is available for Android devices (iOS forthcoming).

To find out more about Jolocom and our work in digital identity and decentralization, visit our website or check out our code.

Projects we integrate with at DWeb: Ethereum, IPFS, BigchainDB, DID & VC standards (DIF)

Knapsack for Hope is a satellite filecasting technology that uses common satellite equipment to deliver digital content without relying on access to the Internet. It distributes content that would otherwise be inaccessible to those who have limited or no internet access due to censorship, internet cost, living in a remote location, government-backed shutdowns, or unreliable technical infrastructure. Furthermore, it requires no hardware other than the conventional home TV satellite set-top box and a free-to-air satellite dish.

Digital content and data is uploaded to a satellite and then encoded on a TV channel to users’ satellite TV dish. Users record this TV channel from their satellite set-top box to a USB drive. Upon transferring the USB to a smartphone or computer, Knapsack software decodes the transmitted content from the recorded TV channel to its original form, whether that be PDFs, JPEGs, HTMLs, MP3s, or others. 

Knapsack is currently deployed in Iran and the Middle East as Toosheh - the Persian word for “knapsack.” Over 150,000 known users have downloaded Toosheh as means to gain access to content otherwise censored by the Iranian government. However the beauty of the technology lies in its ability to be adapted to a myriad number of environments (e.g. refugee camps or disaster recovering regions) and technologies (e.g. Peer-to-Peer sharing). In addition, Knapsack has successfully passed the first round of Mozilla’s NSF Wireless Challenge. 

What will You learn?

Fractals, Escape Iterators and Chemistry of Life

Description

Anthill is a metaphor for the world of structure and complexity that exists just beneath the surface of everything around us.

Imagine groups of people from different domains living together for a period of time... the location itself brings about an intermingling of thought-systems that would not have interacted otherwise. This inspires collaborations giving birth to eye-opening new productions and curation of existing narratives and annotations of real world objects at the location.

A deployment of a decentralized annotated WiFi-mesh with servers and services help annotate the anthill. Such an annotated anthill is inclusive and navigable by all. Anthillhacks is a week long event near Bangalore, India that explores content creation and dissemination for all participants - from techies to low-literate villagers.

What will You learn?

The talk brings relevance of a number of technologies to a context where there is a huge diversity of literacy and explores inclusive approaches of content creation during and after the event. We hope this talk provides a peek of the issues on the other side of world.

Come listen to Hans' captivating lesson on using Cosmos to construct your very own blockchain application in just minutes.

What will You learn? 

Listeners will be taught how to build their own blockchain application with Cosmos in 5 minutes!

- https://cosmos.network

What will You learn?

Brief synopsis of what cryptoart can be defined as compared to how it is made and what it can do

What will You learn?

How the #OverWeb - an annotation layer on top of the web source - decentralizes linking and page experience

What will You learn?

How design heuristics are changed when your app is decentralized

Description

The dweb is a bold "new frontier" right? This is a retelling of an old story about empire/colonisation that we're at risk of perpetuating. Let's move beyond a path of oppression, of singular definitions of being + knowledge. Let's learn a little bit about our blind spots and how to deliver on the vision of distributed web.

What will You learn?

A perspective about how this isn't new, and insight into what I as a beginner have already learnt.

What will You learn?

The rising concern of privacy leaks and abuses and what we the users could and should do to fight against it.

Human identity can be a basis of fair distribution of power and resources - we are all born equal in rights. Existing digital identity concepts rely on 3rd parties, require the release of private data, easy to fake or buy, don't guarantee uniqueness. Proposed solution - massive online synchronized Turing test and anonymous identity network. Potential applications - Proof-of-Identity blockchain, Serverless messenger, Free speech publication platform, Sybil-protected voting, Self-monetized attention, Universal basic income

What will You learn? 

Why existing digital identity concepts suck and what could be done to fix it.

https://idena.io

What will You learn?

- How Interledger works (at a high level)

- How it can be used to internetwork existing payment networks (where to start)

- Some of the things Interledger enables us to build in the future

Description

User Agents today do not act on user behalf, instead they comply with commands of the server surrendering user data into corporate walled gardens that can only be used with apps they provide. I would like to inspire you to think of inverse power dynamic, by introducing my own lunet exploration, where web apps are sandboxed and all of the data aggregates into local-first user library.

https://github.com/gozala/lunet

Description

From Syria to Venezuela, the 21st century is already defined by mass migrations of people fleeing unsafe and unstable situations at home. Each instance is unique, but some of the problems the people involved face are shared. With climate change already at its tipping point, freedom of movement may well be the primary human rights issue of this century, and technology could potentially be leveraged at many levels of this struggle. Starting from human centered stories, this talk will seed a few ideas about that potential, while also challenging the notion that technology is *the* solution.

What will You learn?

People will benefit hopefully by the opening of a discussion on a vitally important topic, and creating connections between people interested in furthering their thinking and work in this area.

The decentralized web is nothing without decentralized storage. That being said, developers and users of the decentralized web are often then burdened with deciding which decentralized storage provider(s) they should work with. Well, in decentralized fashion, the likely answer is not one single provider or even a predetermined set of providers, but rather ANY provider. The decentralized web will be powered by multiple transport layers, and that decision should be left up to the user.

The Safaris and Chromes of the world were built for and currently dominate the centralized web. These centralized apps, however, yield total autonomy of how and where data is stored and retrieved to developers instead of users. The decentralized web, however, must adopt browsers and apps that return this control back to the user. Therefore, developers must be given tools and standards that enable the development of apps that direct the transport (i.e. storage and retrieval) of data without being able to control this data.

I believe this must be achieved through development of a multiple transport layer that has open and transparent standards. The basic concept underlying this idea is already present and being demonstrated in the Internet Archive dweb.archive.org internals. At Wolk we implemented the Internet Archive's transport layer API so that we could be included and incorporated into it's multi-transport vision.

What will You learn?

