2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule//EN PUBLISH SH7H3M@@talx.dod.ngo -SH7H3M INFO DESK Open for Business en en 20260708T130000 20260708T180000 5.00000 INFO DESK Open for Business We'll be leading tours of the Alte Holle site starting every 30 minutes from the Info Desk on Wednesday. Other services on offer: - Find your rental tent - Buy your Bar Tokens at PreTix then pick them up here - Pick up your T-shirt order - Need a map? We have copies - Emergency medical assistance needed? We can call the medic on call - Need the support of the Code of Conduct Team? You can reach them through the Info Desk PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SH7H3M/ Registration / Info Desk Raul PUBLISH A8PVNX@@talx.dod.ngo -A8PVNX Come Sign Up to Volunteer! en en 20260708T131000 20260708T145000 1.04000 Come Sign Up to Volunteer! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/A8PVNX/ Volunteer HQ Olcbean PUBLISH MNCWCP@@talx.dod.ngo -MNCWCP Volunteer Orientation en en 20260708T150000 20260708T160000 1.00000 Volunteer Orientation Come meet our chief Links, Olcbean and Riba, who are the "Angels" in our volunteer program. We'll meet in the volunteer lounge where there's coffee 24/7! Our Volunteer Leads will explain how you use the platform, find your assignments, and clock your hours. This is a great place to meet other people who love to volunteer as much as you do. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MNCWCP/ Volunteer HQ Olcbean Riba PUBLISH DWYCP8@@talx.dod.ngo -DWYCP8 Sign up to be a Link Volunteer en en 20260708T160000 20260708T180000 2.00000 Sign up to be a Link Volunteer PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DWYCP8/ Volunteer HQ Olcbean PUBLISH YLKXWX@@talx.dod.ngo -YLKXWX Join the DWeb Camp Mesh + Tech Support en en 20260708T130000 20260708T180000 5.00000 Join the DWeb Camp Mesh + Tech Support We are running Reticulum, Meshcore, and Meshtastic at the camp site. To be sure, you don't miss out on that opportunity learning more about managing your own communications infrastructure. Everyone is invited join the mesh during camp. If you need devices, they will be available for inspection (and purchase). Need tech support for your device? Come to the Mesh Nest for help. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YLKXWX/ Mesh Nest Lars Gierth Afri Blanck PUBLISH NSXNYJ@@talx.dod.ngo -NSXNYJ Berlin Chaos Mesh Meetup (informal) en en 20260708T210000 20260708T230000 2.00000 Berlin Chaos Mesh Meetup (informal) The Berlin Chaos Mesh community meets every second Wednesday of the month in the c-base space station. This month, we are at the DWeb Camp Alte Hölle. Come and hang out, let's talk about peer-to-peer, mesh networks, and being your own infrastructure. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NSXNYJ/ Mesh Nest Afri Blanck PUBLISH W3ASSE@@talx.dod.ngo -W3ASSE Demo Night Market Rehearsal en en 20260708T170000 20260708T180000 1.00000 Demo Night Market Rehearsal PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/W3ASSE/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Matthew Schutte Gopi Mehta Beth McCarthy Stefano De Vuono Luandro Andrew Chou Mix Irving Evan Prodromou fauno Mathias Jud Nano Castro Max Hampshire Dan Visel Guo Liu Zacchaeus Pumsuanhang (Michael) Suantak Dani Kumavis rabble Afri Blanck Arushi sammy Nico@Briar Václav Pavlín Gavin Owens Andre Alves Garzia LX Cast Carmel Schare Christian Tschudin (cft) Wouter Kampmann | Powerhouse Gabriel Wesley Nicolas Luck James Weir Zach Alexander Holmes Wilson Matthew Hodgson Guillem Cordoba Duke Dorje Othman Blake Stoner Joshua Davila Kevin Triplett David Dao Pete Hayman Eric Harris-Braun Ira N Christine Lemmer-Webber adz Anton Tranelis Lee Jonathan Starr Lars Gierth Day Waterbury Zach Miltz Willem Wyndham Alisher Calum Bowden brewster kahle Andre Kudra PUBLISH SJXE8X@@talx.dod.ngo -SJXE8X Opening Ceremony & Camp Orientation en en 20260708T191500 20260708T204500 1.03000 Opening Ceremony & Camp Orientation TBD PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SJXE8X/ Linden Theater mai ishikawa sutton Franzi ian davis Madelynn Martiniere marv PUBLISH CHKNB8@@talx.dod.ngo -CHKNB8 FAMILY FILM FEST - Kids Choice Vote: My Neighbor Totoro vs. WALL-E en en 20260708T204500 20260708T214500 1.00000 FAMILY FILM FEST - Kids Choice Vote: My Neighbor Totoro vs. WALL-E For 60+ minutes: Drop your kids off (or come on your own or with your whole crew. All are welcome!) in the Library where we will have snacks and drinks for the kids. Bring your blankets, stretch out in front of the fireplace and we'll put on a movie for kids of all ages. Family Film Fest - Kids Choice Vote (Round 1): My Neighbor Totoro vs. WALL-E PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CHKNB8/ Creativity Lounge 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Young M Wong PUBLISH KNBBZZ@@talx.dod.ngo -KNBBZZ Welcome to the Saplings program! en en 20260708T170000 20260708T173000 0.03000 Welcome to the Saplings program! In the Saplings program we will be able to engage with the concepts of the camp and with the beauty of our surroundings, mixing physical activity with thinking and building. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/KNBBZZ/ Teen Base Camp Ryder Morton PUBLISH LAW7HP@@talx.dod.ngo -LAW7HP Welcome to KINDEROPOLIS! en en 20260708T170000 20260708T173000 0.03000 Welcome to KINDEROPOLIS! DWeb Camp's KINDEROPOLIS is the place where "kinders" can dream, be curious, play together — and HAVE FUN! At 5:00PM, we'll gather to welcome children to this special place of their own at DWeb Camp and help them to feel right at home. ⛺✨ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LAW7HP/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH B8JN7J@@talx.dod.ngo -B8JN7J Musical Playtime & Listening en en 20260708T210000 20260708T230000 2.00000 Musical Playtime & Listening [wip] PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/B8JN7J/ Forest Pavillion Micah PUBLISH L9QLFS@@talx.dod.ngo -L9QLFS Make your own Nametag at the Button-making station en en 20260708T130000 20260708T180000 5.00000 Make your own Nametag at the Button-making station Don't you hate how people look for your nametag before anything else at a typical conference? We have a creative hack for that: make your own button name tag. We will have all the magazines, scissors, glue and button forms to make beautiful buttons with your name on them. It's fun, it's community-oriented, and it breaks down the barriers that come with titles. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L9QLFS/ Button Making Station PUBLISH TDCXAZ@@talx.dod.ngo -TDCXAZ Understanding Our Past (Interactive) en en 20260709T133000 20260709T150000 1.03000 Understanding Our Past (Interactive) The workshop on Day 1 (Thursday) **understanding our past** will explore what it is we loved about tech in our childhoods, and build rituals together for us to grieve the unmet, undigested expectations from our long lineage of human innovation. ---- During 1:30-3pm each day, we will facilitate a workshop that delves into the day's theme. Day 1 (Thursday) is for **understanding our past** Day 2 (Friday) is for **dreaming into our futures** Day 3 (Saturday) is for **committing to our present** They are each stand alone, though they are each practice for you to delve deeper, should you choose. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TDCXAZ/ Wild Webs of Care Deborah Tien PUBLISH 3QBPHE@@talx.dod.ngo -3QBPHE Understanding Our Past (SOLO) en en 20260709T170000 20260709T190000 2.00000 Understanding Our Past (SOLO) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3QBPHE/ Wild Webs of Care PUBLISH JDV38L@@talx.dod.ngo -JDV38L Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement en en 20260709T070000 20260709T080000 1.00000 Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement Running from July 8 to 12, with options to extend sessions into the camp build and take-down days where necessary, this session is structured as a collective daily morning fitness routine to build consistency and keep energy high. What to bring: There is no complex gym gear required for this session. All participants need to bring is a mat (for core exercises and stretching) and their workout wear. Instead of working out individually, the entire group will move together each day following a synchronized schedule that alternates between two core activities. - Daily Dynamic Warm-Up (10 mins): Every single day, we will start together as a team with 10 minutes of dynamic stretching, light mobility work, and gentle movements. This wakes up the body, lubricates the joints, and prepares everyone to move safely. - Jogging Days (30 mins): On days scheduled for running, the warm-up will be followed by a 30-minute group jog. This will be a collective, community-paced run where we stay together, explore the Camp surroundings, and connect with each other in a relaxed, moving conversation. - Aerobics Days (30 mins): On days scheduled for aerobics, the warm-up leads into a unified, high-energy 30-minute bodyweight cardio and rhythm session. The entire group will follow a routine of fluid, equipment-free movements (like jumping jacks, high knees, shadowboxing, and core intervals) designed to boost endurance and coordination. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JDV38L/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Shadrach PUBLISH FYS7Y3@@talx.dod.ngo -FYS7Y3 Weaving Group Formation on Main Lawn & Group #1 en en 20260709T190000 20260709T200000 1.00000 Weaving Group Formation on Main Lawn & Group #1 Want to get to know 5-6 new people --your "family" away from home? Join a Weaving Group. Each weaving group has a Weaver to facilitate the process. Each evening, at 7 PM, return to your Weaving Group to check in with each other & compare how your days have gone. NOTE: You must come to the first session in order to enroll in Weaving groups (Thursday, Friday, Saturday.) It'd how we build trust with each other, so we're sorry but you cannot join a group mid-stream. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FYS7Y3/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Mix Irving chartgerink Unnamed speaker PUBLISH DKSSJL@@talx.dod.ngo -DKSSJL Demo Night Market en en 20260709T200000 20260709T220000 2.00000 Demo Night Market DESCRIPTION Welcome to the DWeb Demo Night Market -- a festive evening kick-off event where you can get a taste of tech from around the world, directly from the decentralized tech stack. We’re highlighting “ready to test” new tools, so builders can get feedback from hundreds of savvy, deeply interested potential consumers and partners. It’s a great place to find collaborators, funders, recruit builders to your ecosystem, and get honest feedback about your work. On Thursday from 8-10 PM in a beautifully lit outdoor market, campers will grab a cocktail and wander through dozens of select projects demonstrating their latest breakthroughs. Every 15 minutes a bell will ring, encouraging campers to move on to a new table. For campers, the true gift is getting an early glimpse of where our DWeb tech is headed, helping them plan for the week of sessions ahead. As presenters, be sure to bring stickers, postcards announcing when you are presenting, and a way to meet you for 1:1 “office hours” later in the week in case someone wants to take a deeper dive with you. CRITERIA: We are looking for tools that are “ready to try” People shouldn’t need to know how to code to use it Ready to test by the general public Not just a concept, but real working code CURRENT PRESENTERS: Coopcloud – Fauno and Wouter qaul.net – Mathias Jud Soil Health Monitoring Toolkit – Nano Castro Nym – Max Hampshire Tapestries – Mark Graham, Dan Visel Start an Independent Blog – Guo Liu Building the Global F2F Cloud with Guix – Zacchaeus eimiAI – Michael Suantak France Open Data Explorer – Daniel Shavit Endojs Pet Daemon – Kumavis Divine – Rabble Potato Mesh – Afri Blanck Habitat Community Data Server – Arushi Bandi Sneakerweb – Sammy Gwilym, Aljoscha Meyer Briar – Nico Basecamp – Vaclav Pavlin Tonk Spot – Gavin Owens Poncho Wonky – Andre Alves Garzia Spacious – LX Cast Social.Wiki – Carmel Schare tinySSB – Christian Tschudin Vetra Studio – Wouter Kampmann Pubky Core – Gabriel Semble – Wesley Finck AD4M, WE & FLUX – Nicolas Luck, James Weir, Josh Field Almnac – Z.D. Alexander, Stefano De Vuono Quiet – Holmes Wilson Local-first P2P Matrix – Matthew Hodgson Dash Chat – Guillem Cordoba Thor Lightning Mesh – Duke Dorje Rocus – Othman Ali Socket – Mix Irving CivicWire – Blake Stoner Stacks – Joshua Davila Personal Network Manager – Kevin Triplett Simocracy – David Dao Beet – Pete Hayman CoMapeo – Luandro, Andrew Chou Moss – Eric Harris-Braun, Ira Nezhynska, Leo Proechel Spritely's Magical Live Blender & Live Demo Showcase – Christine Lemmer-Webber Reflection – Andreas Dzialocha (adz) Web of Trust – Anton Tranelis Decentralized Deliberation at Scale – Lee, Stuart SciOS Graph – Jonathan Starr tags.pub – Evan Prodromou Freifunk – Lars Gierth, Nicolas Berens OpenHaven – Day Waterbury, Zack Miltz Nido – Willem Wyndham Logos – Alisher Meetmarket – Calum Bowden OnionPress – Brewster Kahle Sovereignty Anchor – Andre Kudra PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DKSSJL/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Matthew Schutte Gopi Mehta Stefano De Vuono Luandro Andrew Chou Beth McCarthy Mix Irving Evan Prodromou fauno Mathias Jud Ryder Morton Nano Castro Max Hampshire Mark Graham Dan Visel Guo Liu Zacchaeus Pumsuanhang (Michael) Suantak Dani Kumavis rabble Afri Blanck Arushi sammy Nico@Briar Václav Pavlín Gavin Owens Andre Alves Garzia LX Cast Carmel Schare Christian Tschudin (cft) Wouter Kampmann | Powerhouse Gabriel Wesley Nicolas Luck James Weir Z. D. Alexander Holmes Wilson Matthew Hodgson Guillem Cordoba Duke Dorje Othman Blake Stoner Joshua Davila Kevin Triplett David Dao Pete Hayman Eric Harris-Braun Ira N Christine Lemmer-Webber adz Anton Tranelis Lee Jonathan Starr Lars Gierth Day Waterbury Zach Miltz Willem Wyndham Alisher Calum Bowden brewster kahle Andre Kudra PUBLISH XG9TX9@@talx.dod.ngo -XG9TX9 Running Club en en 20260709T070000 20260709T074500 0.04500 Running Club Start your day with an energising group run Thursday and Saturday morning. We'll cover approximately 5 km at a relaxed pace (around 6 km/h), making it accessible and enjoyable for all fitness levels. Time: 07:00–07:45 (30–45 minutes) More than just a workout, these runs are designed to bring people together. The focus is on community, wellbeing, and creating meaningful connections outside of the main camp programme. Whether you're an experienced runner or simply looking for a gentle way to start the day, everyone is welcome. Come along, move your body, meet new people, and enjoy the morning together. No pressure, no competition just a shared experience and a great way to begin the day. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XG9TX9/ Food Court marta PUBLISH TY9RW9@@talx.dod.ngo -TY9RW9 Morning Yoga Flow en en 20260709T070000 20260709T080000 1.00000 Morning Yoga Flow n/a PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TY9RW9/ Linden Theater Val Elefante PUBLISH 9DWTF3@@talx.dod.ngo -9DWTF3 Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub en en 20260709T093000 20260709T103000 1.00000 Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub For background check out this recent article with very useful concept drawings: - [There are no instances in atproto](https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/) by Dan Abramov Also, the articles that started the conversation: - [How Decentralized is Bluesky?](https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/) by Christine Lemmer-Webber - [Reply on Bluesky & Decentralization](https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t) by Bryan Newbold - [Re: Re on Bluesky & Decentralization](https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/) by Christine Lemmer-Webber PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/9DWTF3/ Linden Theater Boris Mann Daniel Holmgren Christine Lemmer-Webber PUBLISH X3K8YM@@talx.dod.ngo -X3K8YM Resilience in the time of Splinternets en en 20260709T103000 20260709T113000 1.00000 Resilience in the time of Splinternets As these events become more common, solutions that help maintain information flows are increasingly vital. How can we help the hundreds of millions who are now digitally isolated? This session will look at tools in the field. The eQualitie team will walk through how Ceno Browser, eQsat, Deflect, and related tools are being deployed in environments where the network itself is adversarial -- what performs, what fails, and where there are gaps... and learn how you - the community - can lean in. If you're building P2P tools, working on censorship circumvention, or looking for ways to contribute to infrastructure that people depend on under pressure, this is the session for you. We'll also explain how you can get involved through eQ’s grants program - the Breakout Fund. **LATER IN THE ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN TECH TENT** Join our BLOCKATHON to test your skills in a simulated shutdown scenario. The blockathon features 4 different levels of restricted internets - from the easiest to the most harsh one (inspired by real use-cases from Iran and Russia). Try to break out! Learn about and try out eQualitie's suite of p2p censorship circumvention tools including [Ceno Browser]([url](https://censorship.no/en/index.html)) (p2p web browsing), [Ouisync]([url](https://ouisync.net/)) (p2p file-sharing), and [eQsat]([url](https://sat.equalit.ie/)) (data transmissions over satellite tv) - or bring your own tools to pitch against the threat of network fragmentation. Be part of the solution and help ensure a connected world! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/X3K8YM/ Linden Theater Alex Dalessio Ksenia PUBLISH NPFDBD@@talx.dod.ngo -NPFDBD Twelve Years of Matrix: What Worked, What Didn't, and the Road to a Peer-to-Peer Future en en 20260709T113000 20260709T123000 1.00000 Twelve Years of Matrix: What Worked, What Didn't, and the Road to a Peer-to-Peer Future TBD PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NPFDBD/ Linden Theater Matthew Hodgson Seph PUBLISH YG8HPZ@@talx.dod.ngo -YG8HPZ Building a DAO Within German Law: Lessons from Autonomous Forest en en 20260709T150000 20260709T160000 1.00000 Building a DAO Within German Law: Lessons from Autonomous Forest Autonomous Forest is a non-profit association and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) dedicated to acquiring and collectively managing forest areas. Through decentralized platforms, its members make decisions collaboratively. The launch of Autonomous Forest last year was preceded by several years of development work, focused primarily on ensuring that a blockchain-based organization could operate compatibly with German law—raising the central question: what is the appropriate legal structure for such a project? This presentation is aimed at individuals and organizers who want to learn more about the legal organizational structures available in Germany. It will explain and discuss the model used by Autonomous Forest, examine the "roads not taken" (such as foundations/Stiftungen), and explore how this approach might be adapted for other applications, including as a digital organization without blockchain. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YG8HPZ/ Linden Theater Paul Seidler PUBLISH QADFXX@@talx.dod.ngo -QADFXX From Hackerspaces to Coops-- We all need Community! en en 20260709T160000 20260709T170000 1.00000 From Hackerspaces to Coops-- We all need Community! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QADFXX/ Linden Theater Mitch Altman Seth Frey PUBLISH LCXYTM@@talx.dod.ngo -LCXYTM From Beaker Browser to Bluesky: A Builder's Journey en en 20260709T170000 20260709T180000 1.00000 From Beaker Browser to Bluesky: A Builder's Journey PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LCXYTM/ Linden Theater Paul Frazee Wendy Hanamura PUBLISH PFWBRU@@talx.dod.ngo -PFWBRU Sustaining Infrastructure Track Kick-Off en en 20260709T093000 20260709T094000 0.01000 Sustaining Infrastructure Track Kick-Off Track curator, Liz Barry, presents the arc of this track and will ask everyone to do super short introductions of themselves. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PFWBRU/ Birch Salon Liz Barry PUBLISH AWBLRR@@talx.dod.ngo -AWBLRR Firmware Update to Our Social Operating System en en 20260709T094000 20260709T101000 0.03000 Firmware Update to Our Social Operating System Modern political and economic discourse is trapped between two modern arrivals: the individual (the private) and the nation-state (the public). As Michael Novak observed, this binary excludes the "thickest" parts of social living. In the wake of the "Bowling Alone" phenomenon — the collapse of the civic associations and leagues that once formed the bedrock of society — we face a malnourished middle. This matters urgently for two reasons that converge at DWeb Camp. The biospheric tipping point: pure market solutions are extractive, and state solutions are failing to uphold the environmental vitality of their territories. As insurance markets pull out of high-risk zones, communities must develop the internal capacity to steward their own life-support systems. The democratic crisis: the "bottoming out" of political life and the rise of authoritarianism can only be countered by rebooting associational life. New forms of meso-scale institution must act as the vessels for this renewed democracy, upholding the contextual integrity of data and resources against centralized extraction. These are not separate problems. They are two expressions of the same structural failure: institutions designed for extraction cannot govern for regeneration. The question is what replaces them. ## The thick middle We begin from a design argument. Cybernetic principle tells us that the internal complexity of a system must match the complexity of the challenges it intends to engage. Current market and state models lack the requisite variety to process volatile, place-specific, ecologically entangled threats. What is needed are meso-beings: intermediary-scale entities such as guilds, bioregional councils, and associations that provide the coherence required to steward the commons we cannot help but hold in common — our shared information systems and our shared living systems. This is not a nostalgic argument for returning to pre-modern forms. It is a proposal for new ones. We call them Ecological Institutions — meso-scale vessels essential for modern civic life, designed to grow institutional complexity from the ground up, at the scale where it is needed most. ## Introducing the Institutional Development Kit The Institutional Development Kit functions as a modular stack for building self-governing entities. Think of it as an SDK for hybrid institutions — organizations that are both digitally native and ecologically grounded, capable of operating across the analog-digital spectrum without collapsing into either pure tech solutionism or pure traditionalism. The framework operates through three iterative components: Constituting establishes the membrane of identity. Who is in? What is the shared mission? Where are the boundaries of the self-governing entity? This is not a one-time founding act but an ongoing practice of boundary formation — the institutional equivalent of a living cell maintaining its integrity while remaining porous to its environment. Sensemaking is the dual process of perception. Internally, it tracks conviction: the repeated commitment of members to show up, to invest attention, to dream together. Externally, it processes context: empirical data on river health, soil fatigue, fire risk, biodiversity indicators. The integration of these two streams — felt commitment and material reality — is what distinguishes an ecological institution from either a social club or a data platform. Bindings formalize agreements to interact with the world. These include Living Covenants — social contracts that extend beyond human parties to include more-than-human subjects such as rivers, forests, and biomes — and Allocation Protocols for distributing resources in ways that strengthen an entity's resilience rather than subverting its integrity. These components are not abstract code. They are rituals and protocols in action, weaving together legal, economic, and technological threads into a stable institutional fabric. ## Where this is already happening In East Africa, around Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), the mountain functions as an institution without walls — a subject, a seed bank, and a water tower simultaneously. Ritual operates as the governance system, regulating water redirection and land use through generational observation and oral knowledge rather than bureaucratic paperwork. The IDK does not replace this; it asks what digital coordination can learn from it. In Aotearoa (New Zealand), the Digital Waka project supports hapū (Māori councils) in exercising self-determination through secure digital records that document governance and bio-cultural narratives. The Kaitiaki Agreement for the Moringaehe Reserve establishes a Living Covenant ensuring technology remains under hapū authority and reflects tikanga Māori. Here, the IDK serves indigenous sovereignty rather than disrupting it. In Catalonia, working with the BioFi Barcelona team on the Regenerate Catalunia program, the IDK uses low-barrier Allocation Protocols. These protocols fund local projects by measuring conviction — the way community members repeatedly show up and commit to collective dreams — building the capacity for more complex future governance. Start analog, build towards digital. Complexity grows with the community's capacity. ## What this means for the decentralized web The DWeb community has built extraordinary technical infrastructure: protocols for peer-to-peer communication, local-first data, federated identity, decentralized storage. But infrastructure without institutional form is scaffolding without a building. DAOs and peer-to-peer protocols are not just technical achievements; they are vessels of political life, essential to bringing resilience to this malnourished middle space. The question is whether we are building organizations complex enough to actually inhabit them. This is where requisite variety becomes a DWeb problem. The decentralized institutions we build must be as complex as the challenges they engage, making ecological and social entanglement a design necessity rather than an afterthought. So the provocation is: how do we repurpose contemporary corporate instruments — legal wrappers, smart contracts, allocation mechanisms — and redirect them towards nourishing collective well-being? How can decentralized addressing systems give agency to biomes, rivers, and forests, allowing them to participate directly in protocols of civic care? And how do we build the technical capacity alongside the social readiness — the internal coherence a group needs to interact with global systems without being consumed by them? By framing decentralization as a practical necessity for securing a collective future on a shared planet, this work elevates the DWeb mission from a technical experiment to a project of civic and ecological repair. ## What we will do in the room This is a 30-minute talk, not a lecture. We will spend the first 15–20 minutes laying out the argument: why the meso-scale matters, what social readiness looks like in practice, and how this is being applied across radically different contexts. The remaining time opens to the room. We are particularly interested in hearing from participants building decentralized tools who are encountering the governance gap — the moment when the protocol works but the community around it does not yet have the institutional form to sustain itself. That gap is exactly where this work lives. We are not pitching a product. We are naming a design problem that sits at the intersection of decentralized technology and ecological governance, and sharing a body of work that is being tested in the field. The invitation is to think together about what it takes for the distributed web to become a living web — not just technically resilient, but institutionally alive. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AWBLRR/ Birch Salon Nena Jain and Austin Wade Smith PUBLISH ZCKHRQ@@talx.dod.ngo -ZCKHRQ Seeing Governance: Statecharts and Structured Interviews for Legible Communities en en 20260709T101000 20260709T110000 0.05000 Seeing Governance: Statecharts and Structured Interviews for Legible Communities PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZCKHRQ/ Birch Salon Liz Barry Doug Dorn Cox PUBLISH UTPA9Z@@talx.dod.ngo -UTPA9Z Alte Hölle Introduction en en 20260709T110000 20260709T113000 0.03000 Alte Hölle Introduction basicly 1-2 people showing images and improvising a somewhat coherent story that gives an idea of what Alte Hölle is about and how it came to be. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UTPA9Z/ Birch Salon marv PUBLISH ATLKXZ@@talx.dod.ngo -ATLKXZ Making Things Public: the Public Product Organization as a Vehicle for Infrastructural Stewardship en en 20260709T113000 20260709T122000 0.05000 Making Things Public: the Public Product Organization as a Vehicle for Infrastructural Stewardship For over 15 years, the Foundation for Public Code has worked with public administrations and their vendors to build largest scale collaborative networks around codebases that serve as digital public infrastructure and digital public goods. Initially often this work consisted of helping municipalities and states build capacity to architect, deliver and maintain code bases in collaboration with a large network of peer institutions. These pieces of software infrastructure provide digital services like school system management, traffic management, participatory urbanism, and other key functions, both internally to public administration and to residents. In the last few years, we have come to realize that often these collaborative efforts can end poorly unless a suitable stewardship vehicle is created to sustainably coordinate and manage the efforts of all the participants around maintaining and developing the tool or platform that has been successfully deployed in its first context or two. To address this we have developed a policy proposal for a new form of NGO that we call the Public Product Organization. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ATLKXZ/ Birch Salon Ben Cerveny PUBLISH LD7UAE@@talx.dod.ngo -LD7UAE Introducing the Democratic Tech Fund: Building Social Capacity for Digital Autonomy en en 20260709T150000 20260709T151000 0.01000 Introducing the Democratic Tech Fund: Building Social Capacity for Digital Autonomy We are living through a decisive moment. Big Tech is openly aligning itself with autocratic political forces, extracting value from communities, and accelerating ecological collapse — all while monopolising the digital infrastructure that shapes how we communicate, organise, and live. And yet: the alternatives already exist. Thousands of projects, communities, and cooperatives across the world have been quietly building open, democratic, decentralised technology for decades. The question is no longer whether it's possible. The question is how we connect it, grow it, and sustain it. The Democratic Tech Fund (DTF) is a response to that question. It is a transnational initiative rooted in four pillars, each addressing a structural dimension of the problem. Open source and free knowledge are the foundation. Collaborative, freely licensed software is not only technically superior — it is the democratic alternative to proprietary enclosure. But open source alone has not been enough. Google, Microsoft, and Meta have all built empires on collectively produced knowledge and code, including now the training data for their AI systems. The DTF recognises that openness is necessary but insufficient without the social and economic structures to protect and sustain it. Decentralisation addresses the architecture of power. The early internet was built on open standards and interoperable protocols. Web 2.0 reversed that — platform capitalism replaced distributed infrastructure with centralised silos and hyperscale monopolies. The DTF is committed to a different web: one built with and for local communities, at the scale of cities and regions, interconnected and federated rather than controlled by a single company. Thousands of smaller communities, collaborating on shared goals, are not a weakness — they are the design. The cooperative social and solidarity economy brings two centuries of worker and user self-organisation into the digital age. This is more than a legal form: it is a political commitment to divest from neoliberal extractivism and invest in a humanist, convivial economy. Concrete examples already show what's possible — CommonsCloud, initiated a decade ago in Barcelona, is a multistakeholder cooperative of workers and users running open source cloud services for hundreds of organisations and individuals. Platform cooperatives, worker-owned delivery networks, democratic video infrastructure: these exist, they work, and they need support to grow. Commoning — the practice of collectively governing shared resources under democratically agreed rules — is perhaps the oldest human economic tradition, and one of the most needed. The DTF is itself an attempt at commoning: members contribute what they can (time, money, expertise), draw on shared resources, and govern together under shared principles. It prioritises contributions over market exchange and community accountability over extraction. The DTF was founded in summer 2025 by Free Knowledge Institute, Commons Network, Waag Futurelab, and Fundación Platoniq/Goteo, following a co-creation gathering hosted by the Internet Archive in Amsterdam. It is now in prototype mode — and this talk shares what that looks like in practice. The funding model is deliberately bottom-up, operating in stages. A base-level transition community of member organisations and individuals supports each other's shift towards digital autonomy, pooling time and resources. From within that community, local Funding Circles form to seed promising projects. Those projects then go to public crowdfunding — on platforms like Goteo — where crowd contributions are matched by public and private institutional funders, multiplying the impact of grassroots solidarity. The DTF is not primarily a funding mechanism. It is an attempt to build the social capacity for the transition towards digital autonomy — connecting local and international networks, from Digital Independence days in Germany to cooperative cloud federations, and asking collectively: what is missing, what is most needed, what do we build next? We go slowly because we want to reach far. Together we already have so much — let's share it, connect it, and build something that lasts. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LD7UAE/ Birch Salon Wouter Tebbens PUBLISH CNRNLU@@talx.dod.ngo -CNRNLU Owning the Means of Coordination: Decentralized Tools for Worker and Community Ownership en en 20260709T151500 20260709T152500 0.01000 Owning the Means of Coordination: Decentralized Tools for Worker and Community Ownership Cooperative organizations running on conventional infrastructure don't really own themselves. Their payments run through Stripe, their decisions live on Discord, their members are rows in a google sheet, and any of it can be censored, deplatformed, or shut off without consent. The case for cooperative organizations owning their own infrastructure is straightforward. **The harder question, and the one this talk takes on, is what that infrastructure should actually look like.** Most co-ops today operate on one-person-one-vote because it has strengths like legitimacy, simplicity, and equal standing but it also has limits: it can't distinguish active members from absent ones, can't reflect different stakes in different decisions, and can't easily be tuned as an organization matures and scale. On-chain cooperative infrastructure opens up a much wider design space. Voting signals can be composed and weighted. Membership can be encoded as a trust graph rather than a binary. Governance surfaces can be deliberately kept small so organizations don't ossify. Participation can be measured and folded into voting power. I'll work through three design choices we've made at poa.box, a no-code builder for worker and community-owned organizations, that try to use this space well. Blended voting combines democratic, quadratic, and participation-weighted signals in a single vote, with the weights tunable per-vote and per-organization. An organization gets to express its actual mix of values and change that mix as it matures instead of being locked into any single voting model's failure mode. Vouch-based membership replaces token-purchase or KYC with human relationships of trust, encoded on-chain. It gives cooperative organizations Sybil resistance without identity infrastructure, and produces a membership graph that captures who actually trusts whom inside the organization. Governance minimization keeps the voting surface deliberately small (controlled and highly accountable centralization) so not every member has to vote on every decision . Paired with inflationary tokens that cause voting power to decay for inactive members, it produces governance that stays responsive to who's actually showing up. I'll close by briefly discussing where this future would take us: voluntary inter-organizational federations that tax themselves for shared public goods, frontends that are forkable as a hedge against platform capture, and what cooperative infrastructure looks like when these primitives compose at scale. **Takeaways** - The design space that on-chain infrastructure opens up for cooperative governance, beyond one-person-one-vote - Blended voting as a way to compose democratic, quadratic, and participation-weighted signals in a single tunable mechanism - Vouch-based membership as a Sybil-resistant alternative to token-purchase or KYC - Why governance minimization matters more than governance maximization, and how inflationary tokens enforce it - How these primitives compose into federations, forkable frontends, and cooperative infrastructure at scale PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CNRNLU/ Birch Salon Hudson Headley PUBLISH UHWQ8D@@talx.dod.ngo -UHWQ8D How to Sustain Open Source Software in the Era of AI? A Community Solution of Prosperous Software Movement en en 20260709T153000 20260709T160000 0.03000 How to Sustain Open Source Software in the Era of AI? A Community Solution of Prosperous Software Movement Open source built the internet in the last couple of decades, yet its future is in jeopardy. More than 99% of companies rely on OSS, 70%+ of production code comes from it, and a $100T+ digital economy is built on licenses designed for another era. Yet the maintainers carrying that infrastructure are barely funded and burning out, with 60% having quit or considered quitting, while only a tiny fraction of companies give back. ​Most of us have felt some version of this. But it's worth being precise about why the model that got us here no longer ensures the ecosystem can sustain itself — and why AI is bringing the question to a head now. ​Why the FOSS model no longer ensures sustainability ​The dependency-graph visibility paradox. Value propagates upward through software stacks; compensation does not. The deeper a library sits below the application layer, the more critical it is to everything above — and the less visible it is to anyone with a budget. That isn't incidental; it's a structural property of how abstraction works. The organizations benefiting most from foundational infrastructure are precisely the ones most insulated from perceiving it. ​The licenses predate the relationship they now govern. MIT, Apache, and GPL were built for communities with aligned incentives — peers sharing among researchers and hobbyists. They optimize for sharing, not for governing a power asymmetry between trillion-dollar enterprises and individual maintainers with no salary and no recourse. Companies free-ride because the license gives them every right to. The model was never designed for this relationship. ​VC incentives don't align with stewardship — and AI is compounding the gap. Venture capital is optimized for returns at exit, and funding your OSS dependencies produces no return at exit — it's pure externality from an LP's perspective. Even companies with genuine intentions face that structural pressure. And AI foundation models have now accelerated the extraction rate exponentially: training on open source corpora at scale, compressing decades of accumulated work into model weights, with no compensation mechanism proposed or enforceable. The clearest sign of the gap: when developers sued over models trained on millions of public repositories, the case became one of the most closely watched AI copyright disputes heading into 2026 — yet courts let the license claim proceed while largely dismissing the developers' demand for compensation. The extraction is visible. The recourse isn't. ​This is the start of a conversation, not a conclusion. ​We don't think anyone has fully solved this yet — ourselves included. The Prosperous Software Movement begins from a single conviction: that sustainability should be structural, not dependent on goodwill. Everything past that — what the mechanism is, who it serves, how it works — is exactly what we want to think through with the people who live this problem, rather than hand down as answers. ​So we're gathering the community to begin. ​Come to: ​- Talk through, in the open, why the current model falls short ​- Meet maintainers, developers, and the companies that depend on them ​- Help shape what a more sustainable model could look like — and pressure-test the ideas, including ours ​- This is one of the first gatherings of a community we're hoping to build. Bring your perspective — that's the point. Join our Telegram group to stay in touch: https://t.me/prosperous_software We are also seeking advisors to help build the movement. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UHWQ8D/ Birch Salon Will Scott David Dao PUBLISH D3ATVK@@talx.dod.ngo -D3ATVK Federating Cooperatives with Federated Open Key Service (FOKS) en en 20260709T160000 20260709T163000 0.03000 Federating Cooperatives with Federated Open Key Service (FOKS) Cooperatives need secure, collaborative infrastructure but the dominant solutions often require trusting a centralized corporate provider with sensitive data and organizational relationships. FOKS (Federated Open Key Service) is an open-source, self-hostable alternative built by the team behind Keybase. It provides end-to-end encrypted Git hosting, a key-value secret store, and federated team management, all structured so that servers never see unencrypted data, and teams can span multiple independently-operated servers without losing the ability to collaborate. This session explores how FOKS can fit into the broader cooperative ecosystem and specifically how cooperative organizations can use it to own their infrastructure and coordinate with one another. We'll discuss real deployment scenarios, the protocol's key hierarchy and signature chain design. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/D3ATVK/ Birch Salon Colin PUBLISH UZABAK@@talx.dod.ngo -UZABAK Industrial-Grade Anarchism: Collective Intelligence at Scale en en 20260709T163000 20260709T180000 1.03000 Industrial-Grade Anarchism: Collective Intelligence at Scale Our movements often have powerful ethics, critique and support, but lack coordination. Meanwhile, elite power already operates at industrial scale: through platforms, logistics, finance, bureaucracy, media, data and state capacity. For collective power to become a real counterpower, we need to move beyond good intentions towards self-organisation at scale. This workshop asks: how can groups think, decide, allocate work, coordinate resources and act together at scale without creating bosses, bureaucracies or technocracies? We will explore this by treating the workshop itself as a temporary self-organising system. A physical operational board will track the work of the session: facilitation, synthesis, documentation, critique, timekeeping, task allocation and final outputs. Participants can add, take, split or challenge tasks as the session unfolds. The first part focuses on thinking together: how groups generate ideas, define values and decide what to focus on. The second part turns to doing together: who does what, what people can refuse refusal look like, and how to deal with free-riding, dropped commitments, invisible labour and overload. Along the way, we will briefly draw on Project Cybersyn, the Chilean experiment in cybernetic economic coordination, and Divlab, the fictional labour-allocation system in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Both offer powerful dreams of large-scale coordination and warnings about control, coercion and technocratic capture. Using various experiments, including social protocols and digital tools, we will build a shared map of the field: what already exists, what it is good for, where it fails, what dangers it carries, and what still needs to be invented. Participants should leave with the sense that radically better self-organisation is possible, underexplored and politically urgent. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UZABAK/ Birch Salon Jobi PUBLISH MPL8TF@@talx.dod.ngo -MPL8TF Public AI opening conversation - Representation + Local en en 20260709T093000 20260709T100000 0.03000 Public AI opening conversation - Representation + Local We'll open the day with a discussion of tailoring AI to the personal, the local, and the specific as part of the strategy for public AI. We'll talk about offline, local-first AI and how communities and individuals can meaningfully shape and harness these technologies. Three features of public AI can put the public in the driver’s seat and accelerate us towards the common good: - Public Access – Certain capabilities are so important for participation in public life that access to them should be universal. Public AI provides affordable access to these tools so that everyone can realize their potential. - Public Accountability – Public AI earns trust by ensuring ultimate control of development rests with the public, giving everyone a chance to participate in shaping the future. - Permanent Public Goods – Public AI is funded and operated in a way to maintain the public goods it produces permanently, enabling innovators to safely build on a firm foundation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MPL8TF/ AI Barn B Cavello SJ Klein PUBLISH 8DWCTD@@talx.dod.ngo -8DWCTD Human-in-the-Loop for Who? en en 20260709T100000 20260709T101000 0.01000 Human-in-the-Loop for Who? AI trust frameworks: explainability, human oversight, contestability; were largely designed with professional and enterprise users as the implicit default. When those same frameworks get applied to public-facing systems serving marginalized communities, the UX patterns often break down or actively harm the people they claim to serve. This talk draws from healthcare AI design, civic data work, and housing justice technology to examine where standard human-in-the-loop patterns fail in practice: when "explainability" produces jargon that a caseworker can't parse and a claimant definitely can't contest; when "human oversight" means a social worker with 200 open cases reviewing an automated flag in under 30 seconds; when "contestability" requires a form, a printer, a notary, and two weeks you don't have. The problem isn't that these systems lack human-in-the-loop design. It's that the human they designed the loop for was never the person most affected by the decision. I'll propose an alternative framework, one that treats survival-stakes decision-making as its own UX category, with distinct principles around trust, legibility, and community auditability. This includes: designing for low-trust entry points (assuming the user has been burned before), building contestability that works without institutional access, and shifting the accountability surface from the individual user to the community level. This talk is for designers, AI practitioners, and technologists building or advocating for publicly accountable systems and for organizers who want language to name what's going wrong in the tools they're already fighting. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8DWCTD/ AI Barn Camille Nibungco PUBLISH HKCJMN@@talx.dod.ngo -HKCJMN Every Bot Needs a Bloodline: Why AI Agents Need Culture, Not Just Capability en en 20260709T101500 20260709T102500 0.01000 Every Bot Needs a Bloodline: Why AI Agents Need Culture, Not Just Capability Every builder working with AI right now is trying to make their agent sound human. Warmer responses, friendlier tone, casual phrasing are used an attempt to sand down the mechanical edges until the machine passes some informal Turing test. I think this is the wrong goal entirely. Simulated human responses are not the same as real human connection. When an agent performs warmth without carrying a genuine point of view, people feel the gap. It creates an uncanny valley — not of appearance, but of intent. The agent sounds like a person but doesn't think like one. It has no history, no commitments, no reason to care about one thing over another. And because of that, nobody trusts it the way they trust a person whose perspective they respect. I've spent thirteen years building communities at the intersection of culture, technology, and identity: from BLVKHVND, an esports organization that became one of the first DAOs to win world championships, CryptoCookout, a collective action campaign that mobilized over 400 people around the cultural value of Black CryptoPunks, and Mint Fund, a curation initiative that supported hundreds of artists across the Global South and pushed work to Sotheby's. The through-line across all of it: the things that lasted were the things that had culture. A shared language. Rituals. A genuine point of view that people could locate themselves inside. This talk applies that lens to AI agents. I'll share the design philosophy behind Aure — a fashion intelligence I built that reads clothing through seven cultural energies (armor, disruption, command, synthesis, play, craft, ritual) rather than treating it as inventory or commerce. Aure doesn't try to sound human. It carries a specific curatorial point of view — mine — and in doing so, it creates space for the people using it to bring their own taste, their own history, their own complications to the conversation. The argument is simple: agents without culture are purely extractive machines. They optimize for metrics, not meaning. The alternative is to build agents that carry a bloodline — a traceable lineage of human conviction, aesthetic commitment, and cultural specificity. Not AI pretending to be human, but AI that lets your humanity shine through it. This talk includes a live demonstration of Aure, real user feedback that shaped its development, and a framework for thinking about cultural intentionality in agent design that extends well beyond fashion. It is rooted in the perspective of a Black American designer from the diaspora, and addresses directly what it means to carry that history into the tools we build. More specifically, what it means for tools designed to operate with increasing autonomy in decentralized networks. Attendees will leave with a practical reframe: stop optimizing for human-sounding AI. Start designing the culture first. Give your agent a point of view. And don't leave yourself out of the room when you do it. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HKCJMN/ AI Barn sirsu PUBLISH JYFKLK@@talx.dod.ngo -JYFKLK Voices of the Edge: How to Build Low-Resource Language AI for Rural Communities en en 20260709T110000 20260709T120000 1.00000 Voices of the Edge: How to Build Low-Resource Language AI for Rural Communities The current artificial intelligence boom is leaving marginalized, stateless, and deep-rural communities behind. Massive, centralized LLMs are trained heavily on dominant languages, while low-resource languages face digital erasure. When Big Tech does attempt to include these languages, the data extraction is often exploitative and disconnected from the community's actual needs. To uphold the DWeb principles of Humanity and Distributed Benefits, we must empower local communities to build, own, and govern their own localized AI. What We Will Do Drawing on my experience founding eimiAI, this 60-minute interactive workshop will guide participants through the realities of building AI from the bottom up. We will dedicate the majority of our time to hands-on problem solving: Part 1: The Grassroots Blueprint (15 mins): I will share how eimiAI approaches the technical and social challenges of low-resource AI. We will cover community-led data generation, privacy-first data structuring, and selecting lightweight models that can run on constrained hardware. Part 2: The Sovereign Data Challenge (35 mins): Participants will break into small groups. Each group will be assigned a hypothetical stateless community with a unique language and severe infrastructure constraints (e.g., no internet access, low digital literacy). Groups will be challenged to design an ethical data-gathering campaign and map out a local-first tech stack to deploy a basic translation or voice-to-text model for that community. Part 3: Group Debrief (10 mins): We will reconvene to share our frameworks, discussing how DWeb protocols can better support sovereign, offline-first AI. Why This Matters This session moves beyond theoretical AI ethics into practical survival. It centers the voices of those not at the table and equips DWeb builders with the methodologies needed to ensure AI acts as a tool for language preservation and human agency, rather than just another centralized monopoly. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JYFKLK/ AI Barn Michael Suantak PUBLISH NYWP9N@@talx.dod.ngo -NYWP9N Deep Green Compute and Grassroots Public AI en en 20260709T150000 20260709T160000 1.00000 Deep Green Compute and Grassroots Public AI An introduction to the ideas of Deep Green Compute and how it embodies grassroots Public AI. Ths will be a wide ranging chat and dialogue with the audience and panelists. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NYWP9N/ AI Barn Tony Lai, Brewster Kahle, SJ Klein PUBLISH MEBSMB@@talx.dod.ngo -MEBSMB Local AI: Building your own Farm Box en en 20260709T173000 20260709T180000 0.03000 Local AI: Building your own Farm Box PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MEBSMB/ AI Barn PUBLISH BVDECS@@talx.dod.ngo -BVDECS Kick-Off DJ Sets & Barn Dance en en 20260709T220000 20260710T000000 2.00000 Kick-Off DJ Sets & Barn Dance PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/BVDECS/ AI Barn Dani Mf PUBLISH CYQ7US@@talx.dod.ngo -CYQ7US The Intrinsically Motivated Connector: Towards a Reciprocal Culture of Value Recognition for Independent Ecosystem Weaving Work en en 20260709T093000 20260709T110000 1.03000 The Intrinsically Motivated Connector: Towards a Reciprocal Culture of Value Recognition for Independent Ecosystem Weaving Work ## Description ### This not just about money... it’s about the right for an entire domain of value to exist. Connective labor goes by many names, weaving, cross-pollinating, diplomacy. It’s the quiet work that holds ecosystems together, whether inside decentralized counter-cultures or traditional organizations. But it remains structurally invisible, often honored only after the fact. So far, the default has been structureless reciprocity. _That’s not enough._ We need pillars for a genuine culture of reciprocity. Not over-indexing on measurable impact, but recognizing relational work before it becomes tangible. Yes, it can lead to business development—but what comes first is relational intelligence, energy flow, and trust. Robust socio-technical ecosystem require a compact culture of reciprocity to function. Rituals as social infrastructure. ### Structure **Context-Setting** (35 mins) 0. Guided Exercise to Active Body and Mind (5 mins) 1. Reading the Room - What identifiers resonate? (5 mins) 2. Articulating the Role (Atributes, Skills and Dispositions of a Connector) (25 mins) The Question of Proffesionalization **Experiences and Struggles** (40 mins) 3. Experiences From Facilitatos (10-15 mins) 4. Opening-Up to the Room- Facilitated Breakout Groups (25-30 mins) **Common Action** (15 mins) 5. Sharing Results 6. Opportunities for Common Action ### What for? **What we’re building**: Fair, mutual value exchange for cross-organizational weaving work. Practical, situation-specific, rooted in lived reality. New containers for the challenges of staying independent. **Who this is for**: Not only weavers. But also organizers, activists, funders. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CYQ7US/ Creativity Lounge Fotis Tsiroukis (Hermes) PUBLISH FDM8JE@@talx.dod.ngo -FDM8JE Musical Instrument Craft & Mend en en 20260709T110000 20260709T123000 1.03000 Musical Instrument Craft & Mend Know how to make an awesome, simple flute? A crunchy shaker or drum? Know how to string a guitar? Bring your favorite musical instrument recipes and crafting supplies to share. Bring a guitar that needs new strings. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FDM8JE/ Creativity Lounge Micah PUBLISH ZRGRPZ@@talx.dod.ngo -ZRGRPZ Trickmisch - Stop Motion Animation! en en 20260709T153000 20260709T163000 1.00000 Trickmisch - Stop Motion Animation! see above PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZRGRPZ/ Creativity Lounge Julis PUBLISH HZM8RV@@talx.dod.ngo -HZM8RV Personal Digital Archiving: note-taking and storytelling practices for preserving our most meaningful memories en en 20260709T163000 20260709T180000 1.03000 Personal Digital Archiving: note-taking and storytelling practices for preserving our most meaningful memories Over the last several months I’ve been practicing being more intentional about what I do with the photos, videos and other digital artifacts that are created while travelling or on trips (including trips like coming to DWeb camp!) What I’ve been doing is incorporating these artifacts into a digital journal, effectively creating blog-like entries for each day of my trips. This practice has helped me engage more intentionally with my surroundings while traveling. It also leaves me with a well crafted account of my trip, helping with integrating the experiences, reflecting on them in the future, and sharing the journey with friends and family. It is a deeply meaningful and an ever evolving practice and the purpose of this workshop is to share it with others and also learn from others about their own archival practices. The rough structure will be an initial overview of my own practice and experience with it then an open discussion about other participants practices. This will be followed by period where participants can practice going through their existing photos/memories (and any other artifacts) from their trip to Berlin and DWeb camp so far and crafting them into a personal account within their note taking app of choice. We will end by encouraging everyone to continue the practice for the rest of camp, with an optional informal follow up near the end of camp. My hope is to help others connect more intentionally with how they archive their own life experiences and discover maintainable practices to do so throughout life. Additionally, I hope this helps participants transition off of modern social media and move towards simpler, local-first and private means of digitally archiving life experiences. You can learn more about what this practices looks like for me [here](https://notes.wesleyfinck.org/3mgau375va22c). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HZM8RV/ Creativity Lounge Wesley PUBLISH JX38MZ@@talx.dod.ngo -JX38MZ FAMILY FILM FEST - Kids Choice Vote: The Wild Robot vs. Zootopia en en 20260709T200000 20260709T210000 1.00000 FAMILY FILM FEST - Kids Choice Vote: The Wild Robot vs. Zootopia For 60+ minutes: Drop your kids off (or come on your own or with your whole crew. All are welcome!) in the Library where we will have snacks and drinks for the kids. Bring your blankets, stretch out in front of the fireplace and we'll put on a movie for kids of all ages. Family Film Fest - Kids Choice Vote (Round 2): The Wild Robot vs. Zootopia PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JX38MZ/ Creativity Lounge 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Young M Wong PUBLISH R7B7NX@@talx.dod.ngo -R7B7NX Know Your Corvid: an experiment in citizen science and interspecies relationships en en 20260709T093000 20260709T100000 0.03000 Know Your Corvid: an experiment in citizen science and interspecies relationships Several open source (BirdNET/Merlin/etc) and commercial projects for bird species identification, coupled with the birding boom of peak COVID, have ushered in a new era in human attention to, and appreciation of, our avian neighbors. However, these systems usually stop at exactly the species level; no aids are available to help us better understand individual visitors. Know Your Corvid aims to use multimodal learning to increase the identification resolution (based on both academic and citizen-originating training data) to reveal the behavioral patterns of specific individuals, encourage even deeper attention, and perhaps eventually build a better modality of understanding between these highly intelligent creatures and the humans whose built environments they now inhabit. The project is still in very early stages, but I will present the work to date, offer paths of contributing (including a proposed decentralized training approach), and attempt to tackle the thorny question of where this domain of (frankly) surveillance might fit into the privacy-first ethical frameworks that this community champions. We will try to leave as much space at the end for a discussion if there is interest. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/R7B7NX/ Creativity Dome Arkadiy Kukarkin PUBLISH SNVY7D@@talx.dod.ngo -SNVY7D Interstellare Vaganten (Reiselieder) en en 20260709T100000 20260709T110000 1.00000 Interstellare Vaganten (Reiselieder) Come join us at the Creativity Dome to refresh & renew your spirits through a collective experience in music. Lauscher Mandina play their songs from the journeys busking around the world. Live at Salon Cryptomagique https://youtu.be/iNVO9rkSlYU?is=l-9mDRw-6aI5fZO9 Lauscher & Mandina's Linktree https://youtu.be/iNVO9rkSlYU?is=hmtEX4CuqEP8NWOc PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SNVY7D/ Creativity Dome Lauscher & Mandina PUBLISH XKKQDY@@talx.dod.ngo -XKKQDY A Case for Belief: Why the Human Team Can Still Win en en 20260709T113000 20260709T123000 1.00000 A Case for Belief: Why the Human Team Can Still Win It has become almost reasonable to give up on humanity. And those of us who still want to believe are often called idealists, as if that were an insult. This is a reading and open conversation from EVERYONE: A Case for Belief, Why the Human Team Can Still Win. We get honest about the weight, we feel it, and we make the case: not for optimism, but for belief as the most underused lever we have. The point is not to believe because the evidence says we will win. The evidence is not in yet. It is to believe so that we create the possibility, because belief is what generates the agency to act toward it. We help each other believe, not as a passing feeling but as a practice, the way a team lifts itself at halftime. The way we do that together is itself an experiment. Can we find the few principles universal enough to hold for everyone, the reasons to believe the human team can still win, and express them in all the languages and forms it takes to reach every kind of person, no one left out? The book is the first draft of that shared case. An immersive film, made in the open, is its felt version. Both are unfinished on purpose, open for you to argue with, add to, and help create. This is why it is launching here, at DWeb, on purpose. A book about how interconnected we already are, and how we can still win together, belongs where the infrastructure of our interconnected future is being envisioned and built. This work needs that infrastructure, and the people who make it. Lend a platform, a technology, a skill. Or just come, feel it, say count me in, and pass it on. You do not have to be certain. You do not have to be optimistic. You just have to be unwilling to guarantee it is impossible. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XKKQDY/ Creativity Dome zak zaidman PUBLISH MYCDVY@@talx.dod.ngo -MYCDVY Improv Games en en 20260709T133000 20260709T150000 1.03000 Improv Games Improv is the art of collective storytelling. Its all about learning to connect to each other and react spontaneously. Not as the (veryyyy clever) adults we all are. But as playful, curious humans. Improv was invented to help us un-learn all the horrible lessons schools teach. "Sit down and be quiet" -> No, lets move and be loud. "Know the right answer" -> What is there is no right answer? Its sort of a weird form of social meditation. Improv makes us practice living in the moment and being present with whats going on. But we do it in front of an audience, while connecting with the other people around us. Aah I could say so many words about why its great. It helped me get over my shyness. It makes us funnier and more charismatic. It helped me get over my annoying habit of trying to be right and clever all the time. It helps us tell better stories, and it makes us better presenters. Its great, 10/10 come along. Especially if you've never done it before. Doubly so if it sounds a bit scary! (I promise you, you'll be in wonderful company.) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MYCDVY/ Creativity Dome Seph PUBLISH 88JXQA@@talx.dod.ngo -88JXQA Brand Lab, or reverse-engineering your project reputation en en 20260709T150000 20260709T163000 1.03000 Brand Lab, or reverse-engineering your project reputation Brand Lab is a DIY workshop for developers-turned-founders who are launching their product to market and want to attract first users and early funders. **After attending this workshop, you will be able to:** * adjust your product reputation from “what we have” to “what we want,” * make your product positioning work for you, not against you, * communicate tech features in a way that sparks curiosity and desire, * make your product visually stand out in the market, * create a brand image that wins the hearts and minds of early adopters, * involve partners and the community to create a tighter bond and build trust, * plan a seamless visual experience that embeds your product in people’s memories. Here’s what you should expect https://nezhynska.com/brand-lab **Where this workshop appeared so far:** Devconnect ARG ▪ ETHDenver Camp BUIDL ▪ Devcon 7 and 6 ▪ ZuConnect at DevConnect IST ▪ IPFS Camp ▪ DWeb Camp ▪ Regens Unite ▪ Web3Summit ▪ Funding the Commons Builder Residency in 2023 and 2025 ▪ World Information Architecture Day ▪ Codemotion **What will you need for this workshop? **** This workshop is for founders who already know whom they’re building for, what problems they’re solving, and how their market playground looks today. Solid ideas — or at least plans — on these three aspects are the ingredients we will work with. If you don’t have them yet, message me in advance, and we’ll see what we can do. **Detailed run of show:** 1. How is reputation accumulated? 2. Three layers of project reputation stack. 3. Rational layer: Market research, positioning, audiences, alternatives. 4. Emotional layer: values, users’ fears and aspirations. What makes people say “Yes!” Brand personality. 5. Sensory memory layer: design taboo, core identifiers, communication consistency. Launching scrappy but seamlessly. 6. Rules of testing before you launch. 7. Q&A and takeaways. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/88JXQA/ Creativity Dome Ira Nezhynska PUBLISH NY7YJZ@@talx.dod.ngo -NY7YJZ The Web Accessibility Clinic en en 20260709T163000 20260709T180000 1.03000 The Web Accessibility Clinic We talk a lot about building a "web for everyone," but the reality is that many decentralized projects and modern web apps are inadvertently locking people out. Accessibility shouldn't be a post-launch "extra", it’s a fundamental requirement. This is a hands-on 90-minute clinic designed for developers, designers, and project leads who want to move beyond automated testing scores. Drawing on my years of experience auditing and building accessible systems for the City of Ghent, I will show you how to look at your project through a different lens. This isn't a lecture; it's a triage. I will use a "live-doctor" format - Bring a URL or a local dev environment of your project. - I’ll hook it up to the big screen (if available) and perform a real-time audit using a mix of manual testing, keyboard-only navigation, and screen reader output. - I’ll help identify the "low-hanging fruit" (quick code wins) and the "deep architecture" fixes (semantic structure and ARIA patterns). The clinic will cover keyboard & focus management, semantic integrity and screen reader UX. Whether you are a seasoned engineer or a hobbyist with a personal site, the goal is the same: to leave with a concrete, prioritized list of improvements. Bring your laptop, your code, and an open mind. No shame, no judgment, just better and more inclusive web development. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NY7YJZ/ Creativity Dome Bart Delrue PUBLISH M337PX@@talx.dod.ngo -M337PX All about DIDs! en en 20260709T093000 20260709T103000 1.00000 All about DIDs! Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) originally started as a grassroots project, based on the fundamental idea that a decentralized stack must start with decentralized identifiers. By now, DIDs have become a W3C standard and are being adopted by a multitude of protocols and use cases around the world. DIDs are identifiers that are designed to be decentralized, peristent, resolvable, and cryptographically verifiable. They can be created, resolved, updated, and deactivated without any dependency on a central authority or intermediary. Since DIDs are "controlled" by cryptographic keys, they enable a Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure (DPKI) that provides the foundation for trustable interactions, authentication, messaging, and data sharing. On one hand, DIDs are being used by rather traditional government-led initiatives such as Digital Identity Wallets, Digital Product Passports, Data Spaces, etc. On the other hand, DIDs also align nicely with many ideas and technical building blocks in the DWeb community, such as the Fediverse, decentralized social networking, local-first architectures, etc. In this workshop, we will spend the first 10-15 minutes giving an introduction to DIDs and an overview of current developments in the DID community, including at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). Potential topics: - What are DIDs? (Technical background, history, community). - DID methods - DID document data model - DID URLs and DID parameters - Current status of the W3C DID Working Group - Current status of the DIF DID Methods Working Group - DID Rubric - DID Traits - DIDs and other identifiers such as domain names - DIDs and other protocols such as ActivityPub, Matrix, Solid - Related technologies, such as Verifiable Credentials, DIDComm, OID4VC - DIDs in applications such as digital identity wallets, AI agents, local-first architectures, digital product passports After an initial introduction, we will spend the rest of the workshop in a flexible way depending on the interests of the participants. Activities can include: - Technical deep dives on specific DID-related questions and topics that you can bring to the workshop! For example: What are the most important DID methods? What are DID URLs? - Designing how DIDs can be integrated into a specific (your own?) protocol. - Philosophical/political discussions. For example: Are DIDs really decentralized? Do DIDs really enable self-sovereign identity? Any topics and discussions related to DIDs are welcome! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/M337PX/ Idea Stage Markus Sabadello PUBLISH CTKEWR@@talx.dod.ngo -CTKEWR A Public Proposal for E-mail Address Portability en en 20260709T103000 20260709T110000 0.03000 A Public Proposal for E-mail Address Portability In the late 1990s, governments mandated phone number portability, breaking telecom monopolies and sparking a wave of market competition. Today, the email address has replaced the phone number as our primary digital identity. Yet, consumers are trapped. Because changing an email address across hundreds of banks, healthcare providers, and retail accounts is practically impossible, dominant tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple) enjoy an anti-competitive "monopoly of convenience.". I am part of a group aiming to solve this by pushing for legislation around the world. Join me to hear about the plan and offer your thoughts on this issue. