Name: DWeb Meetup Bay Area— Decentralized, Local First Solutions
Start: 2025-02-11T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-11T21:00:00-08:00
Location: Internet Archive

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](https://archive.org/ "https://archive.org/")** 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](https://github.com/ssbc/tinySSB "https://github.com/ssbc/tinySSB") \-\- 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)](https://scuttlebutt.nz/ "https://scuttlebutt.nz/")** 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](https://basic.tech/ "https://basic.tech/") \- by [Rashid Aziz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hellorashid/ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hellorashid/") and [Abhi CVK](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhicvk/ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhicvk/"), 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

**[REGISTER HERE](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-bay-area-decentralized-local-first-solutions-tickets-1227001136429?aff=oddtdtcreator)** TO LET US KNOW YOU'RE COMING

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