We would like to share our learnings in wiring Wolk's decentralized blockchain to the Internet Archive's Multiple Transports Layer, to see how we can extend this important idea with other active participants (multiple browser/extension devs, decentralized storage providers, and application devs)

https://github.com/rodneywitcher/dweb-transports

https://github.com/wolkdb/wolkjs

What will You learn?

You will learn about an open community that exists to support its members on their personal development journeys with self-directed lifelong learning. New media literacies and live co-learning sessions that are happening within Open Learning Commons will also be demonstrated.

OpenLearning.CC

What will You learn? 

How we can enable a resource-based, barter-like economy which makes all things (including externalities) quantifiable & tradeable

- http://valueflo.ws/

What will You learn? 

Listeners will learn both current vocabulary and different approaches for considering and applying values throughout the design process.

Description
It's possible that terms like "decentralization" and "p2p" are actually a poor fit to describe the long-term goals of many who are working in this space. I propose a different take - namely, orthogonality - that emphasizes agency and lack of capture, without encumbering notions fixated on legacy transport-layer brokenness.

What will You learn?
I propose a new set of conceptual dimensions along which to think about our various projects. Even if people reject my general thesis, these axes may be useful tools for people in general.

What will You learn? 

How to scale your P2P dApp!

What will You learn? 

Its important to examine our prejudices when we talk about technology and be aware that others won't share them.

Description

Today's mass market browsers are the gatekeepers of the web - a control point for the web's features and capabilities. What if your browser put your values first? What if you could build your own browser? What would you put in it? What trade-offs would you have to make? Who's building the browsers of the future, and how are they doing it?

What will You learn?

Learn what a browser could be if it put your values first. Learn about projects that are pushing on what a browser can be. Learn about approaches for building browsers that truly represent you.

Description

Today's mass market browsers are the gatekeepers of the web - a control point for the web's features and capabilities. What if your browser put your values first? What if you could build your own browser? What would you put in it? What trade-offs would you have to make? Who's building the browsers of the future, and how are they doing it?

What will You learn?

Learn what a browser could be if it put your values first. Learn about projects that are pushing on what a browser can be. Learn about approaches for building browsers that truly represent you.

I will look at a simple set of biologic processes, especially the patterns in differentiation of cells in higher level organisms, that is mimics by similar patterns in other biologic processes.  I will then look at cell phone use, especially social media use on cell phones by the most highly connected or addicted amonst us, as a basic biologic process.

What will You learn?
We will learn a very different way of looking at cell phones and social networks.

Description

In this talk, a three-year decentralized community veteran will make the case that the time is right for decentralized media as a market force in the technology landscape of Silicon Valley social media.

What will You learn?

• Learn about the frontiers of a brave new movement
• Find inspiration for your calling
• Enjoy some decentralized news and make better decisions

What will YOU learn?

This is a 5 minute version of a 1 hour talk that covers fundamentals and brief history of BFT consensus and paves the way for new and improved BFT style consensus protocols. The focus of this talk is educational (as opposed to promotional) and putting blockchain consensus in context of classical consensus.

Description

vTaiwan is a an experiment in Taiwan to build a consultation process for the past 5 years, and it has affected more than 26 regulatory reforms. In this share I will describe how vTaiwan came about, how it works, and the people (nobodies) behind.

A p2p web means everyone is their own server -- but what if they were their own Google too? Turns out, your browser can do more than just publish. It can search, and even query the Web for the data which can drive entire applications.

What will You learn?

You will learn about how a Web crawler that's embedded in the browser can be used to drive a personal search engine as well as many kinds of non-search applications.

Listeners will consider the ideas image graphs. Like knowledge graphs, images and their metadata can be represented as nodes and edges in a graph made up of linked data URI's. The data can then be decoupled - while remaining linked to the image. Image data structured in this way not only facilitates access to the images through a variety of decentralized techniques and processes including Solid Pods, and added value through blockchain techniques but it can preserve provenance, context, intention and copyright intentions for the image maker.

Come hear the lessons that Feross has learned from starting and running a P2P open source project. He will try to condense as many lessons into the time slot as possible. This will be a whirlwind!

What will You learn? 

Listeners will learn valuable takeaways for running dweb projects in a way that prioritizes helping as many users as possible. Learn what WebTorrent did right and wrong!

- https://speakerdeck.com/feross/what-i-learned-from-webtorrent

- https://webtorrent.io

What will You learn?
Learn about the new features and projects in the wider IPFS community, how you can get involved in building an *InterPlanetary* network, and the exciting challenges and growth we see coming next.

Supremacy, in all it’s forms, is ultimately a narrative that we tell ourselves. It is these stories which determine who is valuable, who is authority, who can live and who must die. It was a story of supremacy that allowed Captain Cook(ed) to report to his superiors that the continent now known as ‘Australia’ was Terra Nullius aka uninhabited. He asserted that the people he did encounter were incapable of conceptualizing land ownership or governance. So continues one of the worlds most powerful stories-colonisation:ownership-slavery-murder-child abduction. This talk looks to explore the power and possibility of INTENT. What is possible and what limitations have we already created before coding even begins. What narratives are we imagining through P2P technology and what worlds are we creating? Is tech inherently a colonial space? How do we create tech that is not only decolonial but anti-colonial? While situated in one of the world's longest standing nightmare's how do we create tech that breeds Indigenous survival, resistance and renewal.

What will You learn?

- Start a conversation about importance of learning how the past effects our present

- Start a conversation around decolonisation in P2P

- Give some insight into needs of some Indigenous folks of the dweb

Relevant links

https://keybase.pub/danielsan/the-local-gossip/the-local-gossip-NeB4q4Hy-11-laniyuk-australia-does-not-exist/local-gossip-with-laniyuk.mp3

MaidSafe was founded by David Irvine in 2006 with the mission to improve privacy and security for everyone on the planet. The solution is the SAFE (Secure Access For Everyone) Network, the world’s first autonomous data network that prioritises the security and privacy of users’ data, managing all our information without human intervention.