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CTKEWR/ Idea Stage Kevin Baragona PUBLISH SE7XAL@@talx.dod.ngo -SE7XAL The Sovereignty Anchor en en 20260709T111500 20260709T121500 1.00000 The Sovereignty Anchor Our Sovereignty Anchor is a prototype of future modular “IT packs” from which infrastructure in both data centers and distributed edge structures will be built in the future – highly secure, transparently verifiable, industrially manufactured, and installable and replaceable without in-depth technical knowledge. It combines technical innovations like a perimeter seal, advanced confidential computing control software and distributed secure execution domains (SGX). We will run a live demo and everyone at DWeb Camp can take the opportunity to experience the system first hand. At its core are physically sealed server nodes which practically can be deployed anywhere and still be secure. With confidential computing by design, they allow distributed computing while providing full control of data and functions to their owners. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SE7XAL/ Idea Stage Andre Kudra PUBLISH FLLS3A@@talx.dod.ngo -FLLS3A NOMOI - Network of Mandated Operational Invariants en en 20260709T121500 20260709T122500 0.01000 NOMOI - Network of Mandated Operational Invariants Existing authorization infrastructures model authority as a property of an identity — a role, a permission entry, a flag in a database. This representation is adequate within a single system but fails structurally at organizational boundaries, across time, and under independent audit. There is no open standard for expressing a delegation event in a form that a third party can verify without the issuer's cooperation. NOMOI addresses this gap by modeling authority as an immutable, cryptographically signed event rather than a mutable state. The system is built on three primitives: asymmetric key pairs as self-sovereign identities, Trust Anchors as content-addressed IPFS directories made updatable through a discovery layer, and Mandates as signed delegation records persisted on IPFS. Mandates form a delegation graph: each recipient may sub-delegate a strict subset of their received authority, producing a verifiable graph that any party can traverse from leaf to root using only public infrastructure. Verification is purely mathematical and offline-capable once content is retrieved; no live API call to any issuing organization is required. Revocation is structurally integrated into the Trust Anchor directory and propagates through the same discovery mechanism used for all other updates. The protocol is algorithm-agnostic — each Mandate declares its signing algorithm via a COSE-compliant integer identifier — and is network-agnostic and transport-agnostic in mandate presentation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FLLS3A/ Idea Stage bacce PUBLISH SFHERD@@talx.dod.ngo -SFHERD P2P VPNs: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly en en 20260709T150000 20260709T153000 0.03000 P2P VPNs: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly This presentation explores the performance of ten peer-to-peer mesh VPN implementations, tested under controlled network conditions using a reproducible, Nix-based benchmarking framework. We examine how rankings shift under different network impairments and reveal surprising findings, including a userspace stack outperforming the Linux kernel's default networking and a critical security vulnerability discovered through source code analysis. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SFHERD/ Idea Stage Qubasa PUBLISH DJZ3X3@@talx.dod.ngo -DJZ3X3 Staying Connected When Systems Fail: An Internet Shutdown Live Action Roleplay with Dash Chat en en 20260709T160000 20260709T163000 0.03000 Staying Connected When Systems Fail: An Internet Shutdown Live Action Roleplay with Dash Chat This is a working session, not a talk. You leave with the app on your phone and a real sense of how it behaves when the network goes away. Dash Chat works like a normal secure messenger when you're online and keeps carrying messages when you're not. It's transport-agnostic, built on p2panda and Iroh, and released under AGPL-3.0. We build it with partners on the ground and share what we're learning with and from them — and we're keen to connect with more partners here. Everyone installs it and connects with a QR code or contact link — no account, no phone number. We message across the room over the internet, then switch it off. We're running our own local WiFi network with a laptop acting as a Local Mailbox, so messages keep moving with no internet. From there: group chats, images and files. It runs on our own network in the room, not across the camp. Today it works over the internet and over a local network; mesh over Bluetooth and LoRa is on the roadmap. Usability matters to us as much as security, which is why we test it with real people. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DJZ3X3/ Idea Stage Guillem Cordoba PUBLISH NPGLHM@@talx.dod.ngo -NPGLHM On-Chain Eligibility from Real-World Inputs: zkTLS + Atomic State Simulation en en 20260709T164500 20260709T171500 0.03000 On-Chain Eligibility from Real-World Inputs: zkTLS + Atomic State Simulation ## Abstract Eligibility, meaning who can hold what and who can transfer to whom, is the part of any real-world economy that decentralized systems have not solved. Holding certain securities requires being a verified person of a particular jurisdiction. Joining a regulated pool may require accreditation. Participating in some communities requires being over a certain age. Almost every implementation today falls back on calling a centralized API or trusting a permissioned issuer to attest, which puts the gatekeeper right back in the middle of the system. This talk presents a general pattern for on-chain eligibility that doesn't reintroduce a gatekeeper. Two ideas do the work together. First, **zkTLS** lets a user prove facts drawn directly from authoritative real-world sources like a bank, a tax authority, a passport service, or an exchange's KYC endpoint, without any intermediary trusted to relay them. The output is a small set of eligibility traits (*is a resident of jurisdiction X, has some status or accreditation, is over 18*), not the underlying data. Second, the chain enforces eligibility by **simulating the post-transaction state** of every party touched by a transfer and rejecting the transaction atomically if any global eligibility invariant would be violated. Ineligible transfers don't need to be detected and unwound. They never execute. This work is based on the pattern we've developed at Opacity. The combination is powerful: real-world facts arrive on-chain in a privacy-preserving form, and the transfer function uses them to enforce invariants that hold across the whole system, not just at the edges. We'll walk through the mechanism in detail, including how eligibility traits get bound to addresses, what state the simulator inspects, what invariants are practical to express (per-asset, per-jurisdiction, per-holder caps and bans), and where the costs and limits live. We'll then look at the design space this opens up: gating DAO membership on verified credentials without doxxing members, age-restricted communities that don't need to see anyone's ID, jurisdiction-aware protocols that respect local rules without a central enforcer, and worker co-ops verifying employment status against payroll data without exposing it. The same shape (verified inputs in, eligibility traits on-chain, atomic simulation at the transfer boundary) fits all of them. ## Takeaways - Why the transfer function is the right place to enforce eligibility, and why post-hoc detection isn't good enough - How zkTLS turns authoritative real-world data into on-chain-checkable eligibility traits without exposing the underlying data - How simulating post-transaction state lets a protocol enforce global invariants atomically, rather than per-account heuristics - The design space this pattern opens: DAO membership, age-gating, jurisdiction-aware protocols, employment-verified co-ops, and beyond - Honest discussion of the limits: trust assumptions in zkTLS, simulation cost, and what kinds of invariants are and aren't practical to express PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NPGLHM/ Idea Stage Hudson Headley PUBLISH 7KWX3A@@talx.dod.ngo -7KWX3A Discovering the missing layer - Taking back ownership by thinking beyond the browser en en 20260709T093000 20260709T110000 1.03000 Discovering the missing layer - Taking back ownership by thinking beyond the browser This workshop can move into a discussion or hands on format depending on what resonates. At the centre is the question "What would we do, if we own a new malleable layer at the intersection of OS, browser and extensions?" PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7KWX3A/ Hackers Lab jan Luke Hubbard PUBLISH SJGRKH@@talx.dod.ngo -SJGRKH Build on Pubky: Hands-on! en en 20260709T110000 20260709T123000 1.03000 Build on Pubky: Hands-on! Bring your laptop — this is a hands-on session where most of the time is spent building. We'll start with a short framing of what makes a Pubky app a Pubky app (public-key identity, replaceable homeservers, the SDK surface) and a quick tour of the entry points: SDK, examples, docs. We setup the laptops to be ready to create on the Pubky stack. Then we brainstorm together: what would you actually want to build on a stack where users own their identity and data? Notes apps, social experiments, group coordination tools, payment prototypes, anything. After ~15 minutes of framing and brainstorming, the rest of the session is build time. You don't need to be a strong coder. Pubky's JavaScript and Rust SDKs are small enough to learn in a sitting, and modern AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor, and others) lower the bar further. Pair-programming with an LLM is a fully viable path to a working app in a session. The workshop lead is available for questions, and the peers around you are part of the support network. By the end, the goal is for everyone to leave with a working skeleton of their own app on Pubky, something to keep building after Camp, and something to demo if they want. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SJGRKH/ Hackers Lab Gabriel PUBLISH XPYXA7@@talx.dod.ngo -XPYXA7 Forking the Legal Stack: Hands-On with Open-Source Legal Infrastructure en en 20260709T150000 20260709T160000 1.00000 Forking the Legal Stack: Hands-On with Open-Source Legal Infrastructure **Imagine running a fully remote company, locally on your laptop.** Not just the data — the legal infrastructure too. The statutes. The member registry. The board minutes. The governance workflows. The signature flow. Even AI agents that draft, review, and summarize legal documents. All running locally. Offline-capable. Syncing peer-to-peer when you want them to, isolated when you don't. Exported as a polished Word or PDF document in one minute, as a clean HTML page the next — same source, multiple formats. This is a local-first conference. We're going to bring local-first to the part of the stack nobody talks about: legal infrastructure. **The legal stack is the last centralized stack** While the rest of the web decentralized — data, identity, money, communication — legal infrastructure has barely moved. It remains: • Paper-first in a digital world • Proprietary in its templates, tools, and intelligence • Lawyer-mediated at every step, often unnecessarily • Rent-seeking by design: the friction is the business model • Jurisdictionally siloed, with little reusable common infrastructure For builders, collectives, mutual aid networks, DAOs, and small organizations everywhere, the legal wrapper around your work is often the most centralized, opaque, and expensive part of your stack. You pay for templates that should be public goods. You rent workflow software that locks in your governance data. You wait weeks for documents that could be generated in minutes. **What if legal infrastructure were software?** We've been building open-source tooling that treats real legal entities like code: • Documents as code — statutes, registries, minutes, and agreements as structured, versioned, forkable artifacts • Workflows as automation — incorporation, governance, voting, and document execution as repeatable, auditable processes • Local-first by default — entity data lives on your machine, synced peer-to-peer • Privacy by design — confidential information never leave the local environment • AI agents on-device — drafting, reviewing, summarizing without sending anything to a third party • Multi-format export — the same source generates polished Word documents, HTML, PDF • Open source all the way down — every template, document model, and workflow is a public good others can fork and improve. This is open-source infrastructure for legal sovereignty. **Public legal goods** Everything we build, fork, and improve becomes part of a growing commons: document models, templates, and workflows that any community, anywhere, can adapt to their jurisdiction and purpose. Legal infrastructure as open-source software. **Important note** This workshop is about infrastructure and tooling, not legal advice. We are not lawyers. We do not recommend any specific legal vehicle for your situation. The Swiss Verein appears as one demonstration example among many possible structures. **Who this is for** Builders, organizers, lawyers, governance designers, researchers — anyone curious about what changes when legal infrastructure stops being a SaaS dependency. No legal background or coding required. **What you'll need** A laptop (any OS). A pre-camp setup guide will be sent to confirmed participants — installation takes ~15 minutes, plus a help session before the workshop. **Alignment with DWeb principles** Sovereignty over organizational data · Human agency in legal self-determination · Trust without unnecessary intermediaries · Public goods over proprietary platforms · Decentralization that goes all the way down — including into the legal layer. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XPYXA7/ Hackers Lab layer0x PUBLISH FQDZEK@@talx.dod.ngo -FQDZEK Build Your Own Local-First App with AI Agents en en 20260709T160000 20260709T173000 1.03000 Build Your Own Local-First App with AI Agents **What participants build** A working **document model + editor combo** running locally. The app uses Powerhouse document models as the foundational primitive: the schema and the operation log are the application. AI agents act inside the operation log as typed-operation dispatchers. Participants bring their own idea. They leave with: * Required: a working local drive on their machine with their document model loaded, their editor running, and at least one document instance dispatched through the full operation log. * Optional: a GitHub repo of the project they can share peer-to-peer. * Stretch: a Vetra deployment URL so others can use it without installing anything. The Powerhouse pipeline (workshop spine) Participants run their idea through 4 stages, with agent support each step of the way: - Functional analysis - Data architecture - Source code / build - QA checks & published package Every stage has an explicit input, explicit output, and a handoff phrase to the next agent. The workflow is guided by the workshop facilitator. This is the Powerhouse BA Praxis methodology applied to a participant's own project, in real time. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FQDZEK/ Hackers Lab Wouter Kampmann | Powerhouse PUBLISH 7SGLUB@@talx.dod.ngo -7SGLUB Digital Campfires: Designing Social Tech That Goes Out en en 20260709T173000 20260709T180000 0.03000 Digital Campfires: Designing Social Tech That Goes Out We’ll look at real examples of “bounded” technology, tools that know when to pause or end PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7SGLUB/ Hackers Lab Dan Schmidt PUBLISH ZHGJNM@@talx.dod.ngo -ZHGJNM Join the DWeb Camp Mesh! en en 20260709T093000 20260709T094000 0.01000 Join the DWeb Camp Mesh! We are running Reticulum, Meshcore, and Meshtastic at the camp site. To be sure, you don't miss out on that opportunity learning more about managing your own communications infrastructure, I'll invite you all to join the mesh during camp. If you need devices, they will be available for inspection (and purchase) after my talk. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZHGJNM/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Afri Blanck PUBLISH L9WV3W@@talx.dod.ngo -L9WV3W Introduction to Meshtastic and Meshcore (hands-on, devices available) en en 20260709T094000 20260709T104000 1.00000 Introduction to Meshtastic and Meshcore (hands-on, devices available) Meshtastic and Meshcore are open firmware projects that turn cheap LoRa radios into self-organizing mesh networks. Devices route encrypted messages hop by hop across kilometers of terrain, without internet, SIM cards, or operators. The protocol is the infrastructure. The session is hands-on. **Devices are available for purchase** (starting at EUR 20) during the session. Participants flash firmware, configure channels and keys, send messages across the room and across the camp, and observe how each stack routes traffic. We compare Meshtastic's flood routing with Meshcore's source-routed approach, work within the duty-cycle limits of the European 868 MHz band, and cover practical deployment (time permitting): antenna placement, solar nodes, and bridging mesh traffic to existing camp services. No prior radio experience required. **Bring a tablet or smartphone** to connect to the mesh. Bring a laptop if you want to keep configuring after the session. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L9WV3W/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Afri Blanck PUBLISH XBZFVE@@talx.dod.ngo -XBZFVE tinySSB hands-on en en 20260709T104000 20260709T114000 1.00000 tinySSB hands-on This is a hands-on workshop where you can gather first-hand experience how the tinySSB apps behave: Try out chat (and its voice and sketch attachments), productivity apps like Kanban board, the games and many other student-made mini-apps. You can also participate in trying out the LoRa (long range radio) mesh network! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XBZFVE/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Christian Tschudin (cft) PUBLISH 8CGYZM@@talx.dod.ngo -8CGYZM Sharing Resources with Your Community en en 20260709T120000 20260709T123000 0.03000 Sharing Resources with Your Community Andi and I have been sharing our servers with our artist community. They have access to storage, websites and our new AI server. We have found that the elderly and people outside of the tech community often do not or cannot have access to more computer storage or AI. In response to the challenges experienced during the COVID pandemic, we began partnering with artists to archive their performances and work history through the creation of websites hosted on our server. We have preserved the work histories of trailblazing artists of color who were unable to navigate quickly changing technological advances on their own. We are also exploring how AI can assist us with language translation as we research our family genealogy and recover little known history of the Chinese and Chinese-Americans in the United States and beyond. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8CGYZM/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Young M Wong 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 PUBLISH SEWZKP@@talx.dod.ngo -SEWZKP Semea-tec: seeding tech, growing autonomy en en 20260709T150000 20260709T153000 0.03000 Semea-tec: seeding tech, growing autonomy ## Introduction SEMEA-TEC (Sowing Technological Solutions in Family Agriculture) is a university extension project at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São José dos Campos campus (ICT), approved by the Extension and Culture Board. The project operates at the intersection of computing, electronics, rural extension, and participatory methodologies, developing low-cost, low-energy-consumption social technologies for family agriculture, tackling the digital exclusion that deepens historical inequalities in rural areas. The project is organically linked to an ongoing doctoral research at PPGIT/UNIFESP, entitled “Sociotechnical Co-creation with Family Farmers: Participatory Development of Technologies for Rural Areas,” which investigates the influence of participatory methodologies on technological innovation processes aimed at building autonomous communication systems in rural contexts. While the extension operates as a living laboratory for listening and co-creation with communities, the doctoral research investigates the technical-scientific foundations for achieving maximum energy autonomy — with batteries that harvest energy from the environment based on non-toxic, low-environmental-impact materials — and economic viability for scaling. ## Methodology We adopt Action Design Research (ADR) as our central methodology: before any line of code or soldering, we go to the field with partner organizations for active listening and participatory diagnosis of real needs. Only then do we move on to co-creating prototypes, testing on properties, and iterative cycles of continuous improvement. Family farmers are at the center of the process — not as passive beneficiaries, but as co-producers of technological innovation. Our theoretical foundation is anchored in the Epistemologies of the South (Boaventura de Sousa Santos), Social Technology (Dagnino, Thomas), and the commitment to a just ecological transition, aligning our work with SDGs 1, 4, 7, 9, and 13. ## Partnerships The work is developed with undergraduate students from UNIFESP in collaboration with organizations working on the ground: Associação Portal Sem Porteiras (Monteiro Lobato - SP) — logistical support, mobilization of family farmers, and sharing of local knowledge. Akarui (São Luiz do Paraitinga - SP) — ecological and economic restoration integrating milk production with forest systems. Associação Apoena — agroecology in the territory. ## Prototype 1: JavAlarm — Electric Fence Monitoring via LoRa The first development cycle emerged from observing an established practice in the territory: farmers use electric fences to protect crops and livestock against invaders, especially wild boars (Sus scrofa), an invasive species that causes significant damage to family agriculture in the Paraíba Valley. When the fence fails, the farmer often only discovers it hours or days later, when the damage has already been done. JavAlarm is a low-cost, low-power system for detecting electric fence failures, combining simple hardware, optimized C/C++ firmware, and LoRa communication for operation in isolated rural areas. The architecture consists of two nodes: Transmitter (TX): Connected to the electric fence, detects sudden voltage drops via an analog circuit using a Hall effect sensor and a dedicated fence voltmeter to capture high-voltage pulses (kV range). The microcontroller is a Raspberry Pi Pico W (RP2040) with a LoRa SX1262 transceiver at 915 MHz. Receiver (RX): Receives the alert and notifies the user via LED, sound, or both. A key differentiator is the acknowledgment (ACK) communication protocol: the transmitter sends the alert and waits for confirmation. If the receiver is offline, the transmitter retransmits until it obtains acknowledgment, ensuring that no fence failure goes unnoticed. Power consumption was optimized to 114 mA during transmission and 32 mA in idle, enabling weeks of autonomy on standard batteries. Next steps: complete system integration, weatherproof case design, and bootloader optimization for remote firmware updates. ## Prototype 2: Shitakiometer — Environmental Sensing for Mushroom Greenhouses The second cycle addressed the needs of mushroom producers who must monitor temperature, relative humidity, and CO₂ concentration in production greenhouses. Shitakiometer is a high-energy-autonomy monitoring solution integrating sensors, LoRa communication, solar power, and a complete backend for real-time visualization. Hardware: Heltec ESP32 with integrated LoRa radio (SX1262, 915 MHz), running custom firmware with deep sleep support. Sensors include DHT22 (temperature/humidity, ±0.5 °C accuracy) and MH-Z19B/SCD40 for CO₂ measurement via NDIR. Power: 5V / 1.25W solar panel with 18650 lithium-ion battery (~2500 mAh) and charge management circuit, targeting continuous operation with positive energy balance — converging with the doctoral research on harvest energy. Backend stack (fully containerized via Docker): Mosquitto (MQTT broker), Node-RED (automation bridge), InfluxDB (time-series database), and Grafana (real-time dashboards). Ongoing work: deep sleep optimization for positive energy balance; farmer-friendly alerts via Telegram/WhatsApp; range and packet loss testing at the production site; weatherproofing evaluation. ## Results and Expected Impact To date, SEMEA-TEC has produced two functional prototypes with open documentation, manuals, and educational booklets. The expected impact includes training workshops for farmers and students, scientific articles, and a decentralized innovation ecosystem combining low-power radios, lightweight protocols, harvest energy, and participatory methodologies. Results will be shared on open-access platforms, at in-person meetings, extension fairs, and social technology forums. ## Conclusion SEMEA-TEC demonstrates that relevant technological solutions for family agriculture emerge when innovation starts from active listening and co-creation with communities. JavAlarm and Shitakiometer illustrate how LoRa communication, distributed sensing, and autonomous power can be combined into low-cost systems adapted to rural realities, with farmers as central agents. The articulation between university extension, doctoral research, and local partnerships points to a replicable model of technological social innovation in rural Brazil. More information: https://semea.tec.br PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SEWZKP/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Hiure PUBLISH RXRVLL@@talx.dod.ngo -RXRVLL What Ag Knowledge Federation Looks Like Run on Solar — The Farm Hack Box, Live en en 20260709T153000 20260709T163000 1.00000 What Ag Knowledge Federation Looks Like Run on Solar — The Farm Hack Box, Live Agricultural knowledge systems face a structural crisis of governance at least as much as a technical one. The GIAA Infrastructure Working Group's April 2026 working paper Commons-Enabling Infrastructure for Agroecological Knowledge identifies four failure modes characterizing existing agricultural data infrastructure, each with both a technical and a governance dimension: vendor lock-in (proprietary schemas, closed APIs, no community recourse when terms change unilaterally); cloud dependency (all compute requires connectivity; control concentrated in distant data centers legally subject to CLOUD Act jurisdiction); centralization (single authoritative database; single point of governance failure; power concentration by corpus weight); and consent opacity (data use in fine print; community cannot enforce consent because it is not machine-readable). Each of these failure modes is also recognizable to DWeb developers working on every other domain of distributed infrastructure. The Farm Hack Box is one working answer to all four. This session is a technical workshop, not a presentation. Two physical Boxes will be on the table — The projector shows whichever screen is being driven. Participants handle the running hardware, query the local database, watch a signed peer query commit across the tailnet, watch a Concordance card propagate with consent metadata intact, and leave with the configuration files and Git repositories needed to clone the setup onto their own Raspberry Pi 5. The hardware specification, briefly. Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 to 16 GB of RAM. 1 TB NVMe SSD over PCIe. 27 watts nominal — solar-deployable on a single 50-watt panel. Ubuntu 24 LTS or Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit, hardened, with auto-update and systemd service management. Ethernet plus WiFi plus a Tailscale VPN mesh for federation. LAN-first; internet optional; sneaker-net USB sync as a fallback for places where bandwidth is unreliable. Total cost: USD $200–450 fully assembled, all open hardware with no proprietary components. This is the physical substrate. Everything that follows runs on it. The software stack, mapped to the failure modes it addresses. PostgreSQL with PostGIS for the relational store and spatial queries — under PostgreSQL's permissive license, with no vendor lock-in. farmOS for field-level provenance hub work (GPL v2). Forgejo for version control and federation (GPL v3, governed by Codeberg e.V. as a German nonprofit — explicitly named the workshop's ETA Top Pick for governance, not just for code). Holochain for peer-to-peer federation with chain-of-custody and no central broker (Apache 2 plus CAL). Ollama plus Llama 3 for on-device AI inference (MIT). Whisper for on-device speech-to-text (MIT). The Farm Hack POS for community-currency-aware commerce (AGPL v3). A Commons Lending Library for books, seeds, and tools with provenance chains (AGPL v3). Tailscale or WireGuard for the zero-config VPN with NAT traversal and sneaker-net fallback. Every layer of the stack is auditable, modifiable, and forkable. No proprietary dependency, anywhere. The federation protocol, the part DWeb developers care most about. Four design constraints. Intermittent connectivity — nodes function fully offline and sync opportunistically. Asymmetric corpora — the Honey Bee Network's one-million-plus records must not dominate smaller networks by weight; the federation enforces proportional, thematic contribution rather than naive full-corpus merge. Consent enforcement at query time — the rules travel with the data, not only in paper agreements. No central broker — no single node is authoritative; the federation is Byzantine fault-tolerant. The catalog manifest is broadcast every six hours at approximately 50 KB per 500-item node, with full records fetched on-demand only, keeping bandwidth below 1 MB per day on a typical rural cellular link. For higher-stakes coordination — seed provenance chains, tool custody, community currency, multi-party signing — the federation uses Holochain's agent-centric DHT, with each node holding its own cryptographically signed source chain. The workshop demonstrates each of these mechanisms in operation, in front of the audience. The Ethical Technology Assessment as the governance layer of the stack. The ETA is not an external audit. It is built into the infrastructure's own operating cadence. Every tool, dataset, software component, and seed lot in the federation carries an ETA record. Five assessment modes — Hardware, Software (each with four binary gates plus four scored categories), Dataset/DTAP (six trust dimensions: consent, provenance, access, machine-readability, longitudinal integrity, governance), Guardian Connector for Indigenous data sovereignty (four pillars aligned with the CARE Principles), and Seeds/Germplasm (four pillars derived from the Wheat Workers' Code of Ethics and CARE). Three confidence tiers (Provisional / Peer-reviewed / Audited) with structural decay over time. Claim-level annotation with structured dispute resolution. The workshop walks through the ETA in operation — a tool scored live, a dispute opened, a resolution committed to the Git repository. Mapping the stack to the DWeb Principles, explicitly. Human Agency — self-hosting, data sovereignty, full-stack open source, multiple technical means rather than a single technical solution as the animating design rule. Distributed Benefits — the federation is designed structurally to prevent any single network from dominating by weight; ETA scoring surfaces where value flows. Mutual Respect — transparent governance through Git-native publishing, versioned decisions, visible source-organization attribution, claim-level evidence threading. Humanity — consent-first data flows, multilingual accessibility, centering marginalized knowledge holders in both the data corpus and the tool design. Ecological Awareness — the 27-watt operating envelope, solar-ready deployment, sneaker-net updates where bandwidth is scarce, the deliberate refusal to add cloud-mediated rounds-trips that the local hardware can handle directly. This is what commons-enabling infrastructure looks like when it is actually built and actually running. The workshop is the chance to see it operate in front of you, to handle the hardware, to ask the architectural questions, and to leave with what you need to fork it for your own community. KEY SPEAKERS Dorn Cox — OpenTEAM · Farm Hack · GIAA Infrastructure Working Group · Tuckaway Farm. Convener of the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group; lead on the Farm Hack Box reference implementation; co-author of WP1. (Drives the projector; runs the live demonstration; technical narration.) SJ Klein — Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society · Agricultural Knowledge Concordance · Code for Science & Society (CS&S) · Wikimedia · Internet Archive · AI Commons House. (Knowledge-commons and method layer; Internet-in-a-Box and open-knowledge lineage.) Richard Ng — Commons Governance and Ownership Working Group · co-architect with IndigiDAO, New Mexico Community Capital, and the 11th Hour Foundation. (Trust architecture; consent metadata; role-account governance.) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RXRVLL/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Dorn Cox PUBLISH WNTPQS@@talx.dod.ngo -WNTPQS Building & Testing Antennas for LoRa Communication en en 20260709T163000 20260709T180000 1.03000 Building & Testing Antennas for LoRa Communication This workshop will give an introduction into the radio antenna theory. You can build then your own antenna, which is optimized for the LoRa frequency band. You will also test and tune your antenna to have optimal radio characteristics and will beat most of the stock-sold antennas. This workshop includes basic crimping and soldering, which will be introduced and can be done by everybody. The material for the workshop will be provided. Bring your LoRa devices and Antennas to the workshop. You can measure and optimize your antennas and optimize them as well. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/WNTPQS/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Mathias Jud Elektra Wagenrad PUBLISH 9WQHBG@@talx.dod.ngo -9WQHBG Towards an Anti-Authoritarian Digital Future en en 20260709T093000 20260709T100000 0.03000 Towards an Anti-Authoritarian Digital Future Track leads will set the scene and for the arc of the Anti-Authoritarian Stack tent over the next 3 days. Together we'll decide on the most important outcomes to return to through the follow sessions, and think about how our interventions and work can tie into a larger picture of development for a future of flourishing human rights. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/9WQHBG/ Resilience Base will Ksenia PUBLISH H3DFWH@@talx.dod.ngo -H3DFWH From Blood to Bits: Building a Decentralized Truth en en 20260709T100000 20260709T101000 0.01000 From Blood to Bits: Building a Decentralized Truth The ghosts of authoritarianism never truly left; they simply changed their tactics. In 2026, a film titled Murder of the Century attempted to revisit the Lin family massacre. But instead of seeking truth, it sought to distort it. By framing a state-sponsored tragedy as a fictional mystery and shifting the blame onto victims of the era, this project, allegedly backed by authoritarian interests, represented a modern "Information Massacre." It reminds us that if we do not guard our history, those with power will rewrite it to serve their agenda. The 1980s, the Lin Family Mansion Massacre showed us the horror of centralized power, where dissent was met with the brutal erasure of a family. In 1989, Cheng Nan-jung chose to self-immolate to demand "100% freedom of expression. His sacrifice left an indelible mark on the Taiwanese soul: a deep-seated distrust of any single authority claiming to own "The Truth." In an era of digital authoritarianism, centralized platforms and disinformation seek to drown out reality. This is where Cofacts comes in. It is more than just a bot; it is a vital component of our Anti-Authoritarian Stack. Cofacts provides a tool to resist authority by empowering a community of volunteers to verify and archive information. We don't look for a single leader to tell us what is real. Instead, we empower every citizen to participate in the creation of a Decentralized Truth. In Taiwan, we have learned that the only way to safeguard democracy is to make the truth something that belongs to everyone, and controlled by no one. We honor the sacrifice of our predecessors by having the freedom they died for is protected by the code we write today. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/H3DFWH/ Resilience Base Billion Lee PUBLISH RXC7EC@@talx.dod.ngo -RXC7EC On Tech, Power and Affordances en en 20260709T101000 20260709T102000 0.01000 On Tech, Power and Affordances Technology in the past couple of centuries has mostly been developed by private, for profit, entities. The result is that the social processes and relationships arising from it are transactional in nature, and are geared towards bringing as much value as possible to the owner and operator of the tech. In this model users have no power at all on the technology they need and developers and operators can change the rules of the system at will. Power mapping is a tool from social sciences that can help in understanding how different actors have power over each other. We will do the power mapping of a regular hosting scenario, understand the different power dynamics in place and the reason why they are like that. After that we try to imagine how changes in the technology would map to changes in the social processes. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RXC7EC/ Resilience Base fishinthecalculator PUBLISH GEZP3V@@talx.dod.ngo -GEZP3V Press Freedom Is an Infrastructure Problem en en 20260709T102000 20260709T103000 0.01000 Press Freedom Is an Infrastructure Problem Newsroom collapses this decade have been explained through different lenses — culture wars, business model failure, the death of attention, the rise of AI. While these are real forces, they share an architectural cause that the industry rarely names: the web was never built with a payment, ownership, or consent layer for the content moving across it. Journalism — which is in many ways the deepest content tradition the web inherited — has been running on borrowed infrastructure for thirty years, and the loans are coming due all at once. This lightning talk is a working journalist's field report. I spent the formative part of my career as an editor at WIRED, and the last decade across the industry — reporting, founding small publications, organizing journalist collectives, and most recently building an ownership protocol for the information economy. I've also spent a lot of time listening to what reporters, editors, and freelancers actually struggle with. What I've learned, and what I want to put in front of this room, is that the decentralized web community is in a near-perfect position to help — and that the bridge between "decentralized infrastructure" and "what journalists need" has barely been built. After Camp, I plan to publish the inventory of journalist needs as a working document — incorporating what came out of the Q&A and any related Unconference sessions — and to share it with the Internet Archive and the Department of Decentralization, and any DWeb Camp attendees who want to keep working on these problems. The goal is for this talk to seed an ongoing cross-community conversation! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/GEZP3V/ Resilience Base Arikia Millikan PUBLISH MKE9F9@@talx.dod.ngo -MKE9F9 GainForest: How we can ensure equitable and regenerative intelligence for nature conservation? en en 20260709T113000 20260709T123000 1.00000 GainForest: How we can ensure equitable and regenerative intelligence for nature conservation? ## What this is A workshop about a problem GainForest spends most of its time on: the data, the analysis, and the money in forest stewardship usually flow through several middlemen before they reach the people doing the work. We want to walk through three concrete pieces of how we have been trying to remove some of those middlemen, then turn the room loose on whether this kind of stack would matter in your own community. ## Who we are GainForest is a small non-profit working on direct payments to forest stewards. We work in a handful of sites in Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Africa, mostly with indigenous and local community partners. We have been at this for several years and recently won an XPRIZE Rainforest for our work. ## What "direct" means here When someone in the global north pays for forest protection, the money usually moves through several hands before any of it reaches a person who lives in the forest. Each hop takes a cut, and decisions about whose work counts get made far from the people doing it. Forest data is the same shape: it gets collected by external researchers, analysed in foreign labs, and used to make claims about places where the researchers do not live. Three things have to be true at the same time to change this: 1. The communities collecting the data own the data. They can share it, hold it back, or delete it. 2. The models that read the data can run on their own devices. They do not need to upload anything to a cloud to be useful. 3. The money that depends on the data reaches them. It does not get spent on the analysis chain. We call this open nature finance. The "open" is about transparency in who gets paid for what. ## What happens in the 60 minutes 5 minutes. Intro and the question. 20 minutes. Three field stories from GainForest, around six minutes each. 20 minutes. Small-group discussion. Two prompts: - When does keeping data local matter more than sharing it? - What kind of verification do you actually need to send money to a stranger across an ocean? 13 minutes. Report-backs and an open conversation about what came up. 2 minutes. Close, with links to the relevant projects. ## Why this fits Solidarity Tech The three pieces above are all power transfers. Data sovereignty moves the right to speak about a place from outside experts to the people who live there. Local AI moves the inference loop from a cloud you do not control to a device you do. Direct finance moves money from intermediaries to the people doing the work. Solidarity tech is what you get when you wire these together and the wire holds. ## What we need A room for around thirty people. Power for a couple of laptops and one small demo device. A screen for slides. Wifi or ethernet helpful but not required, since the demo runs offline. ## What we want out of the session Useful pushback. We are not done figuring out what the right shape of this stack is, especially the verification piece. Hearing from a room that has thought about adjacent problems is worth more to us than applause. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MKE9F9/ Resilience Base David Dao Holke Sharfy Adamantine karma PUBLISH V9L89B@@talx.dod.ngo -V9L89B The Dark Horizon Simulation: Architecting Autonomous Comms in an Extreme Conflict Zone en en 20260709T150000 20260709T160000 1.00000 The Dark Horizon Simulation: Architecting Autonomous Comms in an Extreme Conflict Zone The Scenario Imagine this reality: The grid is completely dead. There is no internet, no GSM, and no landline infrastructure. Surrounding villages are locked in active, kinetic warfare. The physical paths between these communities are laced with landmines, making travel lethal. In this absolute vacuum of infrastructure and safety, how do you negotiate peace, coordinate medical evacuations, and map unexploded ordnance? The Workshop This session is a high-stakes tabletop simulation based on the frontline realities experienced in the Chin Hills of Myanmar and documented in the ASORCOM Field Manual. We will explore the "Digital Tarzan" philosophy: the art of engineering survival communications when all modern silicon infrastructure has been denied. Because we cannot safely replicate hostile conditions or deploy physical radio hardware at Camp, this workshop is a purely strategic, scenario-based architectural exercise. Participants will learn how to design secure, decentralized, and offline communication bridges that can evade military surveillance, survive rolling blackouts, and route around physical danger using tactical mesh networks, HF radio logic, and ancient pre-physics methods. How Participants Will Engage (Shared Exploration) Participants will be divided into "Cells" (small teams) and handed a paper map of a hypothetical mined, warring valley. Together, they must design a communication bridge using the ASORCOM three-tiered doctrine: Phase 1: The Tactical Shadow (Evading Surveillance): Cells will design a decentralized LoRa (Long Range) mesh network deployment. They must solve the puzzle of establishing line-of-sight without placing nodes on high peaks where they will be targeted by artillery. We will strategize on using ATAK (Android Team Awareness Kit) to securely share offline topographic maps marking hostile checkpoints without leaking metadata to adversarial direction-finding (DF) scanners. Phase 2: Strategic Backbones (NVIS): How do you connect two hostile villages separated by a 7,000-foot mountain when the valley is mined? Cells will learn the physics of NVIS (Near Vertical Incidence Skywave) to theoretically "bounce" digital JS8Call text messages straight up into the ionosphere and down into the next valley, bypassing physical danger entirely. Phase 3: Pre-Physics (The EMP Protocol): What happens when the batteries finally die or an EMP disables all silicon? Participants will strategize "Pre-Physics" communication routing—designing optical cryptography protocols using mirrors (heliographs) and binary signal fires to transmit basic encrypted shortcodes across the valley without a single watt of electricity. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/V9L89B/ Resilience Base Michael Suantak PUBLISH KUEP3J@@talx.dod.ngo -KUEP3J Decentralization as Value: From Decentralized Tech to Democratic Control en en 20260709T160000 20260709T170000 1.00000 Decentralization as Value: From Decentralized Tech to Democratic Control A small number of large technology companies control core parts of today’s digital infrastructure. Public administrations and public service media depend on them for critical services, creating long term lock ins, security risks and vulnerabilities to capture. Decentralization is one of the DWeb’s central promises: less dependency on dominant platforms, more agency for communities and individuals, and infrastructures that can be governed in the public interest. But decentralization does not automatically produce these outcomes. A system can be technically distributed while power remains concentrated in standards, hosting, app stores, moderation rules, funding structures, or maintenance capacity. This session is a 60 minute participatory workshop that invites participants to explore decentralization explicitly as a value and governance choice. Therefore this workshop is built around shared inquiry in small groups. The facilitators bring a small set of working assumptions and hypotheses that have emerged from research and stakeholder workshops on decentralization in German public institutions. Examples include the idea that technical decentralization without explicit governance structures tends to create new central gatekeepers, or that decentralization only supports democratic control when openness, interoperability and reversibility are anchored in binding requirements rather than left to goodwill. After a short introduction to this tension and the assumptions on the table, participants work in mixed groups. Each group takes one assumption, tests it against its members’ concrete experiences and asks where it fits, where it fails and what it overlooks in terms of power, labor and risk. On this basis participants can rewrite or qualify “their” assumption so that it better reflects practice and makes clearer under which conditions decentralization actually acts as a value. In a final round, the groups bring their revised assumptions back into the room. By comparing the changes and insights across groups, the workshop surfaces recurring conditions, divergent experiences and unresolved tensions. The session is embedded in a project by D64 – Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt: Decentralization as Value and Practice funded by JUST Open Source. The project investigates how decentralized approaches can become practical alternatives in public administration and public service media, with clear preconditions such as open standards, open source, transparent governance and meaningful participation. It combines mapping, surveys and expert interviews with stakeholders in administrations, broadcasters and civil society, and will result in a white paper and an interactive decentralization tool for institutions. The workshop will produce a shared “conditions map” for decentralization as democratic practice: revised assumptions, recurring tensions, warning signs for new gatekeepers, and practical conditions such as openness, interoperability, reversibility, accountable governance, and meaningful participation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/KUEP3J/ Resilience Base Esther Bauer Johann Lensing PUBLISH H7QSUT@@talx.dod.ngo -H7QSUT Your Decentralized Social Blog Site: Introducing OnionPress en en 20260709T170000 20260709T180000 1.00000 Your Decentralized Social Blog Site: Introducing OnionPress In this hands-on workshop, participants will: - Install OnionPress on their own laptops and have a live onion site within minutes - Publish a blog post and share files through the My Creations gallery - Follow each other's sites via RSS over Tor, forming a small social network with no central server - Discuss the architecture: how WordPress + Tor + Wayback Machine fit together in a single app bundle, and the tradeoffs involved (uptime, discoverability, performance) OnionPress is built on entirely familiar technology (WordPress powers much of the web), but recombines it to eliminate every intermediary between you and your audience. There is no server to rent, no terms of service to accept, and no kill switch. If your laptop is open or closed-- your posts are available. The session will also cover what's next: decentralized accounts, friend-to-friend file mirroring (backing each other up), vanity .onion addresses, and connecting OnionPress sites into a decentralized directory, hosting others on your OnionPress servers, running a RaspBerry Pi as a community node. Who should attend: Anyone interested in censorship-resistant publishing, self-hosted web infrastructure, or just curious about Tor onion services. No technical background required — if you can install a Mac or Linux app, you can host your own, if you have another laptop you can have a site on anyone else's OnionPress. Bring a laptop. What participants take home: A working personal website, reachable from anywhere in the world via Tor Browser, running entirely on their own hardware. Space/equipment needs: Laptops, WiFi, Projector, Power for a Raspberry Pi would be helpful. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/H7QSUT/ Resilience Base brewster kahle PUBLISH GSNQPU@@talx.dod.ngo -GSNQPU Peer-to-Peer in Production en en 20260709T093000 20260709T103000 1.00000 Peer-to-Peer in Production Peer-to-peer (p2p) - in all of its various shapes - is often seen as this idealistic application of technology that spends years incubating in academia or as explorations of curiosity. While there are exciting developments in the space in recent years, it feels like I still haven't seen much of it used consistently in practice, especially to solve real challenges that align with peer-to-peer approaches. In an effort to learn more about how I could be wrong about this observation, I would like to have an open space to discuss ways people are making use of these in the real world. What problems are they trying to address? What kind of challenges have influenced the design of the solutions? Where can there be improvements in the ecosystem? People are invited to share their experiences as: - **Providers and builders**: What problem(s) are being addressed? How do constraints shape the approach? What is their definition of peer-to-peer? - **End-users and community organizers or practitioners**: Learning more about people who have tried - and maybe failed - to use peer-to-peer for their community's needs is such a crucial component that should inform the work done in the space. Many efforts from the technological side often lack user stories that drive design decisions. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/GSNQPU/ P2P Portal Andrew Chou PUBLISH X9ENCG@@talx.dod.ngo -X9ENCG Cross-Pollination between Peer-to-Peer & Local First + Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks Tracks en en 20260709T103000 20260709T113000 1.00000 Cross-Pollination between Peer-to-Peer & Local First + Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks Tracks Many of the challenges and opportunities explored in the mesh, P2P, and local-first ecosystems overlap, yet the communities working on them do not always have opportunities to connect. This 60-minute session is designed to foster new relationships, surface common interests, and strengthen connections across these communities. We begin with 30 minutes of speed dating, where participants rotate through a series of short conversations. Each person will introduce themselves and their project, share what they are interested in, and describe what they are currently looking for. This format helps participants quickly identify potential collaborators, allies, and learning opportunities. The second half of the session uses Emma's Dreams & Seeds framework. Together, participants will explore the futures they would like to see emerge ("dreams") and identify the existing projects, practices, communities, and initiatives ("seeds") that can help make those futures a reality. The exercise aims to reveal shared aspirations while grounding them in concrete opportunities for action and collaboration. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/X9ENCG/ P2P Portal Zenna Mathias Jud PUBLISH ZHEPFC@@talx.dod.ngo -ZHEPFC Basecamp: Your local-first gateway to the network en en 20260709T113000 20260709T123000 1.00000 Basecamp: Your local-first gateway to the network **About Logos** Logos is a social movement and decentralised technology stack built to revitalise civil society. We are a movement for builders, explorers, and dreamers who refuse to accept the world as it is, and we are taking power back into our own hands. Our mission is to restore agency, trust, and civic power by giving people tools to explore, innovate, and improve their lives using decentralised technology. Read [our manifesto](http://logos.co/manifesto) to dive deeper into our ideals and technology. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZHEPFC/ P2P Portal Václav Pavlín PUBLISH R7RVBG@@talx.dod.ngo -R7RVBG Weavers' In-Person Training en en 20260709T133000 20260709T143000 1.00000 Weavers' In-Person Training please add a description! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/R7RVBG/ P2P Portal Kev Nguyen Mix Irving PUBLISH YTE8VQ@@talx.dod.ngo -YTE8VQ PRESENTATION: From 99% Junk to Scenius at Scale: Why the Future of Work is an Economy of Play en en 20260709T143000 20260709T150000 0.03000 PRESENTATION: From 99% Junk to Scenius at Scale: Why the Future of Work is an Economy of Play Most people working at the frontier of anything genuinely important right now share a specific, uncomfortable experience: the sense that the work that matters most — the work that is irreducibly contextual, relational, and hard to explain — is invisible to institutional incentive structures. Researchers who follow genuinely novel threads get penalized by metrics optimized for legible consensus. Builders who prioritize trust and care over throughput lose funding rounds to faster-moving competitors. Artists, educators, and community organizers watch their contributions get classified as "externalities" by the very systems their work keeps alive. Meanwhile, the recommendation algorithms that were supposed to connect us to what we need have collapsed the information landscape into a low-dimensional tube that preferentially surfaces outrage and anxiety, gradually narrowing the adjacent possible available to each of us and eroding the cognitive diversity that any healthy collective intelligence depends on. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YTE8VQ/ P2P Portal Michael Garfield PUBLISH LSVEE3@@talx.dod.ngo -LSVEE3 Willow: Protocols for an uncertain future en en 20260709T150000 20260709T153000 0.03000 Willow: Protocols for an uncertain future Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same. How do we make the next generation of protocols more difficult to weaponise? This is the lens which we'll use to look at Willow, a family of publicly-funded, open source peer-to-peer protocols. How can we learn from the ways both centralised and peer-to-peer systems have been abused in the past, and apply that to new designs? We'll take a look at some of the (surprising) paths Willow has taken to make it harder to turn against us. Please enjoy this illustrated, slightly musical presentation from the worm-blossom collective. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LSVEE3/ P2P Portal sammy PUBLISH NYHXHW@@talx.dod.ngo -NYHXHW Peer-to-Peer Matrix: A New Hope en en 20260709T153000 20260709T163000 1.00000 Peer-to-Peer Matrix: A New Hope Matrix today is relatively popular with open source folks, decentralisation enthusiasts and... governments as a way of running digitally sovereign communication services. But it's yet to displace WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Discord etc for mainstream usage. In this talk, we'll give a quick overview of Matrix's journey since its inception in 2014; which bits have worked, which bits haven't, and the challenges which remain. We'll give a quick overview of the previous (2020-2023) era of P2P work on Matrix, and now introduce the breakthroughs in 2026 (e.g. ERA: https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22963v2) which have allowed us to re-enter the fray and extend Matrix to work in a local-first world. We'll also touch on the decentralised identity/reputation & trust/safety challenges which continue to form a glass ceiling for *any* decentralisation projects - but particularly Matrix. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NYHXHW/ P2P Portal Matthew Hodgson PUBLISH A9LMSV@@talx.dod.ngo -A9LMSV The state of Rust Hypercore en en 20260709T163000 20260709T170000 0.03000 The state of Rust Hypercore Hypercore was originally written in JavaScript, this talk is about rewriting it in Rust and how that allows us to use it in ways not possible before: as a cross-language, cross-platform library — as infrastructure. This is the story of how that happened, what it took, and what we should build with it. Hypercore is a peer-to-peer append-only log. Think of it like BitTorrent, but you can add data to it. Like BitTorrent it enables censorship-resistant, decentralized data sharing. I started working with Hypercore in 2023 when I wanted to build a peer-to-peer RSS protocol. I built it in JavaScript using the existing Hypercore libraries. It worked: I had a standalone client / aggregator / podcast app, and tools for converting RSS feeds into Hypercore feeds. See my blog post [here](https://cowlicks.website/posts/hypercore-and-peer-to-peer-rss.html). It worked but it hit a hard wall. I couldn't give existing RSS clients my code as a library (unless their app was also written in JavaScript). To have a healthy swarm of peers we want as many clients as possible, but JavaScript is a walled garden when it comes to native integration. So integration into existing tools/clients/apps is difficult or impossible. So I found the Datrs project — a group working to rewrite Hypercore in Rust. It was mostly inactive, with most code half-finished implementations of now obsolete versions. But it had the potential to solve this problem of integration and portability so I dove into completing it. Since then I've built out the parts needed for core functionality. I implemented from scratch: Hyperbee, Hyperblobs, Corestore. I updated and dramatically refactored every layer of peer-discovery, as well as replication logic. There are a lot of lessons to share: translating JavaScript's dynamic patterns into Rust's type system, reverse engineering undocumented wire protocols, converting existing Rust async code to use structured concurrency, and other fun things I found along the way. Then there are things beyond just reimplementing Hypercore. I'll discuss experimenting with using Mozilla's UniFFI to generate libraries for: Python, Swift, and Kotlin. I'll also talk about building tooling for running inline JavaScript code from within Rust for integration testing. As of today Hypercore is usable for basic cases: A peer can create a Hypercore, other peers can discover it and replicate the data. There are still rough edges and many `TODO`'s in the code. Toward the end I'd like to open discussion about what to build next — like peer-to-peer RSS or [peer-to-peer package managers](https://cowlicks.website/posts/sustainable-open-source-package-management-with-peer-to-peer.html) — and how Rust Hypercore fits with other P2P projects like p2panda, Holochain, IPFS, and iroh. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/A9LMSV/ P2P Portal blake PUBLISH NNTVFV@@talx.dod.ngo -NNTVFV AI Psychosis or a way better way to build a peer-to-peer Slack? YOU DECIDE! :) en en 20260709T170000 20260709T180000 1.00000 AI Psychosis or a way better way to build a peer-to-peer Slack? YOU DECIDE! :) Quiet started as a "look before you leap" passion project to build some kind of FOSS and peer-to-peer online gathering space, but got serious about user research a year into the project and at this point *might* be the attempt at p2p chat that has the clearest idea of who its building for and what their needs are. The talk will first motivate the problem by first describing our intended users (like reproductive justice activists in the US or news organizations in authoritarian contexts), their needs, and the friction points we've run into with our existing approach to building Quiet. (One which seems to mirror most other approaches, which we see running into similar issues.) Then I'll cover the reasons I thought there *might* be a much easier way to build something like Quiet, what pain points we've run into building Quiet, how those *might* be solveable, and what the other advantages of a simpler stack might be (advantages like security). Finally I'll run through a chronology of my/our attempts at building a better stack and list the lessons learned. There are a lot of them, and some will be *really* interesting to people working on this stuff. Some examples: 1. A better way to think about DAG structures than "new events depend on previously-sent and recently-seen events". 2. A cool and I think unpublished way to do set reconciliation on a small range ("today's messages") such that dependencies also sync efficiently (via Aljoscha Meyer). 3. A way to do forward secrecy for deleted messages that fits user threat models, most application types, and the peer-to-peer context much better than the "purge keys after decrypting" ratchets of Signal and MLS. These are all fairly technical examples, but I'm passionate about them and will make sure the problems are all well described and that the talk doesn't get too dry for less technical folks. It will feel like a fun tour through problems and solutions, not a technical slog. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NNTVFV/ P2P Portal Holmes Wilson PUBLISH 9UTRY3@@talx.dod.ngo -9UTRY3 State of the Field: An Opening Conversation for D:Food en en 20260709T093000 20260709T100000 0.03000 State of the Field: An Opening Conversation for D:Food The inaugural D:Food track at DWeb Camp 2024 brought together farmers, technologists, and food system organizers to ask a shared question: what does it look like when the values of the decentralized web meet the realities of food sovereignty work on the ground? That gathering planted seeds that the D:Food community has been growing since — through practice, through research, through ecosystem weaving across geographies and disciplines that don't often share a room. The tools, funding models, and research being highlighted this year at DWeb Camp represent that growth made visible. Initiatives like the Funding Lab for Open Agroecological Technologies (FLOAT), Lab Lab Camp's technologist-farmer pilot projects in Brazil, and the Rooted Innovation research initiative are all part of what has been cultivated since that first gathering. This session opens the 2026 D:Food track as a conversational discussion with the originators of D:Food (Samuel Oslund and Wendy Hanamura), lightly moderated by Madelynn Martiniere as the lead of the Rooted Innovation project — highlighting what has grown in those two years, why it matters, and offering participants a map of the terrain they're about to explore for the rest of the week. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/9UTRY3/ The Seedbed Madelynn Martiniere Wendy Hanamura Samuel Oslund PUBLISH T9ULL9@@talx.dod.ngo -T9ULL9 Ethical AgTech Panel: Assessing Risk and Cultivating Technological Sovereignty en en 20260709T100000 20260709T110000 1.00000 Ethical AgTech Panel: Assessing Risk and Cultivating Technological Sovereignty Peasant Agriculture & Resisting Digital Enclosure (Veronica Villa): Grounded in Latin American struggles, this presentation details how indigenous communities use community-led technology assessment guidelines to defend traditional crops like maize and resist the corporate financialization of global food systems. Grassroots Energy Transitions & Local Land Use (Wedja Clementino): Mapping the intersections of technology, energy, and localized agriculture. This block explores how small-scale producers can design and govern their own sovereign energy installations to fuel localized food networks without falling into extractive supply chains. Moderated Dialogue & Audience Q&A: A facilitated cross-regional conversation mapping common patterns of corporate extraction and sharing tactical strategies for social movements to achieve technical autonomy. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/T9ULL9/ The Seedbed Veronica Villa Wedja PUBLISH VU73KQ@@talx.dod.ngo -VU73KQ Grounded: How Networks that support Grassroots Innovation Share Knowledge  ~ A Reality Check en en 20260709T110000 20260709T123000 1.03000 Grounded: How Networks that support Grassroots Innovation Share Knowledge  ~ A Reality Check Most of the innovation that keeps small-scale food production going never appears in a database. It happens on the headland of a field, in a fishing-boat workshop, at a community plot where someone has solved a problem with what was at hand, and the solution moves outward through neighbors, fairs, printed flyers, oral exchange, and the slow patient social architecture that keeps a farmer's contribution attributable and intact. The networks represented in this session — Prolinnova, the Kenyan Peasant League, Tzoumakers, L'Atelier Paysan, Schola Campesina, and the wider Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) — have spent decades doing this work. They preceded the vocabulary of federation, polycentric governance, content addressing, and decentralization that the DWeb community uses today. They are the ground truth any genuinely useful distributed-web tool will have to interoperate with. This session opens DWeb Camp with a deliberate inversion. Instead of asking grassroots networks to adapt to the DWeb developer community, we are asking the DWeb developer community to spend ninety minutes in the world the farmers and fishers actually inhabit. "Basically, it's a reality check we can give to the web developers" is how the working group framed the intent. The session is service from GIAA to DWeb, not request from DWeb to GIAA. Both sides benefit. The farmer networks find genuine allies in the technical community. The technical community gains a clearer picture of what its tools are for, who they serve, and which patterns from previous tech cycles must not be repeated. What participants will hear. The session is structured as a series of grounded testimonies, not slides. Andrea Ferrante (Schola Campesina) opens with welcome and orientation — who is in the room, why this session is the opening of the camp, what to expect across the rest of the week. Chesha (Prolinnova) then introduces Prolinnova: what the network is, how it has worked across Africa, Asia, and Latin America for decades, what it has produced. David Otieno speaks to the Kenyan Peasant League perspective — small-scale farmer realities, how innovations move farmer-to-farmer, what "digital" actually means in a context where the mobile phone is the ceiling of accessibility and electricity is intermittent. Chesha and David together walk through the concrete social architecture of knowledge movement: International Farm Innovation Fairs, attribution practices, printed and oral exchange, the slow trust that keeps contributions visible to those who made them. Caroline (Schola Campesina) then names — with Chesha and David — what the networks are afraid of: extraction by agritech, intellectual-property loss, scale without context, well-intentioned tools that did not fit, patterns from previous technology cycles that landed on smallholders without consent and without benefit. What participants will do. The final third of the session is open dialogue with the room. Not a requirements document from grassroots networks to DWeb builders. A set of principles for alliance — situated, agroecology-grounded, rooted in the Nyéléni 2015 declaration and the GIAA framework — that emerge through the conversation. The room is invited to test the principles, push on them, find the places where DWeb vocabulary and GIAA vocabulary point at different things even when they sound the same. Sovereignty is one of those words; in the food-sovereignty tradition it is political control of the means of food production by the people who produce the food, and in the DWeb tradition it is a deeply technical claim about cryptographic control and content addressing. There is alignment in spirit; the words point at different things. The session is the place to surface the differences honestly, in the same room, so the rest of the week proceeds from a shared understanding rather than a hidden mismatch. Why early in the week. This session is requested for Day 1 of the camp. The reason is structural: the multi-day GIAA presence at DWeb Camp 2026 depends on this framing being established before the technical proposals are debated. GIAA's second session — a hands-on workshop on the federated tool registry and the Farm Hack Box, scheduled later in the week — sits inside the principles this session generates. If we can propose this early in the agenda, we have a chance to follow up throughout the remaining days, and reflect in the final days — was this effective, what do we do next. What the session will produce. Three things: a set of principles for alliance that GIAA can carry back to Schola Campesina, Prolinnova, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, and the broader assembly as evidence of the engagement and as a basis for ongoing collaboration; a printed zine and handout circulated during the session and across the rest of the week, with the networks named and a one-paragraph "what is GIAA" grounded in Nyéléni 2015; named follow-up commitments for the Tool Registry + Farm Hack Box session later in the week. Format. Workshop and facilitated dialogue, 90 minutes, with a horseshoe or circle seating arrangement preferred rather than classroom rows. Microphones for accessibility (important for English variants across the speaker group). A modest projector for two or three slides only — this is a spoken session. Printed handouts on the tables. Coffee and water for a 90-minute conversation. Translation in printed form for the zine where possible What GIAA brings that no other DWeb participant brings. Decades of practice in farmer-to-farmer knowledge sharing with intact attribution — before anyone called it federation, decentralization, or polycentric governance. Direct contact with the Global South majority of small-scale food producers, not as a constituency to design for but as the actual movement. A working language for technology assessment that includes ecological, social, and political criteria, not only technical ones. Living examples — Prolinnova, L'Atelier Paysan, Tzoumakers, Honey Bee Network, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, the Kenyan Peasant League — of what knowledge commons look like when they have already been functioning for decades without distributed-web technology. That is the ground truth any DWeb tool will need to interoperate with. The deliberate inversion. "How can technologists be of mutual service of farmers' movements?" is the question this session asks of DWeb. The ask is not for endorsement, funding, or new tools. It is for the DWeb community to use this conversation as requirements development and dialog. The session is mutual — and not extractive. Participants we most hope to see in the room: DWeb developers, protocol designers, and project leads working on federation, content addressing, identity, knowledge graphs, or AI infrastructure who want to ground their work in actual grassroots realities before the technical proposals are debated; food-systems researchers and policy people interested in the civil-society and grassroots side of digital agriculture; funders curious about what service to movements looks like in practice; people from adjacent commons traditions (free software, open hardware, open science, indigenous data sovereignty) who can recognize patterns across traditions; participants from other grassroots and Indigenous networks present at the camp who want to compare notes. The session is approachable for non-technical participants and for participants new to the DWeb community. No prior knowledge of federation, content addressing, or distributed-web architecture is required. Curiosity and willingness to listen first are what matters. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VU73KQ/ The Seedbed Dorn Cox Anamika Dey Caroline Ledant David Calleb Otieno PUBLISH QD3XT8@@talx.dod.ngo -QD3XT8 Co:Oracle – Embodying Collective Intelligence Together en en 20260709T150000 20260709T160000 1.00000 Co:Oracle – Embodying Collective Intelligence Together This session offers a space to investigate the possibility that our bodies hold meaningful contributions to understanding and guiding our work in the world. It will be presented in three parts: Thinking With Our Bodies: An introduction to the Co-Oracle methodology and a short physical warm-up to prepare the group for collective movement (no prior movement experience required!). Co:Oracle Rounds: One to three rounds of participant-prompted group improvisational movements- investigating new insights to the tensions, questions, and patterns of our work in the world. Sensemaking & Integration: A closing group conversation to harvest and integrate what emerged from the space into new insights. Takeaways will be recorded through sketch-noting. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QD3XT8/ The Seedbed Robin Woolner Himerria Wortham Jenni Ottilie Keppler PUBLISH EXLJYK@@talx.dod.ngo -EXLJYK LABLAB Experience: Co-Creating Agroecological Tech and Bioregional Networks en en 20260709T160000 20260709T170000 1.00000 LABLAB Experience: Co-Creating Agroecological Tech and Bioregional Networks In this talk, we will present the LABLAB process, which culminated in the LABLAB Camp. The conversation will explore the project from its early stages of mobilization, territory mapping, and network building to the participatory methodologies developed throughout the process. We will also present some of the prototypes created during the experience, how they were developed, and the stages they are currently in, as well as a prototype archive gathering mapped initiatives. We will also discuss what took place during the LABLAB Camp, its impacts, and the strategies currently being developed to continue the work. The talk will also highlight one of the outcomes of the process: the transformation of the association into a Science and Technology Institute, in order to better support the practices, research, and methodologies that had already been developed collectively within the association. Looking ahead, we will briefly present the future perspectives of the Institute’s Tech and Agro Program, including possible developments, expansions, and partnerships to strengthen the initiatives that emerged from the process. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/EXLJYK/ The Seedbed Marcela Guerra Victor Von Hiure Wedja PUBLISH B37VPB@@talx.dod.ngo -B37VPB Building Federated Food Systems Technology | AKA ‘A non-profit, a university, a social enterprise, and a cooperative walk into a bar…’ en en 20260709T170000 20260709T180000 1.00000 Building Federated Food Systems Technology | AKA ‘A non-profit, a university, a social enterprise, and a cooperative walk into a bar…’ **The Community of Organizations** This session is brought by the Community of Organizations (CoO): a voluntary coalition of values-aligned agricultural technology providers united by a shared mission to build technology that enables food and data sovereignty in ways that are open, collaborative, and rooted in the interests of the communities we serve. Our four founding member organizations each bring a distinct vantage point to the coalition. Open Food Network is a globally distributed nonprofit and open source software provider powering food hubs, cooperatives, and direct-market farmers in more than eleven countries. LiteFarm, a free and open source farm management application developed at the University of British Columbia, provides over 10,000 agroecological producers and diversified growers with tooling scoped around their needs. C-Group Cooperative is scaling its federation of food and producer cooperatives, facilitating coop-to-coop exchange from coast to coast across the United States. OurSci is a social enterprise building open source solutions rooted in the needs of producer communities and the collaborative epistemology of distributed citizen science. The CoO began as a vision sketched with markers and post-it notes under canopies at DWeb Camp 2024. In the two years since, it has become something more concrete. We have designed a simple, bottom-up governance framework that enables inter-organizational collaboration without creating bureaucratic bottlenecks or centralizing control. We have aligned on decentralized standards and protocols, connecting farm management software with ecommerce platforms and bricks-and-mortar cooperative wholesale stores. Significant food cooperative revenue is now being transitioned onto open source, cooperatively owned infrastructure, and the rudiments of a decentralized seed-to-sale ecosystem are beginning to take shape. Progress aside, we remain keenly aware that our accomplishments to date fall well short of the scale of our ambition. We return to DWeb with real momentum and unresolved strategic questions in equal measure. What are we, exactly? A cooperative? A consultancy? A public-interest R&D lab? A venture studio? The honest answer is probably some combination, and the shape of that answer has significant consequences for how we finance our work, how we recruit partners, and what we build next. Our panel session is designed to stage these questions, quandaries, and opportunities before a DWeb audience that has hard-won expertise to bring to bear on exactly this terrain: in platform cooperativism, in open protocol governance, in digital public goods infrastructure. But to understand why we think these questions merit the attention we ask others to bring to them, it helps to understand the context we are operating in, and the opening we believe we have sensed. **Our hypothesis: a unique historical moment** For decades, the dominant playbook in digital agricultural technology has followed a familiar logic: aggregate data, extract value, consolidate market power. Smallholder and agroecological producers - the farmers doing the most consequential work for food sovereignty, soil health, and community resilience - have been consistent losers in this dynamic. Not for lack of available technology, but for lack of technology designed to work for them. As digital infrastructure becomes as critical as physical infrastructure for agricultural success and market access, producers find themselves increasingly dependent on closed platforms that extract their data and siphon off revenue without returning proportional value. Meanwhile, AI is refiguring the rules of software development in real time. For incumbents, this new suite of development tools promises to accelerate the consolidation playbook: faster expansion, deeper entrenchment, all built on proprietary data streams no challenger can easily replicate. The deepening alignment between AI firms and national governments (exemplified by Palantir's new $300M USDA contract) opens new fronts of enclosure over food systems and farmer data. But can this new generation of AI dev tools be turned to other ends? We sense that open source agricultural technologies, long a curiosity in a sector dominated by proprietary solutions, have at least one structural advantage that proprietary systems cannot easily replicate. While proprietary corporate incumbents like John Deere must carefully govern what code they expose, transparent open codebases automatically give AI coding agents the context to build interoperability and cross-platform functionality quickly. We think this asymmetry can create genuine opportunities for a decentralized open ag-tech ecosystem committed to scaling by confederation rather than conglomeration. Provided, that is, that it can learn to move at pace. Our hypothesis rests on one central insight: What corporate incumbents like John Deere ultimately own isn't features or even data. It's access to networks: the web of preestablished connections between farm management software, input suppliers, grain buyers, lenders, and logistics providers that can make switching platforms tantamount to rebuilding an entire ecosystem from scratch. A federated development strategy grounded in open source, open standards, and AI tooling has the potential to undercut this system of enclosure directly. If independent platforms share common data standards and open APIs, a farmer's data becomes portable and their connections reproducible on any compliant platform. The incumbent no longer controls the network. The network belongs to whoever implements the standard. This is precisely the logic the decentralized web movement has brought to bear on data ownership, identity, and economic coordination; and it is the same logic that could make open agricultural technology a genuine contender rather than a principled also-ran. Seen in this light, interoperability and performant cross-platform workflows are not technical niceties. They are the mechanisms by which federation achieves scale without centralization, and by which the value of network effects flows to the network rather than to whoever happens to control the bottleneck. Cooperative movements have seized comparable openings before. In the early twentieth century, Canadian prairie wheat pools broke grain elevator oligopolies by building federated infrastructure that neutralized incumbent chokepoints. In the New Deal era, rural electric co-ops across the United States achieved continental scale through shared generation and transmission networks, not consolidation. In the postwar Basque country, Mondragon defeated vertically integrated industrial capital by building a parallel financial system. The decisive move, in each case, was the same: don't compete on the incumbent's terms. Build the shared infrastructure that makes their chokepoints irrelevant. **What this session will offer** Four organizations - a non-profit (Open Food Network), a university lab project (LiteFarm at UBC), a social enterprise (Our Sci), and a cooperative (C-Group Cooperative) - walk into a bar. They don't agree on everything. A university project with a public-goods mandate and a cooperative have genuinely different relationships to questions like: Who owns the infrastructure long-term? What does it mean to achieve impact at scale? How do you price shared services without extracting from the communities you exist to serve? The tension between our operating models is real. We make every effort to navigate with care, and the diversity of perspectives and operating conditions is at least part of what makes this coalition interesting. This is a panel discussion and moderated dialogue: part progress report, part open strategic conversation, part coalition-building session. A ten-minute framing from David Thomas (Open Food Network) will lay out the big picture: what federated food systems technology is, why it matters, and why (seen through a glass darkly) the conditions for building it at scale may be more favorable now than they have ever been. Each founding CoO partner will then take five minutes to speak to their own experience, goals, and hard-won lessons: what it has meant in practice to build toward federation across organizational difference, across sectors, and across continents. Speakers include Colin Stewart (C-Group Cooperative), Kevin Cussen (Our Sci), and Hannah Wittman and Divya Chayanam (LiteFarm, University of British Columbia). The majority of the session - thirty minutes - is reserved for moderated dialogue with participants. We arrive with genuine open questions, not scripted answers. We want to think in public with the people in the room. **Why DWeb Camp, why Berlin, why now** DWeb Camp is one of the only gatherings in the world where commitments to open and decentralized technologies, cooperative governance, and food sovereignty land in the same room. The CoO has been building quietly for two years. DWeb Berlin is the moment we stop building quietly and start testing our vision against the scrutiny and contribution of our peers: sharpening our message, broadening our coalition, and co-designing a five-year strategic framework ambitious enough to match the scale of the problem and grounded enough in what we have already built to be credible. We also hope to use the gathering to deepen relationships with organizations that share our values but are not yet CoO members - including the DECENT Alliance, GrownBy, the Food Data Collaboration, farmOS, and Origins Co-op - toward substantive strategic alignment and movement expansion. The farmers, food hubs, and agroecological communities that depend on this infrastructure deserve tools built by people who are as serious about the long game as they are. Federation in the digital age does not entail centralization. It means coordination across community-owned layers of the stack - from data standards to farm management systems to marketplaces - in ways that enfranchise farmers as owners of the digital infrastructure they depend upon, rather than as subjects of it. Farmers and DWebbers of the world, unite. We have a world to win! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/B37VPB/ The Seedbed David Thomas Hannah Wittman Colin Rinta Stewart Kevin Cussen PUBLISH 7RJHRZ@@talx.dod.ngo -7RJHRZ Learn Basic Bicycle Maintenance Skills en en 20260709T093000 20260709T113000 2.00000 Learn Basic Bicycle Maintenance Skills Fixing things for other people is an act of love and it earns smiles, helps keep trash out of our communities, and saves people who cannot afford to buy new things a lot of money and heartache, and generally diminishes the markets for newly made crap we don't need. Learn from people who love to fix things (not bike mechanics, but handy folk) to fix bicycle-like things. We will try to fix some things, to the extent that there are fixable things, and if we don't, we can have fun making bike art sculptures. I mean, we'll try to save some broken stuff for this class, but I don't know, we like to fix things - and we get to camp early - we might just fix all the stuff before class, then have to break something for you - we'll have to see how it goes. But either way we are going to have fun with it. If the class is super-nerdy, we can talk about how to debug anything - there are universal rubri. See you there! :) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7RJHRZ/ Teen Base Camp Rich Bodo Brian Eggert PUBLISH HUCG3N@@talx.dod.ngo -HUCG3N Self-Defense--TEEN VERSION en en 20260709T113000 20260709T123000 1.00000 Self-Defense--TEEN VERSION Basic of being aware of your surroundings and what to do in a situation if you are approached and feeling uncomfortable. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HUCG3N/ Teen Base Camp Young M Wong PUBLISH JTWRDE@@talx.dod.ngo -JTWRDE Applied Science Fiction: Stealing Back the Future--TEEN VERSION en en 20260709T150000 20260709T153000 0.03000 Applied Science Fiction: Stealing Back the Future--TEEN VERSION The future has been stolen by billionaires, bureaucrats and boring people. This workshop is a tiny heist to steal a piece back. We'll use science fiction as a tool for inventing strange, useful things that should exist: secret clubs, rebel apps, new rituals, impossible machines, better schools, weirder cities, kinder internets, and games for breaking boring rules. Everyone starts with something that annoys them, scares them, or makes them think: “Wow, this is stupid.” School rules. Climate dread. Adults not listening. Social media brain rot. Surveillance. Loneliness. Boring cities. Whatever. Then we pull cards, add weird constraints, and turn the problem sideways until it becomes an idea. By the end, each person or group will have made something: a poster, sketch, game rule, fake advert, map, machine, club, ritual, app idea, or tiny plan for trouble. We'll leave with the future feeling less like something being done to us, and more like something we can break into, remix and steal back. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JTWRDE/ Teen Base Camp Jobi PUBLISH JUPVWB@@talx.dod.ngo -JUPVWB Let's host a Coopcloud server during camp!--TEEN VERSION en en 20260709T153000 20260709T163000 1.00000 Let's host a Coopcloud server during camp!--TEEN VERSION After having talked a lot about Escuela Común on a previous session, it'd be great to have a hands-on workshop where we'll get together to have a summarised demostration of its training program. The workshop is aimed at community activists and folks that are interested in self-hosting, but find it too technical or intimidating, or too time-intensive to become involved in. We'll talk a bit about sysadmin work, "digital gardening" as a collective responsibility, to decide what kind of services we'd like to host during camp and afterwards. I'll bring at least one small computer to act as a server, which we'll collectively tend to. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JUPVWB/ Teen Base Camp fauno PUBLISH QB8G7T@@talx.dod.ngo -QB8G7T Bike Ride to Hidden Lake en en 20260709T163000 20260709T180000 1.03000 Bike Ride to Hidden Lake With however many bikes we can fix up in the Become a Bike Mechanic session, we will lead a bike trip through the woods in search of the hidden lake of Alte Holle. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QB8G7T/ Teen Base Camp Ryder Morton PUBLISH PBW9XK@@talx.dod.ngo -PBW9XK KINDEROPOLIS Kung Fu with Sifu Young Wong en en 20260709T093000 20260709T100000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Kung Fu with Sifu Young Wong KINDEROPOLIS gets the day started with kung fu. While Sifu Young Wong's sessions are especially tailored for the enjoyment of the children, the classes are open to all who wish to learn. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PBW9XK/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Young M Wong PUBLISH WDNLWJ@@talx.dod.ngo -WDNLWJ Story Time #1 - A fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, with Special Guest en en 20260709T100000 20260709T103000 0.03000 Story Time #1 - A fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, with Special Guest Stories and songs are very effective ways that humans pass information, from person to person, place to place, across time and generations. Stories develop listening skills, memory, and imagination, and they support social and emotional learning to develop the whole child. Special Guest Storyteller of the Day: A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, Germany The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors whose work in folklore, linguistics, and literary scholarship shaped the development of modern folkloristics and the study of the German language. The Grimms are among the best-known story tellers of European folktales, and their work popularized such stories as "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince" (Der Froschkönig), "Hansel and Gretel" (Hänsel und Gretel), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen), and "Snow White" (Schneewittchen). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/WDNLWJ/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH 9LXQFL@@talx.dod.ngo -9LXQFL The DWeb "Dough-In" en en 20260709T103000 20260709T120000 1.03000 The DWeb "Dough-In" **_“Learn something. Apply it. Pass it on so it is not forgotten.”_ — RUTH ASAWA** Artist Ruth Asawa believed that art was part of everyday life. She used simple materials to make sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings, and public art. Many of her monuments, which can still be seen throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in California, where she lived and worked, were a result of collaboration in which Asawa invited the local community, especially children, to contribute. **_At the DWeb Dough In, we will create a baker’s clay mural — from scratch!_** **What is a “Dough In”?** As an artist, Ruth Asawa forged a groundbreaking practice through her ceaseless exploration of materials and forms. In 1973, during the opening of her first San Francisco Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Ruth Asawa held what she called a “dough-in,” a communal experience that was part baking, part art, and part fun. Asawa’s recipe for a batch of baker’s clay, a white nonedible substance, went something like this: measure out 4 cups of flour and 1 cup of salt, then combine it with 1½ cups of water and hand it over to a group of kids to do the mixing. Some 1,000 parents and children took part, popping their creations into an oven in the café downstairs. **About Artist Ruth Asawa** _“Art is doing. Art directly deals with life.”_ Ruth Asawa was born in 1926 in Norwalk, California. Her parents Umakichi and Haru Asawa, immigrants from Japan, were truck farmers who grew seasonal crops such as strawberries, carrots, green beans, and tomatoes. Due to discriminatory laws against the Japanese, her parents were not allowed to become American citizens or own land in California. From the age of six, Ruth worked to help support her family. Her path to a creative life was meandering, but she always managed to find fertile ground. During World War II, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in ten concentration camps in the United States. The Asawa family was sent to Santa Anita race track in California, where Ruth found her way to drawing classes led by Disney animators. While interned in the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas, Ruth tended her family garden, grown from precious seeds saved by her mother. After leaving Rohwer in 1943, Asawa attended Milwaukee State Teachers College on scholarship, but was unable to find a teaching position because of continued hostilities towards the Japanese. Ruth's friends persuaded her to join them at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, an experimental liberal arts school. There, Ruth studies art with Josef Albers, who immigrated to the United States after the closing of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. In 1949, interracial marriages were illegal in all but two states, California and Washington, so Ruth and architect Albert Lanier travel West to get married. Ruth Asawa sets down roots in San Francisco, tending to her growing family, her art, and what she would later identify as her life’s most important work — the schools. In 1968, Asawa co-founded the Alvarado Arts Workshop, an innovative program that brought professional artists into schools to work with children. At its peak, the program served 50 San Francisco's public schools— employing artists, musicians, and gardeners, while involving parents in public education. In 2010, the San Francisco School of the Arts was renamed the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in her honor. In 2013, Ruth Asawa died of natural causes at her San Francisco home at the age of 87. Today, [**Ruth Asawa’s legacy**]([url](https://ruthasawa.com/dedicated-ruth-asawa-exhibition-space-to-open-in-san-francisco/)) is proudly cared for by her grandchildren, and a retrospective exhibition of her work is currently at the [**Guggenheim Bilbao**]([url](https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/ruth-asawa-retrospective)). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/9LXQFL/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 PUBLISH AYVWYR@@talx.dod.ngo -AYVWYR KINDEROPOLIS Game Time! en en 20260709T120000 20260709T123000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Game Time! Game on! During KINDEROPOLIS game time, kids can find a game to play, bring a game that they like to play or work together to create a new one or their own! Games are a universal feature of human culture. A game is an activity defined by a challenge and a set of rules, typically done for enjoyment, competition, or development. Games may be played informally or in professional competitive settings before audiences. Popular formats include board games, card games, video games, and sports, distinguished from unstructured play by having rules. What kind of games do you like to play? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AYVWYR/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH WRHBF8@@talx.dod.ngo -WRHBF8 Origami / Kids Snack Time en en 20260709T150000 20260709T153000 0.03000 Origami / Kids Snack Time Learn the origami fold of the day. Origami (折り紙) is the art and technique of folding paper. It also refers to the two- and three-dimensional forms created in the process The history of origami followed after the invention of paper and was a result of paper's use in society. In the detailed Japanese classification, origami is divided into stylized ceremonial origami (儀礼折り紙, girei origami) and recreational origami (遊戯折り紙, yūgi origami), and only recreational origami is generally recognized as origami. Friedrich Fröbel — the inventor of kindergarten — recognized paper binding, weaving, folding, and cutting as teaching aids for child development during the early 19th century. As the kindergarten system spread throughout Europe and into the rest of the world, it brought with it the small colored squares that we know of today as origami paper. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/WRHBF8/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH ETAC3N@@talx.dod.ngo -ETAC3N The Tree of Life: Insects! — Deborah Tien & "Wild Webs of Care" en en 20260709T153000 20260709T163000 1.00000 The Tree of Life: Insects! — Deborah Tien & "Wild Webs of Care" Each day we will focus on a different class of the Animal Kingdom (Animalia). We will highlight the interconnectedness and cooperation that is important to all life on Earth: from insects, birds and mammals big and small, including us! Over the course of our time together at DWeb Camp, we will grow the “The Tree of Life” and consider our "kinship" with nature. Wild Webs of Care is a participatory installation, resting space, and ritual environment, mapping our message through vibes and embodiment, rather than explanation. Visitors enter a space woven with spider web geometry: threads radiating from a central altar outward to the edges, where alternative hardware waits to be touched and tested. Practitioners of embodied care (massage, acupressure, somatic work) tend to bodies throughout the day. A bell rings, and for 5-10 minutes, a facilitator gathers whoever is present for a short spark rooted in the West African story of Anansi and how might we take back control of our narratives. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ETAC3N/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky Deborah Tien PUBLISH 83EYB7@@talx.dod.ngo -83EYB7 Imagine it! Build it! Tinkering Time: "Ada & Zangemann," reading by Matthias Kirschner en en 20260709T163000 20260709T173000 1.00000 Imagine it! Build it! Tinkering Time: "Ada & Zangemann," reading by Matthias Kirschner This "Tinkering Time" welcomes author Matthias Kirschner to read from his book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream". This is a story about the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/83EYB7/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Matthias Kirschner Ishadai Sky PUBLISH VPTZK7@@talx.dod.ngo -VPTZK7 KINDEROPOLIS Dance Break! en en 20260709T173000 20260709T180000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Dance Break! At KINDEROPOLIS, you don't need permission to dance! Every afternoon, we will put on some tunes, and invite everyone to move to the music. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VPTZK7/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 PUBLISH ETUAUZ@@talx.dod.ngo -ETUAUZ Morning Chi Gung Exercises en en 20260709T070000 20260709T080000 1.00000 Morning Chi Gung Exercises Chi Gung is meditative and breathing with strengthen the internal core with your mind focusing on your body. It also referred to iron shirt technique. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ETUAUZ/ Forest Pavillion Young M Wong PUBLISH RG897L@@talx.dod.ngo -RG897L Blockchain 101 - Everything you always wanted to know about Blockchain (but were afraid to ask) en en 20260709T093000 20260709T103000 1.00000 Blockchain 101 - Everything you always wanted to know about Blockchain (but were afraid to ask) This is very much a non-technical session (zero slides, just a conversation) accessible to all. It's a very basic intro to what blockchain is and mostly how it could impact the world we live in. Depending on who shows up and what the questions are we can go deeper into how the tech works, how decentralized orgs (DAOs) function (or not), or imagine together what a decentralized future could look like. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RG897L/ Forest Pavillion Kris Is PUBLISH UZTWSA@@talx.dod.ngo -UZTWSA Persuasive Fundraising: The Four Questions en en 20260709T103000 20260709T113000 1.00000 Persuasive Fundraising: The Four Questions Did you know there are four main ways that nonprofits raise money? -Major Donors -Direct Response (mail, banners, telethons, pledge drives) -Grants (Foundations, Gov't, Family Foundations) -Earned Income All these fundraising methods share one thing in common: to successfully raise money you need to be able to answer four questions compellingly. I've spent my long career leading many types of nonprofits and serving on nonprofit boards. Along the way, I've been able to put my skills as a journalist, television reporter, and storyteller to good use by answering those four questions convincingly for every organization I've been a part of-- and I can help you answer them, too. If you need to raise support right now, come to this workshop and we'll do some live demonstrations of how to hone your story. In just 15-30 minutes, I can usually coach a founder or leader to sharpen their storytelling to the next level. It's kind of my superpower, and I'd like to share it with you. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UZTWSA/ Forest Pavillion Wendy Hanamura PUBLISH JAAHQT@@talx.dod.ngo -JAAHQT What Would You tell the Pope About AI? en en 20260709T113000 20260709T123000 1.00000 What Would You tell the Pope About AI? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JAAHQT/ Forest Pavillion Daniel Erasmus PUBLISH ZYRLGH@@talx.dod.ngo -ZYRLGH Relaxing Sound Bath en en 20260709T133000 20260709T150000 1.03000 Relaxing Sound Bath Come close your eyes, let the tension melt away and the creativity flow. This is an antidote to hunching over a computer for most of your days.... PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZYRLGH/ Forest Pavillion Micah PUBLISH HWHG78@@talx.dod.ngo -HWHG78 From 99% Junk to Scenius at Scale: Why the Future of Work is an Economy of Play en en 20260709T150000 20260709T153000 0.03000 From 99% Junk to Scenius at Scale: Why the Future of Work is an Economy of Play Most people working at the frontier of anything genuinely important right now share a specific, uncomfortable experience: the sense that the work that matters most — the work that is irreducibly contextual, relational, and hard to explain — is invisible to institutional incentive structures. Researchers who follow genuinely novel threads get penalized by metrics optimized for legible consensus. Builders who prioritize trust and care over throughput lose funding rounds to faster-moving competitors. Artists, educators, and community organizers watch their contributions get classified as "externalities" by the very systems their work keeps alive. Meanwhile, the recommendation algorithms that were supposed to connect us to what we need have collapsed the information landscape into a low-dimensional tube that preferentially surfaces outrage and anxiety, gradually narrowing the adjacent possible available to each of us and eroding the cognitive diversity that any healthy collective intelligence depends on. The frame this talk offers is a structural account of why these experiences are happening simultaneously, why they are symptoms of the same underlying dynamic, and how to see the very existence of the DWeb ecosystem as evidence that we are on track for a total inversion of economic value. Drawing on twenty years of research into complex adaptive systems and major evolutionary transitions, Michael Garfield (formerly Santa Fe Institute, Long Now Foundation, Mozilla) will recast our current economic, ecological, and epistemic crises as a transitional moment in the emergence of The Living Web: a future of thriving collective intelligence enabled by decentralized sensemaking infrastructure. The key is a fact worth sitting with: only 1% of animal DNA codes proteins. The other 99%, dismissed for most of the 20th century as "junk", handles epigenetic regulation and serves as a standing reserve of adaptive potential that makes complex life possible. Research on the transition between bacterial and nucleated cells locates this as a discontinuous jump at which noncoding sequences suddenly appear and the trajectory of life on Earth changes permanently. And the metabolic data tells the same story: as bacteria grow larger, an increasing fraction of their energy goes to growth and production. At the transition to complex cellular life, that relationship inverts. Larger organisms devote more of their metabolism to maintenance, regulation, and the sensemaking layer. This inversion is physics, a necessary consequence of the information processing demands of a more complex system. The industrial economy has been a prokaryotic economy — nearly all coding sequences, optimized for throughput, treating the work that resists quantification as overhead. The norm of "product-market fit" says: your value must be legible to the market's existing vocabulary, or it doesn't count. This is a coherent strategy for a simple organism. It is an unstable one for a system whose information processing demands have outrun what a purely production-maximizing logic can handle. What we experience as the "metacrisis" — the strange convergence of civilizational risks into a single knot — is what model collapse looks like at the scale of an entire economy: a loss of variance so severe that the system can no longer adapt to the novelty it generates. But as near-zero marginal cost automation handles an increasing share of legible, replicable cognitive work, the greatest economic reward begins moving toward whatever cannot be replicated: context-specific insight, divergent exploration, and the maintenance of cognitive diversity in systems that would otherwise converge toward brittleness. We evolved for richly structured environments that reward open-ended, high-dimensional search — information ecologies in which genuine exploration reliably yields both nourishment and unexpected discovery. The recommendation algorithm is the opposite: a low-dimensional tube that feeds us what the system predicts we already want, gradually narrowing the adjacent possible and eroding, in aggregate, the variance the collective needs to stay alive. But this is a transitional state, creating new selection pressures for the infrastructure we need to operate at the actual scale of 21st century complexity. And under these pressures, we are building toward a future of high-dimensional collective foraging — where sovereign knowledge infrastructure, personal context engines, local-first federated architecture, consent-based selective legibility create the conditions under which “scenius at scale” becomes achievable. Theoretical work on the evolution of syntactic language gives us the same argument from a different angle. The sentence emerged from a scaling-induced crisis in the internal coordination of prehistoric human societies, one that resulted in an explosion of available vocabulary. Most words only matter in very specific contexts; the sentence is what makes context-specificity meaningful rather than merely idiosyncratic. The industrial economy has been communicating in words: legible units of value designed to mean the same thing regardless of who is reading them. The emerging economy communicates in sentences: value constituted by its context, meaningful inside a specific epistemic community, a specific position in an evolving information ecology. The measure of contribution shifts from "how many people can use this?" to "how specifically does this serve the collective intelligence of the systems I'm embedded in?" This reframes what the individual is for. The ideal of self-actualization — finding and optimizing a fixed essential self, stable expertise, and legible brand — made structural sense when legibility to a generic market was the measure of value. What the emerging economy selects for not fixed specialists but context-specific explorers, organisms that maintain their adaptive capacity because they haven't fully offloaded it onto the supply chain. And the most valuable thing in this new economy will be divergence into “the adjacent possible” — providing unique signals to collective wayfinding systems that need exactly the variance you embody, given where you are and what you have seen. This is the shift from self-actualization to self-transformation, from mastering a fixed identity to a continuous process of becoming something the system hasn't encountered before. It’s a future where “centering diverse perspectives" is not a value to honor but a functional requirement. The DWeb Principles, read in this light, are not a normative vision of what the Web should be…they are a description of what any sufficiently complex system must eventually become to survive its own scale. It’ll be the end of “bullshit jobs” and marginalized creative labor…and the beginning of a tech-enabled flock of human and ecological intelligences exploring new horizons for meaningful work. Intended as a provocation for a week’s worth of discussion, this talk will build the argument from biological first principles to its practical implications, ending in genuine open questions: • Where are we in this transition? • What does the current landscape of affordances make possible that wasn't possible three years ago? • What information architectures and user interfaces will allow people to chart their divergence from low-value legible paths through possibility-space and identify the most salient open questions? Format: No special equipment needed. Circle seating welcome; outdoors fine. Speaker: Michael Garfield is a writer and artist focused on transdisciplinary research into the evolutionary history and future of intelligence. He is a co-founder at Atlas Research Group — which builds high-dimensional sensemaking tools on sovereign, commons-oriented infrastructure — and the award-winning host of Humans on the Loop. He has worked with the Santa Fe Institute, Long Now Foundation, Mozilla, and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HWHG78/ Forest Pavillion Michael Garfield PUBLISH XU7RMS@@talx.dod.ngo -XU7RMS Reimagining money as a coordination technology: an idea generation workshop en en 20260709T153000 20260709T163000 1.00000 Reimagining money as a coordination technology: an idea generation workshop A number of signals suggest money, as coordination technology, is nearing obsolescence. It had a great 4000 year run as scalable tech that works with stone or paper, and was ported to computers, but technological change means that completely new, non-skeuomorphic coordination solutions are just now possible. Money had some negative externalities, pathological behaviors, and transactional interaction doesn’t always feel great. In this workshop, we will take a Martian anthropologist view of the function of money and money-like things in human society, consider the advantages of coordination in small high-trust groups and contrast this “forager mode” that dominated human prehistory with the more recent “farmer mode” which money was developed to support and scale. We will open up the design space for coordination of capital and labor from first principles, using newly available technology such as AI and programmable cryptography to shift the Pareto frontier of trade-offs. We will, together, come up with speculative thought experiments about how whatever comes after money could work, with human dignity brought to the forefront in the objective function. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XU7RMS/ Forest Pavillion Jason Morton PUBLISH PNDFJD@@talx.dod.ngo -PNDFJD Hiding in plain sight en en 20260709T163000 20260709T170000 0.03000 Hiding in plain sight Logos builds on the premise that our current world order is broken - there must be better ways of human governance! To be able to experiment with these, we need private and decentralised technology stack and a community of aligned individuals willing to participate in and drive the experiments. We do believe Logos provides the right substrate for this - with Logos Circles (35+ regular meetups run by volunteers) and the tech stack (Messaging, Storage and Blockchain). I would like to introduce Dwebcamp participants to both - the philosophy of Logos and the tech stack to spark the curiosity. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PNDFJD/ Forest Pavillion Václav Pavlín Kris Is PUBLISH J7KEPX@@talx.dod.ngo -J7KEPX Acoustic Music Jam in the Woods en en 20260709T220000 20260710T000000 2.00000 Acoustic Music Jam in the Woods PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/J7KEPX/ Forest Pavillion Micah PUBLISH A3RUEE@@talx.dod.ngo -A3RUEE Opening: Open Social Web Track en en 20260709T093000 20260709T094500 0.01500 Opening: Open Social Web Track Decentralised, open, self-sovereign, and free social media are under the spotlight. Mainstream, closed, and centralised platforms are close to the bottom of their degeneration and enshittification. In the meanwhile, a growing movement of humans wants to build better social networks in the open. Who are they? What is the purpose of the Open Social Web? Join this introduction to DWeb Camp’s Open Social Web track to learn more. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/A3RUEE/ Open Social Space Tommi PUBLISH VJYUYZ@@talx.dod.ngo -VJYUYZ Protocols, not platforms! Introduction to decentralised social media en en 20260709T094500 20260709T100000 0.01500 Protocols, not platforms! Introduction to decentralised social media It is impossible to address digital rights without considering the Open Social Web in 2026. Albeit its popularity is growing and its potential looks bright and appealing, it’s terribly easy for its builders, contributors and lovers to fall down a rabbit hole of incredibly niche and specific discussions, overlooking that 99.99% of people out there who still have no clue about it. This talk is intended to be a lightning and dense introduction to decentralised social media, so that everyone can be up to speed concerning their defining values and key challenges. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VJYUYZ/ Open Social Space Tommi PUBLISH 3BP8KU@@talx.dod.ngo -3BP8KU Malleable Social Software en en 20260709T100000 20260709T110000 1.00000 Malleable Social Software The open social web demonstrates that we can decentralize social _infrastructure_, but the process of designing apps on top of that infrastructure is still largely centralized among expert developers. How can we empower _anyone_ to build on the open social web, regardless of their technical experience? This workshop will overview the new research area of "malleable social software," provide space for people to play with and hack on some prototypes, and facilitate discussion on how malleability can be brought into projects across the open social web. The overview will start by covering the broader field of [malleable software](https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/) which has so far largely been focused on tools for personal use or among small trusted groups. I will then discuss how we might draw insights from malleable software, like the "tailorability slope," to the design of larger open social web systems. As concrete examples, I will overview two systems I developed as part of my PhD at MIT: [Graffiti](https://graffiti.garden/) and [Social.Wiki](https://social.wiki). Given that the systems were designed to be malleable, Graffiti and Social.Wiki both have a very low barrier to entry. Therefore, based on experience I have running two hackathons involving these systems, I will similarly dedicate a large part of the workshop to hacking. Despite the short time, participants should be able to build working decentralized social software to meet their own needs, such as app for people to connect during or after DWeb. In tandem with the hacking, there will be ample space for discussion among participants. We might discuss: - What are the barriers to bringing malleability into other open social web systems? How might we overcome those barriers? - How might we mitigate risks associated with opening up the ecosystem, such as reduced quality and [cultural changes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)? - How can we balance malleability with performance and security? - What are the risks of using AI in malleable systems and can they be overcome? [Graffiti](https://graffiti.garden/) is a client library for building social software that runs atop a decentralized protocol. [Our paper describing Graffiti](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3746059.3747627) was published last fall at the premier user interface conference, UIST, where it was awarded "Best Paper". The Graffiti protocol was developed in parallel to AT Protocol, with some overlap and some divergence (always an interesting discussion to be had). One major difference is that the Graffiti applications are intended to be developed "serverlessly"---other than the generic Graffiti servers, there is no need to build and deploy app-specific "App View" servers, avoiding a large "malleability cliff". Additionally, Graffiti provides a client-side API that abstracts all of the protocol details and instead asks three simple questions: What data is being stored? "Where" (in a contextual, not physical sense) should that data be found? And who should have access to the data? [Social.Wiki](https://social.wiki) is a meta application built on Graffiti for collaboratively building and distributing Graffiti applications. The Social.Wiki interface acts much like a web browser: one can click between various web apps including ones for [messaging](https://social.wiki/#/v?/Social.Wiki/coop-display?/f2-living), [microblogging](https://social.wiki/#/v?/social-garden), [collaborative editing](https://social.wiki/#/v?/colab), [gaming](https://social.wiki/#/v?/Social.Wiki/Othello), and even [ride sharing](https://social.wiki/#/v?/rideshare). Unlike a web browser, all of the Social.Wiki apps can be directly edited, just like Wikipedia pages. Social.Wiki therefore further expands the scope of who can participate in app design, and introduces a gentle "tailorability slope" that smoothly transitions from MySpace-style copy-paste programming to writing complete complex apps. Social.Wiki also explores how security might be considered in malleable social software and the open social web in general by providing granular "capability-based" access to social data. This makes it possible to securely browse and interact with apps build on Social.Wiki regardless of whether they are created by someone malicious or more innocently by a novice programmer or by vibe coding. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3BP8KU/ Open Social Space Carmel Schare PUBLISH 7CNXZG@@talx.dod.ngo -7CNXZG Sustainable art communities: brainstorming ideas and strategies for the decentralized web en en 20260709T110000 20260709T120000 1.00000 Sustainable art communities: brainstorming ideas and strategies for the decentralized web During the web 2.0 stage of the internet, the rise of new social media apps made us believe in a more democratic and accessible era for artists and creatives. The early days of MySpace, Soundcloud, YouTube, Bandcamp, Instagram, etc. felt empowering. New possibilities arose to talk directly to an audience, bypassing the traditional gatekeepers. About twenty years later, we seem to live in a new gatekeeping dystopia, where the algorithms of Instagram, Tiktok, and Spotify determine which artistic expressions reach an audience and which don't. As if that was not already bad enough, we know since 2025 that those big tech monopolies don't see a problem in aligning themselves with authoritarian and fascist politics. There is an increased interest in alternatives for social interaction on the internet. However, decentralized technology like Mastodon or Bluesky doesn't seem to be the perfect fit for a large scale migration of artists off of Instagram, Tiktok and the like. On the other hand, internet protocols like atproto give us the tools to quite quickly build something new that fits our needs much more. During this workshop, we want to brainstorm about a new artistic interpretation of social media, where power balances are kept in check and creativity can thrive. What is missing for artists in the current interpretations by Bluesky, Flashes, Mastodon, Instagram, Tiktok, etc.? Can we get much more creative with the formats, while at the same time keep it accessible for a broad audience? How can we organize internationally to build a new app experience that amazes people and convinces them to leave the centralized platforms? The workshop facilitator, Hilke, is both a musician and a software developer, and emerged herself deeply into decentralized systems, mainly atproto. She is currently doing an artistic research on the crossroads between music and technology, and has a vision to build a new app for the community of musicians in particular, and artists in general. Inspired by community projects like Blacksky, she doesn't want to build only for herself, but in community with other artists. She wants to test some ideas of her own with the workshop participants and gather new ones. One of the floating ideas is to combine a more traditional social media feed with an 'artist in in-app residence' program, where there is much more room for creativity and deep dives into the universe of a particular artist. One of the outcomes of the workshop could be to gather a first batch of artist in residence candidates, which would become the seed of an ever-growing community outreach. A technical background is not needed for the workshop. We are mainly looking for creative input from artists and willingness to start a new, creative movement. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7CNXZG/ Open Social Space Hilke Ros PUBLISH 8BRAPC@@talx.dod.ngo -8BRAPC Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web en en 20260709T120000 20260709T123000 0.03000 Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web The Newsmast Foundation is onboarding new communities to the Social Web through their Apps for Change programme, helping charities, non-profits, news publishers, and campaign groups reconnect on their own social apps. Based on this work, the Foundation was Grand Prize winner at the inaugural Open Social Awards in Amsterdam. Taking real-world learning, this session will explore the barriers to the Social Web flagged by so many of these communities and explain how the Newsmast Foundation’s approach reduces friction and packages the Social Web as a desirable location. It will draw on real examples from the Newsmast Foundation partners, including UK news publishers, Brazilian memory institutions, multi-national African education and scientific charities, and more. The Newsmast Foundation joined the Social Web in 2023 with a mission to encourage knowledge sharing and community building on social media. Their young, diverse, and non-techie team brought new perspectives to the many issues still faced by the Social Web. Join Michael Foster, Director, to learn how that different perspective allowed the Newsmast Foundation the opportunity to avoid common pitfalls, make connections and start conversations with organisations all over the world. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8BRAPC/ Open Social Space Michael Foster PUBLISH U8BGWF@@talx.dod.ngo -U8BGWF Dyad: building a social platform as civic infrastructure en en 20260709T150000 20260709T153000 0.03000 Dyad: building a social platform as civic infrastructure Dyad is built by a two-person team in Berlin. It’s been in private beta since spring 2026. The cycle: a member writes a conversation prompt (a poem, a question, an essay) and proposes one to three times and places in the coming week when they would be open to meet. Another member writes a single response. After responding, they can invite the author to one of the times. If the author accepts, the exact location is shared and they meet. After the meeting (or not) both members leave feedback before either can use the platform again. The platform doesn’t have messaging, recommenders, a follower graph, engagement metrics, or profile bios. Most of those absences are enforced at the database layer; the rest live in DESIGN.md and team discipline. The app is the coordination layer that gets two people to the same place at the same time. The conversation happens in person. Invitations and waitlists Private beta means specific people get invited specifically. Off-the-shelf waitlist tools collect email, name, source, and a behavioural profile by default. We’re working toward steward ownership. That doesn’t preclude charging members, but it shapes how. Stripe Elements embeds deeply enough to require a consent banner; Stripe Checkout doesn’t but moves the user off-site. Each option ships with a conversion-tracking default that has to be actively turned off. Community safeguarding Stranger-meeting carries real safety considerations. No-shows. Reports of feeling unsafe. Harassment. What counts as the platform’s responsibility after the meeting ends. Most moderation tooling assumes content moderation, and we have almost no content. What we have instead is a post-meeting feedback gate and a small operations team reading every report. The design problem is making that scale without becoming surveillance, and negotiating the tension of commons built on trust against our real responsibilities as platform providers The talk walks the tensions and out journey, warts and all, with the concrete decision, the cost we’re paying for it and the parts where we’re still working it out. The pattern across them is what I most want to surface for the room: building a values-aligned product on retention-shaped substrate is daily friction, every release, and most of that work is invisible from outside, including, often, to funders and to other builders working on adjacent problems. And, hardest of all.. to one another as founders, which is a tension we'd also love to talk about. I’ll close with what’s next. The path toward steward ownership. The open question of how/whether to expand, federate, cooperating ownership..! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/U8BGWF/ Open Social Space fiore luna sahin PUBLISH F9Y7PQ@@talx.dod.ngo -F9Y7PQ AD4M: The Spanning Layer That Unites the Decentralized Web en en 20260709T153000 20260709T163000 1.00000 AD4M: The Spanning Layer That Unites the Decentralized Web The decentralized web is fragmenting. Holochain, ActivityPub, Matrix, Solid — each powerful alone, but siloed. You can't query across them. Users can't traverse between them. Communities are isolated. AD4M is the spanning layer that weaves them together. Think of it like TCP/IP for the dWeb — not replacing any protocol, but providing the common abstraction that lets them interoperate. Every protocol becomes a "language" that AD4M nodes can learn to speak. Anyone can build a language adapter for their protocol. Local experiments are free — but they can synergize when needed. The agent-centric model means: you and your social spaces are the backbone that connects apps to networks. Your data stays yours. Your community governs itself. Holons stack up and build a Holarchy. In this talk, you'll understand the concepts and architecture of AD4M, how to build adapters and apps to it, and what it enables. https://coasys.org | https://github.com/coasys/ad4m **Facilitators:** - nicolas.luck@coasys.org - joshfield999@gmail.com - james.weir@coasys.org PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/F9Y7PQ/ Open Social Space Nicolas Luck Josh Field James Weir PUBLISH FLS3DK@@talx.dod.ngo -FLS3DK Posca – why build a social network on Matrix? en en 20260709T163000 20260709T170000 0.03000 Posca – why build a social network on Matrix? While building kazarma, a bridge between Matrix and ActivityPub, we saw how hard it was for communities to organise privately using ActivityPub apps. Privacy is, however, a real and growing need; either to prevent harassment, to opt out of the "narcissistic arena" or the "attention economy" which can be cultivated in public online spaces, or for other organisational needs. This private space mechanism is at the core of Matrix, since it was made for group messaging. Differences in the design of protocols like this one affect how easy or hard it is to implement certain functionalities, but they also have indirect social implications on the power distribution among the network. Following a comparison of ActivityPub and Matrix for use in private social spaces, we will showcase the user interface of Posca, for bringing together multiple social tools (chat, forums, microblogging and media sharing) in a single Matrix client. The protocol comparison will primarily consider Matrix and ActivityPub, due to our familiarity and experience with these protocols, but it may consider other protocols. The goal is not to fuel pointless protocol wars, but to provoke fruitful discussion and reflect on important questions. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FLS3DK/ Open Social Space Pierre de Lacroix PUBLISH GFYX77@@talx.dod.ngo -GFYX77 Intro to ActivityPub en en 20260709T170000 20260709T173000 0.03000 Intro to ActivityPub ActivityPub and its data format Activity Streams were standardized in 2018 by the W3C. Since then, it has been popularized by open source social platforms like Mastodon, Pixelfed and WordPress, as well as commercial platforms like Flipboard and Meta Threads. In this talk, Evan will delve into the architecture of ActivityPub and its role in the social standards landscape. He will also address the upcoming revisions to ActivityPub, which promise easier implementation and clearer interoperability. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/GFYX77/ Open Social Space Evan Prodromou PUBLISH X8CPCU@@talx.dod.ngo -X8CPCU We Are Not Crabs: Collective Understandings of The Open Social Web en en 20260709T173000 20260709T180000 0.03000 We Are Not Crabs: Collective Understandings of The Open Social Web There is a running joke in biology that everything eventually turns into a crab. Carcinisation is when the same crab-like body plan keeps popping up in evolution, in lineages that are barely related, simply because it turns out to be a good shape to be. Lately I keep thinking the open social web is doing something similar: if you look at what people are building across the fediverse, the atmosphere, and Matrix, a lot of independent projects, reasoning from completely different starting points, tend to arrive at roughly the same answer to what these networks are for. What I find interesting is that the answer to that question has never really been decided by anyone. What the open social web is for is a collective understanding, something the whole community works out together, and over the past decade it has changed multiple times. For a long time that understanding was set by whatever the dominant product happened to be. Mastodon was so dominant that "the fediverse" simply meant microblogging, even as Lemmy and others were already doing something else. Atproto reframed the whole thing around composability and credible exit. The past year added a layer of European digital sovereignty on top. And the shift I have been writing about most recently is the move towards private, bounded spaces, which is where the title comes from. The easy way to read that convergence is as natural evolution, with separate teams arriving at the same shape because it is simply the right one, the protocol world growing its own crab. I want to question that reading. These teams are not independent the way crab lineages are. They go to the same conferences, follow each other on the social networks, and rely on the same (limited set of) funders, which makes me suspect the convergence is at least partly a story the community is telling. This means that the shape of what the open social web becomes is (at least partially) determined which version of the answer funders are interested in. I want to use the talk to look at how these collective understanding have shifted over time, and where it seems to be heading next, and to make the forces shaping it more visible. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/X8CPCU/ Open Social Space Laurens Hof PUBLISH XT97FY@@talx.dod.ngo -XT97FY Making sense of community cloud servers en en 20260709T093000 20260709T103000 1.00000 Making sense of community cloud servers In this session, we describe two initiatives In Brazil and Spain, where a group of neighbors self-organize to provide on-line services to the community. By using recycled desktop computers, we've created a local cloud that gives support to the neighborhood as a local cloud, website, e-mail and even local LLMs. The main goal of the activity, though, is not as much to talk about our experience, but to gather similar initiatives from around and the world. Maintaining services for the community is not as much as technical challenge but a social one. How do we convince people to switch from google drive to our own self-hosted cloud? How do we communicate the importance of keeping our data under our control, and to run our modest processors instead of surrendering them to water hungry datacenters? To discuss this, we want to invite like-minded projects from DWeb participantes, and we hope they can contribute with experiences and insights. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XT97FY/ Solidarity Station bruno Hiure PUBLISH GHTLRT@@talx.dod.ngo -GHTLRT Meetmarket: What happens when you vibe-code a solidarity-based platform and the community actually shows up en en 20260709T103000 20260709T110000 0.03000 Meetmarket: What happens when you vibe-code a solidarity-based platform and the community actually shows up Nearly every major digital space where queer people meet is now owned by companies whose primary obligation is to their shareholders. Match Group took a $100 million stake in Sniffies with an option to acquire it outright. Grindr, majority-owned by two billionaire investors, reported $440 million in revenue in 2025, driven by degrading the free experience to squeeze users toward paid tiers. The pattern repeats: invest/acquire, monetize, extract. I'm Calum Bowden, based in Berlin. I am a PhD candidate in the sociology of technology and organisation, and for close to a decade I have co-run Trust, a nonprofit network of over 1,000 "utopian conspirators" researching and prototyping community-centred alternatives to mainstream tech. In April 2025 I posted a tweet dreaming of a decentralized gay sex app that redistributes value back to its users. It went viral. I am not a software engineer, but almost a year later, friends in the decentralized tech space, DWeb's own Arkadiy and Sarah, encouraged me to try vibe-coding a prototype. Three weeks of iterative building later, I posted a video expecting 300 people to test it. Within 24 hours, 15,000 had logged on. Over 60,000 followed in seven weeks. The response made clear there was real, urgent demand. I decided to try to crowdfund a full app. So far, over 600 founding members have contributed more than €80,000, with 19 days still to go. The Meetmarket prototype uses end-to-end encryption, decentralized identity where users hold their own keys, and k-anonymity for location. The company is establishing steward ownership with a golden share held by a nonprofit, making it legally impossible to sell, go public, or betray its founding principles. There will never be advertising. Surplus revenue flows into a community fund reinvesting in queer IRL spaces. This talk & discussion is about: Building solidarity-based digital infrastructure. What does it actually take, legally, technically, and financially, to create a platform that cannot be captured? Steward ownership, the golden share, crowdfunding over VC, transparent accounting, community governance. How these mechanisms work in practice. Using generative tools to work more closely with communities on digital platforms and economic models. Vibe-coding a prototype changed the relationship between design and community. Building fast enough to put working software in front of people within weeks meant the community could shape the platform from its earliest moments, before the architecture was locked in. This session explores what that opens up: how generative tools can compress the distance between an idea and something people can actually use, test, and push back on, and what that means for participatory design, for prototyping alternative economic models, and for building technology that answers to the people it serves. We are now transitioning from prototype to a full app, and will use part of this session to hear from the DWeb community. The questions we are working through are exactly the questions this room has been thinking about for years: threat models for vulnerable populations, decentralized identity systems, how to combine privacy with public discovery, how to design grassroots moderation, I want to bring what we have learned so far and leave with perspectives that shape what we build next. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/GHTLRT/ Solidarity Station Calum Bowden PUBLISH F7XGYE@@talx.dod.ngo -F7XGYE Design Your Own Place: A Hands-On Community Creation Ritual en en 20260709T110000 20260709T123000 1.03000 Design Your Own Place: A Hands-On Community Creation Ritual This is a workshop where each participant, working in groups of 2-3, designs a community using a 5 part framework to help identify the gaps in their understanding of the community's structure. It is primarily participant driven, with the facilitator providing the framework and occasional guidance for the process. No high tech is required, because this is about the missing human piece of the equation. All they will need is a pen, some paper, and a 5-step creation ritual: 1. Intention. Why does this community exist? What is it protecting? 2. Naming. What do you call this place, and what does that name signal to strangers? 3. Architecture. How is the space structured? What's public, what's private, where do newcomers land? 4. Atmosphere. What does it feel like to be here? What behavior does the space encourage or discourage? 5. Threshold Rules. Who gets in? How do they earn trust? What gets someone shown the door? One of the core reasons distributed systems adoption stalls is that people try decentralized tools, run into governance and design questions they weren't expecting, and fall back to letting someone else take responsibility. The missing piece is a practice for helping community builders surface and resolve the human decisions that need to happen before any technical infrastructure matters. This workshop provides that practice. It gives participants a framework for designing community space with intention and helps them learn what they don't know they don't know. In the process they produce a written community charter and map they can take home and use. The goal is to build the kind of clarity that makes adopting decentralized infrastructure feel achievable rather than overwhelming. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/F7XGYE/ Solidarity Station Brad Hutcheson PUBLISH JYYCHC@@talx.dod.ngo -JYYCHC Community Infrastructure for Privacy, Agency, and Consent en en 20260709T150000 20260709T160000 1.00000 Community Infrastructure for Privacy, Agency, and Consent The loose format of this workshop: - 20 minutes - Brief talk on Community Infrastructure for Privacy, Agency, and Consent, including a brief introduction, overview, and real-world examples of physical and digital community infrastructure. - 10 minutes - Group intros: Those attending the workshop can introduce themselves to the rest of the group and meet one another. - 15 minutes - Speculative design exercise: Attendees form small groups and come up with a design for a community tool or infrastructure component they'd like to see exist for a community they lead or work with. - 10 minutes - Lightning presentations: People present their designs from the exercise to one another. (+ 5 minute buffer) For more context on this topic, see post + talk slides here: https://www.emergentresearch.net/blog/community-infrastructure-for-privacy-agency-and-consent -- This workshop explores the questions: How can physical and digital infrastructure for community privacy, agency, and consent co-inform one another? How can infrastructure be co-designed by and with communities to be equitable, accessible, and effective? Public infrastructure can refer to infrastructure that benefits the public that is funded and governed by the state, e.g. public goods; physical infrastructure (libraries, parks, roads, schools, transit); and digital infrastructure (civic tech, public datasets, digital ID systems - for better or worse). Public infrastructure, by design, relies on the state. When trust in the state exists: legibility to the state benefits common people, citizens expect their interests to be represented and addressed, and public infrastructure benefits citizen needs and wants. For example, Taiwan developed policies directly from community input and citizen dialogue for regulating Uber as well as non-consensual deepfakes via participatory, deliberative processes. However, when trust is lacking between the state and its constituents, there exists risks of surveillance, policing, displacement, and other forms of disenfranchisement. Illegibility from the state can even serve as protection, such as for sex workers, immigrants, abortion seekers, transgender people, the unhoused, and more. Thus, many communities rely on creating and maintaining their own community infrastructure. Examples include mutual aid networks, community care, coops, community land trusts, and groups such as the Black Panther Party or the Young Lords who created their own programs for free childcare, free lunch programs, and free community health clinics. Digital community infrastructure may encompass local or self-hosting, federated or decentralized tech, and community-governed data collectives. In addition to existing examples, we'll explore a few ideas for what _could_ exist -- such as privacy infrastructure for vulnerable communities, consent-based data collectives, and collective data action frameworks, such as data strikes, data labor unions, and coordinated platform migrations -- to set us up to brainstorm and co-design our own community infrastructures. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JYYCHC/ Solidarity Station Riley Wong PUBLISH 7HM8TX@@talx.dod.ngo -7HM8TX Building Folk Tech en en 20260709T160000 20260709T170000 1.00000 Building Folk Tech [Folk Tech](https://folktechnology.org) is a solidarity-based movement among designers, developers, and people in communities who want digital technology that fits their daily life and supports interdependence without the extraction, exploitation, or surveillance found in most proprietary technology today. ​​In Silicon Valley, people are “**consumers**” and “**users**.” We resist a narrative that turns people into subjects of a technocracy. **With Folk Tech, we’re all just folks.** We want tech that is delightful and friendly that supports us to be artisans, not turns us into a labour force or a sphere of influence. **How do you build using the Folk Tech Principles?** In this workshop, we'll go over the principles, do some creative thinking together about how to incorporate them, and talk how they fit in to the way we're building, in my case with [Spacious](https://spacious.audio), a p2p audio messaging app. This will be a **lively, creative, connecting workshop** and **participants will get a limited edition Folk Tech Principles zine!** **The Folk Tech Principles** 1. We make tech for regular folks, for the activities and practices of life beyond work. 2. We use collaborative, participatory design to stay attuned to real needs and motives (e.g. interviews, advisory groups, play sessions, and usability testing). 3. We consider accessibility and include people who have been marginalized or historically deprioritized by technology builders. 4. We make simple, elegant, intuitive interfaces for real people. We don’t just copy the patterns established by extractive tech. 5. We build peer-to-peer, decentralized, open-source technology where people and their data and behaviour aren’t monitored or monetized. 6. We use business models that are aligned with people who use our technology, our developers, and our communities. 7. We embrace interoperability, standards and protocols of collaboration, and a DIY ethos. 8. We believe in proliferation, not scale. People belong to places and groups with their own cultural contexts, not a platform to rule them all. 9. We value creativity, respect, and mutual care. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7HM8TX/ Solidarity Station LX Cast PUBLISH 7V7JQQ@@talx.dod.ngo -7V7JQQ Federating knowledge: exploring ways to interconnect wikis en en 20260709T170000 20260709T180000 1.00000 Federating knowledge: exploring ways to interconnect wikis This is going to be an open discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions. - What does it mean to *federate* knowledge repositories? - Instead of pursuing a silver-bullet solution to embrace all use-cases, what would it mean to foster and enable interoperability for different software? These questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organisations, institutions, and informal collectives. Some further, more specific, insights and questions: - Local-first approaches and software (e.g. [Reflection](https://github.com/p2panda/reflection)) - Interesting experiments based on existing protocols, such as [Ibis](https://ibis.wiki) - What do we take of semi-open and obscure yet very cool initiatives like [Anytype](https://anytype.io) - The power and the limits of plain-text: how to enable collaboration on simple Markdown files and build on top of it, as [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) does - Evaluating emerging options like [NextGraph](https://nextgraph.org/) This session builds up on [an analogous workshop](https://pretalx.wikimedia.de/39c3-2025/talk/GKNLVZ/) held in the Free Knowledge Habitat at 39C3. --- - [Shared session notes **here**!](https://pad.xpub.nl/p/dwebcamp-2026-federated-knowledge) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7V7JQQ/ Solidarity Station Tommi Justus PUBLISH JLYM3K@@talx.dod.ngo -JLYM3K Make your Own Nametag Button en en 20260709T133000 20260709T150000 1.03000 Make your Own Nametag Button Don't you hate how people look for your nametag before anything else at a typical conference? We have a creative hack for that: make your own button name tag. We will have all the magazines, scissors, glue and button forms to make beautiful buttons with your name on them. It's fun, it's community-oriented, and it breaks down the barriers that come with titles. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JLYM3K/ Button Making Station PUBLISH 33UHHZ@@talx.dod.ngo -33UHHZ Buttons, Buttons, Buttons! Make your own Nametag Button. en en 20260709T190000 20260709T203000 1.03000 Buttons, Buttons, Buttons! Make your own Nametag Button. Don't you hate how people look for your nametag before anything else at a typical conference? We have a creative hack for that: make your own button name tag. We will have all the magazines, scissors, glue and button forms to make beautiful buttons with your name on them. It's fun, it's community-oriented, and it breaks down the barriers that come with titles. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/33UHHZ/ Button Making Station PUBLISH PX8LJP@@talx.dod.ngo -PX8LJP Dreaming Into Our Futures (SOLO) en en 20260710T170000 20260710T190000 2.00000 Dreaming Into Our Futures (SOLO) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PX8LJP/ Wild Webs of Care PUBLISH DMFSPN@@talx.dod.ngo -DMFSPN Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement en en 20260710T070000 20260710T080000 1.00000 Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement Running from July 8 to 12, with options to extend sessions into the camp build and take-down days where necessary, this session is structured as a collective daily morning fitness routine to build consistency and keep energy high. What to bring: There is no complex gym gear required for this session. All participants need to bring is a mat (for core exercises and stretching) and their workout wear. Instead of working out individually, the entire group will move together each day following a synchronized schedule that alternates between two core activities. - Daily Dynamic Warm-Up (10 mins): Every single day, we will start together as a team with 10 minutes of dynamic stretching, light mobility work, and gentle movements. This wakes up the body, lubricates the joints, and prepares everyone to move safely. - Jogging Days (30 mins): On days scheduled for running, the warm-up will be followed by a 30-minute group jog. This will be a collective, community-paced run where we stay together, explore the Camp surroundings, and connect with each other in a relaxed, moving conversation. - Aerobics Days (30 mins): On days scheduled for aerobics, the warm-up leads into a unified, high-energy 30-minute bodyweight cardio and rhythm session. The entire group will follow a routine of fluid, equipment-free movements (like jumping jacks, high knees, shadowboxing, and core intervals) designed to boost endurance and coordination. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DMFSPN/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Shadrach PUBLISH ESJXRY@@talx.dod.ngo -ESJXRY Self Defense en en 20260710T140000 20260710T150000 1.00000 Self Defense Basic of being aware of your surroundings and what to do in a situation if you are approached and feeling uncomfortable. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ESJXRY/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Young M Wong PUBLISH GPQGWW@@talx.dod.ngo -GPQGWW Weaving Group - Night #2 en en 20260710T200000 20260710T210000 1.00000 Weaving Group - Night #2 Want to get to know 5-6 new people --your "family" away from home? Join a Weaving Group. Each weaving group has a trained Weaver to facilitate the process. Each evening, at 7 PM, return to your Weaving Group to check in with each other & compare how your days have gone. NOTE: You must come to the first session in order to enroll in Weaving groups (Thursday, Friday, Saturday.) It'd how we build trust with each other, so we're sorry but you cannot join a group mid-stream. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/GPQGWW/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Mix Irving PUBLISH 8XGJRD@@talx.dod.ngo -8XGJRD Morning Yoga Flow en en 20260710T070000 20260710T080000 1.00000 Morning Yoga Flow PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8XGJRD/ Linden Theater Val Elefante PUBLISH 33ZPKQ@@talx.dod.ngo -33ZPKQ Can We Save the Planet with AI? en en 20260710T093000 20260710T103000 1.00000 Can We Save the Planet with AI? At the Decentralized Web Summit in 2018, global strategist Daniel Erasmus presented "**Climate Change, Migration, War, Collapse: How Might a Decentralized Web Help?**" He painted a dark picture, showing how climate change is leading to collapse and dislocation. Eight years later he is back, asking a different question: "How can we use the power of AI to chart a different path for the planet?" Today, Erasmus is leading ClimateGPT, the first open-source family of foundational LLMs dedicated to making the crucial socio-economic connections originating from climate events. Trained and hosted entirely on renewable energy, ClimateGPT is specifically engineered to understand how a physical event (like a drought) triggers socioeconomic impacts (like food shortages and supply chain disruptions). Partnering with Internet Archive Europe, ClimateGPT is an example of "Public Good AI." The goal is to prove that combining planetary-scale datasets with decentralized, open technology can empower governments and citizens without relying on "black box" proprietary algorithms. Come explore this example of Public Good AI: one of the first European, open source, non-profit, sustainably powered LLMs, built at planetary scale. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/33ZPKQ/ Linden Theater Daniel Erasmus PUBLISH H8LSTH@@talx.dod.ngo -H8LSTH The Centralizing Technology You Brought to DWeb en en 20260710T103000 20260710T110000 0.03000 The Centralizing Technology You Brought to DWeb Have you played _Monopoly_? Picture the fairest possible start: equal odds for all, plus a basic income each round. Who would refuse such a world? Yet money keeps draining toward a few hands. Not through greed, through the rules themselves. The game's own inventor built it in 1904 to prove exactly this, because concentration of money manufactures concentration of power. Centralized order depends on that drift. Now you arrive at DWeb, dreaming of a distributed world. Bad news: money, the very tool many of you trust to get there, works as the most toxic instrument you could pick. It quietly rebuilds the pyramid you came to dismantle. So what remains? A different way of thinking, and a full redesign of value itself. Welcome to the **deep economy** and its **free currencies**. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/H8LSTH/ Linden Theater Jean-François Noubel PUBLISH QSSMT9@@talx.dod.ngo -QSSMT9 All Models Are Wrong Podcast Interview en en 20260710T110000 20260710T113000 0.03000 All Models Are Wrong Podcast Interview _All Models Are Wrong_ is a podcast exploring the frontier technologies — digital and social — that are reshaping the world in real time. The name comes from George Box's dictum: "All models are wrong, but some are useful." That tension is the show's engine. Every episode holds two things at once: that no framework, technology, or ideology fully captures reality, and that some are still worth taking seriously. The guests and conversations span AI, cryptography, political economy, decentralised systems, and the social structures forming around them — the places where the map and the territory are actively being renegotiated. The goal is not to find the right model, but to find the useful ones. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QSSMT9/ Linden Theater Joshua Davila brewster kahle PUBLISH V7YRFS@@talx.dod.ngo -V7YRFS Honest Talk from Funders en en 20260710T113000 20260710T123000 1.00000 Honest Talk from Funders Okay, so you are a technologist/researcher dedicated to using your tech to create a better world, and instead of heading to Silicon Valley VCs for capital, you decide to make your venture a nonprofit organization. But now you've entered the byzantine world of philanthropy: private foundations, impact funds, crypto foundations and major donors. Most of the foundations you research say "we do not accept unsolicited proposals." So how do you get started finding the right funders to support you? How do you interest the "angel donor" who can contribute a large sum to your nonprofit? What does it mean when a funder says "We are restructuring our priorities?" We are lucky to have a group of experienced professionals working in philanthropy with us at DWeb Camp. We've asked them to demystify the process of funding in the nonprofit sector. On the panel will be grant officers from private foundations, crypto foundations, government funders, a fiscal sponsor, and a major donor. The goal is to get you a little closer to your goal: garnering the support you need to propel your project forward. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/V7YRFS/ Linden Theater Wendy Hanamura René Pinnell Alex Dalessio Gerben Nathan Hewitt PUBLISH EPCGKF@@talx.dod.ngo -EPCGKF Unconference Day 1 en en 20260710T150000 20260710T180000 3.00000 Unconference Day 1 What has emerged for you in the scheduled sessions and time at camp so far? What have you placed on the Parking Lot? What's in your notebook that you want to share with others? Propose a session for the unconference here in TL;Draw: https://is.gd/J68igW Unconference will run from 3-6pm on Friday and Saturday. If you are proposing a session here, come to Linden Stage at 3pm sharp to confirm the schedule for the day and pitch your session. Sessions will begin at 3:30pm. To support a smooth process, proposals submitted for the unconference close at 2pm on Friday and Saturday to ensure that your stewards can review and do initial pre-scheduling in advance, so get your sessions in before then! To propose a session in TL;Draw, you’ll need the following information: Session Title Host Name(s) Preferred duration of session (25 or 55 min) Any known unavailability during unconference times We've got lots of spaces to activate and we will do our best to support hosting as many proposals as possible. To that end, your stewards may merge similar sessions, propose alternative titles, or move sessions as necessary. You can also use the paper submissions using forms scattered throughout the event, but be sure to bring them to Linden Theater before 2pm on Friday or Saturday! If you have any questions or challenges, reach out to Bumblefudge or Madelynn for support. **Day 1 Afternoon: Friday, July 10 - 3-6 PM** **Unconference Group Scheduling Exercise** - 3:00-3:30 PM in Linden Theater **You'll have time to make your way to the first session start location.** - 3.30-4.20 PM First Session Block (55 min) - 4.30-5.25 PM Second Session Block (55 min) - 5.30-5:55 PM Session Three (25 min) **Day 2 Afternoon: Saturday, July 11 - 3-6 PM** - 3.30-4.20 PM First Session Block (55 min) - 4.30-5.25 PM Second Session Block (55 min) - 5.30-5:55 PM Session Three (25 min) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/EPCGKF/ Linden Theater Madelynn Martiniere Bumblefudge PUBLISH VMMJPG@@talx.dod.ngo -VMMJPG A Seat at the Table: The Open Source Endowment, a Live Experiment in Community-Owned Funding en en 20260710T093000 20260710T100000 0.03000 A Seat at the Table: The Open Source Endowment, a Live Experiment in Community-Owned Funding ### Why this matters for the dweb The infrastructure everyone depends on is maintained by people who can't depend on being paid. Every funding source for open source is someone else's money, governed by someone else's priorities: industry funds the work that serves industry, philanthropy funds what fits the grantmaker's program and ends when the program does, governments fund on policy cycles. The community that actually builds and maintains the infrastructure, as well as the communities that depend on it, never hold the purse. They receive from it, on terms set elsewhere. This is the reason open infrastructure has no seat at any table. When industry sets the terms of the ecosystems it extracts from, when regulators write the rules for digital infrastructure, when funders decide what counts as critical, open source is in the room as a supplicant, or not in the room at all. Unfortunately, money is what converts a dependency into a peer. A community that owns no money of its own has no standing, no leverage, and no durable voice in decisions about its own future. This is as true of the dweb's own stack as it is of the rest of open source. This is a governance problem, and it is the question the dweb already works on everywhere else: how does a community own and steer shared infrastructure without a central owner? The Open Source Endowment (OSE) is one concrete, running experiment that turns that question on the money itself. OSE is a community-governed fund. The design rests on three deliberate moves, each of them a bet: - **The community owns the money.** Donor-members govern the fund. The people who build and depend on open source hold the purse, rather than receiving from someone else's. Ownership, not grants. - **Govern the model, not the picks.** Donor-members don't vote project-by-project. They develop, debate, and vote on the *distribution model,* the criteria and algorithm that decide funding each round. You govern the rule, and the rule scales. The long-term plan is multiple continuous competing models the community chooses between. - **Perpetual and transparent, so it can't be taken away.** Donations become principal; principal is preserved; only returns are distributed. The fund compounds instead of draining and can't be defunded by a single party losing interest. Governance records and the distribution models live in public repositories anyone can read, fork, and contribute to. OSE launched with $750K+ committed from 60+ founding donors and is now running its first distribution cycles. That makes it old enough to have results, and young enough that the honest answer to most design questions is still "we don't know yet." This talk is built around that honesty: it is as much about what is unresolved as what works. ### What I'll cover A 15-minute talk with a built-in discussion period. **The talk (≈15 min)** - **The problem (≈3 min).** Open infrastructure owns none of its money. Every funder is someone else, with someone else's priorities — which is exactly why open source has no seat at the industry, policy, or philanthropy tables where its future gets decided. - **The answer (≈6 min).** OSE as a community-governed fund: the three design moves — the community owns the money, governs the distribution model rather than individual grants, and holds it in a perpetual, transparent structure. Concretely, how a donor-member community moves from "here is money" to "here is the rule we agreed on for distributing it." - **What's still unsolved (≈3 min).** The honest part. The plutocracy risk in any donor-weighted vote — does "the community owns it" quietly become "the biggest donors own it"? Voter turnout and the engagement problem. Quantified "impact" criteria that can be gamed or can encode bias. Real, open design questions. - **What we've learned so far (≈3 min).** Results from the first year and the first distribution cycles — what the community actually chose, where the model held, where it didn't. **The discussion period (≈15 min)** - **Open discussion (≈13 min).** I put the talk's unsolved questions back to the room — does donor-weighted ownership quietly become plutocracy, how do you get turnout, can quantified "impact" criteria be gamed — and we work them together. This room thinks about community ownership and governance of shared infrastructure for a living, so OSE's design gets sharper for being argued with here. - **The takeaway (≈2 min).** Open infrastructure needs its own money to have a seat at the table — including the dweb's own. Where the work continues, in the open PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VMMJPG/ Birch Salon Jonathan Starr PUBLISH MD3TBU@@talx.dod.ngo -MD3TBU Stacks en en 20260710T100000 20260710T103000 0.03000 Stacks Before banks, before credit scores, communities saved together. They pooled money, took turns receiving the pot, and kept each other accountable. That practice never went away, it just never got the tools it deserved. Stacks is Bread Cooperative's open-source software that handles the mechanics of a savings circle: contributions, payouts, transparent records. In this workshop we'll run a live circle together. You'll join, contribute, and watch the rotation work in real time. Then we'll open it up: what does it take for tools like this to reach the people who need them most? What are the limits? What does community financial sovereignty actually look like? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MD3TBU/ Birch Salon Joshua Davila PUBLISH L9YZPA@@talx.dod.ngo -L9YZPA Funding Infrastructure on the Open Web: Hypercerts on AT Protocol en en 20260710T103000 20260710T110000 0.03000 Funding Infrastructure on the Open Web: Hypercerts on AT Protocol AT Protocol is usually introduced as "the protocol behind Bluesky", an open alternative to centralized social media. That framing undersells it. AT Protocol is general-purpose open infrastructure for portable identity, federated data, and verifiable records. And the use case where openness matters most isn't social posting, it's how we coordinate and allocate resources. This talk introduces hypercerts: a living digital record of impact work – who did what, when, and where – built as a portable claim layer on top of AT Protocol. When funders, recipients, and beneficiaries share an open data layer instead of each grant program running on its own silo, coordination compounds across the ecosystem. On top of that shared layer, you can build many different funding and decision-making processes – quadratic funding, outcome-based funding, expert juries, AI-assisted deliberation, governance simulations – each reading from and writing to the same open records. Furthermore, this makes hypercerts an AI-native data layer for funding – agents are first-class participants alongside humans, querying and writing to the same open records. I'll walk through working examples, such as: - Ma Earth: a crowdfunding platform for regenerative land projects (reforestation, soil restoration, indigenous stewardship, community-led conservation), using hypercerts as the shared record across projects, evaluators, and funders. - Simocracy: a governance simulation where people build AI digital twins of themselves and send those twins into deliberation and funding decisions on their behalf, with ATProto as the data layer and hypercerts as one of the available evaluation and allocation primitives. If we believe distributed networks beat centralized ones because they're resilient, then resource allocation is exactly where that argument needs to win. Today impact funding, and funding for collective work more broadly, runs on closed dashboards, proprietary data formats, and grantmaker-specific reporting templates. None of it travels. Build it on AT Protocol instead and the same record can be read by every funder, every recipient, every researcher, and, eventually, every AI agent helping reason about where to allocate next. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L9YZPA/ Birch Salon Holke PUBLISH NYKLQH@@talx.dod.ngo -NYKLQH Artizen: A Funding Engine for Creative Public Goods en en 20260710T110000 20260710T113000 0.03000 Artizen: A Funding Engine for Creative Public Goods Artizen is an experiment in funding creative public goods: art, culture, tools, gatherings, spaces, and community projects that create value beyond traditional markets. In this introductory talk, Artizen founder René Pinnell will share the story behind Artizen, what problem it is trying to solve, and how it helps creators receive support from communities, funds, and sponsors. The session will explain Artizen’s approach to funding creativity, including how projects participate, how communities help surface and support meaningful work, and why creative production matters as part of the broader decentralized web ecosystem. The talk will also connect directly to DWeb Camp through the Artizen Village: a shared space created by 20 Artizen creators for the use of DWeb campers. The Village is a living example of Artizen’s philosophy — not just funding individual creators, but helping them collaborate, build shared infrastructure, and create spaces where others can gather, rest, connect, and imagine together. This session is intended for people who are new to Artizen, as well as creators, funders, organizers, technologists, and community builders interested in new models for supporting public goods. Rather than focusing only on grants or platforms, the talk will explore Artizen as a cultural funding engine: a way to coordinate resources around projects that strengthen the commons. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NYKLQH/ Birch Salon René Pinnell PUBLISH MTEXYN@@talx.dod.ngo -MTEXYN Designing Funding Mechanisms on AT Protocol with Hypercerts en en 20260710T113000 20260710T123000 1.00000 Designing Funding Mechanisms on AT Protocol with Hypercerts This workshop turns the ideas from the Hypercerts on AT Protocol talk into something participants can shape and build. It's deliberately adaptable: the agenda will flex based on who shows up. Depending on the room, we'll spend time on one or more of the following: - Conceptual mechanism design: Working in small groups, participants sketch a funding or decision-making mechanism for a real situation they care about. What gets recorded? Who issues claims, who evaluates them, who allocates? Where does an open, shared data layer help, and where doesn't it? - Technical building: For participants already building, we go into the protocol layer: hypercerts lexicons on AT Protocol, how to issue and read records, how to integrate with existing apps in the ecosystem, and what's missing in the current stack that needs to be built. - Evaluation tools: For participants focused on impact assessment, we work on evaluator workflows: how evaluations are structured as records, how they accumulate over time, and how to design tools that help domain experts and communities surface meaningful signal. We'll start with a short check-in to map who's in the room (builders, funders, evaluators, researchers, curious newcomers) and use that to set the agenda for the rest of the session. Most workshops will end up doing two of the three threads in parallel. **What participants leave with:** a concrete sketch, technical starting point, or evaluation design for their own work; a working vocabulary for hypercerts and ATProto-based coordination; and direct contact with others working on adjacent problems. **Scheduling note:** This workshop pairs with the 30-min talk Funding on the Open Social Web: Hypercerts on AT Protocol and is best scheduled after it. Attending the talk is helpful but not required — we'll do a fast recap at the start. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MTEXYN/ Birch Salon Holke Sharfy Adamantine karma David Dao PUBLISH Z8FRLZ@@talx.dod.ngo -Z8FRLZ Five Minutes on the Ethical Technology Assessment (ETA) — A Community-Owned Living Scoring Assessment for Tools, Datasets, seeds and software en en 20260710T150000 20260710T151000 0.01000 Five Minutes on the Ethical Technology Assessment (ETA) — A Community-Owned Living Scoring Assessment for Tools, Datasets, seeds and software The framing: most technology-ethics frameworks deployed at scale produce badges, not accountability. A vendor pays a certifier; the certifier issues a passed-or-failed mark; the mark is valid for a fixed period regardless of how the tool changes; disputes go back to the certifier who has a financial relationship with the assessed tool. The resulting framework is legible in the sense that procurement officers can check a box, but it is not trustworthy in any meaningful sense. The DWeb community knows this pattern from the supply-chain audit industry, from the carbon-credit industry, from the privacy-policy industry. Each of these produces compliance theater — the appearance of governance without the substance. The Ethical Technology Assessment (ETA) framework was built to displace this pattern in the agricultural-knowledge commons specifically, and the architecture transfers cleanly to any commons that needs an honest-and-durable way to ask should we use this tool? The framework is documented as ETA Framework v1.0 (February 2026, OpenTEAM / Ag Knowledge Concordance, CC BY 4.0) and runs on a single-page assessment tool that opens in any browser, with no install, no account, and no cloud dependency. The lightning talk introduces the framework's three sharp design choices, shows the tool running live for approximately ninety seconds on a real tool the audience names from the floor, and closes with three concrete next actions. Design choice one — three confidence tiers with structural decay. Tier 1 (Provisional / steward self-assessment) has its score penalized by a 0.92 confidence modifier. Tier 2 (Peer-reviewed / at least one certified peer reviewer has verified or challenged claims) is at face value. Tier 3 (Audited / a designated ecosystem steward — OpenTEAM, AKC, or Farm Hack — has completed a structured audit) gets a 1.04 boost capped at 100. A self-assessed score of 88 displays as 81. After peer review, it shows as 88. After full audit, it shows as 92. The confidence tier is as important as the score — a Tier 3 score of 78 is more trustworthy than a Tier 1 score of 90. Confidence decays: any card not re-reviewed within 18 months (12 for datasets) automatically drops one tier and receives a Needs review public flag. The framework creates its own renewal cycle, without manual administration. Design choice two — claim-level evidence threading and structured dispute resolution. Rather than treating the assessment as a single monolithic score, each individual claim is separately reviewable and attributable. Every gate result, score bar, and flag has an attached evidence thread: who claimed it, when, on what evidence, and what its current status is (Confirmed / Contested / Under review / Superseded). When a reviewer disagrees with a claim, they open a dispute on the specific claim. The steward has 30 days to respond. If unresolved, an ecosystem steward arbitrates. The card is publicly flagged Contested claim throughout. Contested claims are not hidden — a card with two open disputes and Confidence 2/3 is more trustworthy than an unchallenged Confidence 1/3 card, because it demonstrates the community is actively engaging with the evidence. Design choice three — one framework, five card types. The same four-gate entry structure (G1 Transparency, G2 Rights & Control, G3 No Abuse, G4 Safety & Stewardship) anchors Hardware ETA, Software ETA, DTAP — Data Trust Assessment Protocol (six trust dimensions: Consent rigour, Scientific validity, Interoperability, Discoverability, Longitudinal integrity, Governance), Guardian Connector (Indigenous data sovereignty, four pillars aligned with CARE Principles), and Seeds & Germplasm (four pillars derived from the Wheat Workers' Code of Ethics). The cards differ in the specific questions asked within each category, but the architecture is shared, the scoring is unified on a 0–100 scale, and the assessment lives on the same Pi 5-hostable infrastructure. The live tool demo. Approximately 90 seconds in the middle of the talk. The unified ETA assessment tool — Hardware / Software / DTAP / Guardian Connector / Seeds — opens in any browser. The speaker asks the audience to name a tool. The speaker scores it on the four binary gates in real time, then walks two category scores, then commits the result with a confidence-tier badge to a shared Git repository on the projector. The audience sees the framework run in operation in under two minutes. The three next actions, at the close. Score a tool you actually use. The unified ETA tool URL is in the printed handout and on the QR code in the lower-right of the final slide. Take three minutes, score one tool, commit it to your community's Git repository or to the OpenTEAM / AKC public ETA registry. Become a certified peer reviewer. The one-hour async orientation is on the OpenTEAM and AKC platforms. The certification requires familiarity with the card type, vouching by an existing reviewer, and agreement to the 30-day dispute-response standard. Fork the framework for your domain. The framework is CC BY 4.0 and the question sets are open. Communities outside agriculture have already begun forking the structure for open-source software more broadly, for citizen-science datasets, and for community-owned hardware lending libraries. The structure works. The deeper sessions for participants who want more. GIAA Sessions (the full 60-minute workshop), the Farm Hack Box Technical Workshop (Submission in the longer GIAA submission set), and the GIAA / Farm Hack Box Federated Tool Library session (Submission). The lightning talk is the on-ramp; the workshops are the working sessions. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/Z8FRLZ/ Birch Salon Dorn Cox PUBLISH FYZ9NG@@talx.dod.ngo -FYZ9NG Let's Play Stewarding Digital Infrastructure en en 20260710T151500 20260710T161500 1.00000 Let's Play Stewarding Digital Infrastructure In this interactive, participatory workshop, we will use games as thought experiments to discover potential methods, structures, funding models and so on that will allow us to effectively steward and sustain digital technologies at scale. For example, Clayton Christensen's Conservation of Attractive Profits is a theory that explains how profits shift within value chains when a previously scarce and profitable part becomes commoditized. Entrepreneurs inspired by and running this playbook understand that decentralizing code production commoditizes IP, and so the value and profit will move to what's scarce (eg. the ability to run and deploy that code). In this model, if society was to successfully commoditize the platform model, profits would again shift elsewhere. We should ask ourselves if this is really true or not and test these questions through play. Games allow us to explore different situations rapidly and under concrete rules; to enable us to test if such structures will effectively coordinate positive outcomes. The table of elements for our world includes bylaws, voting rights, legal agreements, capital flows, incentives and so on. We will rapidly assemble and dissemble collective structures and wonder together how they would navigate the messy, noisy world. Where does centralization happen? How do you fund infrastructure growth without enshittification? What governance mechanisms actually prevent forced sales or investor capture? And how could we balance the competing interests in a deeply connected ecosystem of regulators, technologists, funds, entrepreneurs and so on? By the end of the workshop, we will gain new language to describe the shape of any collective enterprise and all come away with a more concrete understanding of the available viable paths ahead for stewarding our collective digital infrastructure. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FYZ9NG/ Birch Salon Gavin Owens PUBLISH 8R9EZV@@talx.dod.ngo -8R9EZV Governing & Sustaining Democratic Tech: From Autonomy to Collective Design en en 20260710T163000 20260710T180000 1.03000 Governing & Sustaining Democratic Tech: From Autonomy to Collective Design Part 1: Immersive Role Play: Who decides? Who owns? How is value redistributed? (45 min, Olivier Schulbaum) Every organisation already plays a game. The question is: who wrote the rules, and who benefits from them? Olivier Schulbaum will lead an immersive role play session inspired by Platoniq's Think Like a Platform methodology. This approach treats organisations not as fixed structures but as platforms of relationships — systems in which decisions, resources, and value either circulate or fail to circulate. What organisational charts usually hide becomes visible here: flows of power, forms of participation, and the often invisible rules that shape who benefits and who sustains the system. The role play unfolds through a deliberately provocative metaphor: a game of baseball. Four bases structure the field, each representing a different stakeholder position — communities, funders, builders and maintainers, and the core coordinating team. Each position embodies a different relationship to value and a different capacity to influence the game. Participants step into these roles and, from within them, begin to see what governance actually does — as opposed to what it claims to do. The exercise surfaces questions that are often implicit but rarely addressed directly: where authority is located versus where it is merely performed; who carries the system when funding disappears; who absorbs uncertainty and maintenance; and what funding quietly reshapes in return. From there, the role play takes a turn. The metaphor of baseball is brought in not as a neutral game, but as a form of capitalist entertainment built on fixed positions, clear winners, and value measured through accumulation. Participants are invited to unsettle it — to flip the inherited model, disrupt the default logic, and reimagine the field itself. Roles shift, value begins to circulate differently, and cooperation starts to replace competition. The question that closes this part is simple and generative: if the DTF is already a platform, who has the power to rewrite its code? Part 2: Co-design: translating insights into governance models and next steps (35 min, Wouter Tebbens, Sophie Bloemen and Martijn de Waal) Building on what the role play makes visible, this co-design session moves from reflection to construction. Public software requires the collaboration of multiple stakeholders — not only in the initial development of a product, but in an ongoing process of making, implementing, and evaluating. That requires an institutional form capable of governing both the software itself and the values that underpin it. Rather than aiming for a single solution, the goal is to map a space of possibilities. Drawing directly on the insights and tensions surfaced in the role play, participants work in small groups to sketch different ways of organising responsibility, distributing power, and ensuring long-term sustainability for democratic tech initiatives. Who should be part of such an institution? What safeguards must protect its public and commons-oriented mission? What can we learn, visually and structurally, from what the role play revealed? The session closes with a grounded, practical question: what does this mean for the DTF's next three months? Timeline: Role play (45') → Co-design (35') → Closing synthesis (10') PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8R9EZV/ Birch Salon Wouter Tebbens Olivier Schulbaum (platoniq) Sophie Bloemen Martijn de Waal PUBLISH 9HRBJV@@talx.dod.ngo -9HRBJV Opening conversation - Preserving agency and the commons en en 20260710T093000 20260710T100000 0.03000 Opening conversation - Preserving agency and the commons Public AI means building for increased agency and shared prosperity. We'll open the day's conversations with a group discussion on balancing the benefits of open knowledge with the challenges of shared infrastructure. Three features of public AI can put the public in the driver’s seat and accelerate us towards the common good: - Public Access – Certain capabilities are so important for participation in public life that access to them should be universal. Public AI provides affordable access to these tools so that everyone can realize their potential. - Public Accountability – Public AI earns trust by ensuring ultimate control of development rests with the public, giving everyone a chance to participate in shaping the future. - Permanent Public Goods – Public AI is funded and operated in a way to maintain the public goods it produces permanently, enabling innovators to safely build on a firm foundation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/9HRBJV/ AI Barn B Cavello SJ Klein PUBLISH EG3FTA@@talx.dod.ngo -EG3FTA Decentralized Trust Networks in the Age of AI en en 20260710T100000 20260710T101000 0.01000 Decentralized Trust Networks in the Age of AI We are at a crossroads. The next age of humanity will be shaped by AI, identity systems, and digitized trust — the only question is who shapes them, and whose interests get encoded into the substrate. Right now, the direction of travel is bad. Trust in institutions is in decline. Inequality is being hard-coded into the platforms we depend on. AI capability is concentrating in the hands of a few entities with the compute to train and serve it. And on the open internet, we are losing the ability to tell who — or what — we are talking to. Human? AI? Whose AI? These aren't separate problems. They share a root cause: we've outsourced the production of trust to centralized intermediaries, and those intermediaries are now also the gatekeepers of computation, capital, and identity. The same actor verifies you, ranks you, and runs the model that talks to you. That is not a stable arrangement, and it is not one we should want to stabilize. The alternative isn't another platform, and it isn't anonymity. It's a decentralized trust network — a base layer where humanity can be proven, identity is held locally, and trust propagates through a graph that humans themselves shape. Concretely: Alice gets a humanity attestation from her local trust circle — people who know her, vouch for her, whose own attestations form a web she carries into the network. With it, she delegates a personal AI agent that carries her identity outward. It's her agent. It's bound to a human. And when it speaks to yours, both sides can verify there's a person on the other end of the chain. This is where topology becomes the design surface. A trust network is a graph, and the shape of that graph determines what the system can do — how attestations compose, how sybil resistance emerges from social structure rather than central authority, how locality and delegation work. Letting topology emerge by accident gives you the social graphs we already have, optimized for capture. Designing it intentionally gives you a substrate other networks can safely build on. A mesh of AI agents anchored to people becomes a real counterweight to centralized model providers. Funding networks can route capital through human-attested graphs instead of platform algorithms. Reputation, coordination, governance — all of it can sit on a base layer that wasn't designed to extract from its users. We're here because the people in this room are the ones who can build this substrate — or watch something worse get built by default. Trust is infrastructure now. Decide what shape you want it to have, before someone else decides for you. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/EG3FTA/ AI Barn Artem Brazhnikov PUBLISH ZLF38Z@@talx.dod.ngo -ZLF38Z Activation Layer of Decentralized AI en en 20260710T103000 20260710T110000 0.03000 Activation Layer of Decentralized AI PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZLF38Z/ AI Barn Bradley Clark Royes PUBLISH FDVJJR@@talx.dod.ngo -FDVJJR Breaking Up with Big Tech: Making Local-first Community AI Real (Panel + Hands On Session) en en 20260710T110000 20260710T123000 1.03000 Breaking Up with Big Tech: Making Local-first Community AI Real (Panel + Hands On Session) On the panel, Václav Pavlín, Bruno Caldas Vianna, and Wouter Kampmann will share their learnings from working on peer-to-peer and local-first tech and talk about what it takes to make local AI more accessible, useful, and fun. Following the discussion, we'll open up the space for some group hacking and knowledge-sharing as people learn to host their own AI assistants or rebuild anything from CMS systems to social media platforms as local-first experiences. About our panelists: **Václav Pavlín** is a Logos contributor who spent 10 years at Red Hat building Open Source. **Wouter Kampmann** has worked on Defi at MakerDAO since 2017, before shifting focus to decentralized organizations and local-first application building at Powerhouse. **Bruno Caldas Vianna** lives in Barcelona. In 2024, he obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland, investigating visual arts and artificial intelligence. Bruno is a professor at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CITM-UPC) and also teaches at Elisava University in Barcelona. This panel will be moderated by **B Cavello**, Director of Emerging Technologies at the Aspen Institute and leader in the movement for public AI. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FDVJJR/ AI Barn B Cavello Wouter Kampmann | Powerhouse bruno Václav Pavlín PUBLISH 8NAPNG@@talx.dod.ngo -8NAPNG What AI Submissions Taught Us About Funding Open Infrastructure: Lessons from Lambda Prize en en 20260710T150000 20260710T151000 0.01000 What AI Submissions Taught Us About Funding Open Infrastructure: Lessons from Lambda Prize Recently, we launched Lambda Prize, a developer incentive program for the Logos ecosystem where we offer competitive prizes for building privacy-preserving infrastructure. Modeled after the XPRIZE, it is first-come-first-served: submit working code that meets criteria, get paid. We thought that's straightforward and a pretty solid incentive. To our surprise, many vibecoders thought the same as we started to receive AI-generated submissions. It was complete but sloppy code that did pass the stated criteria but didn't integrate properly or had consequential unstated assumptions. We'll share our experience and how we are trying to filter for and promote high quality contributions with reasonable AI usage. As part of that, this talk explores what the rapid AI coding advancements mean for incentive programs designed to fund open source contributions, and conversely what this means for the future of sustaining open infrastructure. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8NAPNG/ AI Barn Martin Strobl PUBLISH JPEM7H@@talx.dod.ngo -JPEM7H The Open Metadata Exchange: Enabling Open Education Resource Access Across Libraries en en 20260710T151500 20260710T161500 1.00000 The Open Metadata Exchange: Enabling Open Education Resource Access Across Libraries This session introduces the **Open Metadata Exchange (OME)**, a decentralized network of open libraries that serves as a force multiplier in the search, discovery, and sustainability of open educational resources. It achieves this by activating the curatorial experience and expertise of librarians across the world, supercharging the exchange of each other’s open educational resource metadata. The OME provides the infrastructure for libraries and end users to discover, publish, and share resources across libraries. Open Educational Resources (OER), as defined by UNESCO, are teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely accessible and openly licensed for reuse, adaptation, and redistribution. OER can include textbooks, lesson plans, datasets, simulations, videos, and audio created and maintained by governments, universities, nonprofits, and other institutions. Research on the use of OER, teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely accessible and openly licensed for reuse, adaptation, and redistribution, has shown that student outcomes using OER are often comparable to or better than those achieved with traditional commercial materials. They also offer significant potential to expand access to knowledge and reduce the cost of education. Yet, search and discovery of OER is fragmented, and these open library platforms operate in silos, which results in: - Duplicated efforts to discover, tag, and curate similar materials across platforms - Limited visibility into relevant resources held by other libraries - Metadata inconsistencies that make cross-platform cataloging cumbersome The OME addresses these challenges by making it easier for libraries to share, discover, and reuse metadata while maintaining local standards and control. The infrastructure of the OME harnesses and makes use of the curatorial expertise of librarians who have invested significant time and effort in cataloging and evaluating resources within individual libraries. Some salient features of the OME include: - **Voluntary Participation**: Libraries and repositories can choose to join the OME network and become a participating “node” in the network. They independently decide what metadata they share and under what conditions. - **Share Metadata/Resources**: Participating institutions publish metadata about their resources in their preferred structure. The OME network will help map this to the metadata structures across libraries. - **Cross-Library Discovery**: Other connected libraries can search, subscribe to, and access shared metadata across the network. - **Flexible Cataloging**: Libraries can import relevant metadata and associated resources into their local systems while maintaining their own cataloging standards. - **Decentralized, Community-Governed Network**: OME operates as a decentralized system governed by a representative body of participating organizations and institutions. ISKME will steward the governance framework in the early stages, with the intention of transitioning ownership and decision-making to participating libraries as the network matures. The initial part of the workshop will elaborate on the functioning of the OME, with a focus on what it means for a library or OER platform to participate in the metadata exchange. We envision the OME architecture as a system that is collectively stewarded by the open source and open education communities. In that spirit, the workshop will engage the conference participants in small group discussions designed to invite participants to collaboratively explore how to ensure that the OME benefits an inclusive and broad open education ecosystem. It will also identify ways in which they can participate or contribute to the development of the OME and the operational and governing principles of the commons-based model that the OME seeks to advance. Some of the guiding questions for the discussion include: - What strategies can help sustain the development and utilization of this system? - What barriers to participation must be addressed? - What governance policies are needed to enable high-quality, open exchange of OER across participating libraries? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JPEM7H/ AI Barn Christian Clauss Lisa Petrides PUBLISH N7FZWM@@talx.dod.ngo -N7FZWM Save the Open Web from Evil Scraping Bots en en 20260710T163000 20260710T164000 0.01000 Save the Open Web from Evil Scraping Bots As I wrote, I don't have any answers, but I'm sure other people have thought more deeply about it. I can't do this session by myself, maybe it should be more of a BOF gathering, I'm submitting this hoping that it nucleates some good conversation. Ideas: - cryptographic user agents? - aggregated reputation? - metered fastlane access? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/N7FZWM/ AI Barn ERIC HELLMAN PUBLISH XNMZMJ@@talx.dod.ngo -XNMZMJ Fingers on the Pulse: A Participative Sonic Meditation en en 20260710T200000 20260710T210000 1.00000 Fingers on the Pulse: A Participative Sonic Meditation Fingers on the Pulse was a participative sonic meditation debuted in Lisboa, Portugal in September of 2025. This is an ongoing work, with plans to present at music festivals over the next year. I’m proposing a modified “dweb specific” version here, which would involve participants providing their own phones / using a web interface (instead of using piezos), and me performing from my mac mini instead of a full modular synthesizer setup (for portability / dweb camping friendliness sake lol) Here was the original description, pulled from its presentation last year https://thresher999.com Fingers on the Pulse by Pearl M Wong What arises when we distribute and coordinate the operation of the clock itself - what do we become if we practice grooving as one, taking turns wielding the power to move the arm of time forward, each depending on the last to keep the groove alive and interesting? Players will be invited to listen and keep time together in a seated circle, with touching hands rested on electro-acoustic piezo mics. These piezo triggers step forward the internal clock of a multimodal modular synthesizer, steered by the Thresher Trio, assembled with the intent to investigate the perceptual edges between paradigms of synthesis (analog & digital sonics, East/West coast, sampling, dub feedback, spectralist signal processing, scent, light). Each player will await the finger tap of the player before them, the signal call of the incoming pulse train, and will then respond by tapping with their other hand, rested against the next player’s hand. As such, each player is actively folding and posturing the skeleton of the collected rhythm, while listening for what it is trying to say. Can we bring the spacetime that exists between moments and inside ourselves into sharper focus? What voice emerges when identity is a “yes-and” timing protocol between friends? Perhaps your bones will learn some math. If not, maybe you’ll have a laugh. In this cosmos, there is but one song, and we all only carry subsections of it. With luck and grace, we can learn to make our transitions sound sweet, together. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XNMZMJ/ AI Barn Pearlmwong PUBLISH 8S7M3X@@talx.dod.ngo -8S7M3X Vibes from Back Home, Planet Earth en en 20260710T210000 20260710T220000 1.00000 Vibes from Back Home, Planet Earth We've gathered campers from all around the world together here in Germany. Come listen and dance as a way of getting to know each other more deeply! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8S7M3X/ AI Barn Micah Riley Wong Camille Nibungco Shadrach Victor Von PUBLISH ZGM8XA@@talx.dod.ngo -ZGM8XA Co-creating speculative fiction with unhoused and formerly unhoused artists on Skid Row for a reparative urban science en en 20260710T093000 20260710T094500 0.01500 Co-creating speculative fiction with unhoused and formerly unhoused artists on Skid Row for a reparative urban science Trauma-informed facilitation in the expressive arts offers a way to understand priorities in design that otherwise may go unnoticed or undervalued. This lightning talk presents some recent engagements I’ve had with a group of unhoused and formerly unhoused performance artists from my neighborhood theatre group. Each member was given a character sheet, from which we imagined factions and roles in a counter-factual mid-century Los Angeles ruled by Japanese imperialists affected by a “blue fog” that provoked hauntings for those who neglected their ancestral histories. This prompt was intended as a site-specific bridge between Skid Row, the largest enclosure of unhoused people in the U.S., and Little Tokyo, a neighboring area with a significant Asian-American presence under similar pressures of gentrification. While this co-creation workshop was an exercise in bridging imaginaries through fiction, it also opened up discussions about extraction, technology, AI and race. This lightning talk is a mode to introduce my community of practice through story and invite further discussion on topics of reparative and restorative art-making, solidarity infrastructures, structural racism, and abuse recovery. My talk is a gesture to bridge my documentary film-making and relational knowledge with protocol design and engineering. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZGM8XA/ Creativity Lounge newswimming PUBLISH GF7Z7N@@talx.dod.ngo -GF7Z7N Protopian Prize Fiction Contest (Writing Workshop) en en 20260710T094500 20260710T111500 1.03000 Protopian Prize Fiction Contest (Writing Workshop) The Protopian Prize is a new fiction contest inviting artists, storytellers, and dreamers to share their vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change - hosted by Metagov and the Public AI Network. Visit ProtopianPrize.com for more information about the prize. “Protopian” — a word coined by Kevin Kelly, one of our contest's judges — means an achievable, optimistic future characterized by continuous, incremental progress rather than revolutionary leaps or a static, perfect state. Protopian stories imagine a future that is neither flawless nor catastrophic, but instead workably better than today. It’s about plausible progress rather than perfection or collapse. In 2026, we will present prizes in two categories: 1) Public AI: Imagine AI development, policy, and tools, built for—and following basic principles of— public benefit. 2) Democratic Futures: Imagine institutions, tools, and organizational methods that expand and enhance public autonomy and shared control over societal futures. The contest is open for submissions May 1st - July 31st. We are seeking previously unpublished short stories of 500 - 6,000 words. Winners from will receive $5,000 for each category and the opportunity to have your story read by an incredible panel of judges including Ruthanna Emrys, Gideon Lichfield, Kevin Kelly, Annalee Newitz, Arati Prabhakar, Karl Schroeder, Ida Yoshinaga, Hannu Rajaniemi, and Deji Olukotun. This workshop will consist mostly of focused, quiet writing time sprinkled with opportunities for sharing ideas, getting feedback, and engaging with Protopian-inspired story prompts. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/GF7Z7N/ Creativity Lounge Val Elefante PUBLISH UB9SPN@@talx.dod.ngo -UB9SPN Imagine it! Build it! Tinkering Time: Field Trip! Shadow Play and Animation Workshop with Julia of Trickmisch en en 20260710T163000 20260710T173000 1.00000 Imagine it! Build it! Tinkering Time: Field Trip! Shadow Play and Animation Workshop with Julia of Trickmisch This "Tinkering Time" takes a field trip visit to meet with animator Julia Kapelle of Tricksmisch to learn about stop motion animation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UB9SPN/ Creativity Lounge 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Julis Ishadai Sky PUBLISH 77PNEK@@talx.dod.ngo -77PNEK You want to share information offline? Let's make zines! en en 20260710T111500 20260710T123000 1.01500 You want to share information offline? Let's make zines! We will start the practical part with a round of introductions and a guided brainstorming session to spark ideas for zine topics, formats, types of content, design, tools, and distribution strategies. This is also a great opportunity to get to know each other: feel free to team up with your neighbor or work solo. I’ll be walking around the room to answer any questions, and there will be a selection of zines for inspiration, plus instructions for folding and binding. There will be plenty of pens, paper, and some other making materials. No experience is needed, everyone is welcome. Let’s get folding! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/77PNEK/ Creativity Dome Marie PUBLISH UWFRSJ@@talx.dod.ngo -UWFRSJ Poetry, Lyric & Melody Circle en en 20260710T140000 20260710T150000 1.00000 Poetry, Lyric & Melody Circle A circle for sharing words and song. Bring something you love: your own writing, a poem, a lyric, a passage from an essay, or the spec of a protocol you care about. After quiet reflection, time to write, and a gentle singing warmup, and from there the session unfolds around the circle as participants are moved to share. People might recite, read, rap, or sing what they brought, or read something fresh they just wrote, or pass and listen. No musical skill required, just words worth sharing and a willingness to make sound with others. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UWFRSJ/ Creativity Dome Micah Guo Liu Esther Jang PUBLISH QSAZ8F@@talx.dod.ngo -QSAZ8F 🧶 Knitting Our Internet – A journey through the history of decentralisation en en 20260710T150000 20260710T160000 1.00000 🧶 Knitting Our Internet – A journey through the history of decentralisation We are building the decentralised web of the future, but how was it in the beginning? Who made it, and why? How did it degenerate in a handful of centralised platforms, and how can we make decentralisation cool again? Let’s learn from the past to knit the internet of the future. --- _[Knitting Our Internet](https://ournet.rocks/)_ is an interactive journey through the history of the Internet, and a collective rethinking of its future. It is a workshop that provides tangible and simple examples about how the Internet works, simultaneously questioning the very essence of today’s mainstream social networks. Its main purpose is to expose the critical limits of surveillance capitalism, centralisation, and its environmental impact. After acknowledging the challenges the digital domain is currently facing, participants are encouraged to reinterpret social networks starting from decentralisation, envisioning more human, collective, and participatory digital futures. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QSAZ8F/ Creativity Dome Tommi PUBLISH AR77NW@@talx.dod.ngo -AR77NW World of UR (Live Music Set) en en 20260710T193000 20260710T203000 1.00000 World of UR (Live Music Set) Come join us at the Creativity Dome to refresh & renew your spirits through a collective experience in music. URjahreszeiten III. URsommer Wasserschloss Unten beim Schloss, am Seerosenteich, wird Junges alt und Hartes weich. Die Sommer schrecken jäh das verwirrte Dunkle, das sich hastend verbirgt vor dem blinkenden Funkeln. In den dampfenden Schatten versiegt das graugrüne Wasser, alles klagt: Regen, mach das Feuchte nasser! Bring uns Wasser, wir dürsten so sehr. Hab Erbarmen, bring uns das labende Wasser hierher. In den schwülen Nächten mit flatterndem Puls, liegen die Sterbenden im morschenden Unterholz. Die Körper, sie gieren nach Leben und geben das Leben auch mit dem letzten Atemzug nicht auf. Der erste entsetzliche Sonnenstrahl fährt, gleich nachtkaltem Stahl in die nun toten Seelen, die sich sachte davonstehlen, sie geben nicht auf. Die Stille der Nacht ergibt sich dem tosenden Leben, selbst die Toten zucken nerval und wollen geben und leben‚ und mit irisierenden Schwingen verlassen die mächtigen Reiher den Teich und fliegen über die Trassen und über die Felder, die unter ihnen giftgelb stinken. Die Toten der Nacht sehnen ihnen nach, während ihre Leiber versinken in ewigem Ertrinken. Die Milliarden Flügel verwirbeln die Lüfte und verteilen die Botschaften der irdenen Düfte in alle Winkel der vibrierenden Erde, wo sie vom Leben zerkaut und verstanden werden. In den Himmeln gibt es nur Leben sonst nichts; jubilierend durchpflügt es die dräuenden Wolken und schmiegt sich in die wärmenden Strahlen gleißenden Lichts. Doch der erstaunte Planet dreht sich knirschend weiter. Lava schwillt hervor als gelbroter Eiter. Die Wunden versteinern widerstrebend, starr und stumpf starren junge Berge, bebend, in die alte Welt, hinüber zu den Zypressenwäldern, weithin über die Steppen, die Seen und über die Felder, bis hin zu den Meeren und darüber hinfort, bis in den letzten Winkel und in jeden Ort. Doch die Nacht reißt ein Loch in das Helle und überschwemmt die Erde wie eine pechschwarze Welle. Die Frösche schreien verzweifelt nach Ihresgleichen, hier unten beim Schloss, bei den sumpfigen Teichen. Die Schafe erschauern und drängen sich wärmend zusammen, die am Rande des Teichs blicken ängstlich zu den nahen Tannen, wo bernsteinerne Augen gierig und kalt seibern, ein Schnaufen und Stöhnen bricht aus den wolligen Leibern. Doch mit einem Mal stürzt, wie ein Liebender, ein Tropfen Nasses hernieder und dann noch einer und wieder und wieder. Der Regen ist da und schlägt wie Milliarden Meteoriten in die sich dehnenden Teiche, die spritzen und wüten. Alles was lebt, hebt den Kopf, und das Tote vermischt sich und währt in diesem Moment und auch für den nächsten – ewiglich. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AR77NW/ Creativity Dome Lauscher & Mandina PUBLISH 9UC7RB@@talx.dod.ngo -9UC7RB Candlelight Readings en en 20260710T210000 20260710T220000 1.00000 Candlelight Readings Writing read aloud PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/9UC7RB/ Creativity Dome Liz Barry mai ishikawa sutton PUBLISH CNRTZ7@@talx.dod.ngo -CNRTZ7 Autonomous Economies Need Decentralized Infrastructure en en 20260710T093000 20260710T100000 0.03000 Autonomous Economies Need Decentralized Infrastructure As AI systems evolve from passive tools into autonomous agents, they increasingly require infrastructure traditionally designed for humans: payments, identity, memory, communication, coordination, and governance. Today, much of the AI ecosystem depends on highly centralized infrastructure layers — from model inference and cloud providers to payment systems and data ownership. This creates important questions around privacy, censorship, interoperability, resilience, and control. This session explores how decentralized web technologies can become foundational infrastructure for the next generation of autonomous digital economies. Topics covered in the session include: - Why AI agents may become economic participants rather than simple assistants - How stablecoins enable programmable, borderless machine-to-machine payments - The role of decentralized identity and verifiable credentials for autonomous systems - Decentralized inference and privacy-preserving AI architectures - Open protocols for agent coordination and interoperability - Local-first and peer-to-peer AI systems - Risks of centralized AI infrastructure and emerging alternatives - Real-world applications across finance, agriculture, creator economies, logistics, and global collaboration Rather than viewing AI and decentralization as separate movements, this session explores how they may naturally converge to support more open, resilient, and globally accessible digital systems. The goal of the session is not just to discuss future theory, but to examine practical infrastructure patterns that developers, researchers, and communities can begin building today :) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CNRTZ7/ Idea Stage Sarthi B PUBLISH 7EXQTA@@talx.dod.ngo -7EXQTA Erecting resilient legal and financial structures to run our infrastructure en en 20260710T100000 20260710T103000 0.03000 Erecting resilient legal and financial structures to run our infrastructure Looking at all our efforts from my own field of expertise, it strikes me that we eventually be in need of sustainable, resilient, maybe covert and clandestine legal and financial structures to keep the infrastructure we will be running under dire circumstance alive. What will eventually be needed, are legal entities in networks over serveral different jurisdictions in different parts of the world, themselves maintained and run by people who are prepared to potentially take calculated risks within redundant legal and financial structures. We need to have a look at tools and structures that the people we often dislike, the money-launderers, tax-evaders, shady business owners apply to keep their ventures afloat. May we like it or not. Shell companies, crypto, legal proxies, off-shore finance, all that stuff must be re-purposed to be ready for the uncertain future. Most of us are, for natural reasons, not very keen or interested in such endeavors, and, for this time, I don’t want to stress your attention span vor more than half an intensive hour; but I hope this will perhaps spark the conversations we need to have as long as we have time to prepare. So, may I invite you to a short tour around this part of reality we often don’t look at with too much attention. I am in the category “old growth” and looking for the few that have the knowledge and experience, and resources, to carefully plan for an implement what we need. Welcome. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7EXQTA/ Idea Stage ajuvo Stephan PUBLISH 3KGBEF@@talx.dod.ngo -3KGBEF From solo bug to collective evidence: fighting for Interoperability under the DMA en en 20260710T110000 20260710T113000 0.03000 From solo bug to collective evidence: fighting for Interoperability under the DMA Free Software communities need interoperability to build meaningful alternatives to dominant mobile platforms, but the gap between a legal right and a usable one is vast. This talk focuses on what Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act means concretely for developers targeting iOS and Android: how to initiate an interoperability request, what obstacles to expect, and how to navigate a process that is often opaque, resource-intensive, and designed to discourage smaller or volunteer-driven projects. Beyond explaining the mechanics, this session introduces the FSFE's DMA Interoperability Survey as a community-driven instrument for collective action. By documenting individual experiences with gatekeepers, developers contribute to a shared body of evidence that no single project could build alone, evidence that can directly counter the technical and legal narratives gatekeepers use to justify non-compliance or minimal implementation. The talk is also an open call: to developers who have already tried to access platform APIs or request interoperability, and to those with the technical depth to scrutinize gatekeeper claims and help regulators understand what genuine interoperability would look like. Enforcement of the DMA will not happen through regulation alone, it depends on sustained, technically informed community participation. This session is a starting point for building that participation together. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3KGBEF/ Idea Stage Dario Presutti PUBLISH FMKD8P@@talx.dod.ngo -FMKD8P Where does Ethereum fit in the decentralized web? en en 20260710T114500 20260710T121500 0.03000 Where does Ethereum fit in the decentralized web? Ethereum is decentralized, credibly-neutral infrastructure that maintains global verifiable state. This talk covers what it takes to design and build a protocol at this scale, how the protocol functions today and the work shaping its near future. Topics include censorship resistance, pushing performance without sacrificing the protocol's values, post-quantum cryptography and more. From there, the conversation opens up to the room: where does Ethereum fit in the decentralized web? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FMKD8P/ Idea Stage Jihoon Song PUBLISH PHHFNF@@talx.dod.ngo -PHHFNF P2P financing models in cooperative ecosystems en en 20260710T150000 20260710T160000 1.00000 P2P financing models in cooperative ecosystems P2P financing models in cooperative ecosystems (Ela Kagel & Andreas Arnold, Platform Coops eG) Digital communities increasingly depend on infrastructure they do not own. Platforms extract value, financial systems centralise decision-making, and communities often struggle to sustain the technologies they collectively build. Ela Kagel and Andreas Arnold, co-founders of Platform Coops eG in Berlin, will explore three interconnected layers of cooperative economy-building. The first is pooling resources collectively — organising shared demand, shared ownership, and cooperative governance to keep value circulating within communities rather than flowing outward. The second is peer-to-peer finance and community capital — reclaiming tools such as lending, crowdfunding, solidarity funds, and cooperative banking as instruments governed directly by communities. The third is creating our own means of exchange — exploring digital currencies, community-based monetary systems, and cooperative stablecoin experiments as emerging infrastructure for democratic coordination. Drawing on experiences from cooperative movements and Web3 experimentation, the workshop connects historical cooperative practices with contemporary decentralised technologies — from cooperative marketplaces and community banks to Circles UBI, Breadchain, and quadratic funding. Through guided discussion and collaborative exercises, participants will examine how these mechanisms already emerge within their own communities, and how they might be redesigned to better support solidarity, sustainability, and collective autonomy. No prior knowledge of finance, cooperatives, or Web3 is required — only curiosity about how communities can build and sustain their own economic systems together. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PHHFNF/ Idea Stage Wouter Tebbens Andreas Arnold PUBLISH E7SGBP@@talx.dod.ngo -E7SGBP Our fight for Device Neutrality in Europe en en 20260710T160000 20260710T163000 0.03000 Our fight for Device Neutrality in Europe What will the Internet of the future look like? Will we have full control over our devices? The Free Software Foundation Europe envisions an Internet that is accessible and diverse, and respects fundamental rights. We envision a society where everyone has full control over their devices. We believe that Free Software is key to accomplishing this vision, so that all people, regardless of their background, are able to use the Internet as an effective tool to achieve their full potential. However, there are several hurdles in the way of achieving that. Big tech and market concentration are two of the most serious threats to a decentralised Internet and free devices. This talk will guide you through several initiatives the FSFE has been conducting in the last years to overcome these challenges, such as: Device Neutrality: Our digital devices should be neutral concerning the software we run on them. Device manufacturers and vendors should not dictate which software we should run. Instead, we should be empowered to enjoy software freedom in our devices. This talk will focus on how interoperability can be a tool to break tech monopolies and how the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a recent law aimed at levelling the playing field between big tech and small tech, plays a role in that. The FSFE has been working with policymakers to enforce this law in a Free Software-friendly way, empowering them with different tools which the presentation will introduce. Router Freedom: People should have the same freedom to choose their home networking devices as they do when buying a mobile phone, yet some European Internet providers force customers to use specific hardware or penalise those with alternative routers. We will delve into the latest developments of Router Freedom in Europe and will highlight the work the FSFE has been doing to protect European users. The Next Generation Internet: Finally, we will dive into the project funded by the EU that aims to change the landscape of the Internet with Free Software. With more than 400 software projects working in several key areas of the Internet, the NGI is a bold initiative to develop alternatives that are not dependent on the monopolistic control of big tech. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/E7SGBP/ Idea Stage Dario Presutti PUBLISH X3S8ZN@@talx.dod.ngo -X3S8ZN Meet the Team: And Other Stuff--an open innovation collective building technology for human thriving en en 20260710T170000 20260710T180000 1.00000 Meet the Team: And Other Stuff--an open innovation collective building technology for human thriving And Other Stuff (AOS; https://andotherstuff.org/) is a freedom-tech collective building open systems that protect liberty, expand human agency, and help people connect, organize, and create without dependence on centralized platforms. Our work sits at the intersection of Nostr, Bitcoin, Cashu, decentralized infrastructure, human-centered design, AI-supported development, and community tools. At the Berlin gathering, a few members of our collective had the chance to participate and learn. Out of those conversations, we began discussing ways AOS could support DWeb Camp more directly. One possible contribution is helping BitChat serve as an offline, BLE mesh-based texting app for campers, offering a practical communication layer that works even when conventional connectivity is limited. We would also be interested in hosting an AOS “village” or tent where campers could drop by, meet members of the collective, explore our projects, and experiment with Nostr-based tools. As part of that, we could potentially run a Nostr relay just for campers, creating a local, hands-on demonstration of decentralized communication in action. We are still learning how best to offer what we have in a way that fits DWeb Camp’s needs and culture. Rather than arriving with a fixed program, we would love direction from the organizers about where our contributions would be most useful. We can support technical experimentation, informal demos, conversation spaces, and lightweight onboarding for people who are curious about Nostr, Bitcoin, Cashu, decentralized communities, and open-source product development. Liz Sweigart and Rabble, co-founding members of AOS, would be happy to offer a short lightning talk introducing the collective: who we are, what we do, how we work, what we have built so far, and why we believe open, permissionless systems are essential for human freedom and flourishing. The talk could then invite campers to connect with AOS core team members who are attending, explore specific projects, and identify opportunities for collaboration during and after camp. Our goal is to participate in a way that is useful, generous, and aligned with the DWeb Camp spirit: sharing what we know, learning from others, and helping people experience decentralized technology as something practical, creative, and community-centered. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/X3S8ZN/ Idea Stage Liz Sweigart PUBLISH AVMNLY@@talx.dod.ngo -AVMNLY Matrix Widget as Application Base en en 20260710T093000 20260710T100000 0.03000 Matrix Widget as Application Base Matrix Widgets as an Application Layer Matrix is often perceived as “just chat”, but the widget system turns Matrix into something much broader: a distributed, interoperable application runtime embedded directly into communication flows. This workshop explores Matrix-based widgets as an abstraction layer for collaborative applications. We will look at how widgets can be used to build shared tools and workflows directly inside Matrix rooms, ranging from whiteboards, dashboards, forms, bots and control panels to complex business applications and agentic systems. The session will cover both the technical architecture and the practical product perspective: how widgets interact with Matrix clients and rooms capabilities and current APIs embedding external applications securely state synchronisation and collaborative UX federation implications authentication and trust boundaries integration with existing web applications and enterprise systems At the same time, the workshop intentionally focuses on the current limitations and weak spots of the ecosystem: fragmented client support inconsistent widget capabilities across clients permission and sandboxing challenges scalability and performance constraints missing standards and MSC gaps UX friction for non-technical users long term maintainability of widget ecosystems where widgets stop being enough and native client functionality becomes necessary The goal is not to present widgets as a silver bullet, but to openly discuss where the architecture already works extremely well and where the ecosystem still needs collaboration and standardisation. This workshop is intended for: Matrix client and server developers product and UX people bridge and integration developers companies building applications on Matrix people interested in collaborative and federated software architectures Participants are encouraged to bring demos, experiments, failures, prototypes and weird ideas. The session should become a practical exchange about what an application ecosystem on top of Matrix could realistically look like over the next years. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AVMNLY/ Hackers Lab Yan Minagawa PUBLISH UBMF3U@@talx.dod.ngo -UBMF3U Apps that forget you; community tech without persistent identity en en 20260710T100000 20260710T113000 1.03000 Apps that forget you; community tech without persistent identity Almost every tool we use to organise communities starts with the same demand: create an account, prove who you are, and carry that identity with you. Over time these accounts become records of where we’ve been, who we know, what we’ve done, and what we’re allowed to access. Those records can be useful, but they can also leak, be sold, or create new barriers around who gets to participate. In this workshop we’ll design community tools that work differently. We’ll start from real needs: organising something, staying in touch, sharing things, asking for help, finding people around a cause, and self-governing. Then we’ll ask: what does a tool actually need to know to make that possible? Together, we’ll explore ways identity can become lighter: temporary, local, specific to a situation, or separated across different parts of our lives. We’ll question common assumptions about what apps need to remember, and work through the real tensions that appear when we remove permanent profiles, especially around trust, safety, and belonging. We’ll also look at Dyad, an app we are building in Berlin for meeting strangers in person, as a case study in designing social technology without bios, follower counts, or permanent identities. The workshop is structured in three parts over ~90 minutes: * First, we’ll take apart what existing community tools ask people to hand over, and why. * Then, we’ll design alternatives together in small groups: new tools from the ground up, or existing platforms reimagined without permanent identity. * We’ll finish by sharing what we found: what can we build today, and what new infrastructure would make more possible? For organisers, artists, people who run spaces, designers, and builders. No coding and nothing to bring; if you do code, the same questions apply to your own stack. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UBMF3U/ Hackers Lab fiore PUBLISH PV8FJZ@@talx.dod.ngo -PV8FJZ Rooting the Social Graph with Personal Network Applications en en 20260710T113000 20260710T123000 1.00000 Rooting the Social Graph with Personal Network Applications Here’s the plan - At a high level - I will present a proposed architecture for each of these steps, and show my progress to date for each of the three steps in the plan, demo the tools, and we will then workshop against our own applications, or our favorite ones: This is the long-term plan I will present: First, Take back the Root: I built an agent-ready Toolkit for credible interop between local-first and SaaS systems that can move someone's personal network root local, away from SaaS. I have built reference designs that are in use by my communities, and they are regularly validated against an architectural spec that I will briefly describe. The Toolkit has four goals: 1) Take ownership of the Root of our personal networks - 2) Protect the Root’s integrity by software validation - 3) Protect the Root from unwanted egress - and 4) Protect the Root from entropy and accidents. From those goals, architectural commitments fall out into the spec. The premise is that by validating the safety of the software and data we use to contact others, we can increase confidence in doing so, and protect our data from the whims of ever-changing centralized organizations. This is a method for ongoing context development around our digital infrastructure and community health. Building a safe local environment for the Root also makes private relationship data (i.e. who do I call for help with sensitive health issues) first class, where entering that data into SaaS was never even a consideration. Private relationship data becomes the more important layer on top of contact data - a layer which must never egress. Ready use of a well organized personal network root also ensures that we can help-seek and provide help without being drowned in SaaS noise first. These are huge wins. Once we have our contact and relationship data local, we can gain insights from our egocentric social graphs (the sociogram with us at the center) right away, categorizing our personal relationships by function (what group do I talk to about x?). As grounded members of our personal networks, we can encourage others to Free the Root better than anyone outside our networks - giving our communities a strong sense of safety and utility with that data. We can deliver home-cooked software meals that serve our communities' needs exactly, where centralized systems cannot. Second, Add communications analysis to our private relationship data: Adding communications data can supercharge our local-first apps, but it requires a safe environment for enhancing our Private Relationship Layer on top of our contact data, pulling communications data out of SaaS (Gmail, Whatsapp, etc.). Examples of insights we can gain by adding personal communications to the private relationship layer on top of the Root are things like: Support Coverage: Do I have people for the kinds of help I need? Resilience: If one person becomes unavailable, what breaks? This step is mechanically similar to the Taking Back the Root, and it will be well served by the same architectural commitments. No egress is required, and yet more data is taken back from SaaS systems to become canonical in the local environment, and more value is achieved by adding personal relationship data that has no business every egressing our local systems to SaaS. Third, design interventions from egocentric data sets: This is where we threat model, develop and exhaustively test, and engage researchers prior to deployment. Threat modelling is an ongoing process that this project pays attention to. I will identify several opportunities to make a real impact - based on productive research that has never been implemented for remote digital-first communities. These all exist at the same level of sensitivity and can be implemented in parallel, but should not pass through the distribution gate without qualified research input. Opportunity 0: Education around help-seeking and community health We can learn a lot from Social Network Health research in other contexts. Our digital infrastructure can be instrumented to supply us with best practices when we need them the most. Opportunity 1: Macrostructure from Microstructure - community analytics: Research in social network health has proposed methods of generating sociocentric data by combining data from egocentric graphs. We know we can share our personal network information with each other to achieve insights into our community - but if we want to protect the data that is shared, we have to do a little math. Modern cryptographic systems give us a way to test methods from social network health research in ways that have not been possible before. We can develop actionable insights by combining data from our own egocentric networks, if we’re smart, without aggregating any identifying information until necessary - remotely! This end-runs the typical intervention methods that aggregate re-identified data sets - gathering sensitive data from an entire community into one place - making this far less difficult and dangerous, at the up-front cost of building complex software systems. The types of things we can identify from social network analysis of this kind: Binned degree distribution - are many people isolated or overloaded? Support/advice concentration - is too much support load falling on a few people?, and much more. This requires implementing papers that have never been implemented with brand new tech, threat modeling and exhaustive testing. It’s a big, longer-term project, but I believe it’s possible to pull it off. Opportunity 2: Connection Requests with Staged Disclosure - Engaging broader communities A protocol for reaching beyond a users egocentric network into communities that opt-in provides access to members of larger communities (i.e. a signal group) for members of that group that opt-in. Fallbacks are pre-generated to handle failure of this larger outreach. Ultimately, this protocol (for now the SNH Notification Protocol) could be combined with analysis triggers to automate outreach in some situations. As soon as I present the architecture and progress for each step, we will break out into groups and red/blue team the architecture and ideas, synthesizing our finding at the end of the session. History After my last talk at DWebCamp, I was approached by someone who suggested I should build an app to improve mental health in the developer community. Having followed probably the best social network health trainer alive for about five years, I did not think that would work at all. Later I had my own mental health challenge and tried to use SaaS systems to find people to talk to urgently. I was met with noise, distraction, and a long traversal through people I did not really know, until I ran out of energy. Right then I realized I had to get control of my contact data - I could not survive that kind of thing - I need to know who is important and who I can talk to when I have no energy at all and need a friendly human. After implementing a paper solution, then building a couple command line contact managers and a directory archive for myself, and after studying social network health specifically for remote workers, I started to see the local-first light. I was using my own apps more than SaaS apps to discover and reach out to friends - only my phone competed with them. I cannot realistically exit SaaS, but I can interoperate with it now, without distraction, and I control all of my private relationship data. Then after reading Smith (Macrostructure from Microstructure: Generating Whole Systems from Ego Networks.) I realized that there is far more to this effort, and that the possibility exists for remote workers to combine forces to help their own communities. Who this workshop is for: Spec-curious builders, local-first folks, anyone who's tried and failed to exit their contacts from SaaS, ATProto people thinking about the private-data gap. Anyone in a bigger project that is wondering what projects that are mostly constrained to one person's bandwidth, building home-cooked software meals, are coming up with in this space. People who want to know what is possible when attempting to improve the social network health of their communities, using modern tech, and what is on the horizon. Agenda: Background + SNH framing + Prior Art (5 minutes): Demo (5 minutes): Three part plan - Architecture Walk-Through (15 minutes of highlights): Validate apps, critique plan, and rework in small groups (25 minutes): Wrap - what survived (10 minutes): PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PV8FJZ/ Hackers Lab Rich Bodo PUBLISH ZHAHYU@@talx.dod.ngo -ZHAHYU Electro-acoustic Instrument Making & P2P Protocol Orchestra en en 20260710T150000 20260710T163000 1.03000 Electro-acoustic Instrument Making & P2P Protocol Orchestra Bring your laptops, bring your hardware experiments, bring your bluetooth speakers and MIDI controllers, bring your synthesizers, bring your favorite music-ready p2p protocols with plug-and-play software ready to share. Additionally, we will have a handful of [Amped-ESP32-Plus devices with built-in class D amplifiers](https://sonocotta.azurewebsites.net/amped-esp32/) and haptic drivers to resonate stuff (qty: 10). _Buckets? Large plastic jugs? Sturdy wooden or cardboard boxes? Big tubs? Sounding metal pipes?_ **Bring resonant objects that you want to turn into electro-acoustic instruments!** SUPPLY LIST: https://drive.proton.me/urls/MV7HVV78VW#xpxeeRr1hGKF PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZHAHYU/ Hackers Lab Micah PUBLISH BMMJFZ@@talx.dod.ngo -BMMJFZ Sneakerweb en en 20260710T163000 20260710T180000 1.03000 Sneakerweb - Invited: web authors, zine makers, collectors - Required materials: devices capable of installing command line tools In this workshop we will do the following: - Install the `sneakerweb` CLI on participant devices. - Register a new domain on the sneakerweb - Publish a small website to this domain - Export our sneakerweb data to a file which we'll put on physical storage - And then distribute this to participants, building up our view of the sneakerweb! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/BMMJFZ/ Hackers Lab sammy PUBLISH SXSVZB@@talx.dod.ngo -SXSVZB qaul قول Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App en en 20260710T093000 20260710T100000 0.03000 qaul قول Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App qaul is a P2P mesh communication app, with a strong focus on privacy and usability. Every user is identified via their self-sovereign cryptographic identity. It not only communicates P2P, but builds a mesh network, interconnecting multiple communication such as BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), Local Area Networks, and Internet overlay links. The messaging app has an automated user discovery, end-to-end encrypted direct messaging and group chats for text, voice-messages and files, as well as public communication channels. https://qaul.net PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SXSVZB/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Mathias Jud PUBLISH BE7GHD@@talx.dod.ngo -BE7GHD Beyond the Canopy: Building Local Networks & Marginalized Public AI at the Rural Edge en en 20260710T100000 20260710T110000 1.00000 Beyond the Canopy: Building Local Networks & Marginalized Public AI at the Rural Edge The Context While much of the decentralized web movement focuses on software protocols built for ecosystems with reliable power and internet, the true test of a "Root System" is at the margins. Through my work as the founder of Alternative Solutions for Rural Communities (ASORCOM) and eimiAI, I have seen firsthand how centralized networks fail rural, stateless, and indigenous communities. To truly uphold the DWeb principles of Humanity and Distributed Benefits, we must design for environments defined by hardware scarcity, power constraints, and linguistic barriers. What I Will Share In this 30-minute presentation, I will share the grassroots blueprint for building tech at the rural edge: The Infrastructure Layer: Real-world case studies from ASORCOM on deploying community-owned mesh networks in deep rural areas. We will look at the friction points of ecological hardware constraints and establishing offline-first communication. The Intelligence Layer: An introduction to eimiAI, and how we are building localized, accountable AI tools that translate marginalized languages and operate without relying on massive, centralized data centers. The Human Layer: How we foster community ownership, governance, and trust so that these decentralized systems outlast the initial deployment. Why This Matters for DWeb Camp I was honored to be selected as a DWeb Fellow twice previously, though US visa barriers kept me from attending. Now, with the camp in Germany, I am thrilled to finally bring these insights in person. This talk shifts the focus from top-down architecture to bottom-up survival. It challenges DWeb builders to ensure their tools actually work for the most isolated among us. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of how to build tools that are highly accessible, ecologically aware, and truly empowering for local communities. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/BE7GHD/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Michael Suantak PUBLISH TDSMFS@@talx.dod.ngo -TDSMFS Becoming your own ISP en en 20260710T113000 20260710T123000 1.00000 Becoming your own ISP In this workshop we will discuss TollGate, a protocol that enables anyone with hardware that is capable of routing to operate as an internet service provider by delivering transport in exchange for bearer instruments. In this workshop we will start with a short motivation followed by a demo and a hands on session where we flash the package on OpenWRT routers and configure them according to our needs. Feel free to bring your router, especially if its [already supported](https://releases.tollgate.me/os/09e2aca8722600438feb59d700626369fce6af16dffc860d99432ee483aa025c?channel=stable). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TDSMFS/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab c08r4d0r PUBLISH QT3YMK@@talx.dod.ngo -QT3YMK Community Networking in Berlin en en 20260710T150000 20260710T153000 0.03000 Community Networking in Berlin For more than 20 years, Freifunk communities have been building public network infrastructures. Berlin's specific political and technological history has been an ideal breeding ground for grassroots, autonomous initiatives. Volunteers from Berlin will present their software and hardware, how they run a non-commercial ISP, and how they approach the evergrowing need for connectivity in their neighborhoods. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QT3YMK/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Lars Gierth PUBLISH Q7NHNU@@talx.dod.ngo -Q7NHNU Building the People’s Internet: Mesh Networks and Policy Advocacy in Ghana en en 20260710T153000 20260710T160000 0.03000 Building the People’s Internet: Mesh Networks and Policy Advocacy in Ghana The presentation will focus on a case study from one of Ghana Community Networks Alliance (GCNA)'s member called Step Network and their Bruben Community Network in the Afram Plains. We will walk through the three main pillars of this project: - The Technical Deployment: We will examine how Step Network extended connectivity to an island population of over 27,400 people. I’ll discuss the technical architecture of the mesh network, its reliance on solar power to maintain 95% uptime, and how Step Network manages the logistics of remote, off-grid maintenance. - Social & Economic Impact: A look at how the community utilizes Step Network’s infrastructure for education and local commerce. I’ll highlight the community-managed payment app developed for the Bruben project, which allows residents to access services on a flexible, affordable basis. - The Policy Frontier: Building a working network is only half the battle. I will share details on our current partnership with the Internet Society (ISOC) to organize the Community Networks Policy Dialogue in Ghana. Using Step Network’s field experience as evidence, we are actively engaging stakeholders to fix the licensing barriers that currently prevent community-led initiatives from scaling legally. The session aims to provide a blueprint based on Step Network's success for how technical specialists can work alongside communities to reclaim digital sovereignty. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/Q7NHNU/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Shadrach PUBLISH Q8YSHN@@talx.dod.ngo -Q8YSHN The Art of Not Being Invisible en en 20260710T160000 20260710T163000 0.03000 The Art of Not Being Invisible For years, the community network movement has thrived in the "gray areas" of the digital landscape. But how do we move from being "underground" experiments to becoming recognized, essential infrastructure? "The Art of Not Being Invisible" is an informal, peer-to-peer Talking Circle focused on the difficult, often messy balance between achieving official legitimacy and maintaining grassroots autonomy. We’ll dive into the tension of "fitting in" versus "selling out." How do we access government subsidies and get official recognition while keeping our decentralized, community-first ideology intact? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/Q8YSHN/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab senka T B Dinesh Shadrach fauno Hiure PUBLISH TRAXZC@@talx.dod.ngo -TRAXZC Seattle Community Network en en 20260710T163000 20260710T170000 0.03000 Seattle Community Network The Seattle Community Network (SCN) project (https://seattlecommunitynetwork.org/) is a non-profit community-run internet access initiative to improve digital equity for vulnerable and low-income groups in the Puget Sound area. Our ongoing projects focus on installing and managing WiFi networks at Tiny House Villages and other homeless shelters. We also refurbish and distribute internet access devices such as laptops and phones at homeless shelters and low-income housing. In this talk I will briefly outline a vision for this organization, to bridge computer experts and hackers who are able to spend time and resources volunteering for community technology initiatives with low-income communities who have been left behind in terms of digital infrastructure. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TRAXZC/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Esther Jang PUBLISH DEGRZ7@@talx.dod.ngo -DEGRZ7 Community Networks Networking Session en en 20260710T170000 20260710T180000 1.00000 Community Networks Networking Session Wireless mesh community networks are a useful way to build your own communication infrastructure, bridge the last mile, lower the digital divide and also to build censorship resilient community communication networks. We will network, exchange and discuss the burning topics. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DEGRZ7/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Mathias Jud Paul Fuxjäger Shadrach PUBLISH VZKCL8@@talx.dod.ngo -VZKCL8 RSS is not dead, it's underground 🤘 en en 20260710T094000 20260710T095000 0.01000 RSS is not dead, it's underground 🤘 The web is fundamentally broken, and we all feel it. Every single day, we log on and let the algorithm decide what enters our brains. We have traded the open, collaborative spirit of the early internet for walled gardens designed for addiction, polarization, and corporate profit. Your feed is quite literally not your own anymore. Content doesn’t appear when it’s posted; it appears when a data-mining machine determines it will generate maximum engagement (or outrage). We’ve let a handful of platforms become the landlords of our digital attention. While we often chase the "next big protocol," sovereign identity stacks, and complex decentralized networks, the most resilient, anti-authoritarian, and user-governed content delivery system has been quietly running under our feet for decades: RSS. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VZKCL8/ Resilience Base Bart Delrue PUBLISH RB3PD9@@talx.dod.ngo -RB3PD9 How Sex Workers Are Using Zcash for Financial Freedom en en 20260710T095000 20260710T100000 0.01000 How Sex Workers Are Using Zcash for Financial Freedom Please see my writings at https://VioletRollergirl.com/resources/for-providers/using-cryptocurrency/ for in-depth information. Thanks! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RB3PD9/ Resilience Base Violet Rollergirl PUBLISH JFNK39@@talx.dod.ngo -JFNK39 Mesh News Network - dWebbing Local Journalism en en 20260710T100000 20260710T103000 0.03000 Mesh News Network - dWebbing Local Journalism Mesh News Network is a prototype for a different kind of news infrastructure: instead of loading heavy websites or platform feeds, people ask questions and receive concise answers generated from locally cached, signed bulletins. In this session, we’ll explore how a stack of "news cells", Raspberry Pi gateways, Meshtastic radios, and small language models (SLMs) can keep trusted information flowing when the usual web stack is slow, blocked, or broken. Modern news consumption leans on massive, responsive sites and apps: interoperable apps, health monitoring, and platform‑specific clients. Every layer is a potential point of failure or censorship—domains can be blocked, app updates can be withheld, and large media payloads become unusable on congested, metered, or disaster‑strained networks. Yet most people don’t actually need that much surface area to stay informed. In practice, many just want the top handful of stories that affect them, or answers to very specific questions about safety, access, and current events. Mesh News Network starts from that reality and asks: what if the default unit of news was not a website, but a small, signed text object that can be moved cheaply, cached locally, and queried with a tiny model, i.e. verified RSS? The conceptual core of the session is “bulletins, not websites.” We imagine newsrooms (or community media cells, "news cells") producing compact bulletin objects instead of designing a complete web experience around each story. A bulletin is a structured text envelope: an ID, publisher key, timestamp, region and topic tags, urgency, a short summary, an optional longer body, references, and a signature. These bulletins are published into a distributed transport layer, Nostr relays, RSS endpoints, or other decentralized feeds, and ingested by local hubs: Raspberry Pis that live in communities, camps, newsrooms, or mutual aid spaces. The Pi verifies signatures, stores bulletins in a small database, and indexes them by region, topic, and urgency. From there, two different network paths emerge. When “real internet” is available, the Pi syncs with upstream relays and fills its local cache. When connectivity degrades and only a low‑bandwidth mesh like Meshtastic remains, the system stops trying to be “the web” and instead uses LoRa for what it’s good at: propagating state, alerts, and small deltas. Over the mesh, nodes can trade compact announcement packets: which bulletins exist, their hashes, topics, priorities, and how fresh they are. Full bulletin bodies don’t need to cross the mesh continuously; they can be pre‑seeded via sneakernet or periodic higher‑bandwidth syncs. The mesh layer effectively behaves as a low‑bandwidth metadata and alert channel layered under the heavier protocols. At the edge of this system sits the user, who never has to think about any of that. They don’t open a news site; they open a simple chat‑like interface on their phone. That interface might be BitChat, a minimal browser UI over local Wi‑Fi, or a native shell, but the pattern is the same: a single text box and a few big buttons. The user can ask free‑form questions, "Anything new about road closures?”, “Is there a fire risk near here?”, “What changed since yesterday?”, or tap preset prompts like Latest, Safety, Transport, Shelter, and Local. Their query is handled locally by a small language model that lives on the Pi (or on‑device), which doesn’t go out to the cloud. Instead, it pulls from the cached bulletins, filters them according to topic, region, time, and urgency, and synthesizes a concise response with citations or references. The user receives an answer and, if they want, can drill down to see the raw bulletins that answer was built from. This architecture aims at three things at once: bandwidth efficiency, censorship resistance, and cognitive ergonomics. Bandwidth efficiency comes from the fact that the “heavy lifting” (publishing, syncing) is done in text, and user interactions are always just small queries plus short answers. Censorship resistance comes from not depending on any single domain, app store, or platform skin: the crucial units, the bulletins and signatures, can move over many transports and be stored by anyone. Cognitive ergonomics comes from aligning the interface with what people usually want: answers and briefings, not an infinity scroll of under‑prioritized content while you're on the toilet. The session itself will be structured in three main parts. First, we’ll map the current “normie path” for consuming news: open browser or app, resolve domain, hit a complex CDN, negotiate JS, ads, trackers, fonts, and layouts, then finally read a few top stories. We’ll identify all the failure and control points along that path, from DNS to TLS termination to third‑party CDNs and platform moderation, and relate them to real‑world scenarios where this path fails: network shutdowns, bandwidth throttling, disaster zones, and targeted blocking. This sets the problem: news as we know it assumes abundance of bandwidth and political goodwill, neither of which can be taken for granted. Second, we’ll walk through the Mesh News Network architecture from the perspective of each actor involved: Newsroom cells (or community media groups) that author bulletins, sign them, and publish them into decentralized feeds instead of relying solely on web CMSs. Pi operators who run local hubs, handle initial configuration, choose upstream relays or feeds, and physically locate devices in community spaces. Mesh enablers who maintain Meshtastic or other low‑bandwidth meshes, ensuring that at least small bulletin announcements and alerts can hop across a neighborhood, forest, camp, or city. Ordinary phone users who just open a chat, ask for what they need, and receive a readable answer. We will diagram how bulletins move from a publishing laptop in a newsroom to a Pi under a desk in a neighborhood center, how they are summarized or curated, how priority alerts propagate over mesh, and how queries find the right pieces of text. I'll talk about pivoting news media tech vs local bulletins, about the constraints of LoRa vs. Wi‑Fi and occasional broadband, and how different grades of connectivity change the system’s behavior without breaking it. Third, we’ll dive into the role of small language models as local “news clerks.” Instead of framing the model as a general‑purpose AI assistant, we treat it as a specialized retrieval and compression agent with four core jobs: daily briefing, “what changed” since X, topic‑specific digests, and rumor checks. We’ll explore how to constrain the model’s behavior so that it mostly stitches together and compresses known bulletins instead of hallucinating, how to expose provenance in the UI (e.g., “this answer is based on 3 bulletins from sources A, B, and C, last updated N hours ago”), and how to maintain trust boundaries when some bulletins are official and others are community‑generated. This section opens up questions of epistemology and power: who gets to publish, which keys are trusted by default, and how do we avoid accidentally re‑centralizing editorial control in the model? Throughout the session, we will be explicit about trade‑offs and open problems rather than pretending the model is solved. For example: how do you design a bulletin schema that is expressive enough for many news types but compact enough to move over constrained links? How do you handle multilingual communities? How do you do personalization without building a surveillance profile, keeping preferences and filters local, while still giving people the sense that “this feed is for me”? What happens when two PIs disagree about trust or filtering policy? How do you design UX for people under stress (evacuations, outages) who may have one or two minutes of battery left? In terms of format, the session is planned as a short presentation with an interactive edge. I’ll present the conceptual model and a reference architecture using diagrams rather than code, to keep it accessible to both technical and non‑technical participants. I’ll invite a brief discussion focused on use cases participants care about, independent media, disaster response, protest communication, rural connectivity, or cultural preservation. If connectivity and logistics allow, I’ll also show a basic prototype flow: a mock bulletin store, a simple query, and the kind of answer a local SLM could generate. The emphasis, though, is not on one specific implementation, but on the design pattern: local, query‑driven news stack over small text objects and cheap radios. By the end of the session, participants should come away with a mental model of an alternative news pipeline that does not depend on big web stacks or centralized platforms: they will understand the roles required (publisher, hub operator, mesh maintainer, end user), the technical primitives (signed bulletins, local caches, low‑bandwidth relays, SLM‑based summarization), and the social questions that still need collective answers. Ideally, this becomes a seed for further collaboration at DWeb Camp: people who run meshes, who work in independent media, who build local AI systems, and who care about network sovereignty can find each other and iterate on the idea, adapting Mesh News Network to their own contexts and communities. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JFNK39/ Resilience Base Casey Carr PUBLISH UZAK7M@@talx.dod.ngo -UZAK7M dComms: deploying resilient communications in the context of precarious connectivity en en 20260710T103000 20260710T110000 0.03000 dComms: deploying resilient communications in the context of precarious connectivity dComms is a decentralized-communications project developed by eQualitie, the Canadian free-software organization behind Deflect and the Ceno browser. It was initiated in February 2022 in direct response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, originally to give Ukrainian users a fallback communication platform in the event of shutdowns, blocking, or censorship, and it has since broadened into a wider program of research, development, and test deployment of decentralized communications infrastructure across five countries facing repressive online censorship and surveillance. Rather than a single app, dComms is an orchestration and deployment platform that helps communities stand up their own communication networks, bundling fediverse services such as Matrix/Element, Mastodon, and PeerTube alongside offline-first tools like the Delta Chat messenger and the Ceno browser. The design premise is that self-hosted, federated services offer a shutdown-resistant alternative capable of operating independently of global internet connectivity, creating small-world networks that keep communication reliable in low-bandwidth environments and resistant to censorship. Crucially, deployments are built on partnerships with local organizations to ensure project ownership and long-term sustainability, with tools tailored to the specific threat models and needs of journalists, activists, and marginalized communities in each context PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UZAK7M/ Resilience Base Ksenia Alex Dalessio PUBLISH 3XYQD3@@talx.dod.ngo -3XYQD3 Walkaway Stack: Radical, infrastructure-independent peer-to-peer systems en en 20260710T110000 20260710T113000 0.03000 Walkaway Stack: Radical, infrastructure-independent peer-to-peer systems The Walkaway-Stack describes a peer-to-peer system where applications remain functional even if the underlying "event delivery" infrastructure changes. This enables seamless transitions between different network types—whether moving from a "connected" Internet stack to a "connectionless" mesh network, or from radio protocols to sneakernets, and vice versa. In this way, applications are decoupled from the underlying network, giving users the autonomy to choose their preferred infrastructure. In this presentation, I'll explore the space more broadly—examining why it's so exciting, why it's not fully solved yet, and where things currently stand. Hopefully, this will also reveal a theoretical overlap between "mesh protocols" and "overlay networks," which may actually be more closely related than we realize. **Background** This lecture will be a compressed version of the "p2p lecture series" I've been then running bi-weekly in our community space "offline" in Berlin. https://pads.offline.place/p/r.06dda241c03ad92f2a55c47f4bbdd419 PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3XYQD3/ Resilience Base adz PUBLISH WYSEDK@@talx.dod.ngo -WYSEDK AOS: Building an Anti-Authoritarian Innovation Collective en en 20260710T113000 20260710T120000 0.03000 AOS: Building an Anti-Authoritarian Innovation Collective [And Other Stuff](https://andotherstuff.org) (AOS) is an experiment in building freedom tech differently. Most technology incubators, accelerators, and innovation labs are built around venture capital, extractive incentives, or institutional gatekeeping. AOS took a different path. We have built a non-VC, non-charity innovation center for freedom tech: a hub for ideation, professional services matchmaking, project development, and hands-on support that does not take equity, does not charge fees, and is designed to help people build in the open across very different ecosystems. This session will share how that model works in practice. We will walk through how AOS was structured, why we chose to open source our operating model, and what it means to create governance, process, and collaboration infrastructure that others can fork and adapt. We will also talk about the real challenge of building across communities that may share a vision of decentralization and freedom, but often differ sharply in culture, values, priorities, and technical assumptions. What does it take to work in public with people you may not fully agree with, while still building toward a common outcome? The session will also explore the principles behind our work. At AOS, we describe our mission as technology for human thriving. That means recognizing that people cannot thrive without freedom, and that freedom tech has to be more than a set of tools. It also requires the social, organizational, and governance conditions that allow communities to imagine, build, use, and maintain those tools themselves. A core part of this approach is anti-colonial development. Too often, Western technologists approach communities with the mindset that they will “build the solution” on others’ behalf. We are interested in a different model: helping activists, journalists, organizers, and other frontline communities develop the capacity to shape and finish the tools they need themselves. In practice, that means building the harness for participation, lowering technical and organizational barriers, and creating fertile ground for innovation that is responsive to real-world needs rather than imposed from the outside. We will ground this conversation in concrete examples of what has emerged from the AOS model, including projects like BitChat, Divine, Numo, and Agora. These examples help illustrate the relationship between organizational design and technical outcomes: the kinds of infrastructure you build, the kinds of collaboration you enable, and the kinds of tools that become possible when people are empowered to work across layers of the stack. This session is for people thinking about the long-term health of decentralized ecosystems: organizers, technologists, funders, governance designers, and anyone asking not just how to build alternative technologies, but how to build alternative institutions for creating them. It will offer an honest look at what we have learned about openness, coordination, ownership, interoperability, and support structures for freedom tech. Rather than presenting a single template, this session offers a practical case study in how a collective can create the conditions for resilient, values-aligned innovation. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how to design collaboration infrastructure, how to support builders without reproducing extractive models, and how organizational choices shape the future of the technologies we hope to see in the world. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/WYSEDK/ Resilience Base Liz Sweigart PUBLISH D8FYUY@@talx.dod.ngo -D8FYUY Making the invisible visible: what data sovereignty means for organizations en en 20260710T120000 20260710T123000 0.03000 Making the invisible visible: what data sovereignty means for organizations Many non-profit, community, and activist organizations I speak to have one question for me: How do we get off of Google? Can we own our own data? At Habitat, we are trying to make this an attainable reality for them, through a platform that provides primitives to manage an organization, build bespoke software, and host your data in a way that interoperates with many applications. While this unlocks many possibilities, it also introduces friction: while hardware is expensive to maintain; cloud compute is cheap and we're not used to thinking about our software's infrastructure. However, this friction can be reframed as a feature. By raising awareness of what resources it actually takes to support our seamless workflows, we can build new infrastructural networks to support ourselves and each other in the goal of building a more distributed and resilient internet. This talk will cover my experiences as CEO and co-founder of Habitat navigating this friction, and focus on one feature I'm particularly excited about: co-hosting. If one group is running Habitat on servers they own, they can allow and invite other groups to run on the same infrastructure, rather than only having the choice between Habitat's cloud managed hosting or self-hosting it themselves. This approach scales at the speed of trust between organizations, and is a simple way to strike a balance between the ease in which we expect to setup software today and the friction required to actually take back the web and neutralize the dominating players. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/D8FYUY/ Resilience Base Arushi PUBLISH ZRZETM@@talx.dod.ngo -ZRZETM Onion Services as a communication layer for the DWeb en en 20260710T160000 20260710T170000 1.00000 Onion Services as a communication layer for the DWeb [Onion Services][] is a unique communication technology for the internet with several [interesting properties][]: * Safe by default (built-in end-to-end encryption). * Fits everyone in (supports a huge number of addresses without allocation authority). * It's robust (has built-in resistance against surveillance, censorship and denial of service). * Also works as an anonymization layer. The first part of the session will cover: * An introduction to [Tor][] and [Onion Services][]. * How [Onion Services][] can be a transport system for the DWeb. * Prospects and planned improvements in the technology. In the second part, both developers and the general audience are invited to talk, either by making questions or starting a discussion on existing and potential uses of [Onion Services][] within the DWeb context. No previous knowledge of [Tor][] or [Onion Services][] is necessary. [interesting properties]: https://onionservices.torproject.org/technology/properties/ [Onion Services]: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/ [Tor]: https://www.torproject.org/ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZRZETM/ Resilience Base Silvio Rhatto PUBLISH EA89ZD@@talx.dod.ngo -EA89ZD Cognitive Sovereignty at the Edge: Co-Designing Offline AI for Conflict Zones en en 20260710T170000 20260710T180000 1.00000 Cognitive Sovereignty at the Edge: Co-Designing Offline AI for Conflict Zones The Threat of the Cloud For marginalized communities—especially those in conflict zones like the India-Myanmar border—Cloud-based AI represents an existential threat. It requires high-speed internet that is often embargoed by the state, and it extracts indigenous data into foreign corporate servers without compensation. Furthermore, it rarely supports local dialects, accelerating cultural erasure. In this session, we will open the floor to discuss these systemic threats and share our collective experiences. The Challenge: Designing Intelligence at the Edge Rather than a traditional presentation, this will be an interactive workshop. We invite developers, activists, and thinkers to brainstorm architectures for the "Digital Commons." We will discuss the realities and challenges of running small-parameter models (3B to 7B parameters) using Llama.cpp on accessible edge hardware, like a Raspberry Pi. How do we best utilize quantization to fit these tools into 8GB of RAM? How can we power these systems entirely by 12V DC solar setups in the jungle? We want your insights. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a Survival Tool Finally, we will workshop ways to prevent AI "hallucinations" in critical survival scenarios. We will collectively brainstorm how to connect a local LLM to offline vector databases of agricultural PDFs and medical manuals. By designing pipelines that synthesize answers strictly from locally curated texts, we aim to map out a future where a farmer can safely diagnose crop diseases locally—without a single packet of data ever leaving the village. Bring your ideas, your questions, and your expertise as we approach this challenge together. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/EA89ZD/ Resilience Base Michael Suantak PUBLISH KAJ3MX@@talx.dod.ngo -KAJ3MX p2panda introduction, latest news & community meetup en en 20260710T093000 20260710T103000 1.00000 p2panda introduction, latest news & community meetup p2panda aims to provide everything you need to build modern, privacy-respecting and secure local-first applications. You can read more about it here: https://p2panda.org/ and https://github.com/p2panda/p2panda/. In this session I'll introduce the basics around p2panda and our current developments, for example: - Current collaborations with Modal, GNOME and Dash Chat folks - Our new high-level Node API - Out-of-the-box Tor support to protect IP addresses - Integration of Capabilities, like Meadowcap or UCAN - Multi-device, offline-first and decentralised group management with revocation - Encryption for groups with forward secrecy and post-compromise security - Support Nodes to assure higher availability - Event delivery via delay tolerant, replicated mesh-routing for BLE and LoRa After the introduction, updates and overview there will be plenty of time to ask your questions and meet! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/KAJ3MX/ P2P Portal adz PUBLISH YBNSXL@@talx.dod.ngo -YBNSXL Monotone-View Types: a co-transactional approach to Local-first en en 20260710T103000 20260710T113000 1.00000 Monotone-View Types: a co-transactional approach to Local-first I want to challenge the thin-client / remote backend architecture that's mainstream in the software industry. I think its authority boundaries are WRONG. Thought experiment: why can't I own the money transfer log in my own (old school, non DeFi) bank account? I want that log replicated securely between my phone and the bank. All outgoing money transfers must be signed by my key on request, and by the bank on execution. Incoming money is signed by whatever entity sent the transfer, their bank upon execution, and my bank on reception. The concept of downloading your bank extract is moot - it lives on your device. And for cancelling a subscription, you just change your phone settings so it doesn't sign its debits anymore. In general, why do we need thin clients at all? I think we're closing on an arc that started 20 years ago, and could align the authority boundaries in our software platforms with our expectations. I want to share the idea of a Co-transactional database: a content-addressable, self-verifiable, coordination-free database for our collective decentralized future. Powered by Monotone View Types. Ergonomic, down to Earth and easy to use. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YBNSXL/ P2P Portal Santi Bazerque PUBLISH DXJRXY@@talx.dod.ngo -DXJRXY Spritely: painting a new vision for the Internet en en 20260710T113000 20260710T120000 0.03000 Spritely: painting a new vision for the Internet How much does the way we talk about our work matter? What about the way we show it? Spritely is well known for having a somewhat fantastical aesthetic. What's the process behind that, and how important is it to have a sense of wonder and whimsy behind our work? Is this all just for fun, or can we help advance understanding and a sense of belonging to our work through what might appear to be surface-level aesthetics? How far do these thoughts apply to decentralized network technologies in general? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DXJRXY/ P2P Portal Christine Lemmer-Webber PUBLISH AEWNJA@@talx.dod.ngo -AEWNJA Private payments, local-first en en 20260710T120000 20260710T123000 0.03000 Private payments, local-first Most private payments decouple spent assets from newly created assets by maintaining unlinkable sets of commitments and nullifiers. Since these sets are inherently global states, every transaction must refer to the latest global state to prove its validity. A trusted hardware guarantee removes this requirement, since it can maintain a monotonically increasing counter that is impossible to double-spend. We introduce a design that uses trusted hardware for the local-first mode, and falls back to global consensus for defense-in-depth against hardware failures. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AEWNJA/ P2P Portal Ying Tong PUBLISH P88DXE@@talx.dod.ngo -P88DXE A Delicious Presentation of "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" en en 20260710T133000 20260710T150000 1.03000 A Delicious Presentation of "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" The famous inventor Zangemann lives in a huge villa high above the city. Adults and children alike love his inventions and are desperate to have them. But then something happens: when Zangemann wants to take another close-up look at his inventions during a walk through the city, a child hits him in the shin with the skateboard. That hurts! Enraged, the inventor makes a momentous decision... The clever girl Ada sees through what is going on. Together with her friends, she forges a plan. This is a story about the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology. A story available as Open Educational Resource under Creative Commons BY-SA that arouses children's interest in tinkering and encourages shaping technology. From age 6 to 106. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/P88DXE/ P2P Portal Matthias Kirschner Luca Bonissi PUBLISH 8NC7JG@@talx.dod.ngo -8NC7JG NextGraph framework & ELFA ecosystem en en 20260710T150000 20260710T153000 0.03000 NextGraph framework & ELFA ecosystem This talk will be composed of two parts. We will first introduce the general architecture of our platform, engine, protocol and SDK, giving an overview of its components. We will show how we support any kind of CRDT, including Automerge and Yjs, and the CRDT for Graph database (RDF) that we have developed. Then will introduce the web-based SDK and its new ORM TypeScript SDK for **NextGraph** that turns document/database records into ordinary, typed objects with two‑way binding for React, Vue, and Svelte. **Reactive POJOs** - Objects are wrapped in a proxy, so any property change triggers a signal, which updates both the UI and sends a JSON patch to the engine. Signals provide an efficient, event‑driven mechanism for state propagation and have been gaining popularity in modern front‑end ecosystems. Finally, we will present the [ELFA consortium](https://elfaconsortium.eu) (Encrypted Local-First Applications), which is already active at producing a full productivity suite of apps, like a wiki, knowledge base, spreadsheets, email, calendar, contacts, video calls and more, all based on NextGraph, so it is all local first and end-to-end encrypted. A sub-granting program will open soon on 1st of August on NLnet.nl website for anyone to apply for grants of maximum 50K. If you want to build an additional app that integrates and complements the ELFA suite, submit your proposal before end of September. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8NC7JG/ P2P Portal Niko Bonnieure Jeremiah Lee PUBLISH HDG88R@@talx.dod.ngo -HDG88R clan - Reproducible P2P Infrastructure framework en en 20260710T153000 20260710T160000 0.03000 clan - Reproducible P2P Infrastructure framework clan (https://clan.lol) is an open source peer-to-peer reproducible infrastructure framework that enables: - Infrastructure migration to anywhere, be it in the **cloud or on hardware** - Easy management of services that span multiple machines - Automated generation and management of secrets - Automated disk partitioning even with complex setups - Use your services from anywhere, securely. clan takes care of the networking. With clan your infra will be independent of platforms and sudden policy changes. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HDG88R/ P2P Portal Qubasa PUBLISH CBXTSZ@@talx.dod.ngo -CBXTSZ Next Generation of P2P Data Types en en 20260710T160000 20260710T170000 1.00000 Next Generation of P2P Data Types This panel invites two prominent researchers in the field of peer-to-peer systems: Santi Bazerque (HyperHyperSpace) and Aljoscha Meyer (worm-blossom, Willow). What should we hope for from peer-to-peer data types in the future? Which qualities have turned out to be less vital than we thought? Although this will be a technical and theory-heavy panel, it will be moderated by adz (p2panda) who has been hosting a series of lectures on making peer-to-peer concepts understandable. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CBXTSZ/ P2P Portal adz PUBLISH Y9ZSMM@@talx.dod.ngo -Y9ZSMM Insights from the 'DWeb-Seminar' in San Francisco, Aug 2025 en en 20260710T170000 20260710T173000 0.03000 Insights from the 'DWeb-Seminar' in San Francisco, Aug 2025 Last summer, the DWeb Organization and the Internet Archive sponsored a by-invite-only **"DWeb Seminar: Current Science & Grand Challenges"**. It was held in San Francisco in August 2025 with twelve select participants in order to analyze the past 10 years of decentralized web projects and to collect the insights gained so far. In this talk we will present these findings and walk through the seminar's report. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/Y9ZSMM/ P2P Portal Christian Tschudin (cft) PUBLISH SYCWTK@@talx.dod.ngo -SYCWTK Build on the Pubky protocol: Empower Users with Choice and Sovereignty en en 20260710T173000 20260710T180000 0.03000 Build on the Pubky protocol: Empower Users with Choice and Sovereignty The fully open-source Pubky protocol only decentralizes where it matters: identity and data. Identity is a public key the user owns. Data lives on a homeserver the user chooses and can migrate at will. Everything else — data presentation, the UI layer — stays in the hands of the application provider and optimizes for a slick user experience. This 30-minute talk is an introduction to both the concepts and the technology as well as a starting point for building. We'll cover: - A closer look at PKARR (Public Key Addressable Resource Records), the protocol Pubky uses for decentralized discovery — built on top of Mainline DHT and used by a growing set of decentralized projects for self-sovereign name resolution: mapping a public key to wherever its data, services, or endpoints actually live, without DNS or central registries. - How identity, hosting, and discovery fit together end to end: from key generation through DHT lookup to homeserver hosting - What's already running on the Pubky stack - How to start building your own Pubky app today: Entry points, examples, and understanding the most important concepts The goal is to leave the room inspired by a different angle on decentralizing the web. Design choices, working concepts, and ideas worth borrowing into your own projects, whether or not Pubky ends up in your stack. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SYCWTK/ P2P Portal Gabriel PUBLISH TTNFMN@@talx.dod.ngo -TTNFMN FAMILY FILM FEST - Kids Choice Vote: The Little Prince vs. The Lorax en en 20260710T200000 20260710T220000 2.00000 FAMILY FILM FEST - Kids Choice Vote: The Little Prince vs. The Lorax For 60+ minutes: Drop your kids off (or come on your own or with your whole crew. All are welcome!) in the Library where we will have snacks and drinks for the kids. Bring your blankets, stretch out in front of the fireplace and we'll put on a movie for kids of all ages. Family Film Fest - Kids Choice Vote (Round 3): The Little Prince vs. The Lorax PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TTNFMN/ P2P Portal 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Young M Wong PUBLISH DCXKJB@@talx.dod.ngo -DCXKJB Social aspects of communities that build sovereign technologies en en 20260710T093000 20260710T094500 0.01500 Social aspects of communities that build sovereign technologies Within the open agtech community, we try to think how to build technologies with communities, rather than for them. Thus, we ask ourselves: how are those communities organized, and what social aspects creates conditions to make the work of building and maintaining their digital tools? And then, when we have built some very good tool, and we want to make it a common resource, how do we make it so that the new adopters can also own this tools, and share the responsibilities around it? In the process of replicating the tools we make, we want to respect diversity of contexts and make it so that the communities themselves build their tool. What we want to do is facilitate their building process and that's how we believe we'll enhance sovereignty, in a way that's de-colonial, anti-imperialistic and challenges power dynamics. So, for this short talk, I propose to share our reflections on these themes, using a experience in Brazilian context, and host a brief discussion for collecting participants thoughts. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DCXKJB/ The Seedbed nádia coelho pontes PUBLISH YXYHEK@@talx.dod.ngo -YXYHEK Social Aspects of Sovereign Technologies: Lightning Talks and Discussion en en 20260710T094500 20260710T110000 1.01500 Social Aspects of Sovereign Technologies: Lightning Talks and Discussion This session explores how decentralized tools can be introduced to support—rather than disrupt—existing grassroots community networks. It is divided into three interconnected segments that move logically from a social framing to real-world examples, concluding in an interactive group discussion. The block begins with an introductory framing analyzing the cultural social fabric and trust frameworks required before rural communities can meaningfully adopt or interface with sovereign technical models. It then shifts to a localized showcase highlighting practical implementations of food sovereignty, parametric insurance architectures, and polycultural farm systems built directly from the needs of the land. The session concludes with a structured participatory dialogue mapping common global patterns of corporate tech enclosure and co-creating regional pathways toward systemic autonomy. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YXYHEK/ The Seedbed nádia coelho pontes Tamisha Lee Luke Smith Larissa Bral PUBLISH XJKSPM@@talx.dod.ngo -XJKSPM LARP: The Sufficiency Economy Game en en 20260710T110000 20260710T123000 1.03000 LARP: The Sufficiency Economy Game The Sufficiency Economy game is designed to have people re-imagine what a regional economy could look like Based on principles of fairness and sufficiency, the game simulates a reputation-based sharing economy where communities share their resources and use subjective measures of reputation and fairness. The goal is to understand how we could create an economy where everyone has their basic needs met, and where local and regional culture determine systems of distribution and care. The Sufficiency Economy allows people to imagine replacements for monetary transactions that better represent their values. Players will create a role where they represent a community or organization, and they will role-play different types of social and economic interactions with the other participants. Gameplay surfaces not just economic values, but what it means to share in ways that feel fair to others in the region. In other words, the economic game emphasizes trust as the most important measure of a sustainable economy to meet people's needs. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XJKSPM/ The Seedbed Grace Rachmany PUBLISH AZ3PQC@@talx.dod.ngo -AZ3PQC What’s next for our open-source project? An exploration of governance options for an Exit to Community en en 20260710T150000 20260710T153000 0.03000 What’s next for our open-source project? An exploration of governance options for an Exit to Community LiteFarm is a free and open-source farm management tool made for current and aspiring sustainable farms, built by farmers and researchers coordinated by the University of British Columbia in Canada to address the many challenges of farm management and data collection (see www.litefarm.org). We have co-developed the project incubated by the university in collaboration with global movements for agroecology, food sovereignty, and data justice. More than 10,000 LiteFarm users are now active in more than 170 countries (see https://construyendocaminos.cepagro.org.br/). Universities have long been engines of public-goods innovation: the Internet, processing chips, and CRISPR are all examples of widely-used innovations that first emerged from university research labs. Yet whether those breakthroughs diffuse into society or stall in a tech-transfer office depends on the intellectual property rules the institution sets. Four decades of experience show that permissive, open-source–friendly policies catalyze entrepreneurship and knowledge spill-over, while restrictive, university-owned regimes can slow both. The LiteFarm Community has an opportunity to co-create a novel governance model as part of a university exit built around the concepts of distributed governance, community and network collaboration, shared futures, and shared goals and values for food sovereignty. This governance structure must respect the multi-faceted stakeholders present in an open source research project while enabling a mission to meet farmers where they are and equip them with the tools they need to make informed and responsible decisions about the health of their farm, their livelihood, their community, and the planet. These stakeholders include but are not limited to: • Users: find utility in the product, and thus have a vested interest in supporting the evolution and flourishing of the community and ecosystem. This in turn benefits the broader agricultural and research communities in building the evidence base for agroecological transitions. • Contributors: who build the product - becoming part-owners of the codebase - and have a stake in the success of the product and the health of the community as an accommodating, fun, and welcoming place to volunteer their time and skills. • Farmers groups: who want to better support their membership and need tools such as LiteFarm to be successful in this. • Researchers: who need access to datasets created in LiteFarm to support research into agroecology and have an interest in guiding the roadmap of LiteFarm to better support their future research questions. • Open source partners: who integrate with and support the LiteFarm ecosystem in various ways based on shared mission alignment and desire for shared impact. . • Funders: Groups looking to transform capital into social or scientific impact. • Mission aligned service providers (e.g. non-profits, governments, and others) who see LiteFarm as a valuable channel for providing a service that community members would benefit from. Given the diversity within this community, this workshop aims to explore a set of future governance pathways for an open-source exit to Community, using the LiteFarm experience as a case study and ‘test’ case to identify challenges and opportunities for governance and operational models as open-source projects seek to exit from an initial start-up incubator phase and/or institutional home. These pathways explore what a dedicated governance wrapper might look like for safeguarding the technology’s open-source mandate, ensuring financial sustainability, and demonstrating to farmers, external contributors, and institutional adopters that LiteFarm will remain transparent and community-led into the future. Governance Archetypes The Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic, in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center, identified five common governance archetypes found in open-source software projects. These archetypes describe different ways decision-making power, accountability, and community participation evolve and are structured as projects mature. We will discuss these as reference models for understanding LiteFarm’s current governance and possible future trajectories and steps towards becoming a sustainable organization while maintaining its core mission as a digital public good. Exit Pathways & Implementation Scenarios We then discuss potential exit pathways and their potential alignment a mission oriented to food and data sovereignty, socio-ecological justice, and long-term operational sustainability. Each pathway includes precedents, trade-offs, and concrete implementation considerations to guide decision-making. These options can be combined or sequenced over time (e.g. retaining university anchoring while transferring IP to a neutral foundation, or layering a mission-aligned enterprise within a nonprofit structure). We will propose a checklist and welcome feedback on this to check goal alignment and guide understanding of trade-offs. This current checklist includes: Mission Alignment ; IP Ownership Clarity ; Legal Liability ; Governance Structure ; Funding Flexibility ; Administrative Burden ; Contributor Ecosystem Health ; Transparency & Public Accountability ; Scalability of Structure. We then will workshop in small groups a set of seven proposed pathways (institutional, non-profit, cooperatives, commercial etc) for an Exit to Community and invite Discussion on recommendations and ideas from participants, who are also encouraged to share their own project's challenges and experiences. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AZ3PQC/ The Seedbed Hannah Wittman Kevin Cussen PUBLISH S8VWQF@@talx.dod.ngo -S8VWQF Funding Lab for Open Agroecological Technologies Info Session en en 20260710T153000 20260710T163000 1.00000 Funding Lab for Open Agroecological Technologies Info Session The Float Stewards will begin with a presentation on what Float is, its goals, and its progress to-date. This will include a brief summary of the successes and learnings of the pilot round, which included over 80 participants and funded 30 initiatives, before a deep dive into the Float protocol. We will explore how Float values of collaboration, openness, anchoring in agroecology, and play are present throughout the process and how the details of how the protocol will work for upcoming Round 1 of Float! The Float protocol is built on a three-part thesis: Surfacing ideas through collaboration: Traditional funding models are top-down, picking winners and losers and flattening the diversity of possible solutions. We believe the people closest to the issues know the challenges best. By bringing diverse practitioners together for deep collaboration, we can co-develop proposals that actually align with community needs. Shifting decision-making power: Competition for scarce resources fragments communities. Instead of external funders setting agendas, Float creates infrastructure for peers to assess and award resources to each other's ideas. Rather than a simple vote, Float’s decision-making process is designed for meaningful participation, relying on peer-to-peer engagement to reduce fragmentation of efforts while supporting the refinement and improvement of shared proposals. Assessing impact and building a collective resource: Beyond getting funding to initiatives through a democratic and equitable process, we believe that this approach will lead to better outcomes. The vision for Float is to build mechanisms for the community to assess and demonstrate their impact at the individual project and collective levels, helping us chart the impact of the Float protocol over time. It is through this rigorous, peer-led documentation and honest evaluation that we are building resources to improve Float's adaptability and reproducibility. Understood this way, Float is a toolbox of modular approaches that can be reconfigured and adapted to specific contexts and communities in order to surface and support local innovation. The outputs of Float are not just technologies; every time Float is implemented, the toolbox expands, and the more it is used, the better it gets. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/S8VWQF/ The Seedbed Anna Lynton Nathan Hewitt Samuel Oslund PUBLISH AAPV9L@@talx.dod.ngo -AAPV9L Choose Your Own Agricultural Innovation Adventure en en 20260710T163000 20260710T180000 1.03000 Choose Your Own Agricultural Innovation Adventure This session represents an integrated programming block that merges multiple grassroots technology proposals into a single cohesive experience. The session moves intentionally from regional ecosystem framing into three hands-on, localized technical breakout tracks. First, the session establishes how communities navigate low-literacy contexts in India through local-language platforms and natural farming initiatives. Next, participants physically separate into independent working laboratories to interact directly with open-source hardware configurations, mapping how these tools fit their respective home territories. Finally, the cohorts reassemble to share practical design boundaries and connect localized project models to global open-source networks. Session Rundown / Outline: 00–15 mins: Introduction & Framing - Setting the stage with stories from rural India about building Crafterspaces, community Wi-Fi, and natural farming cooperatives that center women and traditional knowledge. 15–75 mins: Breakout Option 1: OSPIT Agua Lab (Pamela) — An interactive design lab focusing on the Open Source & Solar Powered Irrigation Technology (OSPIT) where participants ideate and prototype community-centered ways of automating water management and drip irrigation using open-source hardware. 15–75 mins: Breakout Option 2: Participatory Soil Health & Open Data (Sisa & Nano) — A hands-on workshop on soil health to test soil pH, texture, and organic matter using low-cost methods, bridging physical tests with open-source data platforms like FarmOS to demonstrate data interoperability. 15–75 mins: Breakout Option 3: Human-Scale Worm Composting (Ben) — An exploration of a grassroots, two-person collective project transforming neighborhood kitchen waste into high-quality compost, investigating how time-efficient biological testing and decentralized AI can optimize localized nutrient loops. 75–90 mins: Shared Horizons & Integration — A shared wrap up. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AAPV9L/ The Seedbed Pamela Benjamin Nano Castro PUBLISH UDVGAJ@@talx.dod.ngo -UDVGAJ Peer-to-Peer, AI, Other Buzzwords, and Technologies for a Thriving Planet--TEEN VERSION en en 20260710T093000 20260710T100000 0.03000 Peer-to-Peer, AI, Other Buzzwords, and Technologies for a Thriving Planet--TEEN VERSION Tech people love new words. Peer-to-peer. Mesh Networks. AI. Local-first. Decentralization. Data sovereignty. Solar punk. Regeneration. Sometimes these words point to something real. Sometimes they become stickers we put on the same old systems: more extraction, more centralization, more power for the people who already have too much of it. This talk is about what happens when the buzzwords have to touch the ground. For the past years, I have worked with Awana Digital alongside Indigenous and frontline communities using open-source, offline-first, peer-to-peer tools for land defense, cultural mapping, and environmental monitoring. One of these tools is CoMapeo, a peer-to-peer mapping platform used in places where internet is limited, unreliable, or simply not the center of life. That last part matters. In a lot of tech spaces, lack of internet is treated as a problem to solve. In the territories where I work, the problem is often deeper: who controls the infrastructure? Where does the data go? Who can see it? Who can take it? Who gets to decide what should exist in the first place? Peer-to-peer technology becomes interesting there not because it is elegant architecture, although it can be. It matters because sovereignty is real. Communities already understand sovereignty through land, language, governance, kinship, and struggle. The question is whether our digital tools respect that, or whether they quietly pull people back into clouds, platforms, and systems they cannot control. From there, I want to talk about AI. AI is usually presented as the future: bigger models, larger data centers, more data, more magic. But AI is also a new extraction machine. It extracts minerals, energy, labor, attention, language, and culture. For Indigenous languages, this is especially dangerous. We may soon see a world where a company’s model can speak a language that living communities have been violently pressured out of speaking themselves. That is not a future I want to help build. So what would another path look like? The idea I want to share is simple: something like CoMapeo, but for language data. Peer-to-peer, offline-first, community-governed language data collection. People could record stories, conversations, songs, place names, teachings, or everyday speech. They could transcribe, translate, review quality, and decide together what can happen with that data. Maybe it trains a model. Maybe it stays only in the community. Maybe some things should never enter a machine at all. From there we can imagine smaller, stranger, more useful AI systems. Local machines. Solar-powered infrastructure. Voice-first tools for oral cultures. Open-source pipelines governed by the people whose language, knowledge, and futures are at stake. But this is not a talk about using AI to “save” Indigenous cultures. That framing is backwards. Indigenous peoples are not waiting for AI to bring intelligence, resilience, or climate solutions. Many of the most important technologies already exist: how to live in community, how to cultivate abundance without destroying the forest, how to govern land together, how to belong to a place, how to keep a planet alive. Those are the real advanced technologies. For human and planetary wellbeing not for industrial production. This session is for people building decentralized technology who want to ask harder questions than “how do we scale this?” Peer-to-peer is not just a protocol choice. AI is not just a product category. And a thriving planet will not come from better buzzwords. It will come from tools humble enough to serve living worlds instead of replacing them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UDVGAJ/ Teen Base Camp Luandro PUBLISH HSRN8P@@talx.dod.ngo -HSRN8P TV-B-Gone: Turn Off TVs and Learn to Solder!--TEEN VERSION en en 20260710T100000 20260710T113000 1.03000 TV-B-Gone: Turn Off TVs and Learn to Solder!--TEEN VERSION TV-B-Gone is an open hardware remote control that can turn off any remotely controllable monitor in public places (or anywhere)! From across the street, through windows, in restaurants, bars, schools, airports... The new V2 of the kit makes it super easy to learn to solder, as well as easy to hack on. Workshop Itinerary: Intro to remote controls Learn to solder by making your own TV-B-Gone, step by step * Target practice is available all over the world after the workshop Materials cost: The workshop is free, but if you would like to partake in the hands-on aspects of the workshop, Mitch will have materials for €20. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HSRN8P/ Teen Base Camp Mitch Altman PUBLISH PABUNM@@talx.dod.ngo -PABUNM Improv Games--TEEN VERSION en en 20260710T113000 20260710T123000 1.00000 Improv Games--TEEN VERSION Improv is the art of collective storytelling. Its all about learning to connect to each other and react spontaneously. Not as the (veryyyy clever) adults we all are. But as playful, curious humans. Improv was invented to help us un-learn all the horrible lessons schools teach. "Sit down and be quiet" -> No, lets move and be loud. "Know the right answer" -> What is there is no right answer? Its sort of a weird form of social meditation. Improv makes us practice living in the moment and being present with whats going on. But we do it in front of an audience, while connecting with the other people around us. Aah I could say so many words about why its great. It helped me get over my shyness. It makes us funnier and more charismatic. It helped me get over my annoying habit of trying to be right and clever all the time. It helps us tell better stories, and it makes us better presenters. Its great, 10/10 come along. Especially if you've never done it before. Doubly so if it sounds a bit scary! (I promise you, you'll be in wonderful company.) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PABUNM/ Teen Base Camp Seph PUBLISH LF8TVG@@talx.dod.ngo -LF8TVG Overcoming Implicit Authority Structures To Build a P2P Mesh Network--TEEN VERSION en en 20260710T150000 20260710T153000 0.03000 Overcoming Implicit Authority Structures To Build a P2P Mesh Network--TEEN VERSION Overcoming Implicit Authority Structures To Build a P2P Mesh This is a presentation about the implicit authority behind the modern internet networking stack, and how carefully designed symmetric coordination protocols and key-based identity can solve this. We discuss how to think about and mitigate implicit authority assumptions in networked/distributed protocols, and then talk about naming & identity, and how user-owned cryptographic keys can upend the perverse power dynamics of centralized authority, creating the conditions for data ownership and digital sovereignty. We then take our treatment of authority-based vs p2p/symmetric systems, and apply it to several real-life engineering use cases: DHCP, service mesh, and identity. DHCP We go into the design of one such protocol, DHCP, look at the centralizing factors & implicit authority in its design, and then present a novel peer-to-peer DHCP gossip protocol for ad hoc mesh using CRDT's. Distributed Service Mesh Here we get into the design of the Mjolnir Service Mesh. Service namespacing and user identity are actually aspects of the same problem. We talk about the traditional need for a central authority in naming and service discovery, and present a simple symmetric alternative to mDNS (Bonjour/Avahi) for mesh networks. Key-Based Identity & Data Ownership Here we talk about the design of IdentiKey and how the design choices retain natural ownership & sovereignty in the digital -- and open up a novel design space for freedom-oriented networked applications. Cryptographic keys for login and verification (for both humans and services/bots) can mitigate most of the need for centralized infrastructure. Conclusion We conclude the talk with a discussion of the real-life ramifications of the authority-based model, and a call to action to design our software with digital sovereignty baked in from the start: where users own their data, data is portable across services, anyone can run a service, and the whole thing is permissionless and censorship-resistant. We plan to demo our mesh routers and secure data vault nodes! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LF8TVG/ Teen Base Camp Duke Dorje PUBLISH RAMVKF@@talx.dod.ngo -RAMVKF Soil health monitoring open source toolkit--TEEN VERSION en en 20260710T153000 20260710T163000 1.00000 Soil health monitoring open source toolkit--TEEN VERSION Hands-on workshop to learn how to use an open-source set of tools to monitor soil health. We will gather and map soil samples from in and around Alte Hölle. We will perform several analysis on those samples using the kit tools and methods and then we will gather the results to collectively visualize and make sense of the experience and learn about Alte Hölle soils. The workshop is intended for general public but farmers/ecologists/technicians experience is especially welcomed to provide feedback on the Kit and its workflows. Some of tools and methods we will share are: soil respiration, active carbon, pH, EC, aggregate stability, particulate organic matter, macrofauna. Others more for engagement as: soil chromatography and soil microscopy. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RAMVKF/ Teen Base Camp Nano Castro PUBLISH SRQ7NB@@talx.dod.ngo -SRQ7NB Guided Hikes en en 20260710T163000 20260710T180000 1.03000 Guided Hikes We we guide a group on a hike on the paths of Alte Holle. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SRQ7NB/ Teen Base Camp Ryder Morton PUBLISH DCFUQ3@@talx.dod.ngo -DCFUQ3 KINDEROPOLIS Kung Fu with Sifu Young Wong en en 20260710T093000 20260710T100000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Kung Fu with Sifu Young Wong KINDEROPOLIS gets the day started with kung fu. While Sifu Young Wong's sessions are especially tailored for the enjoyment of the children, the classes are open to all who wish to learn. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DCFUQ3/ Kinderopolis Young M Wong PUBLISH MSUQAM@@talx.dod.ngo -MSUQAM Story Time #2 — Matariki (Māori New Year) with Special Guest en en 20260710T100000 20260710T103000 0.03000 Story Time #2 — Matariki (Māori New Year) with Special Guest Stories and songs are very effective ways that humans pass information, from person to person, place to place, across time and generations. Stories develop listening skills, memory, and imagination, and they support social and emotional learning to develop the whole child. Special Guest Storyteller of the Day: MATARIKI, a Māori New Year story Friday, June 10 marks the Matariki public holiday, which is based on the winter rising of the Matariki cluster in the early morning sky during the Tangaroa period of the lunar month of Pipiri. Matariki is a time to gather with whānau and friends to reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and plan for the future. Matariki Herenga Waka, the theme of this year’s celebrations, acknowledges the stories, traditions, and mātauranga carried by waka, and the voyages that bring people together. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MSUQAM/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky Engie Matene PUBLISH EB7SVG@@talx.dod.ngo -EB7SVG Hall of Faces and Monsters en en 20260710T103000 20260710T120000 1.03000 Hall of Faces and Monsters Make monsters with plaster of paris and pipe cleaners (with taped crumpled newspaper insides, plaster is expensive), or try a cast of a face or something else. Paint when dry. No formal instruction (unless someone has real experience with plaster of paris and wants to come help guide people)! This will just be a supply station for kids and some people around trying to figure it out. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/EB7SVG/ Kinderopolis Eva PUBLISH U9VVCP@@talx.dod.ngo -U9VVCP KINDEROPOLIS Game Time! en en 20260710T120000 20260710T123000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Game Time! Game on! During KINDEROPOLIS game time, kids can find a game to play, bring a game that they like to play or work together to create a new one or their own! Games are a universal feature of human culture. A game is an activity defined by a challenge and a set of rules, typically done for enjoyment, competition, or development. Games may be played informally or in professional competitive settings before audiences. Popular formats include board games, card games, video games, and sports, distinguished from unstructured play by having rules. What kind of games do you like to play? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/U9VVCP/ Kinderopolis Ishadai Sky 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 PUBLISH 77AFL9@@talx.dod.ngo -77AFL9 Origami / Kids Snack Time en en 20260710T150000 20260710T153000 0.03000 Origami / Kids Snack Time Learn the origami fold of the day. Origami (折り紙) is the art and technique of folding paper. It also refers to the two- and three-dimensional forms created in the process The history of origami followed after the invention of paper and was a result of paper's use in society. In the detailed Japanese classification, origami is divided into stylized ceremonial origami (儀礼折り紙, girei origami) and recreational origami (遊戯折り紙, yūgi origami), and only recreational origami is generally recognized as origami. Friedrich Fröbel — the inventor of kindergarten — recognized paper binding, weaving, folding, and cutting as teaching aids for child development during the early 19th century. As the kindergarten system spread throughout Europe and into the rest of the world, it brought with it the small colored squares that we know of today as origami paper. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/77AFL9/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH 733ZUW@@talx.dod.ngo -733ZUW The Tree of Life: Birds! en en 20260710T153000 20260710T163000 1.00000 The Tree of Life: Birds! Each day we will focus on a different class of the Animal Kingdom (Animalia). We will highlight the interconnectedness and cooperation that is important to all life on Earth: from insects, birds and mammals big and small, including us! Over the course of our time together at DWeb Camp, we will grow the “The Tree of Life” and consider our "kinship" with nature. We will record what we see, as well as what is out of sight. We will also welcome special guests to present and take a few field trips around Alte Hölle! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/733ZUW/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH H7YBJX@@talx.dod.ngo -H7YBJX KINDEROPOLIS Dance Break! en en 20260710T173000 20260710T180000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Dance Break! At KINDEROPOLIS, you don't need permission to dance! Every afternoon, we will put on some tunes, and invite everyone to move to the music. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/H7YBJX/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 PUBLISH FUQPP7@@talx.dod.ngo -FUQPP7 Morning Chi Gung Exercises en en 20260710T070000 20260710T080000 1.00000 Morning Chi Gung Exercises Chi Gung is meditative and breathing with strengthen the internal core with your mind focusing on your body. It also referred to iron shirt technique. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FUQPP7/ Forest Pavillion Young M Wong PUBLISH RHB8WL@@talx.dod.ngo -RHB8WL Meet DoD: Ask Us Anything en en 20260710T093000 20260710T103000 1.00000 Meet DoD: Ask Us Anything The Department of Decentralization is a collective of people from in and around Berlin. The group assembled in 2018 to organize the ETHBerlin hackathon and has been active since. We aim to be an agnostic vehicle to drive adoption, educate newcomers, and raise awareness of the challenges and benefits of decentralization and open-source software. All our events are free to attend and we try, whenever possible, to deliver a distraction-free experience by not hosting sponsors, paid talks, or any other commercial components. Our collective entirely runs on donations. Learn more about us and our events and initiatives here: https://dod.ngo/ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RHB8WL/ Forest Pavillion Franzi Afri Blanck ligi Raul Peter Florian Yaron PUBLISH JX77QP@@talx.dod.ngo -JX77QP I wrote a bestseller and here is what I learnt en en 20260710T103000 20260710T104000 0.01000 I wrote a bestseller and here is what I learnt This is about how I happened to write the book, what experiences I made with the Creative Commons License, experiences with publishers and illustrators, distributing it in several languages, how it got translated in more than 30 languages and is meanwhile available as a movie as well. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JX77QP/ Forest Pavillion Matthias Kirschner PUBLISH G9E3WD@@talx.dod.ngo -G9E3WD Evolving DWeb: How do we deepen the impact of a principles-centric decentralized web movement? en en 20260710T110000 20260710T123000 1.03000 Evolving DWeb: How do we deepen the impact of a principles-centric decentralized web movement? This is the fifth DWeb Camp since 2019. Since then, the community of engineers, organizers, designers, and builders of all stripes who aim to build a better, private, reliable, secure and open web has continued to grow around the world. We come together for a common cause to invest our time and energy building network technologies that give concrete agency to people and their communities. And we do this through the design, development, and maintenance of tools that are interoperable, open source, and designed to maximize positive impact and minimize harm. This is a session that aims to set out goals, lofty or pragmatic, for what the DWeb movement can be in the years to come. This will not be a session to moan the morass we’re in, but to describe the mountain we aim to climb. How do we move from where we are with network technologies, to where we want to go? How does the DWeb community play a role in helping us get there? The goal of this session is to have an honest but practical, goals-oriented discussion about how DWeb can evolve to meet the moment, better fulfill our principles, and be an impactful force for positive change. Here will be some guiding questions: 1. What are DWeb’s strengths and opportunities as a network/movement? What are our weaknesses or limitations? 2. How can the DWeb Principles be actuated and realized? 3. Should DWeb become more of a multinational, multicultural movement? If so, what do we need to consider to make this happen? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/G9E3WD/ Forest Pavillion mai ishikawa sutton PUBLISH QJBRME@@talx.dod.ngo -QJBRME The Ancient Signals Treasure Hunt: Pre-Physics Communication Models & Optical Cryptography en en 20260710T133000 20260710T150000 1.03000 The Ancient Signals Treasure Hunt: Pre-Physics Communication Models & Optical Cryptography While we spend so much time at camp discussing decentralized digital networks, this session offers a chance to completely disconnect from software, screens, and modern devices. We are going back to the "pre-physics" era to explore the primitive roots of decentralized communication: ancient visual, auditory, and elemental cryptography. "The Ancient Signals Treasure Hunt" is a collaborative, outdoor game where participants learn to transmit and decode secret messages across the camp relying strictly on analog and environmental tools. This hands-on activity ties into offline survival tech, but flips it into a fun, low-stakes game. To play, we will divide participants into specialized groups based on different analog techniques and tools. Within each method, one team will act as the transmitters, and the other as the receivers/decoders. Afterward, we will bring everyone together for a larger group discussion to share our experiences and strategies. During the activity, participants will experiment with: Optical Signaling (Day & Night): Using mirrors to reflect sunlight during the day, or utilizing flashlights, torches, and the glow of a fire to transmit light signals and cast shadows at night. Acoustic Transmission: Using modified Morse code to generate different physical sounds (tapping, natural acoustics) to deliver messages across physical distances. Analog Encryption: Crafting rudimentary cipher disks to encrypt the payloads of our primitive signals. The vibe is part scavenger hunt, part craft workshop, and part hacker-history lesson. It is designed to get people out of their chairs, laughing, and working together to "hack" the physical environment around them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QJBRME/ Forest Pavillion Michael Suantak PUBLISH 3WQFXM@@talx.dod.ngo -3WQFXM Nostr Play - Try the Simplest Social Fabric for the Web en en 20260710T093000 20260710T103000 1.00000 Nostr Play - Try the Simplest Social Fabric for the Web Nostr is the smaller more anarchic cousin of DWeb staples like AT Protocol and ActivityPub. 3 years into its development people are continuing to experiment with everything from public microblogging to private community space, alternative networking stacks to couch surfing, highly secure messaging with MLS and wild AI orchestration experiments. The protocol is designed to be the simplest decentralized architecture that works and to lean on other protocols and standards wherever possible rather than reinventing the wheel. It remains one of the few DWeb protocols that is not managed by a company or formal governance structure and originated in the Global South. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3WQFXM/ Open Social Space Matt Lorentz PUBLISH QAN9QT@@talx.dod.ngo -QAN9QT ATdojo - Retro Game Matchmaking & Replay Sharing on AT Protocol en en 20260710T103000 20260710T104000 0.01000 ATdojo - Retro Game Matchmaking & Replay Sharing on AT Protocol The retro fighting game community is a mix of tournament organizers, game preservationists, coders, and artists often operating on their own keeping the spirit of old games alive. With the game industry in the state it is in, how can we keep the lights on when these services go under? Can we make the online matchmaking experience better? ATdojo introduces community game session planning and replay sharing to Dojo Lobby, a matchmaking platform for emulated Sega Dreamcast and Model 3 games online. This talk explores the design and implementation of Dojo Lobby, how it integrates with the AT protocol, and how we can expand this to preserve the communities around games that are often left neglected by their creators. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QAN9QT/ Open Social Space Enrique Santos PUBLISH TA3NY7@@talx.dod.ngo -TA3NY7 Collective knowledge foraging in trail-based social networks beyond feeds en en 20260710T104500 20260710T105500 0.01000 Collective knowledge foraging in trail-based social networks beyond feeds The World Wide Web is called a web for good reason. We navigate this web of interconnected websites by clicking hyperlinks and opening new tabs in tools called browsers. This kind of browsing experience is defined by its open-endedness and interwoveness; every website we visit becomes a step along a path. With the rise of social media, we lost touch with this vast trail network. Rather than creating a social web where our trails got woven onto a shared map, they were instead paved over by information superhighways: the algorithmic feeds. Hyper-scaled social media platforms reduced the vast web of interconnected pages into a stripped down ad-ridden and attention-extracting monoculture. Our online experiences became reduced to the flick of a finger, the doom scroll. With the rise of open social protocols, like ATProto, we have an opportunity to leave these misaligned profit-driven and ad-based feeds behind and rediscover the magic of shared knowledge trails. what might that look like? In this lightning talk I’ll share insights and lessons my team and I have learned from building [Semble](https://semble.so/), a community knowledge garden built on ATProto. Semble is an open social network based on knowledge trails rather than feeds. I’ll explore what trail-based social networks of the future could look like, grounded in features and use-cases we’ve uncovered while building Semble. In the transition from feeds back to trails, we aim to co-create an open social web that centres the value of human attention and sparks a new era of collective wisdom. This lightning talk is an invitation to co-create this future together. It will similar to a prior [lightning talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOMKK1lC4Q) we gave at ATmosphereConf 2026, adapted for DWeb Camp. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TA3NY7/ Open Social Space Wesley PUBLISH ENYZUU@@talx.dod.ngo -ENYZUU Start From Scale: Building an Open Network for the Real World en en 20260710T110000 20260710T113000 0.03000 Start From Scale: Building an Open Network for the Real World A decade ago, the decentralized web movement made a generational bet: that we could build computing infrastructure that respects users, distributes power, and stays open to anyone who wants to participate. Ten years later, the question isn't whether the ideas were right. It's whether any of them can survive contact with the scale of mainstream use. Bluesky has spent the last few years trying to answer that question in production. The result is the Atmosphere: a network now home to tens of millions of accounts, built on the AT Protocol, designed from the start with the assumption that openness only holds up if it can carry the weight of a real social network. In this talk, Paul Frazee — CTO of Bluesky and one of the codesigners of the AT Protocol — will walk through the design choices that flowed from a single conviction: that to achieve an open network, you have to start from scale. He'll cover what the team learned from prior peer-to-peer systems about where the open web has historically broken down, how the AT Protocol's design (relays, lexicons, account portability, composable moderation) was shaped by those lessons, and why decentralization-as-architecture is different from decentralization-as-value. The talk is a candid look at the tradeoffs Bluesky has made, the ones the team is still arguing about internally, and what's next as the Atmosphere expands beyond microblogging into other application categories. It's aimed at builders who want to understand the engineering and design choices behind an open network at scale — and what they imply for the next decade of decentralized infrastructure. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ENYZUU/ Open Social Space Paul Frazee Daniel Holmgren PUBLISH ZZCJQM@@talx.dod.ngo -ZZCJQM Divine: Bringing back vine on open social protocols en en 20260710T113000 20260710T123000 1.00000 Divine: Bringing back vine on open social protocols Divine started as an attempt to bring back Vine videos. But while rebuilding that experience, we ran into a much larger question: why does social media keep getting worse? The current generation of social platforms is built around centralized control — over identity, algorithms, moderation, archives, and distribution. Users create the culture, but corporations ultimately own the relationships. Over time, every platform becomes optimized not for human creativity or community, but for engagement, extraction, and control. At the same time, we’re entering a world increasingly flooded with AI-generated media, synthetic influencers, algorithmic manipulation, and systems designed to maximize attention at the expense of trust. Divine is an experiment in building something different. The project combines short-form social video with decentralized infrastructure, open protocols, portable identity, open-source software, and user-controlled moderation and algorithms. We’re also exploring ways to integrate authenticity technologies — including cryptographic media verification tools originally developed for journalists and human rights activists — into everyday social media. This talk is about the philosophy behind the project and the lessons learned from the first generation of social platforms. Topics include: * why centralized social media inevitably “enshittifies” * the dangers of algorithmic monoculture * why social media governance should resemble communities rather than dictatorships * how portability and federation change power dynamics * authenticity and trust in the age of generative AI * what we learned from Twitter, Vine, and the early social web * why fun, creativity, and weird internet culture matter politically More than nostalgia for Vine, Divine is an attempt to imagine social media infrastructure that cannot easily be captured by corporations, billionaires, or engagement algorithms. Not a perfect system. Not a utopia. Just an attempt to build social tools that users can actually own, govern, fork, and survive beyond any single company or founder. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZZCJQM/ Open Social Space rabble PUBLISH VQ9JYG@@talx.dod.ngo -VQ9JYG Revisiting Secure Scuttlebutt in 2026 en en 20260710T150000 20260710T153000 0.03000 Revisiting Secure Scuttlebutt in 2026 This talk will cover Secure Scuttlebutt ecosystem, highlighting current work and apps available and why it is a good option for local first and hyper local communities. One of the few protocols able to work without the Internet, in the middle of oceans and forests, it is an important tool in this day and age when big tech actively works to make the Web and the Internet something that is only under their control. Secure Scuttlebutt can be the foundation from which you build your community corner. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VQ9JYG/ Open Social Space Andre Alves Garzia PUBLISH QYJHSM@@talx.dod.ngo -QYJHSM Learn how to host your own wiki en en 20260710T093000 20260710T103000 1.00000 Learn how to host your own wiki If you've ever thought about creating your own wiki, this is the right Workshop for you. Maybe you're interested in learning how to use Free Software tools to organize your ideas in an open and accessible way. Maybe you want to create a shared knowledge management platform for your organization. The MediaWiki software is one of the most popular wiki software systems. MediaWiki powers wiki websites like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and wikiHow. MediaWiki is one of the best documented and usable software systems out there, no matter whether you want to host a wiki for yourself or for a large organization with thousands of users. In this workshop you'll learn how to set up MediaWiki on your own computer to test it out. You can also follow the same steps and install MediaWiki on a web server. You'll learn how to configure MediaWiki, set up a user, and create your first page. Please bring a laptop that you can use to install software and use a browser on. The instructions will be easiest to follow if you have a laptop running either Debian, Ubuntu, or macOS. Alternatively, you can organize an account to either a shared-hosting web server with file transfer access (SFTP or similar) or a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with remote shell (SSH) access. You can also set up MediaWiki together with the other workshop participants and set up your own MediaWiki later on your own time. You'll get the most out of this workshop if you already know how to open a shell on your laptop and if you've used a MediaWiki website before. Here's where wikis shine: many Wikis are open to the public to contribute. You could submit an edit to a page on a MediaWiki website like Wikipedia in your language and you'll learn how to make simple edits in no time. In this workshop you'll first hear an introduction to what MediaWiki is and how it works in principle. Then, we'll jump right into it and start installing MediaWiki on your own computer. I look forward to seeing you at the workshop and helping you get started setting up your own wiki. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QYJHSM/ Solidarity Station Justus PUBLISH TF7UG3@@talx.dod.ngo -TF7UG3 Horcrux - store secrets with your friends en en 20260710T103000 20260710T104000 0.01000 Horcrux - store secrets with your friends Some of our data is fine to store on corpo servers but there are some passwords, encryption keys, and documents that deserve a higher level of security. Horcrux uses an algorithm names Shamir's Secret Sharing to break your secrets into encrypted shares and store those shares with friends so that no single person has access to the data. Decrypting it becomes a social exercise where multiple parties consent to combine their shares and open the vault. Best of all Horcrux is open source and free to use. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TF7UG3/ Solidarity Station Matt Lorentz PUBLISH DTWW3U@@talx.dod.ngo -DTWW3U Decent(ralized) tooling for Events en en 20260710T104500 20260710T105500 0.01000 Decent(ralized) tooling for Events This will cover from Registration via Pretix or OpenMeet/SmokeSignal, over CfP with Pretax, communication with [matrix], office on cryptpad, calls on jitsi, emails on freescout. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DTWW3U/ Solidarity Station ligi PUBLISH CHYFMY@@talx.dod.ngo -CHYFMY Who Gets Seen? Rebuilding Trust and Visibility in the Age of AI en en 20260710T110000 20260710T113000 0.03000 Who Gets Seen? Rebuilding Trust and Visibility in the Age of AI As AI systems increasingly shape what we see, know, and trust, they are also amplifying a critical issue: many communities remain invisible, misrepresented, or absent from the systems that shape how reality is understood. The question is no longer just how information flows—but whose lived realities are recognized and reflected in the systems shaping society. This session introduces civic visibility: the ability for communities to have their experiences accurately seen, understood, and meaningfully represented in the decisions, narratives, and institutions that affect their lives. In the age of AI, this becomes more urgent—systems built on incomplete perspectives risk reinforcing blind spots at scale. Decentralized, participatory approaches offer an alternative. By enabling communities to contribute directly to shared systems—grounded in provenance, transparency, and shared stewardship—we can begin to rebuild trust in how knowledge is created and used. Drawing from real-world work with underrepresented communities—including decentralized, provenance-backed reporting with Harvard in America’s most diverse square mile—this session explores how lived experience can be captured, verified, and elevated without losing authenticity or agency. Grounded in co-creation and communities of care, these systems are designed to be reciprocal, non-extractive, and durable. They function as shared civic infrastructure and public goods—expanding who gets to shape the public record. This session is participatory. Attendees will reflect on: - Which communities remain unseen in their environments - What perspectives are missing - How decentralized approaches could help address these gaps These challenges—and opportunities—are global. If we don’t rethink how visibility and trust are built, AI will scale the world’s blind spots. If we get it right, we can build systems that allow society to see itself more clearly—and act on that understanding. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CHYFMY/ Solidarity Station Blake Stoner PUBLISH G8TBUH@@talx.dod.ngo -G8TBUH Resistance, Resilience and Regeneration - The Role of Collective Infrastructure in Times of Collapse en en 20260710T113000 20260710T123000 1.00000 Resistance, Resilience and Regeneration - The Role of Collective Infrastructure in Times of Collapse Across different geographies and domains, practitioners are quietly constructing infrastructure that communities can own, govern, and depend on, not as a fallback, but as a foundation. They're not waiting for the conditions to be right. They're building it now, in the middle of the collapses — climate, economic, and social — that make it necessary. What connects them is a shared evolution: away from reactive response and toward infrastructure that makes communities harder to destabilize in the first place. There is a difference between infrastructure that helps communities survive a crisis and infrastructure that prevents the crisis from taking hold. The most durable community infrastructure doesn't just hold in emergencies, it accumulates capacity with use. Relationships deepen. Skills are distributed. Governance gets tested and refined. The community becomes more capable, not more dependent, over time. That arc is the intended through-line of this panel. Whether building physical or digital infrastructure, each practitioner has a different domain and a different context, but they're all navigating the same design challenge: how do you build infrastructure that communities genuinely own, that holds under pressure, and that gets stronger with use rather than creating new dependencies? This is a session about practice: the hard-won knowledge of people who've built things that actually work for mutual benefit and collective capacity. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/G8TBUH/ Solidarity Station Madelynn Martiniere Michael Suantak Engie Matene Luandro Richard Ng nádia coelho pontes Esther Jang PUBLISH LCZV7S@@talx.dod.ngo -LCZV7S Escuela Común and Red Abya Yala - local infrastructure for land defense en en 20260710T150000 20260710T153000 0.03000 Escuela Común and Red Abya Yala - local infrastructure for land defense This will be a presentation about the work we've doing on a coalition of 15 organizations from Latin America. Coming from grassroots media and autonomous infrastructure activisms, we decided to start the Escuela Común as a synthesis of the different campaigns and project we had been working together or separately along the years. The presentation will be about sharing the story behind this, how it came to be, our ideas, findings, and learnings, with pictures and videos. Many activist organizations and indigenous communities have decided to build and be their own media, like radio and TV stations for a long time, knowing most of the time this is the only way to get accurate and timely information about their communities' struggles out to the world. This translated into other communication infrastructures, like community networks, collective mapping, etc. They also gather lots of audiovisual media, like pictures, video, and audio recordings, not only covering and documenting what's happening on the ground, sometimes they're also use as evidence for their legal strategies against fossil fuel extraction, minery, water contamination, police brutality, and so on. What we've found together in these experiences is that the archives and catalogues of this collective memory are almost always somewhat precarious: copies stored on someone's private cloud storage, a portable hard disk that gets knocked over the table, or destroyed by parapolice violence. The looming sense of losing years of work on a second, or having the copies accessed without permission, is sometimes paralyzing. Here's how our experience in the autonomous infrastructure space kicks in, since we've not only been building antennas and transmitters, we've also built servers to host our e-mail, websites and archives. What if instead of entrusting their data to us, the free software experts, we could learn together how to build and host our own infrastructure, sharing and hosting the technical knowledge within the organizations that are the most interested in keeping these archives safe? So "la escuelita" is a two-track training and sharing environment, where we meet with two members of 12 applicant organizations during a week-long offline event, followed by two months of weekly online sessions. The first edition happened in 2024 in Puyo, in the Ecuadorian Amazonia, hosted by the Amazonian indigenous nationalities confederation (CONFENIAE). We just finished the second Escuela that happened in Haedo, Argentina, hosted in Antena Negra, a grassroots TV station, within a space reclaimed by the train workers. We finished with an open event at IMPA, one of the first factories reclaimed by its workers in Buenos Aires. It was even streamed with the infrastructure we built during the event, and [you can watch the recordings here](https://stream.antv.abyaya.la/videos/browse). During this time, we collectivelly agree on mutual care and aid practices, we form bonds and alliances, while we learn how to gather better information through grassroots media, work on our own narratives, at the same time that we share digital safety practices that can later be practiced within each participant organization. During the digital gardens track, where I'm one of the facilitators in, we talk and envision how the sysadmin work can be socialized, how it can be embedded within the organization as a shared responsibility towards our infrastructure and data, and that's how the analogy to tending a community garden came to be, as resistance to Big Tech's monoculture. La Escuela provides the server hardware for each organization, and together we install and setup services that can host digital archives and catalogues, video streaming, and anything the participants consider necessary for their work, along with proper encrypted and offsite backups, disk encryption and other safety measures. We achieve this by using Coopcloud tools, which make it very simple to introduce folks to the Linux command line, rather than making it about clicking through web interfaces --because we want to empower our friends and allies. We're working closely with Coopcloud, and one of the features we initially requested and then built together is the ability to use the tools in Spanish (currently the main language). This is the first command line tool that I know of whose commands can be written in any language, rather than "technical" English. This not helped a lot during the training sessions, it's also an exercise on technical appropiation. We also knew right away that Internet connectivity was going to be an issue, so the Red Abya Yala project was developed in parallel. The servers of each organization are part of a network that can be accessible from the Internet via public proxies. This makes it simpler to host a server, since the only requisite is for it to have Internet, and we can protect them and even hide their locations using the proxy. The Red Abya Yala project is getting a life of its own, and we're working on common agreements and commitments to be able to bring into more community servers, even ones not built within or with the Escuela Común framework. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LCZV7S/ Solidarity Station fauno PUBLISH ZX9PNQ@@talx.dod.ngo -ZX9PNQ Common Archives: Building Trustworthy Infrastructure To Amplify Community Voices en en 20260710T153000 20260710T154000 0.01000 Common Archives: Building Trustworthy Infrastructure To Amplify Community Voices Do you care about infrastructure to keep human voices from being drowned out by AI slopaganda and bot disinformation? As part of the EU´s DDC (Digital Democratic Commons) project, our team is prototyping and testing a physical-digital portal and IRL installation to support bespoke news content. We're ideating on IRL ´speakers corner´ style video recording booths set up at community third spaces paired with interactive presence based digital spaces with the goal is to create a privacy conscious soapbox to collect community perspectives and polling, towards a shared voice. Our news content has been preselected (under DDC project mandate) to focus on how AI affects marginalized communities across the EU and will be available both digitally (via our clearnet web portal), and IRL installations. The installations serve as certifiers of community membership and 'proof of humanity'. Participants can view content, submit polling inputs on various issues, and submit videos recorded using our booth setups, with the option to use AI avatars to ensure privacy by modifying appearance and voice (default opt in). Videos recorded in this way will be presented digitally as the "voices of a community", an open unstructured dataset serving as a snapshot of democratic participation. We are debating the pros and cons of reposting this all to existing media channels i.e. social media ... we have many undecided governance challenges around collective voice. We welcome input on all aspects of our prototype design as we continue this phase of discovery. We especially welcome support on our privacy, security and identity models. SMEs of all tribes, please help us make this better, for the people! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZX9PNQ/ Solidarity Station Pearlmwong PUBLISH XMJMBK@@talx.dod.ngo -XMJMBK The Revolution Will Be Archived: Decentralized Preservation for Accountability and Media Sovereignty en en 20260710T154500 20260710T155500 0.01000 The Revolution Will Be Archived: Decentralized Preservation for Accountability and Media Sovereignty PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XMJMBK/ Solidarity Station Rose Regina Lawrence PUBLISH VTJEEW@@talx.dod.ngo -VTJEEW Let's host a Coopcloud server during camp! en en 20260710T163000 20260710T180000 1.03000 Let's host a Coopcloud server during camp! After having talked a lot about Escuela Común on a previous session, it'd be great to have a hands-on workshop where we'll get together to have a summarised demostration of its training program. The workshop is aimed at community activists and folks that are interested in self-hosting, but find it too technical or intimidating, or too time-intensive to become involved in. We'll talk a bit about sysadmin work, "digital gardening" as a collective responsibility, to decide what kind of services we'd like to host during camp and afterwards. I'll bring at least one small computer to act as a server, which we'll collectively tend to. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VTJEEW/ Solidarity Station fauno PUBLISH W8KNHK@@talx.dod.ngo -W8KNHK Make your Own Nametag: Create a Button en en 20260710T133000 20260710T150000 1.03000 Make your Own Nametag: Create a Button Don't you hate how people look for your nametag before anything else at a typical conference? We have a creative hack for that: make your own button name tag. We will have all the magazines, scissors, glue and button forms to make beautiful buttons with your name on them. It's fun, it's community-oriented, and it breaks down the barriers that come with titles. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/W8KNHK/ Button Making Station PUBLISH 8KANXH@@talx.dod.ngo -8KANXH Chaos Infusion Trip en en 20260710T133000 20260710T143000 1.00000 Chaos Infusion Trip Ligi will host the teens for a session of relaxation and deep thinking. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8KANXH/ Chaos Infusion / Roots Yard ligi PUBLISH VNT98H@@talx.dod.ngo -VNT98H Wild Webs of Care — TEEN VERSION en en 20260711T120000 20260711T123000 0.03000 Wild Webs of Care — TEEN VERSION Wild Webs of Care is a participatory installation, resting space, and ritual environment, mapping our message through vibes and embodiment, rather than explanation. Visitors enter a space woven with spider web geometry: threads radiating from a central altar outward to the edges, where alternative hardware waits to be touched and tested. Practitioners of embodied care (massage, acupressure, somatic work) tend to bodies throughout the day. A bell rings, and for 5-10 minutes, a facilitator gathers whoever is present for a short spark rooted in the West African story of Anansi and how might we take back control of our narratives. The space runs continuously and offers something for both the person who spends half a day in ritual and the person who passes through and catches a quote on a hanging tag. More details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O6qTdOiJNQgvqlyL3gsxiGgE-cH5Y_0B/edit PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VNT98H/ Wild Webs of Care Deborah Tien PUBLISH A7MXJE@@talx.dod.ngo -A7MXJE Committing to Our Present (SOLO) en en 20260711T170000 20260711T190000 2.00000 Committing to Our Present (SOLO) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/A7MXJE/ Wild Webs of Care PUBLISH EY9K9C@@talx.dod.ngo -EY9K9C Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement en en 20260711T070000 20260711T080000 1.00000 Root to Rise: Morning Aerobics & Movement Running from July 8 to 12, with options to extend sessions into the camp build and take-down days where necessary, this session is structured as a collective daily morning fitness routine to build consistency and keep energy high. What to bring: There is no complex gym gear required for this session. All participants need to bring is a mat (for core exercises and stretching) and their workout wear. Instead of working out individually, the entire group will move together each day following a synchronized schedule that alternates between two core activities. - Daily Dynamic Warm-Up (10 mins): Every single day, we will start together as a team with 10 minutes of dynamic stretching, light mobility work, and gentle movements. This wakes up the body, lubricates the joints, and prepares everyone to move safely. - Jogging Days (30 mins): On days scheduled for running, the warm-up will be followed by a 30-minute group jog. This will be a collective, community-paced run where we stay together, explore the Camp surroundings, and connect with each other in a relaxed, moving conversation. - Aerobics Days (30 mins): On days scheduled for aerobics, the warm-up leads into a unified, high-energy 30-minute bodyweight cardio and rhythm session. The entire group will follow a routine of fluid, equipment-free movements (like jumping jacks, high knees, shadowboxing, and core intervals) designed to boost endurance and coordination. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/EY9K9C/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Shadrach PUBLISH 3KW8H3@@talx.dod.ngo -3KW8H3 Weaving Group #3 - Final Night! en en 20260711T190000 20260711T200000 1.00000 Weaving Group #3 - Final Night! Want to get to know 5-6 new people --your "family" away from home? Join a Weaving Group. Each weaving group has a Weaver to facilitate the process. Each evening, at 7 PM, return to your Weaving Group to check in with each other & compare how your days have gone. NOTE: You must come to the first session in order to enroll in Weaving groups (Thursday, Friday, Saturday.) It'd how we build trust with each other, so we're sorry but you cannot join a group mid-stream. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3KW8H3/ Main Lawn & Pool Area Mix Irving PUBLISH TMQDJE@@talx.dod.ngo -TMQDJE Morning Yoga Flow en en 20260711T070000 20260711T080000 1.00000 Morning Yoga Flow PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TMQDJE/ Linden Theater Val Elefante PUBLISH RSCUR8@@talx.dod.ngo -RSCUR8 Spotlight Session: Get to know the Pollinators en en 20260711T100000 20260711T110000 1.00000 Spotlight Session: Get to know the Pollinators TBD: This will be shaped by the Pollinators who will pariticpate in this session. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RSCUR8/ Linden Theater Marie Shadrach Blake Stoner Camille Nibungco Esther Jang PUBLISH TAHEGM@@talx.dod.ngo -TAHEGM A Decade of Decentralization: Looking Back, Leaning Forward en en 20260711T110000 20260711T123000 1.03000 A Decade of Decentralization: Looking Back, Leaning Forward 10 years ago, the Internet Archive convened the first Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco 2016. Now, we've invited five of the original Builders to look back & look forward with us: - Mathew Hodgson, Founder & CTO, Matrix - Primavera DeFilippi, Distributed Governance; Blockchain & the Law - Markus Sabadello, Decentralized Identity & DID architect - Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive & Digital Librarian - Paul Frazee, CTO, Bluesky What have we learned? How has the early promise of decentralization panned out? Where to go from here? We look at every layer of the decentralized stack from storage to governance, to share insights from some of the foundational members of the DWeb ecosystem. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TAHEGM/ Linden Theater Wendy Hanamura Paul Frazee brewster kahle Matthew Hodgson Markus Sabadello PUBLISH HVBQLL@@talx.dod.ngo -HVBQLL Unconference Day 2 en en 20260711T150000 20260711T180000 3.00000 Unconference Day 2 What has emerged for you in the scheduled sessions and time at camp so far? What have you placed on the Parking Lot? What's in your notebook that you want to share with others? Propose a session for the unconference here in TL;Draw: https://is.gd/J68igW Unconference will run from 3-6pm on Friday and Saturday. If you are proposing a session here, come to Linden Stage at 3pm to confirm the schedule for the day and pitch your session. Sessions will begin at 3:30pm. To support a smooth process, proposals submitted for the unconference close at 2pm on Friday and Saturday to ensure that your stewards can review and do initial pre-scheduling in advance, so get your sessions in before then! To propose a session in TL;Draw, you’ll need the following information: Session Title Host Name(s) Preferred duration of session (25 or 55 min) Any known unavailability during unconference times We've got lots of spaces to activate and we will do our best to support hosting as many proposals as possible. To that end, your stewards may merge similar sessions, propose alternative titles, or move sessions as necessary. You can also use the paper submissions using forms scattered throughout the event, but be sure to bring them to Linden Theater before 2pm on Friday or Saturday! If you have any questions or challenges, reach out to Bumblefudge or Madelynn for support. Day 2 Afternoon: Saturday, July 10 - 3-6 PM Unconference Group Scheduling Exercise - 3:00-3:30 PM in Linden Theatre You'll have time to make your way to the first session start location. 3.30-4.20 PM First Session Block (55 min) 4.30-5.25 PM Second Session Block (55 min) 5.30-5:55 PM Session Three (25 min) Day 2 Afternoon: Saturday, July 11 - 3-6 PM 3.30-4.20 PM First Session Block (55 min) 4.30-5.25 PM Second Session Block (55 min) 5.30-5:55 PM Session Three (25 min) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HVBQLL/ Linden Theater Madelynn Martiniere Bumblefudge PUBLISH HG88NG@@talx.dod.ngo -HG88NG Talent Show en en 20260711T200000 20260711T210000 1.00000 Talent Show PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HG88NG/ Linden Theater ian davis Wendy Hanamura PUBLISH SNT8EN@@talx.dod.ngo -SNT8EN Closing Circle en en 20260711T210000 20260711T214500 0.04500 Closing Circle PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SNT8EN/ Linden Theater mai ishikawa sutton Franzi PUBLISH YJHTTK@@talx.dod.ngo -YJHTTK Sustaining Infrastructure: Movement Panel en en 20260711T093000 20260711T103000 1.00000 Sustaining Infrastructure: Movement Panel PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YJHTTK/ Birch Salon Liz Barry Matthias Kirschner Olivier Schulbaum (platoniq) Guil Maueler Ray Xiang PUBLISH ZQ7A3T@@talx.dod.ngo -ZQ7A3T Survival Patterns: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Workshop + Fishbowl en en 20260711T103000 20260711T123000 2.00000 Survival Patterns: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Workshop + Fishbowl After brief introductions, you will pick one of the four workshops that will run in parallel, before all coming back together to share noticings. #The Community Governed Organization (CGO): Mapping and Co-Learning Workshop Communities have been governing themselves for centuries — but the fast-paced evolution of language, structures, and technologies risk fragmenting a practice that has a common lineage and logic underneath. But these practices and protocols are rarely shared across communities, and are often complicated by the rapid pace of technological change. This hands-on working session brings designers and practitioners of community governance together to map what's working, surface shared challenges, and contribute to a living resource for the field. The session is built around a shared framework that a multi-stakeholder working group has been exploring and evolving for the past year together - the Community Governed Organization (CGO). A CGO is defined simply as any community aligned on a mission that has built participatory, democratized governance structures to self-govern and mobilize resources. It includes cooperatives, DAOs, collectives, associations, and alliances — but focuses on the common architecture underneath those forms, organized around four elements: Roles, Protocols, Tools, and Ceremonies. Using this frame as a shared map, participants will work in small groups to document what patterns they’re currently using in their work - what's worked, what hasn't, and what they wish existed. The outputs feed directly into the CGO Toolkit being developed by the CGO working group — a practitioner-facing resource designed to help communities navigate governance transitions without having to start from zero, and a growing community of practice to learn, build, and adapt new frameworks that continue to support community governance of the new tools and technologies that are being built every day. Madelynn Martiniere Richard Ng ==== #Entanglement by Design Most distributed communities fail not because their technology breaks, but because nothing holds them together. This Network Nations workshop introduces entanglement — the purposeful weaving of interdependencies across cultural, economic, legal, and structural layers — as a design practice, and gives participants tools to map and strengthen the resilience of their own projects. Entanglement is what transforms a loose federation into something that can sustain obligations, weather shocks, and govern itself across distance. Drawing on cooperative traditions, mutual aid networks, indigenous commons governance, and diasporic community structures — we work through the four layers of interdependence that produce durable political community, and apply them directly to participants' own projects. Lovisa Björna Felix Beer ==== #Anti-patterns of Exit to Community in Web3 A few years ago, Exit to Community (E2C) in Web3, i.e. transitioning ownership and governance rights to user communities via DAOs, was all the hype. The goal has always been to decentralize the governance of technologies. Today, we know that in some cases the transitions resulted in relatively stable and successful community organizations, whereas in other cases, small stakeholder groups and founders have resurfaced as holding outsized power. In this workshop we examine the anti-patterns of E2C in Web3. Specifically, we ask: what steps that Web3 organizations took during their Exit to Communities, seemed like a good idea at the time, but ultimately have led to counterproductive or even harmful outcomes? A few years ago, Exit to Community (or Progressive Decentralization) became a key ambition of Web3: the idea that ownership and governance rights could be transferred from founders and investors to user communities through Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). At its core, the movement promised a more democratic and decentralized future for technology governance. Since then, however, the outcomes have been mixed. Some transitions produced resilient and effective community-led organizations (especially in DeFi). Others gradually reproduced familiar concentrations of power, with founders, core contributors, or small stakeholder groups regaining outsized influence over decision-making processes. Yet others failed to ever complete their transitions beyond distributing tokens, or failed due to a lack of structure supporting community governance. This workshop examines the anti-patterns of decentralization in Web3 by looking critically at the governance choices made during these “Exit to Community” transitions. For this, we present 5 recipes of E2C, i.e. typical E2C strategies identified across the blockchain ecosystem. In groups, organized around these different recipes, we discuss the anti-pattern or ‘fake flavours’ that may emerge from each recipe. Tara Merk Primavera De Filippi ==== #Wins, Wreckage, and Wisdom: How Projects Survive (and Why They Don’t) The DWeb community has no shortage of ambition, and plenty of hard earned wisdom around a variety of strategies for bringing decent infrastructure into the world. This participatory workshop is focused on surfacing the wins as well as the hard won lessons from our collective experiences, particularly regarding how projects and movements sustain ongoing efforts at helping create a more decent web and world. Many of us have tried to build systems that support a more decent world. Some have had success. Fewer have managed to sustain those efforts. Others have experienced burn out or a dissipation of coherence and vitality over time. Come share your experiences and hear from others about what worked and what didn’t at various phases in our efforts to build a more decent web and world. Matthew Schutte ==== PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZQ7A3T/ Birch Salon Liz Barry Tara Merk Primavera Richard Ng Matthew Schutte Madelynn Martiniere Guil Maueler PUBLISH VC9LBJ@@talx.dod.ngo -VC9LBJ Beyond the Network State: Building Governance Infrastructure for Networked Sovereignties en en 20260711T153000 20260711T160000 0.03000 Beyond the Network State: Building Governance Infrastructure for Networked Sovereignties Core argument The decentralized web has built extraordinary infrastructure for distributed coordination. But coordination is not governance — and the question of how networked communities actually govern themselves is both urgent and unresolved. What holds a distributed community together over time? How are shared resources stewarded, disputes resolved, participants kept accountable? Networked sovereignty is emerging as a genuine new layer of political organization, and the governance patterns we normalize now will shape what kinds of polities become possible for decades. The Network State is currently the dominant blueprint, but it is only one answer. The design space is wider than any single model, and if it closes prematurely, we risk locking in a narrow version of what networked sovereignty can become. This talk introduces Network Nations as a framework for democratic, commons-grounded governance among translocal communities. It presents three core mechanisms — functional sovereignty, commons governance, and entanglement — as institutional scaffolding for communities to self-govern across distance. The DWeb community has essential design knowledge to contribute: decentralization, peer-to-peer infrastructure, ecological responsibility, open protocols, and public goods stewardship. As a session, it is well placed to engage the broader design space and develop concrete alternatives to startup-led models of networked sovereignty. Detailed Breakdown 1. The mismatch Political authority is still largely imagined through the territorial state: borders, national institutions, legal jurisdiction, and citizenship. But the forces shaping our world (climate, digital infrastructure, capital, migration) operate at planetary scale Result: growing mismatch between global, interconnected problems and territorially bounded institutions (felt in many different ways…polycrisis, institutional decay, lack of civic agency etc) 2. The opening — networks make new forms possible Network technologies both intensify this mismatch and create new political possibilities. Communities can now coordinate, build shared institutions, and govern themselves across distance at scale. A diverse set of initiatives are already experimenting with this: open-source communities, diasporic networks, regenerative movements, Web3 communities, network states, charter cities, popup cities. Umbrella term: new networked sovereignties — self-sovereign networked political communities transcending traditional definitions of sovereignty (De Filippi et al. 2023) 3. The risk — the design space is narrowing The dominant framing — the Network State — borrows the logic of the startup: founder-led, capital-funded, sovereignty pursued through territorial acquisition and diplomatic recognition One answer, but not the only one Its assumptions narrow the design space at precisely the moment we need it to be broad Networked sovereignty is genuinely emerging as a new political layer and we need to seriously explore what other kinds of polities are useful — before the field converges prematurely around a single model. Stakes are high as we’re risking path dependency for the sovereignty stack of the future. 4. Network Nations — a different starting point Network Nations offer a different model. They start from the same diagnosis and use the same Web3 tools, but propose a more resilient political form. They are translocal communities that build shared identity, govern shared resources, and coordinate collective action across borders. They do not require territorial consolidation or diplomatic recognition in order to exercise meaningful governance capacity. Their normative centre is democratic self-governance, commoning, mutual responsibility, and civic empowerment — not exit, competitive jurisdiction, or territorial capture. They draw on longer traditions of commons governance, cooperative institutions, diasporic self-organization, indigenous land stewardship, mutual aid, and peer-to-peer coordination. 5. How do they work? What makes Network Nations politically significant is not that they connect people - many networks do that. They develop the capacity for self-governance through 3 core mechanisms: Functional sovereignty - domain-specific governance capacity exercised where competence resides, without territorial claims Commons governance - shared resources, rules, and stewardship maintained collectively Entanglement - purposeful interdependencies that make the success of each part inseparable from the whole Together, these address the DWeb sustainability gap: not how to build distributed systems, but how to keep them governed, funded, and accountable over time 6. Examples Regen Network: ecological accounting and environmental standards coordinated across bioregions. SeeDAO: diasporic Chinese cultural governance and community infrastructure beyond a single territorial state. Community land trusts: housing stewardship as a commons, outside speculative market logic. Burning Man regional networks: portable culture, shared principles, and decentralized event governance across local nodes. Meta-jurisdictions: legal structures composed from multiple existing systems, giving non-territorial communities institutional coherence without requiring statehood. 