Decentralized Web Montreal - P2P

What is the P2P Web?

"The P2P Web is an experimental set of technologies, APIs, and philosophies, created by members of the Node.js and Web communities, to give users more control over the Web. It is a new way to surf, publish, and connect."

Source (https://pfrazee.github.io/blog/what-is-the-p2p-web)

Presentations

Francis Brunelle (https://frabrunelle.com/) will give a presentation on Beaker and Dat.

The Beaker Browser (https://beakerbrowser.com/) is a Chrome-fork that demonstrates the P2P Web. It uses the Dat Protocol (https://www.datprotocol.com/), a technology created by Node.js and CouchDB veterans, with grants from the Knight and Sloan Foundations to help advance scientific and civic publishing.

Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) will give a short introduction to IPFS (https://ipfs.io/) and Multiformats (http://multiformats.io/).