The SAFE Network

We need an autonomous network - one that manages all our data and communications without any human intervention or intermediaries.

The simplest way to think about an autonomous data network is one that configures itself. All data on the Network is automatically split into chunks and encrypted (utilising self-encryption) before being uploaded and then stored at random locations selected by the Network alone. There's no need for an IT administrator. Instead, nodes are free to join the network anonymously around the world. Upon joining, each node is moved into and out of small groups at random by the Network, again with no human intervention. These Close Groups now work together and make decisions on behalf of the Network (such as where to store data, who has authority to access data etc.).  

The SAFE Network is also self-optimising as it creates additional copies of popular data in order to ensure greater availability of popular data requests. This feature also enables SAFE websites to actually speed up as they receive more visitors - unlike today's web where sites slow down, or even crash, if they receive too many visitors. Should the network split for any reason, for example through loss of power, it will merge as power is restored, and it will correct faults, such as detecting corrupt data chunks and automatically replacing them with good copies as a result of the networks ongoing data integrity checks.

Our design approach has been inspired by the humble ant whose millions of years of evolution influenced the network’s design. Ant colonies exhibit complex and highly organised behaviour without a central authority based on a simple rule set whereby each ant fulfils different duties based on the needs of the colony. Nodes on the SAFE Network function in a similar manner carrying out different functions based on the types of messages they receive.

The ant colony shows us that this self-managing and self-organising behaviour is possible on a massive scale. Building a Network that doesn't require humans overseeing operations is necessary because humans at our worst get tired, emotional and make mistakes. Many data breaches are caused by human error and attackers rely on human interaction to carry out attacks. Human error has also played a significant part in problems with Silicon Valley’s best known companies. Not only are humans prone to mistakes, it also reminds us that we rely on service providers to get access to our accounts and our data. We do not really own our information - access to our own data can be removed at any time by the providers either mistakenly or at the request of others. This is what we're looking to change with the SAFE Network.

Security

The SAFE Network is one in which data cannot be deleted, changed, corrupted, and/or accessed without the data owner’s consent. This is possible because we are removing humans from the management of data so that storage locations are unknown to anyone but the network, whilst the user cannot be identified.

Any service where data is stored on servers, federated servers, owned storage locations, or on identifiable nodes, cannot ensure the security of data and brings us no closer to real unfettered ownership of our data. This also includes blockchain-based solutions. 

Autonomous things are already starting to have a huge benefit across a number of industries and we are just scratching the surface in finding out how they can positively impact upon our relationship with our data. Rather than making data more secure, the human element unfortunately has the opposite effect and can lead to data loss, theft, inaccessibility and a fundamental lack of ownership. 

A change for the better, for us all - this is what we're building with the SAFE Network. 

Matrix is an open network and protocol for secure, decentralized, real-time communication.

Imagine a world where it is as simple to message or video call anyone as it is to send an email, where you can communicate without being forced to install the same app, where your data is secured by end-to-end encryption, where you can choose who hosts your communications, where you can easily share any kind of real-time data over the Internet: this is Matrix! Matrix is defined as an open standard with reference implementations of servers, clients and SDKs, providing the tools to build real-time communication applications and services which are not controlled by single corporations (like Facebook or Google), but by the users themselves.

Matrix can be used for:

• decentralised group chat with fully distributed persistent chatrooms with no single points of control or failure;

• WebRTC signaling as a web-friendly signalling transport for interoperable WebRTC calls;

• Internet of Things use cases, by exchanging and persisting data between devices and services;

• VR calling, messaging and collaboration, by providing an open universal communication layer;

... and anywhere else you need a common data fabric to link together fragmented silos of communication. Our focus is on simplicity, security, and supporting the fullest feature set.

Matrix’s initial inspiration and goal is to fix the problem of fragmented IP communications, but its real potential and ultimate mission is to be a generic messaging and data synchronisation system for the web - allowing people, services and devices to easily communicate with each other securely whilst maintaining full conversation history.

The Matrix.org Foundation is currently being incorporated as non-profit initiative in the UK. It acts as a neutral guardian of the Matrix spec, nurturing and growing Matrix for the benefit of the whole ecosystem. Matrix's original core team has been building custom VoIP and Messaging solutions for mobile network operators since 2006 with extensive experience in SIP and XMPP, and created Matrix to provide a simpler web-friendly alternative to the wider world.

Matrix's success depends on the wider community’s feedback and uptake: please come to Matrix.org and take a look at the Matrix spec, or come and talk to us at #matrix:matrix.org, or check out the code and run your own Matrix server!

The assets of a majority of the world's population are physically visible, but economically and politically invisible. This project estimates that 2.5 billion people have access to formal property rights. This formalization gives them access to the value of their properties whether in the form of credit or credentials. The other 5 billion have no access, and, thus cannot tap into the value of the land they manage, use, and own. Medici Ventures is using blockchain among other technologies to bring property ownership information to light and connect it to the global economy.

Making informal property records global, transparent, and resistant to corruption will make use of the decentralized and immutable properties of blockchain technology. Using Open Index Protocol (OIP), Medici Ventures is developing a data model for property rights information that works with OIP defining indexable metadata for any property-related content. The data model organizes property information into party, spatial unit, and tenure artifacts. Additionally, the model provides for endorsements, which allow for affirmations of claims. All information is supported with a source artifact that provides references to files stored in decentralized storage.

Meshstream demonstrates:

• Live video streaming over content addressable storage (IPFS)
• Sharing of multimedia content over a peer-to-peer social network (SSB)
• Mesh networking over long-range wireless links using open hardware (LibreRouter)

Each physical node consists of a LibreRouter + a Raspberry Pi, running software developed by Toronto Mesh that use IPFS and SSB. One node will stream video off of a Raspberry Pi camera, publishes to the private IPFS and SSB network formed by these devices, then other nodes can view the embedded player on the SSB timeline of the video publisher. The user experience is similar to streaming a YouTube video and sharing the link on your Facebook, then your friends discover that video via their social feed and view the live stream from the embedded player.