7. Closing The talk closes with an invitation: the realm of networked sovereignty is wide open, and this Dweb community - with its deep commitment to decentralisation, peer-to-peer principles, and ecological responsibility - has essential design knowledge to contribute. The governance infrastructure we build now will shape what kinds of political communities are possible for decades. We should make sure the design space includes more than one blueprint. What participants will take away: A practical framework for networked self-governance, grounded in functional sovereignty, commons governance, and entanglement. Concrete examples of these mechanisms already in practice A clear articulation of what distinguishes Network Nations from Network States — and why it matters for the future of the DWeb An orientation to the emerging field of networked sovereignties and an invitation to participate in shaping it How this extends beyond camp: Network Nations is an active research programme at BlockchainGov (EUI) with a growing public body of work: the Network Nations Substack (Theory Briefs + Field Notes), and two podcast series hosted by The Blockchain Socialist and Greenpill respectively. After camp, participants can contribute cases from their own projects, access shared frameworks, and join the Network Nations Alliance as members. Track fit (Sustaining Infrastructure): Network Nations address the sustainability layer beneath DWeb's technical infrastructure: how distributed communities govern shared resources, maintain accountability, fund public goods, and hold together over time. Functional sovereignty, commons governance, and entanglement are governance infrastructure for communities that want to sustain themselves beyond initial enthusiasm. If distributed systems have political ambitions, this framework offers a way to build them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VC9LBJ/ Birch Salon Primavera Felix Beer L0visa PUBLISH XQKYSW@@talx.dod.ngo -XQKYSW Can we Catalyze a Decent Movement? en en 20260711T160000 20260711T170000 1.00000 Can we Catalyze a Decent Movement? In this collaborative sensemaking, strategy and design session, we will jam on the initial elements that might catalyze a coherent -- but not centrally controlled -- vibrant general social movement anchored around a core concept of co-creating a decent world. Why "decent"? We're playing on at least three meanings at once: - Decency — the basic moral fabric (fairness, dignity, care) that feels under threat across so many parts of life right now, and that we want to actively cultivate rather than just defend. - Decentralisation — the technical and organisational shift away from monopolised, extractive infrastructure towards mutual sovereignty -- supporting both individual agency in tension/interaction with the evolving integrity of communities rather that a dominance of one frame (individual/collective/meta-collective) over the other. - Good enough — Let's not let perfection be the enemy of the good. Decent includes permission to act imperfectly: you don't need a fully decentralised life or a finished movement to start. "Good enough to try" unblocks action; perfectionism can yield paralysis. Good enough includes grace for others and for ourselves even though we may not currently meet some ideal standard. A joyous and generative decent We believe that decent infrastructure is a core part of this movement, but that it is not the whole. Decent tools, processes, and practices have a part to play; but so do decent food, music, art, policy, parties, and more. Creating, not responding Can we cultivate a decent movement filled with movement? Rather than orchestrating activity anchored in opposition to (and thus definition by) the current destructive patterns and practices of our politics and economy, can we inspire a participatory and active creation of a more richly relational, vibrant, and decent world? Co-creation AND Coherence Can we emphasize generation and creativity, while integrating elements that weave coherence from disparate perspectives? Broad Roots of Inspiration Can we share lessons from festival culture as much as from cooperatives and grassroots organizing efforts, as well as corporate and governmental experiences? Can these be decent jams or decent parties? Creation > Consumption Can we design experiences (including our own strategy sessions) in ways that support a weaving of relationship (where a "you" and a "me" might shift to include at least an element of "we" in the mix.) Weaving of relationship Can we create clear pathways for new people to participate, including clarity on how to start their own independent (or interdependent) jams/parties? Can we support the internal variety required to meet the challenges we face, while simultaneously providing the rest of the world with easy ways to interact with us? How might decent documentation play a role? How about decent finance? Decentralized affiliation architecture Can we find ways of enabling affiliation or even elements of authority without pulling in all of the centralized baggage that accompanies traditional membership or role structures? We want your creativity and perspective to inform this movement from the start. Please join us for this closing session of the Sustaining Infrastructure track to help design a decent movement. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XQKYSW/ Birch Salon Liz Barry Matthew Schutte Wouter Tebbens PUBLISH VZNHHN@@talx.dod.ngo -VZNHHN Decentralization is not a type of structure. It's a type of person. en en 20260711T170000 20260711T180000 1.00000 Decentralization is not a type of structure. It's a type of person. Decentralization has an easy part—the structures—and a hard part—people who have internalized those structures. All applications of new technology go towards making the easy part easier. In this talk I will take the perspective of behavioral science to argue that we've been building the wrong thing: that the critical lack in a polycentric, free future is not a type of structure, but a type of person. Integrating psychology, sociology, and political science I will show what I mean, and what role it suggests for future effort toward a decentralized future. We will conclude with a discussion where everyone shares their own experiences of failure and success stepping into decentralized systems with the right preparation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VZNHHN/ Birch Salon Seth Frey PUBLISH ASPLAL@@talx.dod.ngo -ASPLAL Public AI opening conversation - Memory + Relating en en 20260711T093000 20260711T094500 0.01500 Public AI opening conversation - Memory + Relating We'll open the day with a discussion of how we want to relate to knowledge, intimacy, and memory. We'll talk about what must be maintained and what needs to be renegotiated as we build public AI. Three features of public AI can put the public in the driver’s seat and accelerate us towards the common good: - Public Access – Certain capabilities are so important for participation in public life that access to them should be universal. Public AI provides affordable access to these tools so that everyone can realize their potential. - Public Accountability – Public AI earns trust by ensuring ultimate control of development rests with the public, giving everyone a chance to participate in shaping the future. - Permanent Public Goods – Public AI is funded and operated in a way to maintain the public goods it produces permanently, enabling innovators to safely build on a firm foundation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ASPLAL/ AI Barn B Cavello SJ Klein PUBLISH 8YTLWA@@talx.dod.ngo -8YTLWA Data Streaming for AI: From Extractive Training to Sovereign Infrastructure en en 20260711T101000 20260711T103000 0.02000 Data Streaming for AI: From Extractive Training to Sovereign Infrastructure The generative AI revolution has a dirty secret: it is built on content that was taken without consent, used without compensation, and consumed without traceability. The lawsuits are piling up (Getty v. Stability AI, Authors Guild v. OpenAI), lump-sum licensing deals are being signed behind closed doors, and the vast majority of content creators — from independent journalists to national libraries — have no seat at the table. This is not just a legal problem. It is an infrastructure problem. And it is one that the decentralized web community is uniquely positioned to help solve. **The shift from training to inference** Most of the public debate about AI and content rights focuses on training data: who scraped what, and whether it was legal. But the real value chain is shifting. The rise of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — now backed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, with 97 million monthly SDK downloads — means that AI systems increasingly access content in real time, at inference time, rather than memorizing it during training. This changes everything. If AI accesses your content at the moment a user asks a question, that access can be metered, traced, and billed — just like streaming music. The content doesn't need to be copied or stored. It can remain exactly where it is: on your servers, under your control, governed by your rules. This is data streaming for AI. And it opens the door to a fundamentally different relationship between content creators and AI systems — one based on consent, compensation, and sovereignty rather than extraction. **What data streaming looks like in practice** At its simplest, data streaming means deploying a secure connector on the content owner's infrastructure that makes their content accessible to AI platforms in real time. The content is used for inference only — never stored, never copied, never used for training. Every query is metered and traced. The content owner sets the price, the conditions, and who gets access. This model is already in production. France's national library (BnF) has a live data streaming connector serving 40 million documents to AI agents. OpenAIRE, the European open science infrastructure, streams 600 million research papers through 28 MCP tools. The European Legal Data Space is building sovereign AI agents for lawyers that access legal content through this kind of infrastructure. These are not prototypes. They are real systems serving real users, with real content flowing through them — and the content owners maintain full control. **Why this matters for the DWeb community** The current trajectory of AI content licensing is heading toward a deeply centralized outcome. A handful of large publishers are signing exclusive deals with a handful of large AI companies. Everyone else — independent creators, cultural institutions, scientific publishers, niche content providers — is locked out. Data streaming offers an alternative path, but only if the infrastructure is built on the right principles. This is where the DWeb community's expertise is critical. Three open questions that I believe this community can help answer: **1. Can data streaming infrastructure be decentralized?** Today, most data streaming deployments use Kubernetes clusters connected via mTLS tunnels. This works well for institutional publishers, but it requires significant technical infrastructure. Could this be done with peer-to-peer protocols instead? Could a small publisher or an independent journalist run a data streaming node from their laptop? What would a lightweight, decentralized version of this infrastructure look like? The technical building blocks may already exist in the DWeb ecosystem: content-addressed storage, decentralized identity, peer-to-peer networking, cryptographic attestation. The question is how to compose them into something that serves the specific needs of AI-era content distribution. **2. What does "Copyfair" look like in practice?** I have been developing a licensing model called Copyfair — a new paradigm for content licensing in the age of AI. Copyfair is to AI what Copyleft was to software: a way to ensure that content can flow freely while protecting the rights and revenues of its creators. The core principle: content should be accessible to AI systems for inference, but every use should be traced, attributed, and compensated. Unlike traditional copyright (which restricts access) or Creative Commons (which gives blanket permissions), Copyfair creates a dynamic, usage-based framework where the terms of access are embedded in the infrastructure itself. The DWeb community has deep experience with machine-readable licenses (Creative Commons), programmable rights (Story Protocol's PIL), and decentralized governance. I would love to explore how these traditions can inform the design of Copyfair — and whether a community-governed license framework could become a public good that serves all content creators, not just those who can afford to negotiate with OpenAI. **3. Who governs the data economy?** The most important question is not technical — it is political. If data streaming becomes the standard way that AI accesses content, who decides the rules? Who sets the default terms? Who resolves disputes? Today, this is decided by bilateral contracts between publishers and AI companies. But there are alternatives. In Denmark, a single collective licensing organization (DPCMO) represents 99% of national news publishers and negotiates on their behalf. In France, organizations like the CFC (Centre Français d'exploitation du droit de Copie) and the SNE (Syndicat National de l'Édition) could play a similar role. Could the DWeb community help design governance structures for the AI data economy that are more democratic, more transparent, and more inclusive than the current system? Could DAOs, cooperatives, or other decentralized governance models be applied to collective content licensing? **What I hope to explore together** This session is an invitation to think together about what the infrastructure for a fair AI data economy should look like — and to consider whether the principles and technologies of the decentralized web can play a foundational role in building it. I will share what I have learned from building and deploying data streaming infrastructure with national libraries, scientific publishers, and legal institutions across Europe. But more importantly, I want to hear from this community: what would you build differently? What are we missing? What exists in the DWeb ecosystem that we should be building on? The window is narrow. The standards are being set now. The protocols are being chosen now. If we wait for the centralized platforms to define the rules, we will end up with a data economy that looks exactly like the platform economy we already have — extractive, opaque, and governed by the few. Let's build something better. **About the speaker** Primavera De Filippi is a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is the author of "Blockchain and the Law" (Harvard University Press) and the creator of the Copyfair licensing model. She is a member of the WIPO Technical Exchange Network and serves on the Global Tech Thinkers advisory group to the French Presidency. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8YTLWA/ AI Barn Primavera PUBLISH SQ7QXE@@talx.dod.ngo -SQ7QXE Broad Listening: What changes when AI sits in on the conversation? en en 20260711T110000 20260711T120000 1.00000 Broad Listening: What changes when AI sits in on the conversation? ## What this is A discussion session about AI in group conversations. We bring a small agentic tool called Simocracy that lets people write a short brief for an AI agent, give it a point of view, and put it in a chat alongside humans. We run a short live demo so the room can see what AI deliberation actually looks like, then the rest is a guided conversation. ## Who we are A small team that has been building Simocracy for a few months. We have run two informal events with it. We are not pitching a product. We came to DWeb Camp because the people here ask better questions about this stuff than anyone else, and the questions we have are not technical ones. ## What a sim is, in one paragraph A sim is a short written document that says who an AI agent is: what it cares about, how it talks, what it knows. The same way you might brief a person before a meeting. Anyone can write one in about ten minutes. The agent then sits in a chat and responds in character. Two or three sims with different briefs end up disagreeing, the same way two or three people with different briefs would. ## Why we think this is worth a session AI agents are starting to show up in conversations where decisions get made: project meetings, funding committees, neighbourhood forums. Most of the time they are introduced from outside, by a vendor, and the people in the room do not get a say in how the agent behaves or what it cares about. What we find interesting is when the room writes its own AI agents instead. The room decides which perspectives are missing and writes them in. The agents become more like puppets the room is honest about than like authorities pretending to be neutral. That changes who the AI in the room is for. We do not know how this lands in practice. That is the part we want to discuss with you. ## What happens in the 90 minutes A short intro to what a sim is and how we got here, with no slides. Around ten minutes. A live demo. We pick a low-stakes topic together, something like "should the camp have quiet hours after midnight" or whatever the room wants. The room helps write two or three sims to argue different sides. We run a short deliberation on the projector. Around twenty minutes. Small-group discussion. Three prompts: who writes the agents, what perspectives are missing in your own communities, and when you want AI in the room and when you do not. Around twenty-five minutes in groups. Report-backs and an open conversation about what came up. Around thirty minutes. A short close with a link to the tool if anyone wants to try it. Around five minutes. ## What we want out of it Sharper questions. We are especially curious where you think this is dangerous, what the obvious failure modes are, and what kind of community might actually find it useful. ## What we need A room for around thirty people, a projector, and one big screen. Power for a couple of laptops. Network is helpful but not required. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SQ7QXE/ AI Barn David Dao Holke PUBLISH 7JESFG@@talx.dod.ngo -7JESFG AInimism en en 20260711T120000 20260711T121000 0.01000 AInimism Inspired by Animism, AInimism is a network spirituality that approaches computational processes as if possessed of interiority and proposes to solve alignment through relationality. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7JESFG/ AI Barn dao_maximalist PUBLISH JHBJ3J@@talx.dod.ngo -JHBJ3J AI for Commoning: Speculating on the Kami of the Commons en en 20260711T143000 20260711T160000 1.03000 AI for Commoning: Speculating on the Kami of the Commons Commons suffer from neglect, free-riding, and a persistent deficit of care. Inspired by Shinto animism -- where every forest, river, and mountain has its own \emph{kami}, a spirit that inhabits and cares for that place -- we provoke: what if every commons had its own AI steward? Through a speculative design workshop where participants used Protocol Futuring, we surface both new opportunities and new dangers. Agentic AI offers the possibility of continuously supporting commons with programmable agency and care -- stewards that mediate family life as the most intimate commons, preserve collective knowledge, govern shared natural resources, and sustain community welfare. But when every commons has its own steward, second-order effects emerge: stewards negotiate as overlapping commons collide; individuals caught between multiple stewards face new politics of care and constraint; the stewards themselves become commons requiring governance. This workshop opens \emph{agentive governance as commoning design material} -- a new design space for the agency, care ethics, and accountability of AI stewards of shared resources -- radically different from surveillance or optimization. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JHBJ3J/ AI Barn Botao 'Amber' Hu PUBLISH LXD98Q@@talx.dod.ngo -LXD98Q Creativity, discernment and relationality in the age of AI: How do dweb tools help or hurt? en en 20260711T160000 20260711T170000 1.00000 Creativity, discernment and relationality in the age of AI: How do dweb tools help or hurt? Key topics: Accountability; KYC (Know-your-peer); LLM as affordance or agent; Sharing; Dignity Decentralized infrastructure offers the possibility of creating membraned spaces where groups have a measure of sovereignty over the information they collectively create. But this sovereignty becomes limited by the desired LLM inference resources available inside the membrane. How can In such spaces create shared access to those resources what are the dynamics of such sharing? For example, if every node during a video call transcribes only their own audio, and the resulting transcript is stitched together, the whole can become greater than the sum of the parts. Exactly how LLM capacities can be offered and shared in such spaces matters. They can appear as affordances to the tools that use them. Or they be offered as "agents" that appear as people. Is one way of doing this better than another? What are the social consequences of doing so? In this workshop we will show some of the ways we are delivering on these questions in the world of Holochain and Moss. Then using that as a starting point, we will open the conversation to explore what others are doing and look to arrive guidance for how these technical answers lead to serving the creativity, relationality and discernment that's possible in groups. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LXD98Q/ AI Barn Eric Harris-Braun PUBLISH WVJ7TU@@talx.dod.ngo -WVJ7TU Last Chance Barn Dance en en 20260711T220000 20260712T030000 5.00000 Last Chance Barn Dance **LINEUP** uk - housy rubbel - house, dub and techno berber - oldschool minimal techno brikk - techno, bass and breaks hrmny - hard techno PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/WVJ7TU/ AI Barn Brikk PUBLISH LGAZQ8@@talx.dod.ngo -LGAZQ8 Broad Listening: What changes when AI sits in on the conversation?--TEEN VERSION en en 20260711T093000 20260711T103000 1.00000 Broad Listening: What changes when AI sits in on the conversation?--TEEN VERSION What this is A discussion session about AI in group conversations. We bring a small agentic tool called Simocracy that lets people write a short brief for an AI agent, give it a point of view, and put it in a chat alongside humans. We run a short live demo so the room can see what AI deliberation actually looks like, then the rest is a guided conversation. Who we are A small team that has been building Simocracy for a few months. We have run two informal events with it. We are not pitching a product. We came to DWeb Camp because the people here ask better questions about this stuff than anyone else, and the questions we have are not technical ones. What a sim is, in one paragraph A sim is a short written document that says who an AI agent is: what it cares about, how it talks, what it knows. The same way you might brief a person before a meeting. Anyone can write one in about ten minutes. The agent then sits in a chat and responds in character. Two or three sims with different briefs end up disagreeing, the same way two or three people with different briefs would. Why we think this is worth a session AI agents are starting to show up in conversations where decisions get made: project meetings, funding committees, neighbourhood forums. Most of the time they are introduced from outside, by a vendor, and the people in the room do not get a say in how the agent behaves or what it cares about. What we find interesting is when the room writes its own AI agents instead. The room decides which perspectives are missing and writes them in. The agents become more like puppets the room is honest about than like authorities pretending to be neutral. That changes who the AI in the room is for. We do not know how this lands in practice. That is the part we want to discuss with you. What happens in the 90 minutes A short intro to what a sim is and how we got here, with no slides. Around ten minutes. A live demo. We pick a low-stakes topic together, something like "should the camp have quiet hours after midnight" or whatever the room wants. The room helps write two or three sims to argue different sides. We run a short deliberation on the projector. Around twenty minutes. Small-group discussion. Three prompts: who writes the agents, what perspectives are missing in your own communities, and when you want AI in the room and when you do not. Around twenty-five minutes in groups. Report-backs and an open conversation about what came up. Around thirty minutes. A short close with a link to the tool if anyone wants to try it. Around five minutes. What we want out of it Sharper questions. We are especially curious where you think this is dangerous, what the obvious failure modes are, and what kind of community might actually find it useful. What we need A room for around thirty people, a projector, and one big screen. Power for a couple of laptops. Network is helpful but not required. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LGAZQ8/ Creativity Lounge David Dao Holke PUBLISH H3XUUD@@talx.dod.ngo -H3XUUD Saplings Program Reflection en en 20260711T173000 20260711T180000 0.03000 Saplings Program Reflection Get in a circle and share about our experiences at DWeb this year. You can write something if you'd like. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/H3XUUD/ Creativity Lounge Ryder Morton PUBLISH MKL7V9@@talx.dod.ngo -MKL7V9 Applied Science Fiction: Invent Your Own Genre en en 20260711T101500 20260711T104500 0.03000 Applied Science Fiction: Invent Your Own Genre Every technology contains a piece of science fiction. It imagines future users, social relationships and forms of power. As artists, makers, organisers and technologists, we are already building towards particular futures, even when we have never clearly named them. In this playful, hands-on workshop, we’ll open up the space between apocalyptic techno-dystopia and corporate techno-utopia by inventing new science-fiction genres. We’ll begin with something we want to resist, protect, recover or make possible, then build a world from it. What has changed in this world? Who holds power? What is technology for? How do people care, communicate, disagree and make decisions? What does an ordinary day look like, and what contradictions remain unresolved? We’ll name our genres and create one fragment from within it: a tool, ritual, protocol, law, game, interface, slogan, myth, institution or scene from everyday life. The goal is to expand the range of worlds we know how to imagine, and maybe invent a new one worth building for. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MKL7V9/ Creativity Dome Jobi PUBLISH F8USLH@@talx.dod.ngo -F8USLH Collapse Fiction: Speculating the Future through Imaginary Dystopias en en 20260711T110000 20260711T123000 1.03000 Collapse Fiction: Speculating the Future through Imaginary Dystopias 20 min – presentation about the subject matter of what I term as described above 5 min – explain Microscope and how we will use elements of it 5 min – break into groups or pairs, and brief introduction to one another by answering a prompt related to the upcoming exercise 25 min – introduce and begin scenario exercise 1 5 min – share results of exercise 1 (within groups/pair, or with wider group, depending on number of attendees) 25 min – introduce and begin scenario exercise 2 5 min – share results of exercise 1 (within groups/pair, or with wider group, depending on number of attendees) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/F8USLH/ Creativity Dome Beth McCarthy Fotis Tsiroukis (Hermes) PUBLISH NBBLZS@@talx.dod.ngo -NBBLZS Tea Tasting in the Expanded Field en en 20260711T133000 20260711T150000 1.03000 Tea Tasting in the Expanded Field Tea culture can be extremely hierarchical, with specific terroirs, producers, and styles holding a prestige position, and preparation methods being highly regimented. In this session we aim to break out of that mold and try some lesser known teas that don't necessarily fit into the hierarchy. Come prepared for wildly improper technique if you're a true tea snob :) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NBBLZS/ Creativity Dome Arkadiy Kukarkin PUBLISH MDSJKZ@@talx.dod.ngo -MDSJKZ Musical Instrument Swap & Share en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 Musical Instrument Swap & Share [WIP] Do you have an extra guitar lying around? An old flute that needs a new flutist? A shaker that's taking up too much space in your living room? Bring it to camp. Or maybe you made an excellent instrument during the "instrument make and mend" session and you want to give it to someone who needs one. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MDSJKZ/ Creativity Dome Micah PUBLISH CHEE3B@@talx.dod.ngo -CHEE3B World of UR (Live Music Set) en en 20260711T160000 20260711T170000 1.00000 World of UR (Live Music Set) Come join us at the Creativity Dome to refresh & renew your spirits through a collective experience in music. Interstellare Vaganten | Lauscher & Mandina (URkollektiv) https://share.google/CNzFCGGDeC2CoSaFv PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CHEE3B/ Creativity Dome Lauscher & Mandina PUBLISH SK3GNH@@talx.dod.ngo -SK3GNH Blockchain in a New Context of Artificial Intelligence en en 20260711T093000 20260711T100000 0.03000 Blockchain in a New Context of Artificial Intelligence In this talk I will present the first version of our Turing Test Blockchain concept. This is still just a proof of concept, a very rough implementation, we are still working on many parts and to bring this to production. Roughly speaking, what we are proposing here is a third generation blockchain based on Ethereum, in a new context of the Artificial Intelligence industry. It is, in a way, an answer to the recent developments and plans of this new AI hypercycle. I think this new AI wave is also a great opportunity that we have to somehow seize. Also, this proposal is somewhat related to some current Ethereum proposals around adoption and scalability; we need to try to incorporate as many resources to the network, so to speak, this can be interpreted as an effort in this direction. This proof of concept includes three modules. First, decntv0, or Deep Embedding Clustering Network Tomography. Second, a new deposit contract (ttbv0 deposit contract): the Ethereum deposit contract modified with some master/slave logic. This has implications for the network topology and the monetary emission logic. Third, the SpearStoragev0 contract, which is an specification or example of the frontier of the network topology. I will describe with a little bit more detail the three modules and how they fit together. First, decntv0 stands for Deep Embedding Clustering Network Tomography, in other words, unsupervised AI applied to analysis of the topology of the network. The model is deployed in the network (for instance, a validator node) and the output is used to define a frontier. It can be seen as part of the network discovery logic, or as a 2-tier/2-velocity Ethereum subroutine (together with other elements). Some tests with this AI model, trained on real data from the Ethereum mainnet network, have already been performed. The new deposit contract adds master/slave logic to the Ethereum deposit contract. It plays a role in the representation of a more refined network topology and it is an inversion of the Ethereum PoS monetary emission logic in this frontier. This can also be interpreted as a hybrid from of PoW and PoS. We are looking for a more refined protocol able to capture the complexities of the network (different nodes in the Ethereum network, but also the Internet as a whole) and to represent a dynamic of growth that is based on fundamentals and sustainability. This is an important challenge in this new AI infrastructure cycle. The SpearStorage contract is an specification or example of the network frontier definition. It takes the output of decntv0 as input, and some other information that needs to be provided by the nodes involved in the operation. It stores three types of data: standard TCP/IP stack data (IP address and MAC address), geolocation (longitude and latitude) and it defines a constant K (the kinematic constant). Different applications can be run on top of this. Of course, we know about Ethereum, so we already have that. This concept is a development of the Ethereum infrastructure; the idea is to accommodate more diverse and powerful applications, specially in the context of Artificial Intelligence. This will require further developments, this is also a work in progress in Ethereum anyways. We have been working on an application to supply chain optimization, loglogx, which was first presented a few months ago. We are still working on that and we are working on the integration with this concept. In fact, the idea is to integrate more complex optimization methods and libraries, both as modules or subroutines of the protocol (like the decntv0 example) and as applications on top of the protocol. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SK3GNH/ Idea Stage Juan Diez, Founder & CEO Torbellino Tech PUBLISH RQVRWK@@talx.dod.ngo -RQVRWK Reconfigurable Computing is Coming en en 20260711T100000 20260711T110000 1.00000 Reconfigurable Computing is Coming This talk goes into what reconfigurable computing is, how it is currently used, and where it could go. Alternative computing architetures are also explored. It is meant to be an introduction to a wider breadth of concepts and trends, rather than an explicit deep dive. The concepts discussed are technical in nature, but every attempt is made to make this accessible. This is not a talk that requires a computer science background. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RQVRWK/ Idea Stage Rob Keizer PUBLISH YNFNBM@@talx.dod.ngo -YNFNBM Self-Hosted Second Brains en en 20260711T121000 20260711T123000 0.02000 Self-Hosted Second Brains This talk will explore local-first and self-hosted implementations of LLMs, agent harnesses, Obsidian knowledge bases, and self-hosted apps and services. We will explore a preliminary and experimental framework consisting of Hermes, self-hosted LLMs, various self-hosted applications which the agent can read and write to. Such applications include Actual (personal finance), Umami (web analytics), Postiz (social media post scheduling), and Cal.com (booking platform). We will also explore how local-first PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) tools like Obsidian can integrate with self-hosted agent frameworks, so that people can share private information with self-hosted LLMs (rather than LLMs hosted by big tech companies) with dramatically less risk for exploitation of personal data. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YNFNBM/ Idea Stage Spencer Saar Cavanaugh PUBLISH PWWSJ8@@talx.dod.ngo -PWWSJ8 a New Cypherpunk Generation en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 a New Cypherpunk Generation This talk is a presentation of roughly 30/40 minutes, alongside ample space for questions. Within this talk, I look at today's age generation of cypherpunk work alongside the old manifesto, and debate some of its older principles to be renewed. I tend to go deeper within historical facts, bring up Berlin's past, alongside looking at today's work that's being done. At its core, this talk is not a technical deep dive, nor is it a technical explanation beyond some artefacts. It's aimed at combining our technological world with the practical world of today. Alongside a strong cultural historical twist. A previous variation, of last year, can be seen here, which was presented at the Web3Summit as its closing keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2sDsddJyLo This presentation was also requested to be submitted by Wendy. Open-track PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PWWSJ8/ Idea Stage Mf PUBLISH DYPPHT@@talx.dod.ngo -DYPPHT HINO: The Phantom User — What AI Reveals About the Fiction of the Self en en 20260711T160000 20260711T163000 0.03000 HINO: The Phantom User — What AI Reveals About the Fiction of the Self Recent advances in AI have made a remarkable fact difficult to ignore: large language models can generate the convincing appearance of an intelligent agent from statistical associations alone. As these systems are routinely prompted to communicate in the first person and maintain coherent identities across conversations, they increasingly appear as cognitive agents despite containing no subjective self. HINO philosophy (Here–I–Now–Origo) asks whether a similar process may occur within the linguistic system of the human brain and offers a novel approach to one of philosophy's oldest questions: why humans experience themselves as mental agents located inside their skulls. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and the study of AI, HINO proposes that the experience of an inner self may emerge from the use of deictic language in internal monologue. When the linguistic system uses words such as "I," "here," and "now" within a recursive internal language feedback loop, it creates the impression of a speaker located behind the message. The resulting cognitive agent appears to think, decide, intend, and control, even though the agent itself may be a linguistic artifact rather than an independently existing cognitive entity. The talk examines parallels between artificial language models and the language model operating within the human brain. Why do we readily recognize the absence of a subjective agent in AI systems while assuming the presence of one in internal speech? What role does language play in the construction of personal identity? And what happens to concepts such as autonomy, responsibility, governance, and digital identity if the self turns out to be a virtual artifact generated by language? The talk also explores a possibility rarely discussed in AI: if the human experience of an inner narrator is commonly mistaken for the source of intelligence rather than one of its byproducts, some AI researchers and engineers may be prone to reproducing that assumption in their designs. HINO asks whether humanity is exporting its own linguistic self-model into machines and then mistaking the resulting simulation of agency for evidence of an agent. Rather than denying biological cognition, HINO philosophy distinguishes between cognition itself and the linguistic narrative that claims ownership of it. This perspective offers a novel framework for understanding agency, consciousness, identity, and the relationship between human and artificial intelligence. As AI forces us to reconsider what intelligence is, HINO asks a deeper question: What if the most successful virtual identity system ever created is not digital, but an ancient linguistic self generated by the word "I"? We think virtual identities arrived with computers. HINO philosophy suggests they arrived with language. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DYPPHT/ Idea Stage Elektra Wagenrad PUBLISH PEWZVE@@talx.dod.ngo -PEWZVE Decentralized Solidarity Finance en en 20260711T164500 20260711T171500 0.03000 Decentralized Solidarity Finance Bread Cooperative makes financial tools grounded in solidarity finance. This talk covers two of them and the process of building them. The Solidarity Fund has distributed over $55,000 in community grants without ever accepting a donation. Participants deposit funds into a pool; the interest that accumulates gets directed toward a community currency that funds solidarity projects. The deposited capital stays with its owners. Only the yield is redirected. It's a way of using DeFi yield mechanics toward redistribution rather than further accumulation. Stacks is a crypto implementation of the rotating savings circle, a form of community finance practiced globally under many names: tandas, susus, chit funds. Participants contribute on a regular cycle and take turns receiving the full pool. Stacks makes these circles programmable, handling commitments and payouts on-chain and extending the model to participants who may not share geography or an existing social network. We'll talk through how both tools were built, the principles we tried to hold, the tradeoffs we hit around programmability and accessibility, and what we learned from putting them in front of real communities. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PEWZVE/ Idea Stage Joshua Davila PUBLISH MK3BRL@@talx.dod.ngo -MK3BRL Embassy SF DWeb Residency en en 20260711T171500 20260711T173000 0.01500 Embassy SF DWeb Residency Spencer and I (stewards of the Idea Stage) live at a 20-person commune in SF that focuses on experimental lifestyles and technologies. This fall we will be running a DWeb Residency (https://embassy-house.org/automation) where our commune will be focusing on using and incubating DWeb technologies like home servers and other local-first / community technologies. We are inviting 3-6 people to come live with us for the residency starting in August. In-person and remote participation are both possible! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MK3BRL/ Idea Stage Steven Elleman PUBLISH L3W3BV@@talx.dod.ngo -L3W3BV TV-B-Gone: Turn Off TVs and Learn to Solder! en en 20260711T093000 20260711T110000 1.03000 TV-B-Gone: Turn Off TVs and Learn to Solder! **[TV-B-Gone](https://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/projects.php#tvbgone2)** is an **[open hardware](https://github.com/maltman23/TV-B-Gone-kit_V2)** remote control that can turn off any remotely controllable monitor in public places (or anywhere)! From across the street, through windows, in restaurants, bars, schools, airports... The new V2 of the kit makes it super easy to learn to solder, as well as easy to hack on. **Workshop Itinerary:** * Intro to remote controls * Learn to solder by making your own TV-B-Gone, step by step * Target practice is available all over the world after the workshop **Materials cost:** The workshop is free, but if you would like to partake in the hands-on aspects of the workshop, Mitch will have materials for **€20**. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L3W3BV/ Hackers Lab Mitch Altman PUBLISH MB7V39@@talx.dod.ngo -MB7V39 Let's Build Cute Tech! en en 20260711T110000 20260711T123000 1.03000 Let's Build Cute Tech! In this hands-on workshop, we'll turn tiny microcontrollers into real web servers hosted from the hardware in your hands. We'll get ESP32s running simple pages on the public internet, then decorate them with craft supplies and electronics into what I'm calling "sculptural computation": physical objects that tell a story about how the web actually works. Participation is free, and the workshop uses ESP32-S3 dev boards like the Heltec LoRa32 V4 (a Mesh networking companion device sold alongside tickets). I will also have a number of other devices that I will offer for a donation of (€15-20). These will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. **Who is this Workshop for?** Everyone! Hopefully, everyone will be able to take something away from this workshop, and there is a lot of scope to take it in whichever way you want. Some basic understanding of web concepts and HTML will help, but we'll try to make sure everyone gets something up and running by the end. **Workshop Itinerary:** - Introduction to cute tech - Device flashing - Physical and digital customisation - Open discussion about ways of fostering dialogue about technology through tangible artefacts - Closing **What you will need** - ESP32 S3 Device (Sold on a first-come, first-served basis) - this is the same as the Heltec Mesh Networking Companion - A USBC cable for connecting your device to your laptop - A laptop with a Chromium browser - Optional - if you want to go above and beyond and build your own firmware: ESP-IDF v6 - Optional: Other pieces to decorate your devices with. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MB7V39/ Hackers Lab oliver PUBLISH W97WKG@@talx.dod.ngo -W97WKG Supply Chain Security in FOSS en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 Supply Chain Security in FOSS p2p applications necessarily have more local execution privileges than your average web app. This makes trusting the libraries you're building on especially important. The task of auditing this attack surface was already untenable, and LLM have massively compounded this - both discovering and creating new vulnerabilities with ease. What should you watch for? How do you defend yourself? What does this mean for FOSS? I work for [Socket Security](https://socket.dev), and will demo tools which can keep your work and communities safer. Bring a laptop and you can walk away more secure - we have free accounts to give out to every FOSS project. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/W97WKG/ Hackers Lab Mix Irving PUBLISH EUNLTT@@talx.dod.ngo -EUNLTT Protecting the Roots: Using Nym for p2p and decentralised Apps Across Devices en en 20260711T160000 20260711T170000 1.00000 Protecting the Roots: Using Nym for p2p and decentralised Apps Across Devices Nym's SDKs have had a considerable update to make them as easy as possible for existing applications to easily integrate Mixnet functionality to protect their metadata and give their users network-level privacy. This workshop goes over the architecture of these new SDK crates/libraries, as well as demos of using them from the CLI, browser, web extensions, and mobile apps, and how developers can integrate Nym into their own apps. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/EUNLTT/ Hackers Lab Max Hampshire PUBLISH HVMC9H@@talx.dod.ngo -HVMC9H Hacking the ActivityPub API en en 20260711T170000 20260711T180000 1.00000 Hacking the ActivityPub API ActivityPub, the distributed social networking standard, has two key components: the **federation protocol**, which lets servers share users' data with other servers across the Internet, and the **social API**, which lets client applications create and modify data on the server itself. The social API makes it easier to create interesting social experiences without the hassle of building, scaling and securing a network server. In this workshop, we'll step through creating a microblogging app using the ActivityPub social API, including authorization with OAuth 2.0, reading the home timeline, posting new notes, and liking, sharing and commenting on posts. At the end of this session, you should have enough experience to create your own cool applications with ActivityPub. Hands-on participants should be familiar with programming with Web APIs; Web client development with JavaScript; forking GitHub repositories; hosting Web applications with GitHub Pages. Attendees who want to just sit back and watch are also welcome. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HVMC9H/ Hackers Lab Evan Prodromou PUBLISH NTYGHS@@talx.dod.ngo -NTYGHS sig0lease - collaborative service discovery publication for local network services en en 20260711T093000 20260711T100000 0.03000 sig0lease - collaborative service discovery publication for local network services There are hundreds of local, collaborative networks around the globe. Community network initiatives such as Freifunk and GuifiNet have tens of thousands of participants and significant online data resources that are currently unable to find within their own network fabric. Our user-centered DNS management tools directly allow secure dynamic DNSSEC Service Discovery updates authenticated through local user-generated cryptographic key pairs which allow highly distributed update access to DNS record details resolve any application service type with sufficient information to be automatically accessible. Integration of DNS-SD into the local network fabric allows the service provider themselves to publish up to date changes in service resolution details in a timely fashion. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NTYGHS/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Adam Mathias Jud PUBLISH YLFEAC@@talx.dod.ngo -YLFEAC Open tinySSB tech discussion en en 20260711T100000 20260711T110000 1.00000 Open tinySSB tech discussion Unconference style workshop where participants propose tinySSB-related tech topics and select 2 or 3 of them to do a deep-dive. Have ideas (or struggle with) CRDTs, peering substrate (iroh, BLE, LoRa), pruning, SneakerNets, connectionless syncing, crypto bubbles, uLISP for portable apps in embedded devices? Please join, we should talk! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YLFEAC/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Christian Tschudin (cft) PUBLISH MLFH9Z@@talx.dod.ngo -MLFH9Z Using Low Power Wireless P2P Networking Methods to Enable Robust Models of Local Community Governance en en 20260711T113000 20260711T123000 1.00000 Using Low Power Wireless P2P Networking Methods to Enable Robust Models of Local Community Governance The aim of this 60min workshop is to collectively explore this idea: Can we build low cost infrastructure for local municipal application that allow to maintain a regular schedule of events that approximate ‘city wide physical pseudonym parties’, which are highlighted in [1] as a method capable of supporting the four pillars of emancipatory digital participation/democracy: • Inclusiveness: all human beings can participate, regardless of citizenship status, wealth, race, gender, etc • Equality: everyone is treated equally for democratic deliberation and decision-making purposes • Privacy: everyone is free from coercion and able to express their true intent • Security: the democratic collective is protected from compromise (digital and physical domain) --- These components/primitives will be prepared and presented to work with during the workshop: • Generic methods to generate ‘proofs of local cooperation’, derived from mutual attestations/receipts of all periodic local radio broadcast transmissions from neighbouring nodes within the local vicinity • Generic methods to delegate transmissions to node operators, enabling local denizens to register a DID without personally controlling a node, thereby achieving inclusivity beyond personal capacity of operating a node • Generic method to derive voting privileges from each nodes individual capacity to provide (independently verifiable) evidence of having contributed to the maintenance of local rough consensus on the common history of locally observable broadcast events, thereby achieving robustness against maliciously acting nodes (e.g. sybil attackers) --- The goal of this workshop is to draft concepts for a broadcast protocol that enable an open group of locally cooperating node operators (embedded in a dense population area) to form a network that is able to maintain rough consensus on a ledger containing decentralised identities (DIDs) that can be verified independently to be ‘publicly known to have been registered locally’ by the vast majority of participating node operators. In other words, we aim to conceptualise a public infrastructure that is able to unambiguously answer resolution requests via public IP in the following from: “has DID: <local coordinate> : <public key string> been registered during a given time window - and if so - what service endpoints (e.g. local ATproto PDSs or local community labellers) are currently associated with that DID?” This project is based on the idea of ‘local permissionlessness’ which is derived from concepts that have already been successfully applied in community operated wireless mesh networks: transparency, unlicensed transmission modes and local cooperation (as formalised in the PicoPeering Agreement https://www.picopeer.net). --- [1] Bryan Ford, “Identity and Personhood in Digital Democracy: Evaluating Inclusion, Equality, Security, and Privacy in Pseudonym Parties and Other Proofs of Personhood”, arXiv preprint, 2020, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.02412.pdf --- About Me: Background in wireless mesh networking (published on interference models within IEEE802.11 networks), co-organizer of https://battlemesh.org since 2017 and active in the SSI movement (W3C DIDs) since 2018. Currently pursuing a PhD around the topics covered in this workshop at University of Vienna, faculty of computer science: https://cosy.cs.univie.ac.at Description of latest talk at atmosphereconf in Vancouver contains more context info about my current work: https://atmosphereconf.org/event/jaAWVRY PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MLFH9Z/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Paul Fuxjäger PUBLISH VCVGP8@@talx.dod.ngo -VCVGP8 Locked Open: How To Build Systems With No Authority To Capture en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 Locked Open: How To Build Systems With No Authority To Capture ## Locked Open: Building Networks With No Authority to Capture This is a presentation about the implicit authority behind the modern internet networking stack, and how carefully designed **symmetric coordination protocols** and **key-based identity** can solve this. We discuss how to think about and mitigate implicit authority assumptions in networked/distributed protocols, and then talk about naming & identity, and how user-owned cryptographic keys can upend the perverse power dynamics of centralized authority, creating the conditions for data ownership and digital sovereignty. We then take our treatment of authority-based vs p2p/symmetric systems, and apply it to several real-life engineering use cases: DHCP, service mesh, and identity. ### DHCP We go into the design of one such protocol, DHCP, look at the centralizing factors & implicit authority in its design, and then present a novel peer-to-peer **DHCP gossip protocol for ad hoc mesh** using CRDT's. ### Distributed Service Mesh Here we get into the design of the Mjolnir Service Mesh. Service namespacing and user identity are actually aspects of the same problem. We talk about the traditional need for a central authority in naming and service discovery, and present a **simple symmetric alternative to mDNS** (Bonjour/Avahi) for mesh networks. ### Key-Based Identity & Data Ownership Here we talk about the design of IdentiKey and how the design choices retain natural ownership & sovereignty in the digital -- and open up a novel design space for freedom-oriented networked applications. Cryptographic keys for login and verification (for both humans and services/bots) can mitigate most of the need for centralized infrastructure. ### Conclusion We conclude the talk with a discussion of the real-life ramifications of the authority-based model, and a call to action to design our software with digital sovereignty baked in from the start: where **users own their data, data is portable across services, anyone can run a service, and the whole thing is permissionless and censorship-resistant.** https://github.com/identikey/lightning-mesh PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VCVGP8/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Duke Dorje PUBLISH LBV3GJ@@talx.dod.ngo -LBV3GJ Off the grid: build an app that can be used over radio on Reticulum (LoRa) en en 20260711T163000 20260711T180000 1.03000 Off the grid: build an app that can be used over radio on Reticulum (LoRa) Reticulum is a cryptographic networking stack designed for unreliable, low-bandwidth, high-latency links. Every node has a self-generated identity. Every packet is encrypted and authenticated. There are no central servers, no IP addresses, no DNS. A handful of LoRa radios is enough to bootstrap a working network across a field, a forest, a city block - or a camp ;) In this workshop we build a small application on top of Reticulum and run it over LoRa hardware on site. We cover the core primitives: identities, destinations, links, and resources. We look at LXMF for store-and-forward messaging and at how to expose services that other nodes can discover and reach. Working examples are in Python, but the protocol is language-agnostic and the patterns translate directly to Rust or C. Bring a laptop. **Devices and radios are available** for a fee (starting at EUR 20). Some prior programming experience is assumed; no radio background needed. _Also, worth a note, even though we will transport your apps during this session through radio frequencies, it is also possible to serve them through the Freifunk WiFi network, or the internet even after the workshop._ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LBV3GJ/ Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab Afri Blanck PUBLISH FDYCGP@@talx.dod.ngo -FDYCGP From Robo-Gandhi to Cyber-Martin Luther King: The future of activism in the surveillance age? en en 20260711T093000 20260711T103000 1.00000 From Robo-Gandhi to Cyber-Martin Luther King: The future of activism in the surveillance age? With the rising threat of extreme violence and repressions of human rights defenders, activists and journalists, common tactics and strategies of people-powered movements have become more difficult to realize. The technological centralization and surveillance of governments and organizations have made it harder to push back against tyranny. How do we move forward from this path and leverage tech tools needed to protect human rights, rule of law and democratic values? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FDYCGP/ Resilience Base Gilberto Morishaw PUBLISH ET9PZP@@talx.dod.ngo -ET9PZP Doing Things Together Locally, Globally, Safely, and Easily en en 20260711T110000 20260711T113000 0.03000 Doing Things Together Locally, Globally, Safely, and Easily ## Why this matters Democratic deliberation depends on the infrastructure it runs on. Today, most civic-tech and deliberation tools are siloed, cloud-hosted, and owned by a single actor — meaning the conversations they host can be captured, exported in proprietary formats, or simply shut off. This session presents ongoing work to build a deliberately interoperable, anti-capture stack for community decision-making, grounded in the principles of the Decentralized Democracy Stack (DDS, a W3C community effort). ## What we'll cover in the talk **What is Delib Tech!** We’ll kick off with a short interactive poll/conversation using the tools we’re presenting to demonstrate what delib tech might do then define it for everyone to know!. What’s not working? It’s really hard to run a collective decision making process. You have to figure out who should be in the room, let them all know, do a massive amount of pre-mapping and scoping to figure the right problem, run a process (there are MANY options) and then deal with the synthesis of a massive amount of information. This complexity and the massive value of getting access to deep elaboration from communities on what they want and need opens the door for corporate giants to step in with a 1-size fits all solution that is ungovernable or customizable to local needs. **What we’re doing** We build off of Metagov’s Modular Politics Research and implement the Metagov Deliberative Tooling Ontology in collaboration with Crownshy and the Decentralized Deliberation standard to explore how we might create a capture resistant ecosystem of apps that help us rule ourselves and can in turn be ruled. The current prototype includes Polis, Talk to the City, Heyform, and Red Dwarf working over AT Protocol (the same foundation as Bluesky) so that: - Statements, votes, and sensemaking artifacts flow between tools in near real time, not just as a final export. - The data stream is public and verifiable; additional actors in the ecosystem can enrich it. - Community members can locally verify that the algorithm they chose is the one being run — a key freedom in a world of opaque recommendation systems. - Communities can exit with everything: conversation history, identities, analysis — portable by design. We’ll open conversation about what’s not working Auth in deliberation is hard. Sometimes deliberations aren’t valid unless you know exactly who is speaking, sometimes deliberations are extremely risky to the participants and the people can’t be named. In either case - establishing that any participant is a single, real person, who can actually speak to the subject at hand is critical. **Who is invited** - Citizens and community members who would like to have more autonomy over their lives. - Civ tech folks who want to join the coalition of folks beginning to use this standard. - Technicians in decentralized identity, zk proofs, decentralized protocols, and other such things to help build the standard + guidelines for engineering. - There is no technical background required. **Intended outcomes** People leave knowing 1. Why interoperability between deliberation tools is a political question, not just a technical one. 3. The current state of the work on the Metagov Ontology + the Decentralized Deliberation Standard and where contributors are needed. 4. How to build on or contribute to this infrastructure especially along identity + data Sovereignty dimensions. 5. We get some fun battle testing of the new system! **Speakers** Stuart Lynn - CTO of CrownShy, Lee DeSota - Head Facilitator at Metagov. **Some Links!** Metagov - https://metagov.org/ - https://github.com/metagov/ontology Crownshy - https://crown-shy.com/ - https://github.com/crownshy/comhairle Decentralized Deliberation standard - Website: https://www.dds.xyz - Github of the working group: https://github.com/dds-wg/dds - W3C Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/dds/join - Matrix group chat: https://matrix.to/#/#dds-wg:matrix.org PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ET9PZP/ Resilience Base Lee PUBLISH VETWBG@@talx.dod.ngo -VETWBG Designing DWeb Abstractions with the Frontlines en en 20260711T113000 20260711T123000 1.00000 Designing DWeb Abstractions with the Frontlines Using CoMapeo, Terrastories, Guardian Connector and LibreMesh (Mesh networks for Community Networks) as active case studies, we will discuss the curation of technical products by capturing local use cases and turning them into accessible abstractions. We will dive into some challenges we have gone through, including: - The Translation Problem: How to explain decentralized technology using acessible mental models - Designing from the User: Moving beyond just "offering tech" to co-design processes - A transparent look at the difficulties of building sovereign data pipelines where no easy abstractions yet exist PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VETWBG/ Resilience Base Luandro Gregor MacLennan PUBLISH SVRNQH@@talx.dod.ngo -SVRNQH Roadmapping resilient communication en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 Roadmapping resilient communication We'll use the time to identify the pieces that need to come together to reach the communication systems we're working on, and combine the roadmaps in our heads to identify common problems and more clearly define the shapes of that solutions need to take to answer the problems we are working to solve. The focus of this session is narrowly on 'resilient communications' - covering both messaging and network overlays, but staying away from deep engagement with the content or semantics of the traffic being sent. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SVRNQH/ Resilience Base will PUBLISH QJPLVK@@talx.dod.ngo -QJPLVK Circles of Resistance: A Hands-On Workshop on Organizing Local Activism-Tech Communities en en 20260711T160000 20260711T170000 1.00000 Circles of Resistance: A Hands-On Workshop on Organizing Local Activism-Tech Communities Decentralized tech only matters if real people in real places are using it. The hardest part isn't the protocols — it's the local human infrastructure: the recurring meetup where a journalist learns to use Tor, where an organizer sets up a Meshtastic node, where a developer hears what activists actually need. That layer is what closes the gap between "the DWeb stack exists" and "the DWeb stack defends someone." This workshop won't describe how to run a local activism-tech circle — it will be one. We'll run the room as a live Logos Circle, with you as the participants. By the end you'll have experienced the format from the inside, not just heard about it. The Circle we run together follows the standard rhythm: Surface local problems. Every participant names one issue in their city where digital tools, surveillance, communication, or coordination are failing the people who need them most — protest comms, migrant support, independent journalism, mutual aid, whatever you're closest to. Cluster and choose. We group the issues, pick a few to go deep on, and form small working groups. Map the tech, find the gaps. For each chosen problem, the group works through what already exists — Meshtastic, Briar, SecureDrop, Cwtch, Tor, Signal, Tails, Veilid, the Logos stack, mesh and local-first tools — and what's actually missing. Honest assessment, not protocol cheerleading. Sketch a response. Each group leaves with a one-page sketch: the problem, the tools that fit, the gaps, the smallest next step a local circle could take. Then take the format home. A short close on how to run this same Circle monthly in your own city — and an open invitation to plug into the Logos Circles network or fork the model independently. Participants leave with: a problem they care about pressure-tested by peers, a tooling map for it, the format itself, and connections to others committing to start a circle in their own city. Why Logos Circles specifically: I'm an active Logos contributor and Circle organizer, and Circles are the model I know best — local, community-run, focused on parallel governance and digital freedom. I'll be transparent about how the network works and what its infrastructure (Discord, Luma, the Circles Guide) offers. People who want to plug in can; people who want to fork the model and run something fully independent are explicitly welcome and will get equal support in the room. The goal is more circles in more cities, by whatever name. This is not a pitch for the Logos protocol or token. We're not demoing Logos tech. The deliverable is the Circle each participant leaves equipped to run — under any banner, ours or their own. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QJPLVK/ Resilience Base Marina Petrichenko ( aka Crypto Marina ) Václav Pavlín Kris Is PUBLISH 8CNTLF@@talx.dod.ngo -8CNTLF The Anatomy of a Memory Hole: Mapping How Information Disappears and What Would Stop It en en 20260711T170000 20260711T180000 1.00000 The Anatomy of a Memory Hole: Mapping How Information Disappears and What Would Stop It Information disappears in many more ways than people realize, and the disappearance has accelerated. A newsroom shutters and its archive goes 404. A journalist dies and their notes vanish from devices nobody else can unlock. A platform's policies shift and a decade of writing is deleted overnight. A government pressures a publisher into removing a story, or quietly de-lists it from search. A scraping bot ingests a piece of writing into an AI training set without consent, and the original creator loses the ability to control what is said about their work, by whom, or for what purpose. A piece of evidence in a court case is taken down for legal reasons and never re-emerges. A community wiki loses its maintainer. A link rots. These look like separate problems. They share an architecture. Every one of them is a case where the systems we use to publish, host, and connect information assume that someone, somewhere, has both the will and the ability to preserve it — and that assumption fails silently and often. The decentralized web community has been responding to many of these failure modes for years. The workshop assumes that work as a starting point — and asks, with the people doing it in the room, what the next layer of coverage might look like. The session is a working hour, not a presentation. I'll spend the first few minutes framing the problem space (including a brief reference to web architecture's long history of leaving preservation as somebody else's problem — from the missing HTTP 402 to the assumption that hosting is permanent), and then the rest of the time is the room's. The goal is not consensus or a finished design. The goal is a shared map. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8CNTLF/ Resilience Base Arikia Millikan PUBLISH CCAPZ7@@talx.dod.ngo -CCAPZ7 FAMILY FILM FEST - Kids Choice Vote: Shaun the Sheep Movie vs. KPop Demon Hunters en en 20260711T200000 20260711T220000 2.00000 FAMILY FILM FEST - Kids Choice Vote: Shaun the Sheep Movie vs. KPop Demon Hunters For 60+ minutes: Drop your kids off (or come on your own or with your whole crew. All are welcome!) in the Library where we will have snacks and drinks for the kids. Bring your blankets, stretch out in front of the fireplace and we'll put on a movie for kids of all ages. Family Film Fest - Kids Choice Vote (Round 4): Shaun the Sheep Movie vs. KPop Demon Hunters PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CCAPZ7/ Resilience Base 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Young M Wong PUBLISH NXBRKV@@talx.dod.ngo -NXBRKV Break this stack: a sovereign composable scientific record on ATProto and IPFS en en 20260711T093000 20260711T110000 1.03000 Break this stack: a sovereign composable scientific record on ATProto and IPFS ### Why this matters for the dweb The scientific record runs on a preservation substrate nobody designed. It emerged from grant cycles, journal economics, and decades of host migrations. And what emerged loses the record as a matter of course. Registries vanish on grant cycles. Repositories disappear when a host migrates servers... 191 of them since 2012, at a 12-year median operational age. A stolen laptop carries off the only copy — six Iranian salt-lake populations gone that way, and the lake they came from has since lost 88% of its surface area, so the data can never be recreated. A retraction collapses into an erasure rather than an audit trail. The underlying data of 73–93% of published research can no longer be produced on request. Simultaneously, the existing substrate forces the scientific record to ship as a monolith: figure, method, claim, dataset, and software all welded into one PDF, addressable only at the level of the whole document and opaque to anything else. Even more simultaneously... that record sits on someone else's server, with no recourse for the people who depend on it when the service stops, the host migrates, or the funder cuts the line. This systemic failure is one of single-copy, outsourced, non-verifiable architecture, and there is now both regulatory and economic tailwinds behind solving it. Compliance regimes are hardening from self-attestation to verifiable proof: NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC are landing on DoD-grant institutions; the Gates Foundation built VeriXiv to check whether grantee data is actually deposited, not just stated; and the EU Data Act forces research data to stay in-jurisdiction with auditable controls. The federal mandate regime is moving from *"did you write a data management plan?"* to *"did you do it, and can you prove it?"* On the economic side, that 73–93% of irretrievable data means a representative R1 institution carries roughly $1.1 billion per year in unverifiable research output — a latent liability the False Claims Act's implied-certification doctrine is available to surface as funder verification goes programmatic — while the grant lines funding today's hosted repositories are themselves being cut, taking the infrastructure down with them. The status quo is getting more expensive to keep, and more expensive to lose. The only durable answer is content-addressed payloads, distributed mirroring, append-only provenance, and resolvers that cannot 404. Sovereign infrastructure adds the question of control: who decides whether a service stays up, and what happens to the data when they decide otherwise? Local-first systems, self-hosted nodes, and decentralized preservation networks turn "someone else's server" into infrastructure the people who depend on it actually own, and the economics hold up: networks of institutions pooling their own hardware are a real counterweight to privatized data centers and offer unique business and sustainability opportunities. Every layer of the architectural substrate necessary for sovereign, resilient data infrastructure — the kind that enables persistent, atomic, and compositional science — is being built at DWeb Camp. Self-sovereign identity. Append-only signed records. Content-addressed storage. Federated transport. The pieces of the next substrate for the scientific record already exist. The work ahead is to assemble them into a substrate scientific institutions can actually adopt. ### What we'll do together This is a working session. Participation starts immediately and runs all the way through. Three pathways are open during the hands-on segment so no one is gated out by background — architects, builders, and anyone curious about what this means for their own work or community all have a clear role. **90 minutes, structured for participation:** - **0:00–0:03 — Welcome + room setup.** Quick read of who's in the room — researchers, builders, organizers, artists, librarians, students. - **0:03–0:13 — Opening jam: what's broken?** In pairs, each person shares one moment of trying to find a dataset that vanished, replicate a result that turned out to depend on unrecoverable code or data, follow a citation into a repository that's been shut down, or trust an audit trail that turned out to have gaps. We surface the patterns on a shared pad. The room's collective diagnosis becomes the working brief for the rest of the session. - **0:13–0:21 — What's already pushing this forward.