DWeb Meetup Bay Area— Decentralized, Local First Solutions

Need a friendly community to accelerate your tech knowledge? A place where people with aligned values come together to share, collaborate and learn? DWeb Bay Area might just be your place.
Join us Tuesday February 11, 6:00 PM-9 PM at the awesome headquarters of the Internet Archive in SF, for dinner, networking, and demos of the latest Decentralized, Local First Solutions. We'll be focusing on local-first technology, where data stays on user devices rather than relying on cloud infrastructure. Whether you're a developer, entrepreneur, or tech enthusiast, this DWeb Meetup is for those passionate about privacy, resilience, and user empowerment in software design. We're buiding a better web where users own their data and the devices they run on.

#### What to Expect:

• Talks on decentralized architectures, edge computing, and peer-to-peer networks
• Demos of local-first apps, offline-first databases, and self-hosted alternatives
• Discussions on privacy-first principles, self-sovereignty, and reducing dependency on solutions that hold all the control
• Networking with like-minded tech professionals & open-source contributors

DEMOS BY:
TINY SSB -- by Christian Tschudin & Scott Garrison (aka -Nano Monkey) -- tinySSB is an evolving prototype featuring secure text/voice/sketch/location-enabled chat, Kanban board, games on your smartphone, all based on the venerable Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) approach of append-only logs. As such it inherits most of SSB's security properties, is staunchly offline-first and deliberately connection-less, but is specifically redesigned for narrow-band data replication and meshing with barebones communication means (Bluetooth Low Energy, LoRa, amateur radio, USB sticks - no Internet required).
Narrow-band is desirable, both in practice/emergency situations but also as a research vector for identifying minimal communication requirements (as a healthy exercise in Internet detox). tinySSB invites developers and students to absorb Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) concepts and to apply them beyond chat, and especially to look into productivity apps (shared editing of text, graphics and spreadsheets) as well as CRDT-based token systems.

BASIC.TECH - by Rashid Aziz and Abhi CVK, founders
The best parts of the internet at open-source, from email to the most recent release of Deepseek. Developers have occasionally built open-source applications, but data storage has historically been closed-sourced. Applications own your data (e.g., Facebook / Twitter, medical records, financial data), and it remains siloed behind walled gardens.
Technologies like blockchain have attempted to chip away at this problem by providing a transparent and verifiable solution, but huge parts of the internet remain un-penetrated because they are private, not public. For example, company documents, personal family photos and sensitive information do not belong on a blockchain.
In our talk, we will envision with you our proposed solution of user-owned data stores, explore how they are cost effective, performant, and how they complement local-first sync.

BUBBLE -- by Justin Fairchild Bubble aspires to help people start their own cultural gardens on the Web, away from the media surveillance complex. Justin is a security engineer focused on web application security archivecture.

📍 Location: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco
📅 Date & Time: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 6-9 PM

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