More details here: https://github.com/tomeshnet/meshstream/issues/1

MetaMask is a bridge that allows you to visit the distributed web of tomorrow in your browser today. It allows you to run Ethereum dApps right in your browser without running a full Ethereum node.

MetaMask includes a secure identity vault, providing a user interface to manage your identities on different sites and sign blockchain transactions.

You can install the MetaMask add-on in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and the new Brave browser. If you’re a developer, you can start developing with MetaMask today.

Our mission is to make Ethereum as easy to use for as many people as possible.

Description

The Decentralized Web is a grand concept spanning many different disciplines, and sometimes it's difficult to communicate to others what it is, why it's important, and what's being done. Come join us to build a collaborative mindmap of the projects and topics being discussed at DWebCamp, and add your own voice to help explain the lay of the land.

Hopes & dreams

I hope that with the participation of all the great minds at DWebCamp, we can build a collection of voices speaking about what the decentralized web is about, and why it's important. The final product of this project will be a website that presents this information spatially as both a 2d site and an immersive 3D/VR "memory palace" experience. My dream is that this experience can then live on across a number of decentralized platforms as a snapshot of the thoughts and concerns of the Decentralized Web community at this point in time.

Participation

People of all ages are welcome! We'll have a number of VR headsets to use for the full immersive experience. If you bring a laptop or smartphone, you can join in from there as well!

Why participate

By participating in this project, you'll get to add your voice to a digital tapestry which documents the current state of the decentralized web, and capture all your thoughts and concerns and hopes and dreams for the future of the web. After the event, this project will be published on multiple decentralized content platforms, as well as uploaded to the Internet Archive.

Session rundown

Flexible schedule and location

Relevant Links

https://i.imgur.com/yiWsXwS.png

Contact

James Baicoianu

Description

The decentralized web is nothing without decentralized storage. That being said, developers and users of the decentralized web are often then burdened with deciding which decentralized storage provider(s) they should work with. Well, in decentralized fashion, the likely answer is not one single provider or even a predetermined set of providers, but rather ANY provider. The decentralized web will be powered by multiple transport layers, and that decision should be left up to the user. 

The Safaris and Chromes of the world were built for and currently dominate the centralized web. These centralized apps, however, yield total autonomy of how and where data is stored and retrieved to developers instead of users. The decentralized web, however, must adopt browsers and apps that return this control back to the user. Therefore, developers must be given tools and standards that enable the development of apps that direct the transport (i.e. storage and retrieval) of data without being able to control this data.  

I believe this must be achieved through development of a multiple transport layer that has open and transparent standards. The basic concept underlying this idea is already present and being demonstrated in the Internet Archive dweb.archive.org internals. At Wolk we implemented the Internet Archive's transport layer API so that we could be included and incorporated into it's multi-transport vision.

We would like to share our learnings in wiring Wolk's decentralized blockchain to the Internet Archive's Multiple Transports Layer, to see how we can extend this important idea with other active participants (multiple browser/extension devs, decentralized storage providers, and application devs) 

Hopes & dreams

I hope that choice architects (including us) can incorporate the best solutions we have on this puzzle

Participation

Designers of decentralized web + storage systems. This is is not kid friendly

Why participate?

Anyone who wants to reduce hateful/offensive/violent/false ... content while preserving true digital freedom

Session rundown

Moderators can frame the problem [5mins], 5 mins per group with a proposal + 20-30mins discussion

Contact

Sourabh Niyogi

Rodney Witcher

Namecoin is the first naming system that is simultaneously global (everyone gets the same result for the same lookup), decentralized (no central party decides which names map to which values), and human-meaningful (names aren’t just a hash or something similarly opaque to humans).  Previous naming systems such as the DNS, .onion, and .i2p are unable to simultaneously achieve all 3 of these properties.
Namecoin achieves this by recognizing that Bitcoin’s achievement of a decentralized consensus (via a Nakamoto blockchain) has applications outside of the financial system, including naming.  Namecoin was the first fork of Bitcoin (we forked Bitcoin before it was cool), and extends Bitcoin’s blockchain validation rules to allow coins to represent human-readable names with arbitrary values attached.  The Namecoin blockchain validation rules enforce that all transactions in the blockchain honor uniqueness of names, and that only the owner of a name can update its value. Namecoin’s threat model is very similar to that of Bitcoin: like Bitcoin, Namecoin is mined via Hashcash-SHA256D proof-of-work, and inclusion in the blockchain of a transaction (even if checked via a lightweight client) implies that miners have verified the transaction’s correctness.

Namecoin’s current and proposed use cases include a more censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting alternative to the DNS, a decentralized public key infrastructure for protocols like TLS, OpenPGP, and OTR, a DNS-like functionality for darknet protocols such as Tor onion services, I2P, and Freenet, and single sign-on for website users.

Namecoin has been endorsed by WikiLeaks, has been favorably mentioned in a technical report by ICANN, is funded by NLnet Foundation’s Internet Hardening Fund using funding originating from the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, and (for a 48-hour period in 2017) had higher hashrate than Bitcoin.  Namecoin has an international development team, and is always looking for new contributors. We’d also love to collaborate with your project.

More information is available at https://www.namecoin.org/

Ninja
the anonymous exchange of anything

The evolution of trade and exchanges is one of the most significant stories in the journey of mankind. Here’s our addition to the newest chapter - a decentralized platform that allows ninjas (its users) to discover different exchanges built by other ninjas (its developers), and to trade crypto assets on these exchanges directly with each other, anonymously, and trustlessly.

Developers, think of Ninja as the modern day version of the App Store. Instead of developing apps, you’ll build decentralized exchanges for crypto assets. Keep it free, use your own in-exchange tokens, or charge transaction fees.

Users, Ninja is the modern day version of Craigslist. Ninja users will be able to trade different crypto assets with one another anonymously and trustlessly — with no central authority or middlemen.

