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 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.

• 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:

-- 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 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.

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.

- Basic Protocol and User-owned data stores

We're on a bold and ambitious mission to dismantle walled gardens and replace them with a collaborative and frictionless user-owned web.

We think the internet can work better when data is user-owned. User-owned data is more interoperable, secure, and better for analytics - but it's also fairer.

To achieve this, we've designed the Basic protocol to be an open, federated layer which powers our data stores. Data in data stores are ever-lasting because it can be accessed by spinning up a server via its APIs, even if Basic were to ever become obsolete.

User-owned data stores are a new paradigm for user-data storage. Instead of storing your users' data to a central database for each of your applications, you can directly read / write to your users' data stores.

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

RSVP now and be part of the local-first revolution!

KEY SPEAKERS

Christian Tschudin is a professor in Computer Science at the University
of Basel, Switzerland. He graduaded in math before doing a PhD in
computer science at the University of Geneva on dynamically composed
protocol stacks and active networking. After a PostDoc at ICSI
(Berkeley) he had a tenured position at Uppsala University in Sweden.
His research interests have been in packet dynamics (chemically inspired
networking protocols), content-centric networking, specifically Named
Function Networking, and more recently on minimalistic replication-based
alternatives to the Internet. His current research project is on
"unstoppable computing" which is another word for "cypherpunk for code
execution".

YOUR HOSTS

We are the organizers of the of the , a global community connecting the people, projects and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is more private, reliable, secure and open. We host monthly meetups, usually on the 2nd Tuesday at the Internet Archive Headquarters, twice monthly Tools & Weaving Potlucks at homes in SF, and a monthly discussion group in Oakland.

--Steve Elleman, Day Waterbury, Wendy Hanamura

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AGENDA

6:00 PM = Welcome drinks, food & networking

6:30 PM = Presentations Begin

7:30 PM = More Lightning Talks from the audience

8:00 PM = More dinner, networking, and sharing.

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