DWeb Meetup June 2021 — The Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem

Join us for the June DWeb Meetup for a featured presentation by Nathan Schneider, an author, professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Director of the Media Enterprise Design Lab. He is a leading scholar of cooperative enterprises and has been analyzing how projects could put the second DWeb Principle of Distributed Benefits into practice.

Then we will learn the latest from a range of projects across the DWeb Ecosystem.

Sign up to give a 5 minute lighting talk with 2 minutes of Q & A by filling out this form: https://form.jotform.com/203236908715154

These lightning talks should focus on sharing your lessons learned and exploring potential partnerships and collaboration. (We ask for less “product pitch” and more sharing important lessons.)

Afterwards, we will head to Gather.town for socializing and networking.

SCHEDULE (optimized this month for Asia-Pacific)

DWEB NODE TIMES: SF/Seattle: 5 PM / Phoenix: 6 PM/ Austin: 7 PM / Boston: 8 PM / Sao Paulo: 9 PM / London: 1 AM Thursday/ Prague-Berlin: 2 AM Thursday / Perm: 5 AM Thursday / Shanghai: 8 AM Thursday / Sydney: 10AM Thursday / Auckland Noon Thursday

The following times are in Pacific Time:
5:00 PM - Welcome & Announcements
5:05 PM - Featured Speaker & Q & A
5:30 PM - Lightning Talks & Q & A
6:15 PM- Post-Event Socializing on Gather.town

Questions?
Write to dweb@archive.org with questions, to volunteer, or more.

Featured Speaker

Nathan Schneider is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Enterprise Design Lab. His most recent book is Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy.

Talk Description — A truly distributed Web will require different kinds of companies. Today, tech startups rely on types of financing that demand an "exit" in one of two forms: an acquisition by a bigger company or an IPO on Wall Street. Both options help drive us toward radical centralization of power, no matter how decentralized our technology may seem. What if we had another option, an "exit to community," where startups aimed toward becoming owned and governed by their communities?

Lightning Talk Speakers

Guo Liu, Co-Founder and CTO of Matters. Matters is a social network of content creators, mostly consisting of journalists, novelists, and critics. It's a decentralized content publishing and discussion platform for creators to publish, manage, license, and monetize their work. Guo will share the lessons they've learned while designing and migrating the network to decentralized architecture.

Ana Jamborcic, Product Strategist at Social Roots. Ana guides product direction with a steady eye on the intersection of business value and approaches to complex social problems that are innovative, applied, useful, usable, collaborative, sensible, and more.

Christina Bowen, Knowledge Ecologist at Social Roots. Christina integrates tech and human processes with living systems principles to support healthy teamwork and information flows that lead towards more sensible futures.

Santiago Bazerque (above) is the creator of Hyper Hyper Space, an open-source, non-for-profit effort to create distributed applications using web browsers as full peers. He'll discuss how the design concepts that inspired TCP/IP, the original internetworking protocols, can be applied to the design of dapps, and share his experience using the browser as a platform for experimenting with new dweb protocols.