1. Ninja is anonymous. Ninja uses public/private keypair for authentication. No download required. You can use Ninja with complete privacy.

2. Ninja is peer-to-peer. Ninja doesn’t require middlemen, which means no fees, no bureaucracy, and no restriction.

3. Ninja is trustless. Agreements programmed as smart contracts replace reluctant trust with cryptographic proof. Anonymous users from anywhere in the world can now enter in an agreement without the need for a trusted third party.

4. Ninja is permissionless. Ninja allows anyone to create an address and begin interacting with other people on the Ninja network. Anyone can build and launch exchanges.

5. Ninja is decentralized. Designed with the new decentralized Internet primitives Ethereum (code) and IPFS (storage), Ninja aims to provide a product without a single point of failure, that also ensures users can safely own their data.

6. Ninja is transparent. The entire development of Ninja is open-sourced on Github.

The first two Exchanges are now live.

Prediction Exchange allows parties to directly bet against each other without going through a central authority or bookmaker. The management of bets and the settlement of winnings are carried out collectively by the blockchain network, protecting users from any single point of failure. Prediction Exchange has unique properties that allow exciting use cases, previously impossible under any traditional betting mechanism

Read more about Prediction Exchange here.

Cash Exchange is a decentralized, anonymous, peer to peer (P2P) cryptocurrency exchange, which allows users from all over the world to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. You don’t need a bank account to use Ninja. This means that in addition to benefiting users that prefer not to leave a paper trail, over 2 billion unbanked people in the world, who are currently restricted when it comes to using traditional platforms will now be able to join the movement towards the decentralized future of money.

Read more about Cash Exchange here.

Coin Exchange and Goods Exchange will be introduced in Q3 2018.

What is Ocean Protocol?

Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem for sharing data and associated services. It provides a tokenized service layer that exposes data, storage, compute and algorithms for consumption with a set of deterministic proofs on availability and integrity that serve as verifiable service agreements. There is staking on services to signal quality, reputation and ward against Sybil Attacks.

Ocean helps to unlock data, particularly for AI. It is designed for scale and uses blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure and transparent manner.

How Ocean Protocol Works

The Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem composed of data assets and services, where assets are represented by data and algorithms, and services are represented by integration, processing and persistence mechanisms. Ocean Protocol facilitates discovery by storing and promoting metadata, linking assets and services, and provides a licensing framework that has toolsets for pricing.

A multitude of data marketplaces can hook into Ocean Protocol to provide “last mile” services to connect data providers and consumers. Ocean Protocol is designed so that data owners cannot be locked-in to any single marketplace. The data owner controls each dataset.

OmiseGO is a subsidiary of Omise, a leading online payment gateway service provider operating in Southeast Asia. The OmiseGO blockchain team has been involved in the Ethereum community from its very beginning--starting in 2015, Omise Blockchain Lab began research work focusing primarily on scalability. At this time, OmiseGO is focusing on building Plasma architecture as a scalability solution for the Ethereum ecosystem.

OmiseGO is building public financial infrastructure to securely process high transaction volume, rooted to the Ethereum blockchain, including:

1. OMG Network, a blockchain-based financial network powered by Plasma architecture and secured with Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus with the OMG token

2. Decentralized exchange mechanism, built directly into the OMG blockchain to facilitate currency-agnostic transactions

3. eWallet SDK, open source tools that will allow anyone to easily build a wallet or application to integrate with the OMG Network

For greater detail on these features, please refer to our latest roadmap update.

At OmiseGO, we are building a currency-agnostic financial platform for all - banked and unbanked users alike. We are committed to decentralizing value transfer to mitigate the opportunity for fraud, manipulation, centralized friction and enable access to users that otherwise may be excluded from closed financial systems.

The OMG Network will be built using Plasma chain architecture; originally conceived by Joseph Poon (creator of Lightning Network) and Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), that allows “child” blockchains to interact with “root” blockchains, to enable scalability. We are excited to be conducting in-depth research on design and incentives within a Plasma ecosystem, and will be implementing Plasma to support high transaction volume on the OMG Network. The OMG Network will be secured through PoS consensus by having OMG token holders stake their tokens to validate transactions on Plasma.

By leveraging our decentralized exchange mechanism, all OMG Network users will have the flexibility to store and transact with their preferred currency. Accessible by any digital wallet or account, users will no longer require permission from a banking system or government on which assets they are allowed to hold and which financial services they can use.

Lastly, to enable usage of the OMG Network, we are building a public and free eWallet SDK. Individual consumers and companies can build on top of the SDK to create a customized wallet through which they can cash-in/cash-out value to conduct transactions on the OMG Network. We believe this is a critical component to ensuring that both financially included and excluded users can easily access to decentralized financial platforms on Ethereum.

Description

This is a brainstorming session around an audacious question: can we build an open source and cooperatively-run alternative to proprietary cloud platforms? One that can provide end-users with guarantees of transparency, privacy and control? And is capable of Internet-scale resilience and growth so it can compete with the largest corporations?

OneCommons.org is a new project designing such a cloud platform. The goal of this session would be to explore participants' ideas about these concepts. Besides the technical challenges there are a complex web of social, legal, economic issues that require a broad range of skills and perspectives from participants. Questions like: what is the policy framework for user rights privacy? What is the criteria for choosing applications? What open source and open data licenses should be used? How to do you balance competing interests?

If there is time we could present OneCommons' vision and architecture as a starting point for discussion and later dive deeper into some more specific features we are exploring such as decentralized governance, platform-wide data sharing, and participatory funding models.

Hopes & dreams

- Develop shared understandings of the needs and wants of potential users and developers.

- Find developers of open source applications that could be candidates for running on the OneCommons platform.

- Connect participants with shared goals and passions around this topic.

Participation

Anyone can participate.

Why participate

If you chose to come to this camp you probably are concerned about centralization of the web around a few large corporations. This is a new approach to providing a viable alternative that likely touches on an interest of yours.

Session rundown

About 2 hours.

Relevant links

https://onecommons.github.io/preview

Contact

Adam Souzis

Openlibrary.org is the world's largest open-source, non-profit, digital public library program with 3M+ accessible ebooks and a wiki-editable catalog of metadata spanning 25M editions and 7M authors.

Founded in 2006 by Aaron Swartz, Open Library’s mission began as an effort to ensure the existence of a web page for every published book. The Internet Archive has continued this mission by digitizing as many of these books as possible to create a universal library, built by and for the World’s readers.

At a Glance

• ~300k books logged

• ~1M borrowable modern books

• ~2M public domain & unrestricted books

• ~2M registered readers

Follow Us

• @openlibrary on twitter

Features

• All of our books have a happy robot which can read aloud to you!

• Full Text Search across the contents of 3M+ books

• Select from hundreds of thousands of modern books to borrow for up to 2 weeks

• Browse or create themed Reading Lists

• Keep a Reading Log

• Star ratings

Want to help?

Open Library is Open Source & Community-Powered

• Check Open Library’s footer for developer info on APIs + Data Dumps

• 10 active volunteers spanning 5+ countries

• Designers, Librarians, and Engineers welcome

OpenTimestamps is open-source, trust-minimized, cryptographic timestamping infrastructure that primarily (but not exclusively) uses the Bitcoin blockchain.

In short, what this means is OpenTimestamps can prove data existed in the past, rather than being recently created in the present. Since adversaries don't have time machines, that can often prove rule out certain kinds of attacks. For instance, a timestamp on a digital signature can prove that the signature was created prior to the secret key being stolen. Or a timestamp on an archived video of a speech could prove that the video was created prior to anyone realising how important it would be. This doesn't by itself guarantee that the data is real - maybe someone had a reason to fake the video five years ago? -but it's often good evidence that it is.

Ouinet is a Free/Open Source technology which allows web content to be served with the help of an entire network of cooperating nodes using peer-to-peer routing and distributed caching of responses.  This helps mitigate the Web's characteristic single point of failure due to a client application not being able to connect to a particular server.

The typical Ouinet client node setup consists of a web browser or other application using a special HTTP proxy or API provided by a dedicated program or library on the local machine.  When the client gets a request for content, it attempts to retrieve the resource using several mechanisms.  It tries to fetch the page from a distributed cache (like IPFS), and if not available, it contacts a trusted injector server over a peer-to-peer routing system (like I2P) and asks it to fetch the page and store it in the distributed cache.

Future accesses by client nodes to popular content inserted in distributed storage shall benefit from an increased redundancy and locality, which translates in increased availability in the face of connectivity problems, increased transfer speeds in case or poor upstream links, and reduced bandwidth costs when access providers charge more for external or international traffic.  Content injection is also designed in a way which allows for content re-introduction and seeding on extreme cases of total connectivity loss (e.g. natural disasters).

The Ouinet library is a core technology that can be used by any application to benefit from these advantages.  Ouinet integration provides any content creator the opportunity to use cooperative networking and storage for the delivery of their content to users around the world.

Description

P2P, in its simplest meaning, means two people forming a direct connection to share what's important to them-- just like having a crush, or falling in love. How, then, can we make decentralized tech that is cute, nervous, and full of desire--that makes people crush on each other, helps them fall for one another? What are the p2p apps that will be shared like used copies of a Le Guin novel, or left meaningfully on the screen when you invite someone over for dinner? How can we write code to be cherished like a mixtape?

This workshop will be a combination of nostalgia and future-building. We will discuss the history of our crushes, how they developed, and when technology played a crucial part. Then we will write up visions for a lovely future, using p2p apps that were built to be objects of affection.

Hopes & dreams

I hope people see a different approach to designing new technology in this space--tech that fits in the emotional lineage of mixtapes, myspace, and poetry. Whether it helps spark your new project, or gives an introduction to some of the work already being made, the main goal is to make the decentralized world more inviting, to go beyond tech specs and demos to the small beautiful things that hit you in the chest.

Participation

Everyone is welcome and it is kid friendly. The main focus of the workshop is love, memory, and desire---and so anyone who has experienced these three things and wants to discuss them would be a good fit. The workshop is a mix of discussion and some exploration of dat zines/dat apps. A computer would help with this, but I feel the workshop is still of interest without one.

If you bring a computer, it could also be good to bring a favorite song in mp3 format. One that fills you with feeling, whatever that means for you.

Why participate

It is of interest to those who want to cherish the future, and who want to explore heartfelt approaches to code. It is through this under-discussed aspect of tech that we can create a more diverse and emotionally rich space. There'll be a focus on Dat and Beaker Browser, so there is the bonus of exploring and experimenting with both of these mediums.

Session rundown

3 hours overall, with a break in the middle. This can all happen in the same space.

Relevant links

- https://beakerbrowser.com

- https://coolguy.website/projects/dat-zine-library/index.html

- dat://songs.solarpunk.cool

- https://invidio.us/watch?v=X_BQ9m0kOeo

Contact

Zach Mandeville

P2P Models

Decentralized Blockchain-based Organizations for Bootstrapping the Collaborative Economy

P2P Models is a large research project to build Blockchain-powered organizations which are decentralized, democratic and distribute their profits, in order to boost a new type of Collaborative Economy (tweet thread). The project has three legs:

1. Infrastructure: Provide a software framework to build decentralized infrastructure for Collaborative Economy organizations that do not depend on central authorities.

2. Governance: Enable democratic-by-design models of governance for communities, whose rules are, at least partially, encoded in the software to ensure higher levels of equality.

3. Economy: Enable value distribution models which are interoperable across organizations, improving the economic sustainability of both contributors and organizations.

The Collaborative Economy is rapidly expanding, but it is dominated by centralized web platforms which hold user data and concentrate all decision-making power and profits.

P2P Models is a 1.5M€ EU-funded interdisciplinary research effort for bootstrapping the emergence of a new generation of self-governed and more economically sustainable peer-to-peer Collaborative Economy communities. It is a 5-year project (2017-2022) which will be based in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), with Principal Investigator and advisors from the Berkman Klein Center (Harvard University).

The project will contribute to the Blockchain ecosystem, from a commons-oriented approach (not focused on finance). It will build software modules, grounded on social theory, for the easy building of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations that aim to support collaborative communities. You may get a deeper insight of the project in this 5-page project summary.

People's Open Network works with communities to build and operate wireless networks. We provide open source software, off-the-shelf hardware, and educational materials used to host workshops, train operators, and install nodes. Our prototype consists of over 40 nodes in the Bay Area sharing paid internet subscriptions with unconnected neighbors. We’re currently working on building access to gigabits of donated bandwidth (via Internet Archive and Paxio) and connecting a homeless camp in Berkeley

Our solution is designed for a city like Oakland, a community with a widening class and digital divide. Nearly a quarter of households here have no computer access at home, and more than a fifth of homes lack internet access at home despite its close proximity to Silicon Valley.

The People’s Open Network is primarily targeted at three types of people:

1) those who want to share a single internet connection with their neighbors;

2) those who cannot afford the monthly subscription through a corporate internet service; and/or

3) those interested in learning how the internet works.

We can be replicated in a decentralized manner across urban environments with a socioeconomically diverse population of stakeholders — such as families, individuals, businesses, encampments, and community spaces. In addition to distributing access to the wider internet, our solution can lead to local mesh internets that are independent of ISPs.

We have begun to implement our network in the SF Bay Area, a densely-populated, hilly, coastal region. We use the area’s mixed elevation to our advantage to get line-of-sight between homes and buildings across long distances. Our target community and environment has not changed since our last submission.

Description

In the race to have the fastest and best models of tech in what we judge will make an impact on people’s lives, we often times find ourselves operating from a head space and not dropping into the rest of our bodies and even disregarding our emotions. On the other hand, one of the leading underlying causes for trauma and wounds for men in our world is the way that patriarchy denies boys and men their right to process and feel emotions.

In this session, facilitator cynthia and co-facilitator Nico will hold space for men to discuss what it means to be a man doing work in tech? What are the expectations that are projected on us on the field? How does the image of “the guy in tech” affect the behaviors of men in male dominated spaces? And how does male performance in turn impact women in the tech field?

We hope that after this session, a greater sense of balancing the masculine with the feminine will allow men to show in their whole capacities, and liberate themselves from expectations and need to perform the right kind of masculinity.

Session Rundown

This will be an intimate conversation that will run for around 75 minutes.

Participation

We hope to host 10 to 15 people. Participants are asked to come with an open heart and an open spirit and will be asked to be as open as they can and want to be with one another.

PLAN is a Community Operating System that allows people with few resources to conduct real-time logistical planning, and coordinate with high reliability, persistence, and privacy. Our project goals are for PLAN to incorporate the following design characteristics: total data-ownership, end-to-end encrypted, “offline-first” operation, spatial and immersive, hardware agnostic, plugin architecture with open protocols by design, relationship focused, and free & open-source.

Hopes & dreams

Beyond DWeb, we want PLAN to be the world's first truly open, architecturally distributed, and spatially immersive operating system. At PLAN Systems, we believe people profoundly benefit from having the tools to connect with each other, manage common resources, and to engage in meaningful projects. PLAN is a spatial collaboration and communication tool for teams, groups, and organizations, with a highly adaptable interface -- we dream of a future where integrated productivity tools allow communities to organize, visualize their environment, and be digitally self-reliant.

Participation

Anyone can participate. Demo exhibit preparation is required. We will be setting up a computer hooked up to a touch screen monitor. We’ll bring portable units for others to play with and use, or people can install PLAN on their own machine so that they can be “invited” into the community map. Any information that event coordinators would like to share about the different projects attending, or the details about the specific area could be pre-populated, and refined on site.

Why participate

We envision participants using our spatial map to orient themselves to the camp area, be able to discover information about other participant projects, and conduct realtime communications on site. Interactivity envisioned: fly around the event space in 3D, discover information about the space and participants, pin a note to a community message board, add yourself to a contacts map.

Session rundown

PLAN Systems is excited to demo an interactive, geospatial map of the event space, with areas of interest annotated and ad-hoc comments and feeds available to interact with during the event. Participants can visually explore and interact with the event space through a 3D digital map, displayed via a touchscreen monitor as well as other connected machines (as available). The experience will be powered by PLAN, our open-source software platform being developed for communities and organizations to securely collaborate and become digitally self-reliant.

Relevant links

Website: http://www.plan-systems.org

GitHub (technical): https://github.com/plan-systems/design-docs

PLAN Textbook (charter, 501(c)(3) pending): https://plan-systems.org/docs/plan-textbook.pdf

Contact

Brandon D. Wallace, Drew O'Meara

info [at] plan-systems.org

Hopes & Dreams

People who wanted to attend the camp but could not get to can feel good by getting (or sending) a postcard.

Participation

Anyone can participate.

Why participate?

Share good vibes. Document camp attendance and interest in a personal, artistic and tangible way. Celebrate the social network layer of the DWeb.

Session rundown

Have a small table or area designated for the postcard activity. People can bring postcards, postage stamps, and names and addresses of people to send a postcard to. During the camp, people can come fill out the postcards - addressing new one, or adding to existing ones - write notes, draw pictures, or just sign their name. At the end of the camp, the facilitator takes the completed postcards and mails them. (Or some participants could take some to hand-deliver them).

Contact

cel (Charles Lehner)

Powerpoint Karaoke is an improvisational and art event where audience members give a presentation using a set of Powerpoint slides that they’ve never seen before. There are three rules:

1. The presenter cannot see the slides before presenting

2. The presenter delivers each slide in succession without skipping slides or going back

3. The presentation ends when all slides are presented, or after 5 minutes (whichever comes first)

The source material will be the Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex slides curated for a previous instance of this event. They will be served from the local Internet Archive server.

Hopes & dreams

Have lots of fun and realize the value of archiving obscure content on the interwebz!

Participation

Anyone! Especially people who'd like to practice presenting slides to an audience in a casual environment!

Why participate

Laugh and have lots of fun

Session rundown

Need projector at Board Room for an hour or so. 5-min sessions.

Relevant links

Previous instance: https://blog.archive.org/2018/02/15/military-industrial-powerpoint-complex-karaoke-tuesday-march-6/

Slide material: https://archive.org/details/MilitaryIndustrialPowerpointComplex

Contact

Benedict Lau

ben.hy.lau [at] gmail.com

If you think about it, there is no reason why signals have to travel to a Facebook server 3000 miles away just to plan a local dinner or outing with friends. Students in a class should be able to connect with one another and collaborate on documents without using Google Docs. The same is true of passengers on a plane, or shipmates on a cruise, or villagers in Nigeria. Local networks should suffice.

Software to unite communities

All this growing local infrastructure unlocks the potential for people to connect with one another on a local level without relying on the ISPs. However, until now there has been a lack of good software to run on this infrastructure. The platforms people use today are almost invariably centralized and require access to the global internet. Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, GMail, Apple, Microsoft, Instagram, WhatsApp, SnapChat, Etsy, Netflix, Uber, you name it – they get venture-funded, get a bunch of people on both sides of a market, and extract rents. They have 1 engineer per million users, or less. Customer support is non-existent. They choose what features you have and what interface you see. They have the people’s data in one place, and sometimes that makes an attractive target for governments and advertisers. In a recent article, we covered this situation in more detail.

Since Qbix released our first apps back in 2011, we has been steadily developing our Platform to power community apps. Now it turns out that this Platform is a perfect fit for the mesh networks springing up, allowing people to enjoy use apps running on local servers, and get high-speed connections to one another, without even needing to connect to the global internet. Once in a while, a message needs to be sent globally, but most of the time, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

We recently paid a company called Antamedia to develop OpenWRT firmware that runs on many popular commercial routers. This firmware now allows communities to run our entire social platform and apps off of their local wifi. Imagine coming to class and having attendance taken automatically, because your phone connects to the local wifi hotspot. Imagine having messages stay private in the classroom, or unlocking rewards from actually being physically present at a concert, and so on.

As time goes on, we are continuing to push the boundaries of what’s possible in this space. Our next goal is to release software to turn an Android phone into a hotspot, allowing people to host a local community on demand wirelessly just from their Android phone. Even when they’re out camping. And the social apps built on our platform should work on all these networks, whether it’s a wifi router, an Android phone, a mesh network, or a website on the global internet.

Money to unite communities

In the last few years, all major social networks have added the ability for users to pay one another. It’s not just PayPal and Venmo anymore: you can now send money in GMail, Facebook Messenger, and now even iMessage. In China, WeChat (the chat application) has become a huge payment networkwithin a few short years. People can now pay with WeChat at restaurants and other businesses across the country, and cash is rapidly becoming obsolete.

With the recent proliferation of interest in crypto-currencies and blockchain software, we got to thinking, why not help communities issue and manage their own money supply? This was our vision for social networking, but translated to the realm money. Instead of having large, global one-size-fits-all currencies (US Dollars or Bitcoin) we could once again give communities the power to determine their own fate.

So, starting 2017, we launched a spinoff company called Intercoin Inc. to do just that. Where Qbix focuses on social networking, the Intercoin project focuses on building the infrastructure to run a secure and resilient payment network. Similar to Facebook and GMail, Paypal and Stripe, we would implement buttons that app developers and website publishers could easily add in order to seamless get paid in the local currency. Prices would be displayed in the currency of the user’s choice, and Intercoin would make cashing in and out of currencies seamless.

Just like Qbix Platform enables local apps where most actions work without access to the global internet, the Intercoin project enables innovations in local community fintech. Basic Income becomes achievable by any community. All citizens can see how the money is being used, spot issues and deal with them as a community. Governance can be done in a democratic manner. The money supply can be controlled by the people instead of the elites, leveraging the wisdom of the crowd.

Decentralizing the gatekeepers

There is another huge benefit of letting communities install and run open-source software. Qbix Platform and Intercoin enables a richer developer system (just like the Web has done). Developers of apps and plugins don’t have to worry about some gatekeepers kicking them out of the App Store, or revoking their API keys while they build a competing product. Each developer can market to entire communities, who can then recommend the app to one another. Communities can do the work of promoting the app to their own members, while the apps would make it easier for the communities to engage their members and give them tools to get together and feel connected.

So that’s the vision: empowering people, uniting communities. When communities need more apps, they can band together and organically raise funds to pay developers to build and maintain them. It’s an open ecosystem where collaboration leads to more and more positive feedback loops.

Communities don’t necessarily have to be local. A person can belong to several communities, including their neighborhood, city, and a poets’ guild. They can get $20 a day Basic Income from the city and another $5 from the poets’ guild. This can help decrease poverty, food insecurity, and lead to increased freedom and prosperity.

Description

Breath and movement meditation to cleanse the energetic field and enhance functionality of the body and mind.

Hopes & dreams

It is my joy and part of my mission to change the way we do business to include more receptivity, team coherence that leads to group intelligence, and enhanced creativity. An integral part of my philosophy of peak organizational performance and impact is "being before doing." Taking time to de-stress, de-clutter the brain, and reach a state of emptiness creates receptivity in a group. By creating a culture that allows space for the group to shift from stress into the flow state, a team can move mountains. The flow on effect of such a culture is bonding, playfulness, and fun.

Participation

Anyone can participate. Wear comfortable clothing that allow for movement.

Why participate

This class is meant to help participants to release tension and relax.

Session rundown

7:30 - 9am on Friday and/or Saturday

Contact

Carley Corrado

Clif Cox

- Meeting Mr. Kid Pix