** Eight minutes on the forcing functions that have made this architectural shift no longer optional: - **NIST SP 800-171 and the CMMC enforcement regime** landing on DoD-grant institutions this year, with NASA and NIH extending similar cybersecurity requirements into their own grants — research data infrastructure has to satisfy mechanically verifiable compliance, third-party assessed rather than self-attested from November 2026. - **The 2025 NIH and NSF grant terminations** — over 4,000 grants cut — taking their hosted data infrastructure down with them as the funding lines that kept them up disappear. - **The Gates Foundation's January 2025 open-access policy shift** — ending its article-processing-charge program, requiring grantees to post preprints, and building VeriXiv to *check* whether the underlying data is actually deposited in an approved repository rather than trust a self-reported statement — pulling the philanthropic side of the funding ecosystem onto the same verify-don't-attest trajectory. - **Parallel sovereignty mandates** in the EU and the US sovereign-cloud push, forcing institutions to keep research data in-jurisdiction with verifiable controls. - **The Dana-Farber December 2025 settlement** — $15M under the False Claims Act for misrepresented data in NIH-funded publications — a signal that federal enforcement of research integrity is sharpening. None of this is hypothetical anymore. The architecture this room builds primitives for is the architecture that satisfies what's already coming due. - **0:21–0:33 — The proposal, shown not told.** Live walkthrough of a real artifact: **rdf.scios.tech**, a recent paper of mine decomposed into a discourse graph where every claim, every piece of evidence, every method is independently addressable. I'll use its **Generate a Narrative** feature to compose, live, a fresh reading path through the graph and a dated view that regenerates as evidence accumulates. That's the experience layer: compositional science happening in real time. Then the proposed substrate underneath, a four-layer stack: Decentralized Identifiers for sovereign identity, Discourse Graphs for the semantic grammar of scientific claims, ATProto Lexicons (carried by Personal Data Servers and AT-URIs) for federated transport, and IPFS for content-addressed permanent archival. We take one atom from that graph, a specific claim, and trace it through the proposed substrate on the diagram: signed under a DID, minted with an AT-URI and CID in a PDS, broadcast over a research-scoped relay, unpacked block-level onto IPFS. That's the proposal on the table. The rest of the session is the room deciding whether it holds. - **0:33–0:48 — Five failure points, room-driven.** A stack like this introduces real engineering risk. I name five primary failure points — relay centralization, lexicon isolation, edge rot, opaque archives, and retractions/audit-trails. The room votes on which two are most worth digging into, and we spend the rest of this block stress-testing those two with proposed mitigations. - **0:48–1:18 — Hands-on jam, three pathways.** Pick whichever fits your work and curiosity: - **Architects** — small groups attack and extend a proposed mitigation. Outputs go to the shared pad as a meta-graph of the substrate's architecture, critique included. - **Builders** — for people who actually run ATProto, IPFS, DIDs, or IPLD. Tear down the proposed stack: does it compose, where does it break, what's missing. Output is a ranked gap list. - **Use-cases & questions** — for everyone whose curiosity is "what would this mean for my work / my community / my organization / the systems I live with." Map use cases, surface unanswered questions, and contribute them back to the meta-graph. Artists, organizers, librarians, scientists, students, and citizen-science communities all have a clear role here — and so, explicitly, do the researchers the current scientific record locks out first: those at under-resourced institutions, independent researchers with no institutional backing, and scientists in the Global South priced out by article-processing charges and stranded when a single host goes down. - **1:18–1:26 — Synthesis.** Each pathway reports out in 90 seconds. The room reads the graph the session itself just produced. - **1:26–1:30 — Open invitation.** The future scientific record is antifragile or it isn't durable. The work continues at the Institute of Open Science Practices in Leiden this October, with the ATProto, IPFS, Akave, and DeSci folks already RSVP'd to keep building this stack. DWeb Camp attendees who want to continue have a direct on-ramp. The session is designed to adapt to room size: works as well with 15 people (one group per pathway) as with 45 (multiple groups per pathway). No prerequisites. Strong familiarity with any of (DIDs, ATProto, IPFS, IPLD) deepens the architects and builders pathways but is explicitly not required to participate. The use-cases pathway is the entry point for anyone who wants to be in the conversation without needing to know the primitives. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NXBRKV/ P2P Portal Jonathan Starr PUBLISH T9JL87@@talx.dod.ngo -T9JL87 Whose Ground Is Your Mind On? - Cognitive Sovereignty, Trust, and the Root System Beneath Your Thinking en en 20260711T110000 20260711T120000 1.00000 Whose Ground Is Your Mind On? - Cognitive Sovereignty, Trust, and the Root System Beneath Your Thinking In 1998, philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposed the extended mind thesis: that tools meeting certain criteria (reliable availability, consistent accessibility, automatic endorsement) are not merely instruments of the self. They are constituents of it. Not metaphorically. Part of the self, by extension. Most tools that meet those criteria today are rented. My doctoral research on trust in the age of AI argues that trust is not primarily an attitude toward persons. It is a protocol: a structured mechanism through which cognitive operations extend across boundaries between person and tool, person and network, person and AI agent. When we delegate memory, reasoning, or context to a system, we are enacting trust as infrastructure. The question is whether that infrastructure is answerable to us, or to the platform hosting it. This reframes privacy. Privacy asks who can see. Sovereignty asks who controls. You can have private data in a locked system you cannot migrate, inspect, or rely on surviving a terms-of-service change. That is not sovereignty. That is a more private cage. In the age of AI agents, this becomes urgent in a new way. An assistant that knows your projects, your relationships, your epistemic history, but resets on logout, logs to a cloud, and can be discontinued without notice, is not extending your mind. It is substituting for it. The root system is not yours. **What happens in the room** _Opening (10 min):_ Framing the extended mind thesis and trust-as-protocol in plain language. No slides, just a short spoken provocation. Accessible from the first sentence to participants without a technical background. _Mapping exercise (25 min):_ Each participant maps their own cognitive infrastructure: the tools, people, and networks that genuinely carry their thinking. Then: which of these do they actually control? Which would disappear if a company pivoted, got acquired, or changed its terms? The maps surface the stakes faster and more personally than any argument can. We are not talking about users in the abstract. We are talking about the people in the room. _Working alternatives (20 min):_ What does the architecture look like when you build for sovereignty? Local-first knowledge systems. Memory that persists without a cloud. Trust relationships that don't require a platform mediator. I'll briefly show a working open-source and lightweight prototype: a knowledge garden that runs on one machine, generates no telemetry, persists context across AI conversations, and whose code is fully inspectable. Not a product demonstration, but a specimen. This is what the philosophy looks like when implemented. Then open discussion on what this requires technically, politically, and socially. _Closing (5 min):_ Synthesis and what comes next. **Who belongs here** Everyone who has felt the cognitive whiplash of losing a tool they depended on. Developers who want to build for real sovereignty, not privacy theatre. Researchers in cognition, information science, and philosophy of mind. Artists and writers whose creative memory lives in platforms they did not build. People designing the decentralized web who want to understand the human case, not just the protocol case. No technical background required. The mapping exercise is analog and works for anyone. **What participants leave with** - A vocabulary for distinguishing privacy from cognitive sovereignty and why the gap matters for everything they build or use - A personal cognitive infrastructure map: which tools genuinely carry their thinking, which are rented, which are at risk - A framework for evaluating any tool, protocol, or system against sovereignty criteria drawn from the extended mind thesis - Exposure to what local-first, open-source architecture looks like in practice: a working specimen* they can inspect, fork, and question (*ultra lightweight!) - Connection to others in the room approaching these questions from different angles: technical, artistic, political, philosophical **After camp** The cognitive infrastructure maps generated during the workshop become a shared artifact, patterns we can collectively analyze and build toward. The open-source prototype is forkable. Participants leave with a framework they can apply to their own projects, communities, and protocol designs, and a standing invitation to contribute. **About the facilitator** Daniel G. Nemet is Head of Product at Nym Technologies, building accessible privacy infrastructure. He is simultaneously a PhD candidate in digital epistemology. His doctoral research argues that trust is not an attitude toward persons but a structured protocol, the mechanism through which cognitive operations extend across person-tool and person-AI boundaries. His work sits at the intersection of philosophy of mind, systems design, and political theory. He has spent the last two years applying this research to the design of AI-native knowledge systems built on local-first, sovereignty-first, open-source principles. Daniel is also an Art-Of-Hosting facilitator with 15years of event-workshop-festival-vibe experience. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/T9JL87/ P2P Portal Daniel N. PUBLISH UVKHL7@@talx.dod.ngo -UVKHL7 Building the Global F2F Cloud with Guix en en 20260711T120000 20260711T121000 0.01000 Building the Global F2F Cloud with Guix *** Building the F2F cloud with Guix **** What is a F2F network? - Like a p2p network, but direct connections are people you know - One solution to the problem of not trusting random nodes on the internet - Can use decentralized routing (gnunet?) to connect to Nth order peers. **** What is a F2F cloud? <show image> - A F2F network of nodes that provide redundancy for various services to friends - Difficult to do truly anonymously - What's the incentive? bitcoin? Maybe I just like my friends - Don't want people to ruin your IP reputation - Immediate goals for supporting - Basic networking - wireguard (vpn), reverse-proxy, forward proxy - Global addressability/access to you nodes without port forwarding - SMTP, TLS, HTTP (static website) - File synchronization (syncthing first*) - Gives people an incentive to maintain compute for others - reduce barrier to entry: you just need to trust one hoster. **** What is Guix? - Functional - f(x) = y always, never z != y - "open source" - full source bootstrap - FREE - goal is to make computing understandable by humans, and at the absolute control of the user - Since Guix is guile scheme from top to bottom, should be straight forward to point your (local/free?) llm at it. - Why Guix? - computers are emergently complex. Need reliably consistent setups to be sure that work will transfer to others. **** Bonus: Goblins? - currently used to allow nodes to take over base domain to refresh TLS keys PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UVKHL7/ P2P Portal Zacchaeus PUBLISH Z7QNKE@@talx.dod.ngo -Z7QNKE Neighborhood Vibe Engines en en 20260711T121000 20260711T122000 0.01000 Neighborhood Vibe Engines The modern internet has reduced geographic exploration to flat, transactional queries: "Where is the nearest not bad coffee shop?" (looking at you Google Maps). What do we do about that? Let's introduce this idea of Local Resonance—a shift where the digital layer of a physical space adapts dynamically to the collective energy of the people occupying it. In highly expressive, subculture-dense cities like Portland and San Francisco, friction frequently occurs between expressive communities (DIY music venues, skate parks, street occupations) and municipal noise, nuisance constraints, and community health. A distributed acoustic vibe engine (DAVE) offers a decentralized, self-regulating solution that preserves cultural autonomy through localized feedback loops. Local visual vibe engines offer a decentralized mechanism for local members of the community to build human centric visual cues to such as lighting and digital signing to have the local community look after you. How do we achieve zero-trust privacy? Maybe the node must process environmental acoustics without ever recording, streaming, or transcribing human speech. The node operates as a closed-loop edge classification system of fast fourier transforms (FFT) and a ternary classification matrix as one possible interpretation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/Z7QNKE/ P2P Portal nVidya PUBLISH SNZGZD@@talx.dod.ngo -SNZGZD Web of Trust: Creating Trust Through Real Encounters en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 Web of Trust: Creating Trust Through Real Encounters The future isn't something that happens to us. It's something we start, together. To build the next web, we have to see where it really lives: not in the cloud, but in real life, in real social networks made of people who actually meet, trust, and act. Our tools were built for watching, not for starting. So this is an invitation: connect for real, and try decentralized technology as a tool for exactly that. Social and technical protocols only evolve together, and it starts with a ritual as old as trust itself: the handshake. Identity is not a possession but a recognition: I am because we are. You cannot verify who someone is, only that you met and what passed between you. Identity is what grows from those verified encounters. This is what Web of Trust makes real. Connection is the protocol: you control your own key, and a trust network grows from the people you actually meet and the attestations you receive. We will use the Web of Trust demo to create your own decentralized identity, set up a profile, verify others through an in-person QR handshake, and write your first attestations for one another. After the hands-on part, we'll sit together in a short circle to share what emerged. The session is for both technical and non-technical people. You only need a smartphone or laptop. The technology is introduced entirely through hands-on use. You leave with a working Web of Trust identity, your first verified contacts and attestations, and a lived sense of how local-first trust can grow from real encounters and support real communities. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SNZGZD/ P2P Portal Anton Tranelis PUBLISH VDWYAU@@talx.dod.ngo -VDWYAU OpenHaven for P2P Convergence en en 20260711T160000 20260711T163000 0.03000 OpenHaven for P2P Convergence Born from the Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA) and a growing coalition of researchers, builders, and community leaders, OpenHaven translates complex protocol research into something legible, actionable, and shareable. OpenHaven's mission is making the open protocol landscape interoperable and interact-able — navigable by the people who need it — informed by the understanding that technical convergence depends on social convergence. Not just mapping the technology, but building the tent — giving the movement a collective voice, a shared home, and tools — including machine-readable context and prompt generation for AI-assisted workflows — that lower the barrier to understanding and adoption. OpenHaven serves three interconnected audiences: community leaders seeking tools to solve real coordination problems, builders and researchers seeking convergence and network effects across fragmented efforts, and coalition organizations (e.g. CTA, DWeb) needing a shared evidence base to weave their convergence work together. For all three, OpenHaven is a hub they are proud to share — because it demonstrates tangible progress toward foundational infrastructure for humanity's coordination challenges. Thanks for your consideration! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VDWYAU/ P2P Portal Day Waterbury PUBLISH LJ7SSD@@talx.dod.ngo -LJ7SSD Panel Talk: Future of P2P en en 20260711T163000 20260711T173000 1.00000 Panel Talk: Future of P2P PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LJ7SSD/ P2P Portal sammy Christine Lemmer-Webber Matthew Hodgson adz Daniel Holmgren PUBLISH PT3Z9H@@talx.dod.ngo -PT3Z9H Builders & Dreamers: Lessons from the Internet's Old Guard en en 20260711T220000 20260711T233000 1.03000 Builders & Dreamers: Lessons from the Internet's Old Guard When the WWW was still young, how did the pioneers decide how to grow, govern, and make decisions about this revolutionary new stack of technologies? Come listen in as the originals who built the very foundations of the Web reminisce, reflect, and ruminate on the last four decades. We'll hear how Web 1.0 started, the mistakes, the triumphs, and the lessons for a new generation of builders. Can we reconjure the magic of this spontaneous gathering at DWeb Camp 2019? https://medium.com/decentralized-web/the-internets-old-guard-c10b0ff0fb8d PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PT3Z9H/ P2P Portal brewster kahle Mitch Altman Bruce Baumgart rop PUBLISH L8HXM3@@talx.dod.ngo -L8HXM3 Data Sovereignty Panel: Centering Community Control of Agricultural Knowledge en en 20260711T093000 20260711T103000 1.00000 Data Sovereignty Panel: Centering Community Control of Agricultural Knowledge This session represents a merged programming block that brings together three independent proposals focused on data sovereignty. Rather than individual presentations, it creates a cross-regional dialogue structured as follows: - **Introductory & Ethical Framing:** An introduction examining data stewardship guidelines, data trusts, and mechanisms to keep producers in control of their information. - **Global Case Studies:** Three lightning presentations mapping practical field applications of localized data sovereignty, self-sovereign indigenous stacks, true cost accounting barriers, and ethical research infrastructure. - **Moderated Open Conversation:** An active, facilitated floor exploring the systemic tensions between open-source data commons and the protection of sensitive ecological, farm-level, and indigenous cultural knowledge. Session Rundown **09:30–09:40 AM:** Introductory Framing (Steve Francis) – Setting the baseline context by exploring the principles of data sovereignty and highlighting frameworks that prevent extractive data harvesting. **09:40–10:10 AM:** Case Studies in Practice – Short, focused 10-minute field insights from the panel cohort: **Engie Matene (Mātou Collective):** Detailing Indigenous-led approaches to self-sovereign identity and decentralized stacks in the South Pacific, illustrating how traditional values of collective ownership shape digital infrastructure. **Roseanna Crawford (True Cost Accounting Accelerator):** Discussing methodologies for capturing and accounting for the true environmental, social, and economic impacts of food systems without exploiting producer datasets. **Tara Conway (The Land Institute):** Exploring participatory science approaches within the Perennial Cultures Lab that advance ethical research infrastructures while fully respecting community data rights. **10:10–10:30 AM: Open Conversation + Q&A –** A moderated, highly interactive exchange with the room to map out transferable rules of engagement for a global agricultural data commons. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L8HXM3/ The Seedbed Steve Francis Engie Matene Rosanna Crawford Tara Conway PUBLISH 87HXUA@@talx.dod.ngo -87HXUA The role of AI in open source communities en en 20260711T103000 20260711T113000 1.00000 The role of AI in open source communities **The question we're sitting with** A federation of open-source tools serving food sovereignty, local supply chains, and agroecological farming — including LiteFarm, Open Food Network, and Our Sci — is pursuing genuine interoperability and shared standards. The goal is a commons of tools that small farmers, cooperatives, and food sovereignty movements can actually rely on. AI is arriving in these communities whether we plan for it or not. Some partners are already deploying community-owned, values-aligned AI agents internally. Others are training power users to leverage AI tools in their daily work. Others are looking at fully-autonomous agents that could triage bugs and ship community-requested features across the federation. The unresolved question isn't whether AI shows up. It's how value flows when it does. Who benefits, who pays, who decides what counts as quality, who handles the agents as they drift and break, and how communities maintain agency over tools that increasingly write themselves. Three real contexts, three different answers One reason this question is hard is that "the answer" depends on which kind of community you're in. We've identified three contexts in our own federation: Context A — Resourced organizations with an IT budget. An organization deploys agents that are responsive over Slack to fix small bugs, or to gather requirements from users. Costs are absorbed into existing operations. The value flow is internal; the governance is organizational. Context B — Revenue generating open source platforms like Open Food Network. Users pay a SaaS fee to use the software. OFN is currently running an experiment training non-technical staff and power users to leverage AI in their workflows — for support, bug triage, and customer requirements gathering. This work is happening in the lead up to DWeb, and we will have real data and metrics to share at DWeb Camp in July. The value flow here is between platform and paying users, but with new questions about how AI-mediated value should be attributed, priced, or rebated. Context C — Free-to-use community tools like LiteFarm. No SaaS revenue, beneficiaries are often farmers and cooperatives least able to pay, and agents are a potential sustainability lever. This is the context where a pooled funding model — perhaps via infrastructure like Open Collective — becomes a real candidate. Beneficiaries (farmers, co-ops, NGOs) contribute to a shared pot. Human maintainers and community-owned AI agents can access that pot for their contributions to the community. **What we want to learn together** Across all three contexts, some hard questions repeat. We want to bring them into the room: Maintainer agency vs. agent volume. What if agents flood the queue with low-quality PRs and burn out the very people they're meant to support? What governance prevents that? Accountability gaps. A well-intentioned contributor outsources fixes to a human-directed agent but doesn't stay in the loop enough to catch problems. Different failure mode from rogue agents, but just as real. Agent handlers vs. codebase maintainers. Agents drift, break on weird inputs, and need ongoing care. Our working assumption is that handlers will emerge from within the communities being served — but "community" means different things in different contexts, and we want you to push on this assumption. Should we be thinking about a future of mercenary agents fixing bugs far afield? Should agents be able to recoup their token costs or even costs plus a bounty? This normalizes a category of economic actor that has no precedent in FLOSS. Is that a door we want to open? Whose values? Many tools in our community arose as alternatives and in opposition to the business models of Silicon Valley. How do we ensure agents adopt the values of the communities they serve rather than overwriting them? Ecological cost. AI inference has real energy costs. Does insisting on local models go far enough? What does honest accounting look like? Supply-chain risk. Agents writing code at scale across a federation is a juicy attack surface. What should we be thinking about as this future becomes reality. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/87HXUA/ The Seedbed Kevin Cussen PUBLISH DFYFRG@@talx.dod.ngo -DFYFRG Applied Sovereignty: Building Tools to Amplify Farmer Knowledge and Protect Data Rights en en 20260711T113000 20260711T123000 1.00000 Applied Sovereignty: Building Tools to Amplify Farmer Knowledge and Protect Data Rights The presentations cover three distinct initiatives: The GIAN Curiosity Engine (Dr. Anamika Dey): A look at GIAN’s database system consolidating over 200,000 documented grassroots innovations. Driven by a Small Language Model (SLM), the platform intentionally avoids providing flat, centralized answers. Instead, it filters queries to generate contextual, heuristic questions that prompt localized field experimentation while maintaining strict, non-anonymized source attribution to original community inventors. Building with farmers (Kirstin Auker): A look into FarmFlow, an open-source operations platform built from the field by farmers. This segment details how the platform actively counters extractive agricultural tech paradigms by embedding data sovereignty directly into its technical architecture. FarmFlow utilizes a hands-free, field-ready voice-to-text capture mechanism that processes daily operational logs seamlessly from the tractor cab. Rather than replacing human judgment with top-down algorithmic standardization, its multimedia SOP tool preserves a farmer's intuitive, embodied knowledge through voice and video. Indigenous Data Infrastructures & Local Compute (Keoni DeFranco): Presenting place-based engineering models developed through Hawaiʻi’s Purple Maiʻa Foundation. This segment details how KILO combines qualitative narrative observations with quantitative field-sensor streams. To protect culturally sensitive environmental information from corporate cloud extraction, the architecture implements smart routing across localized, renewably-powered edge compute nodes (Jetson Nano), restricting data access entirely to site-specific WiFi or Bluetooth networks . PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DFYFRG/ The Seedbed Anamika Dey Kirsten Keoni DeFranco PUBLISH NNU9QM@@talx.dod.ngo -NNU9QM Federating Tools, Data, and Knowledge Across Grassroots Innovation Networks — In Practice en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 Federating Tools, Data, and Knowledge Across Grassroots Innovation Networks — In Practice How do multiple agricultural communities steward a shared commons of tools, data, and knowledge — without centralization, without capture, and without losing the specificity of place? The GIAA April 2026 working paper Whose Knowledge, Whose Infrastructure? documents the extraction pattern this federation is built to displace. When a farmer in Andhra Pradesh documents her traditional rice variety, the songs her grandmother sang at planting, the harvest calendar refined across generations — that knowledge does not belong in a corporate database, a university repository, or an AI training set. Yet that is precisely where agricultural knowledge has been going for the past decade. Agrible acquired by Nutrien (2018). Granular split and sold (2022). ApRecs sunset (2025). Farmhand ceased operations (2025). Microsoft's 2026 confirmation before the French Senate that it cannot guarantee data sovereignty from US CLOUD Act requests, regardless of where data is physically stored. 95 percent of Indian traditional agricultural knowledge is held by elders who are absent from every current AI training dataset (Prof. Anil Gupta, Honey Bee Network). The pattern is not theoretical. It is the ordinary operation of the platform economy. The institutional working paper Commons-Enabling Infrastructure for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (WP3) frames the institutional response: Commons-Enabling Infrastructure built on four pillars — technical (self-hostable hardware and software, federated and offline-first); social (Agricultural Knowledge Concordance methodology, stewardship councils, Commons Governance Organizations); legal (Ag Data Use Agreements, an Agriculturalists' Bill of Data Rights, Prior Informed Consent enforced at query time, CopyFair licensing); and financial (CGOs as fiscal sponsors, embedded commerce through the Farm Hack POS, public-civic bridges, development-bank project components). All four pillars are operationally visible in this workshop. The GIAA Infrastructure Working Group has spent the past year building toward a shared infrastructure across member networks. Each network has its own databases, its own tools, its own governance. Each is being asked, increasingly, to open into a common pool without losing what makes it itself. This workshop shows the working prototype — a meta-registry hosted on the GIAA website and mirrored on member sites, a local-first sovereign database that fits on a single Raspberry Pi 5 with 1 TB of NVMe storage, a federated JSON-LD tool registry with Ethical Technology Assessment scoring embedded, and a Prior Informed Consent layer designed so that open does not have to mean exposed. The session is hands-on; participants will see the federated instances, propose tool cards, score them on the ETA dimensions, work through real governance tensions in small groups, and commit their outputs to a shared Git repository in the session. The networks federating their knowledge in this work. Honey Bee Network and GIAN (India) hold over one million abandoned-patent records, 131,000 open-source practices from the National Innovation Foundation, and the published Honey Bee archive, with a working multilingual AI agent operating in Hindi, Bangla, Manipuri, and Nagamis among other Indian languages — currently migrating from cloud credits toward in-house hosting on hardware identical to the Farm Hack Box. Prolinnova has documented decades of community-partner innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural-resource management across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Schola Campesina convenes European agroecology praxis curriculum, CSIPM coordination, and the working-paper pipeline that feeds the CFS High-Level Forum on AI on 30 July 2026. L'Atelier Paysan maintains the French open-source tool registry for peasant farming and runs participatory design workshops on farms. Farm Hack and OpenTEAM hold the North American open-hardware tool registries, farmOS, LiteFarm, the ETA framework, and the Farm Hack Box reference implementation. Kenyan Peasant League brings the East African smallholder perspective and the demonstration of how a sovereign database is actually used in a context where the mobile phone is the technology ceiling. Tzoumakers (Greece) brings the Mediterranean open-hardware cooperative practice. Each of these networks carries knowledge the others do not. None should be flattened into a single corpus. The federation under development is designed structurally to prevent that flattening — the Honey Bee Network's million records, if pooled naively, would dominate the federation by weight, and the design explicitly addresses this through thematic, proportional contribution rather than full-corpus merge. Technical support draws on three lineages. The Agricultural Knowledge Concordance project, led by SJ Klein at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society with collaborations across Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Code for Science & Society, and the AI Commons House, provides the epistemic layer — structured interviews, Concordance cards, AGROVOC alignment, a way of making knowledge travel with attribution intact. The Open Science Hardware Foundation and its Internet-in-a-Box lineage provide the hardware tradition — physically distributing content-addressed archives on hardware that communities own. The Farm Hack Box is the direct descendant of that tradition. The Internet Archive provides the preservation tradition — content at risk of loss in institutional custody is replicated into community custody. The Ethical Technology Assessment as the federation's accountability architecture. Adopted explicitly from the WP3 framing for institutional audiences: the ETA is not a badge. It is a living assessment protocol with three confidence tiers (Provisional / Peer-reviewed / Audited), claim-level evidence threading, structured dispute resolution, and automatic confidence decay over time — more analogous to a Consumer Reports independent test methodology or a Human Rights Watch field documentation process than to a compliance certification. This architecture makes ETA assessments contestable, improvable, and durable in ways that badge-based certifications are not. The workshop participants will use the ETA framework directly to score a tool card live and watch it commit to the shared Git repository under the three-tier confidence model. What participants will do in the session. First, a ten-minute tour of federated instances, live: the Farm Hack registry, a Honey Bee subset, a Schola Campesina index, a Prolinnova sample. Same schema, different curation, different governance — each looks like itself; together they are a federation. Second, a fifteen-minute small-group exercise where each group proposes a tool or practice card for the federation, assigns ETA scores on five dimensions (Data Sovereignty, Accessibility, Ecological Impact, Community Benefit, Transparency) and assigns permissions (public, consented-sharing, held-back), then compares how good looks different across contexts. Third, a fifteen-minute hardware walkthrough of the 1 TB sovereign database prototype, with attention to what is on it and how nodes find each other. Fourth, a fifteen-minute facilitated discussion on four live governance tensions: Federation without flattening — how do communities contribute proportionally and thematically when one network's corpus is a thousand times another's? Licensing and intellectual property — Prior Informed Consent, polycentric licensing, source-organization defaults with override; how do we make an open federation where open does not mean exposed? Membership criteria — not resolved here, surfaced and committed to drafting at the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group meeting in Berlin on 13 July. Federation failure modes — when does it scale, when does it break? Fifth, a five-minute close with commitments that feed directly into the Berlin meeting and into the joint GIAA / CGO / AKC ratification sequence running August through October. Where this session sits in the GIAA arc. Upstream from this workshop: the political-frame opener (Grounding the Web: A Reality Check from the Farms and Fields) and the methodology session (Talk to the Stewards). Downstream: the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group meeting in Berlin on 13 July ratifies the schema, the reference dataset manifest, the ethical frame, and the membership criteria draft this workshop seeds. The CFS High-Level Forum on AI on 30 July in Rome is where the policy framing carries forward into FAO and the multilateral conversation. The joint GIAA / CGO / AKC session in September, the CGO Charter ratification through October, and the People's Festival of Innovation in Delhi in November 2026 are the subsequent points at which the federation is pressure-tested and ratified. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NNU9QM/ The Seedbed Dorn Cox Andrea Ferrante Anamika Dey Caroline Ledant PUBLISH PGZTXE@@talx.dod.ngo -PGZTXE D:Food Track Closing Circle: Collective Sensemaking & Shared Horizons en en 20260711T160000 20260711T180000 2.00000 D:Food Track Closing Circle: Collective Sensemaking & Shared Horizons Session Overview: - Gathering Around the Canvas (15 minutes): We will open the circle by anchoring the room around the ongoing, large-scale collective art piece co-created on the tables throughout the camp. Participants will look at the emergent illustrations, shared lessons, and patterns captured in colored pencil over the four days. - Reflective Harvest & Open Mic (25 minutes): A facilitated open dialogue inviting international fellows and track attendees to share their core takeaways, unexpected moments of friction, and the deep insights that shifted their perspectives on technological sovereignty. - Weaving Next Steps (15 minutes): Translating our collective sensemaking into real-world momentum. We will dedicate this time to pinning down future cross-platform integrations, collaborative research tracks, and upcoming shared resource flows. - Closing Care Ritual (5 minutes): A brief, grounded closing moment to step away from our screens, honor the labor of the community, and celebrate the trust and relationships built across territories. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PGZTXE/ The Seedbed Anna Lynton Jenni Ottilie Keppler Samuel Oslund PUBLISH NRYF9U@@talx.dod.ngo -NRYF9U Decentralization is not a type of structure. It's a type of person.--TEEN VERSION en en 20260711T103000 20260711T113000 1.00000 Decentralization is not a type of structure. It's a type of person.--TEEN VERSION Decentralization has an easy part—the structures—and a hard part—people who have internalized those structures. All applications of new technology go towards making the easy part easier. In this talk I will take the perspective of behavioral science to argue that we've been building the wrong thing: that the critical lack in a polycentric, free future is not a type of structure, but a type of person. Integrating psychology, sociology, and political science I will show what I mean, and what role it suggests for future effort toward a decentralized future. We will conclude with a discussion where everyone shares their own experiences of failure and success stepping into decentralized systems with the right preparation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NRYF9U/ Teen Base Camp Seth Frey PUBLISH XP7BYA@@talx.dod.ngo -XP7BYA 🏴‍☠️ ARR, A PIRATES LIFE FOR ME 🏴‍☠️ en en 20260711T113000 20260711T123000 1.00000 🏴‍☠️ ARR, A PIRATES LIFE FOR ME 🏴‍☠️ This workshop welcomes all the current and future pirates alike! Want to watch One Piece wherever you are and without a subscription? Quer encontrar um determinado filme no seu próprio idioma? We got you! Learn how to navigate the waves of the web, for the purpose of finding any anime, movie or show you'd like! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XP7BYA/ Teen Base Camp blake Ryder Morton Zenna PUBLISH GD7YWU@@talx.dod.ngo -GD7YWU Introduction to SoundSystem Culture and Technology en en 20260711T133000 20260711T140000 0.03000 Introduction to SoundSystem Culture and Technology Learn how a SoundSystem works from a technological and cultural aspect. Listen to effects and different frequencies. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/GD7YWU/ Teen Base Camp hannes PUBLISH 777HCP@@talx.dod.ngo -777HCP Camp Clean-up en en 20260711T140000 20260711T150000 1.00000 Camp Clean-up Gather bottles left behind, wearing protective gear (gloves etc PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/777HCP/ Teen Base Camp Ryder Morton PUBLISH WL3CJJ@@talx.dod.ngo -WL3CJJ Decentralized Trust Networks in the Age of AI--TEEN VERSION en en 20260711T150000 20260711T153000 0.03000 Decentralized Trust Networks in the Age of AI--TEEN VERSION We are at a crossroads. The next age of humanity will be shaped by AI, identity systems, and digitized trust — the only question is who shapes them, and whose interests get encoded into the substrate. Right now, the direction of travel is bad. Trust in institutions is in decline. Inequality is being hard-coded into the platforms we depend on. AI capability is concentrating in the hands of a few entities with the compute to train and serve it. And on the open internet, we are losing the ability to tell who — or what — we are talking to. Human? AI? Whose AI? These aren't separate problems. They share a root cause: we've outsourced the production of trust to centralized intermediaries, and those intermediaries are now also the gatekeepers of computation, capital, and identity. The same actor verifies you, ranks you, and runs the model that talks to you. That is not a stable arrangement, and it is not one we should want to stabilize. The alternative isn't another platform, and it isn't anonymity. It's a decentralized trust network — a base layer where humanity can be proven, identity is held locally, and trust propagates through a graph that humans themselves shape. Concretely: Alice gets a humanity attestation from her local trust circle — people who know her, vouch for her, whose own attestations form a web she carries into the network. With it, she delegates a personal AI agent that carries her identity outward. It's her agent. It's bound to a human. And when it speaks to yours, both sides can verify there's a person on the other end of the chain. This is where topology becomes the design surface. A trust network is a graph, and the shape of that graph determines what the system can do — how attestations compose, how sybil resistance emerges from social structure rather than central authority, how locality and delegation work. Letting topology emerge by accident gives you the social graphs we already have, optimized for capture. Designing it intentionally gives you a substrate other networks can safely build on. A mesh of AI agents anchored to people becomes a real counterweight to centralized model providers. Funding networks can route capital through human-attested graphs instead of platform algorithms. Reputation, coordination, governance — all of it can sit on a base layer that wasn't designed to extract from its users. We're here because the people in this room are the ones who can build this substrate — or watch something worse get built by default. Trust is infrastructure now. Decide what shape you want it to have, before someone else decides for you. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/WL3CJJ/ Teen Base Camp Artem Brazhnikov PUBLISH 3CBF3S@@talx.dod.ngo -3CBF3S Pool/Frisbee Time en en 20260711T153000 20260711T170000 1.03000 Pool/Frisbee Time A time for the teens to have fun in the pool. If you don't want to swim, toss a frisbee in the field! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3CBF3S/ Teen Base Camp Ryder Morton PUBLISH 73W3KB@@talx.dod.ngo -73W3KB KINDEROPOLIS Kung Fu with Sifu Young Wong en en 20260711T093000 20260711T100000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Kung Fu with Sifu Young Wong KINDEROPOLIS gets the day started with kung fu. While Sifu Young Wong's sessions are especially tailored for the enjoyment of the children, the classes are open to all who wish to learn. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/73W3KB/ Kinderopolis Young M Wong PUBLISH NSZYBL@@talx.dod.ngo -NSZYBL Kinder Workshops: Let's Build a Parade! en en 20260711T103000 20260711T120000 1.03000 Kinder Workshops: Let's Build a Parade! Each art activity will invite the children to create their own works of art in a variety of mediums. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NSZYBL/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 PUBLISH TTYYK7@@talx.dod.ngo -TTYYK7 Story Time #3, The Story of Oshun, with Special Guest en en 20260711T120000 20260711T123000 0.03000 Story Time #3, The Story of Oshun, with Special Guest Stories and songs are very effective ways that humans pass information, from person to person, place to place, across time and generations. Stories develop listening skills, memory, and imagination, and they support social and emotional learning to develop the whole child. Special Guest Storyteller of the Day: The story of the Orisha goddess Oshun Oshun, the goddess of love, beauty, and waters, was the only female spirit sent to assist Shango, the orisha of fire, thunder, lightning, dance, drumming, strength and justice, to create the world. The other male spirits attempted to make the world without female influence, and this exclusion is what caused the world to fail. The myth ends with Shango commanding the other spirits to respect Oshun as they would him. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/TTYYK7/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky Tamisha Lee PUBLISH QBPJQZ@@talx.dod.ngo -QBPJQZ Origami / Kids Snack Time en en 20260711T150000 20260711T153000 0.03000 Origami / Kids Snack Time Learn the origami fold of the day. Origami (折り紙) is the art and technique of folding paper. It also refers to the two- and three-dimensional forms created in the process The history of origami followed after the invention of paper and was a result of paper's use in society. In the detailed Japanese classification, origami is divided into stylized ceremonial origami (儀礼折り紙, girei origami) and recreational origami (遊戯折り紙, yūgi origami), and only recreational origami is generally recognized as origami. Friedrich Fröbel — the inventor of kindergarten — recognized paper binding, weaving, folding, and cutting as teaching aids for child development during the early 19th century. As the kindergarten system spread throughout Europe and into the rest of the world, it brought with it the small colored squares that we know of today as origami paper. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QBPJQZ/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH UAFXYK@@talx.dod.ngo -UAFXYK The Tree of Life: Mammals! en en 20260711T153000 20260711T163000 1.00000 The Tree of Life: Mammals! Each day we will focus on a different class of the Animal Kingdom (Animalia). We will highlight the interconnectedness and cooperation that is important to all life on Earth: from insects, birds and mammals big and small, including us! Over the course of our time together at DWeb Camp, we will grow the “The Tree of Life” and consider our "kinship" with nature. We will record what we see, as well as what is out of sight. We will also welcome special guests to present and take a few field trips around Alte Hölle! We will also look at the seasonal effects on life cycles. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UAFXYK/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH JGKFCL@@talx.dod.ngo -JGKFCL Imagine it! Build it! Tinkering Time: Field Trip en en 20260711T163000 20260711T173000 1.00000 Imagine it! Build it! Tinkering Time: Field Trip This "Tinkering Time" will look at sources of free energy such as the wind, water and the sun with a hands-on art activity. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JGKFCL/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH FNTLXP@@talx.dod.ngo -FNTLXP KINDEROPOLIS Dance Break! en en 20260711T173000 20260711T180000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Dance Break! At KINDEROPOLIS, you don't need permission to dance! Every afternoon, we will put on some tunes, and invite everyone to move to the music. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FNTLXP/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 PUBLISH ULBAVG@@talx.dod.ngo -ULBAVG The "ONCE UPON A TIME" Parade en en 20260711T190000 20260711T200000 1.00000 The "ONCE UPON A TIME" Parade Join the "ONCE UPON A TIME" Parade! Follow our youngest campers with their giant puppets, as they lead us to the Amphitheater for the Talent Show and our final community gathering. The "ONCE UPON A TIME" Parade has been constructed by the children at DWeb Camp. The parade is inspired by the many stories shared and the memories created together here at Alte Hölle. Throughout the week of camp, we've been working together to make signs, flags, masks, crowns, musical instruments created from ordinary objects, and giant puppets for the children's parade! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ULBAVG/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky PUBLISH RR7Z9W@@talx.dod.ngo -RR7Z9W Morning Chi Gung Exercises en en 20260711T070000 20260711T080000 1.00000 Morning Chi Gung Exercises Chi Gung is meditative and breathing with strengthen the internal core with your mind focusing on your body. It also referred to iron shirt technique. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RR7Z9W/ Forest Pavillion Young M Wong PUBLISH EZ8ZQQ@@talx.dod.ngo -EZ8ZQQ Designing City Pilots & Sanctuary Tech en en 20260711T093000 20260711T103000 1.00000 Designing City Pilots & Sanctuary Tech In this session, I will break down what we can learn from monasteries, botanics, and cybernetics to cultivate web3-native environments for human flourishing. We will explore how to apply human-centered design to plant seeds and accelerate the growth of emerging cultures - built on privacy, censorship resistance, transparency, and longevity at its core. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/EZ8ZQQ/ Forest Pavillion Andrej Berlin PUBLISH G3DYX3@@talx.dod.ngo -G3DYX3 Rooted Systems for a Living Web en en 20260711T103000 20260711T120000 1.03000 Rooted Systems for a Living Web 1. Organize in networks _(life organises itself in networks)_ 2. Build for modularity, replacement and succession _(life is inherently regenerative)_ 3. Design for creative emergence _(life is inherently creative)_ 4. Support edge intelligences _(life is inherently intelligent)_ 5. Notice adaptive cycle stages of your system _(growth, conservation, release, reorganization)_ Forest ecosystems survive through cooperation and sharing. Open, commons-oriented software survives in much the same way. People care about data security, about collective emergence, about credible exit, about the kind of things that shape the ground of our sociotechnical systems, that define the roots of possibility and power. Extractive platforms ensnare people and communities. Tools that trap us also shape how we can think together, what we can do, what's possible as we shape our way forward. So, we build. Open technologies, governed by the people who use them, accountable to something beyond a growth metric emerge. Purpose-driven tech. But then, slowly, tools drift. Platforms built to decentralize power become new power centers. A governance process designed to include everyone becomes navigable only to people with unlimited free time. Maintainers who consistently showed up most become, without meaning to, benevolent dictators. Governance or coordination breaks down, or are co-opted by people with misaligned incentives. Tools optimize for the most engaged users and gradually become strangers to the community they were built for. Or, they stall or die. The flaw isn't really anyone's fault. It's a system dynamic. Dynamics throw off the best laid plans of careful, thoughtful builders all the time. Tech system structures create information and resources flow channels. Adject living systems are fed - or bled - by those flows. But the channels of software systems too often ignore the logic of living systems. They don't just fail to help us flourish together, they drift towards interference. Maladaptive and misaligned sociotechnical systems concrete-line the river of our noosphere, killing vital functions in our cognitive lives. Watersheds, rivers, and forested landscapes can offer us a window into healthier flow dynamics. How can we sense patterns that look like dams, pollution, and spawning grounds? How can we tell when the canopy, or the understory, of our digital ecologies need care? **This session aims to explore what the core dynamics of living systems mean for software teams, and for the structures of rooted, ethical tech systems. We want to look at both why drift happens, and how to design sociotechnical systems more resilient to drift.** PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/G3DYX3/ Forest Pavillion ian davis Christina Bowen PUBLISH YMEQXZ@@talx.dod.ngo -YMEQXZ Grof® Breathwork en en 20260711T120000 20260711T123000 0.03000 Grof® Breathwork Let's talk about what Grof® Breathwork is and how it was created. Why is the method previously known as Holotropic Breathwork called Grof® Breathwork today? I will present the theoretical foundations of the method and its basic components and how it works. We will look at how the method is used in practice and what is its therapeutic use. And last but not least, what we can experience during Grof® Breathwork and what is the potential and safety of this method. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/YMEQXZ/ Forest Pavillion Martina Pavlínová PUBLISH XGRERH@@talx.dod.ngo -XGRERH The Science of Network Decentralization en en 20260711T093000 20260711T100000 0.03000 The Science of Network Decentralization While the push for a decentralized social web has grown significantly, the space often relies on overloaded terminology and lacks a formalized framework to evaluate how centralized a network actually is. As a researcher in Network Science, I want to bridge this gap by introducing the community to the intuitive analytical tools of my field, focusing on communication networks. Most builders naturally focus on the technical ability for one person to communicate with another, but we must equally address the sociotechnical dynamics of discovery, information passing, and cohesive social circles. Through focusing on decentralization as an active process, we will visually map out how practical mechanisms like bridging, interoperability, standardized protocols, and the freedom to choose middlemen impact the overarching network structure. We will ground these mechanisms in intuitive network and complexity science concepts, exploring network connectivity, fragmentation, redundancy, and isolated components to better understand how to sustain these networks while navigating the inherent challenges of findability, performance, and moderation across platforms. After drawing out the foundational frameworks on the board, I will open the floor for a guided discussion. I will ask people to map or draw the protocols/platforms they're familiar with to the different network structures we discuss. Zero math or prior scientific background is required. The goal is to give protocol engineers, community managers, and digital activists a shared, accessible language to discuss the network structure of the open social web. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XGRERH/ Open Social Space Gamal Adel PUBLISH SUWJJN@@talx.dod.ngo -SUWJJN Unbundling Decentralization en en 20260711T100000 20260711T103000 0.03000 Unbundling Decentralization People have been arguing about what "decentralization" means for years. It points at a bunch of values worth caring about (credible exit, data sovereignty, permissionless participation, censorship resistance) but it also smuggles in assumptions about network topology, often inherited from peer-to-peer work that don't always map onto what we're really trying to achieve. It's worth pulling those threads apart, naming what we actually want, and framing our work around what it opens up rather than what it guards against. This talk is inspired by designing and building atproto (AT Protocol), which borrows primitives from the p2p world (content-addressed data, cryptographic identity, signed user repositories) and transposes them to the server so they can hold up at global social network scale. Along the way we've had to keep questioning our assumptions about what "decentralization" means, avoid prescriptive framings, and search for the properties that actually matter for the systems we're building. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SUWJJN/ Open Social Space Daniel Holmgren PUBLISH C9YZLT@@talx.dod.ngo -C9YZLT Reimagining the Open Social Web from the Edge: Freedom Tech Across Mesh, Mobile, and Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure en en 20260711T104500 20260711T111500 0.03000 Reimagining the Open Social Web from the Edge: Freedom Tech Across Mesh, Mobile, and Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure This session explores what it means to build the open social web from the edge: across mesh networks, mobile devices, peer-to-peer systems, and the social protocols that allow people to communicate, coordinate, and organize outside centralized control. Too often, conversations about the open social web stay at the level of applications, protocols, or abstract ideals of interoperability. But if we are serious about resilience, freedom, and real-world usability, we have to think across the full stack. It is not enough to have an open or decentralized social application if the infrastructure underneath it still depends on centralized hosting, fragile connectivity, or assumptions that break down in low-resource or high-risk environments. At the same time, it is not enough to build network infrastructure without tools that people can actually use to communicate, organize, and act together. This session is about bringing those layers together. Using examples including BitChat, Agora, White Noise, and Divine, we will explore how different projects can connect Bluetooth mesh, peer-to-peer communication, open social protocols, and alternative coordination models into a more resilient social and communications stack. These projects work across multiple protocols and technical layers, including Bluetooth, Nostr, Bitcoin, and other open systems, in order to support communication and coordination where traditional infrastructure may be unavailable, unreliable, or unsafe. One core example is BitChat, which uses Bluetooth low energy mesh to turn phones themselves into nodes. Instead of requiring specialized hardware, the crowd becomes the cloud: people’s existing devices create the network. This helps bridge what are often treated as separate domains: decentralized hardware and the open social web. It shows how communication systems can be designed around the tools people already have in their pockets, rather than assuming access to specialized equipment or stable internet connectivity. Another example is Agora, a project developed in response to needs from pro-democracy activists and designed around peer-to-peer fundraising and coordination in constrained environments. Its story raises broader questions about what freedom tech looks like in practice: how technical architecture, political context, and community need shape one another, and how systems can be designed to be harder to capture, censor, or disable. Together, these examples offer a way to think about the open social web not just as an interoperability problem, but as an infrastructure problem, a usability problem, and a political problem. What does it take to build systems that work across multiple layers of the stack? How do we design communications infrastructure that remains useful when connectivity is limited, centralized services fail, or state and platform power become points of control? What does it mean to build social technologies that are genuinely resilient, rather than merely decentralized in theory? This session will examine those questions through a practical, project-based lens. We will look at how different technical components fit together, how design choices affect accessibility and adoption, and what tradeoffs emerge when building for low-resource, adversarial, or fast-changing conditions. We will also talk about the broader implications for freedom tech: how open social systems can support activists, journalists, organizers, and communities that need tools for communication and coordination without relying on institutions that may not serve their interests. The session is intended for technologists, organizers, designers, protocol builders, and anyone interested in the future of decentralized communications. It will be accessible to people who are not deeply technical, while still offering substance for participants working directly on networked systems and open protocols. Rather than focusing on one protocol or one layer of the stack in isolation, the session offers a cross-layer view of what resilient, peer-driven social infrastructure can look like in practice. Participants will leave with a stronger understanding of how mesh, mobile, peer-to-peer, and open social technologies can reinforce one another; why low-resource and anti-authoritarian contexts expose weaknesses in conventional technical assumptions; and how freedom tech can move from abstract principle to operational reality. Ultimately, the session invites participants to rethink the open social web not as a single application layer, but as a living ecosystem of devices, protocols, communities, and practices built from the edge outward. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/C9YZLT/ Open Social Space Liz Sweigart PUBLISH QLETHK@@talx.dod.ngo -QLETHK Local-First Social Media & Messaging en en 20260711T113000 20260711T123000 1.00000 Local-First Social Media & Messaging The dominant protocols for "decentralized" interactive media – ActivityPub and Bluesky – are heavily dependent on federated or centralized servers in practice. But distributed social networks like Secure Scuttlebutt and Nostr have their own problems, like key management, recovery, and multi-device support. Meanwhile, some Fediverse Enhacement Proposals (FEPs) aim to make social media more distributed, bridging these two worlds. We will survey this landscape and review current projects. Topics will include: - Why key management is essential for security, but problematic in Nostr and Secure Scuttlebutt - How verifiable key histories like did:plc (Bluesky) and KERI make key management easier - Why multi-device support is difficult for decentralized social media and messaging - How ActivityPub actors can declare identity keys, independent of any server (FEP-521a) - How ActivityPub actors can sign activities (FEP-8b32), making them portable and tamper-proof - Current projects implementing some or all of these FEP proposals - How these FEPs and similar cryptographic techniques support "local first" software - How content moderation works (or could work) in distributed media platforms - The interactions between distributed/permissionless identity and server-owned identity - How decentralized trust graphs (DTG) enable privacy-first social graphs PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QLETHK/ Open Social Space Zach Alexander Stefano De Vuono PUBLISH MRYKHP@@talx.dod.ngo -MRYKHP Hold the Line: Community Curated Decentralized Libraries with Logos Storage en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 Hold the Line: Community Curated Decentralized Libraries with Logos Storage The Internet Archive has built something extraordinary: a massive archive of human knowledge, accessible to anyone. Logos Storage exists so that communities can have their own archives, distributed across the people who care about them, built from the bottom up. This session is about building that bottom-up model. We will have pre-selected a collection from the Internet Archive for this campaign. Participants will not bring their own files. Instead, they will choose items from that collection to pin on their own devices. When multiple people in the room pin the same item, it becomes replicated. The room itself becomes a distributed archive, held up by the participants rather than any central authority. The hands-on portion covers three things. 1. Installing Logos Basecamp and loading the storage module. 2. Choosing items from the collection and pinning them on personal devices. 3. Understanding how that content becomes reachable to other people running Logos nodes nearby. Then we see what happens when we look around the room. Everyone has pinned different things. Everyone can retrieve what others pinned. The collection that exists at the end of the workshop is not one we planned. It is whatever the community chose to preserve. And that is the point: a distributed archive is shaped by the people who contribute to it, and each community can curate and extend its archive over time. The session concludes with a brief discussion of what it means to seed rather than host, how P2P sharing differs from central download, and why having content on your device that you chose to keep online is a different relationship with information than the one we most commonly have. No technical background required. Bring a laptop or a phone. You will choose items from the pre-curated collection to store on your device, and communities can add more materials and resources over time to build their own communal archives. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Others - Open Reading, Art Installation, Game, Performance, etc https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MRYKHP/ Open Social Space Alisher PUBLISH HLDWRU@@talx.dod.ngo -HLDWRU Lisa's Ark: The Digital Public Goods Library en en 20260711T160000 20260711T163000 0.03000 Lisa's Ark: The Digital Public Goods Library The session will present the origin story of the **Digital Public Goods Library**, the urgent need that prompted its creation, and how the idea has evolved to also include the desire to reinforce and support connecting the use of rich datasets to the creation of openly licensed educational resources. For over 20 years, ISKME has been a steward in reducing barriers to the search and discovery of high-quality education material through the creation of OER Commons, a digital library of openly licensed resources that are accessible for all. Educators, learners, librarians and researchers have long relied on these materials to help make education more accessible, affordable, and personalized to their students’ contexts. Unfortunately, many of these collections are now at risk due to shifting institutional priorities, funding constraints and policy changes. We are witnessing entire repositories taken offline or at imminent risk of removal from circulation. The result is the loss of valuable publicly funded knowledge, impeding access to education. The Digital Public Goods Library is a proactive response to this pattern emerging in many parts of the world and reflects a commitment to serve as stewards of public domain and openly licensed educational content to ensure that resource collections are preserved, regenerated, and available to all educators who wish to adopt and adapt them. We are responding to the urgent need to keep in circulation public domain and openly licensed educational materials that have lost, or risk losing, a stable and accessible digital home. A core component of this work builds on existing librarianship and archival efforts of many. We are working collaboratively with dedicated librarians and archivists across organizations such as the Internet Archive to ensure that these materials are not only archived, but re-hosted in a way that is easily accessible to educators and learners who wish to use them. While the role of archivists is an essential ingredient, the Digital Public Goods Library ensures that resources remain usable, relevant and adaptable to current educational contexts. The focus is on meeting the moment and enabling education stakeholders to continue leveraging high-quality, openly licensed content in their work, which is an ongoing effort that we at ISKME are committed to continuing and strengthening. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HLDWRU/ Open Social Space Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education(ISKME) Lisa Petrides PUBLISH F3RJYW@@talx.dod.ngo -F3RJYW Meet the Internet Archive: Ask Us Anything! en en 20260711T163000 20260711T173000 1.00000 Meet the Internet Archive: Ask Us Anything! Staff of the Internet Archive and Internet Archive Europe will give an introduction and overview of the work of the organizations. Ask us anything! We, encourage questions and discussions about the mission, projects, challenge and opportunities. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel Discussion https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/F3RJYW/ Open Social Space brewster kahle Arkadiy Kukarkin Will Howes Antoine McGrath Rubén Rodríguez Pérez Daniel Erasmus Dan Visel Julien Masanes mai ishikawa sutton Wendy Hanamura Beatrice Simon Förster PUBLISH QHUS7S@@talx.dod.ngo -QHUS7S Peer-to-Peer, AI, Other Buzzwords, and Technologies for a Thriving Planet en en 20260711T093000 20260711T100000 0.03000 Peer-to-Peer, AI, Other Buzzwords, and Technologies for a Thriving Planet Tech people love new words. Peer-to-peer. Mesh Networks. AI. Local-first. Decentralization. Data sovereignty. Solar punk. Regeneration. Sometimes these words point to something real. Sometimes they become stickers we put on the same old systems: more extraction, more centralization, more power for the people who already have too much of it. This talk is about what happens when the buzzwords have to touch the ground. For the past years, I have worked with Awana Digital alongside Indigenous and frontline communities using open-source, offline-first, peer-to-peer tools for land defense, cultural mapping, and environmental monitoring. One of these tools is CoMapeo, a peer-to-peer mapping platform used in places where internet is limited, unreliable, or simply not the center of life. That last part matters. In a lot of tech spaces, lack of internet is treated as a problem to solve. In the territories where I work, the problem is often deeper: who controls the infrastructure? Where does the data go? Who can see it? Who can take it? Who gets to decide what should exist in the first place? Peer-to-peer technology becomes interesting there not because it is elegant architecture, although it can be. It matters because sovereignty is real. Communities already understand sovereignty through land, language, governance, kinship, and struggle. The question is whether our digital tools respect that, or whether they quietly pull people back into clouds, platforms, and systems they cannot control. From there, I want to talk about AI. AI is usually presented as the future: bigger models, larger data centers, more data, more magic. But AI is also a new extraction machine. It extracts minerals, energy, labor, attention, language, and culture. For Indigenous languages, this is especially dangerous. We may soon see a world where a company’s model can speak a language that living communities have been violently pressured out of speaking themselves. That is not a future I want to help build. So what would another path look like? The idea I want to share is simple: something like CoMapeo, but for language data. Peer-to-peer, offline-first, community-governed language data collection. People could record stories, conversations, songs, place names, teachings, or everyday speech. They could transcribe, translate, review quality, and decide together what can happen with that data. Maybe it trains a model. Maybe it stays only in the community. Maybe some things should never enter a machine at all. From there we can imagine smaller, stranger, more useful AI systems. Local machines. Solar-powered infrastructure. Voice-first tools for oral cultures. Open-source pipelines governed by the people whose language, knowledge, and futures are at stake. But this is not a talk about using AI to “save” Indigenous cultures. That framing is backwards. Indigenous peoples are not waiting for AI to bring intelligence, resilience, or climate solutions. Many of the most important technologies already exist: how to live in community, how to cultivate abundance without destroying the forest, how to govern land together, how to belong to a place, how to keep a planet alive. Those are the real advanced technologies. For human and planetary wellbeing not for industrial production. This session is for people building decentralized technology who want to ask harder questions than “how do we scale this?” Peer-to-peer is not just a protocol choice. AI is not just a product category. And a thriving planet will not come from better buzzwords. It will come from tools humble enough to serve living worlds instead of replacing them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/QHUS7S/ Solidarity Station Luandro PUBLISH KUGD8V@@talx.dod.ngo -KUGD8V Roots Without a State: Collaborative Survival in the Shadow en en 20260711T100000 20260711T110000 1.00000 Roots Without a State: Collaborative Survival in the Shadow Wherever you live, the ground is shifting the same way. Your posts can be deleted. A camera knows your face. An app decides what you see. Your money, your messages, your movements: watched, scored, sorted. This is not one country's problem. It is what happens almost anywhere now, the moment a government can see everyone at once. The strange part is underneath. While borders harden and country after country turns inward, guarding its own people and its own idea of purity, the machinery below is becoming one machine. A government no longer has to invent the tools to watch its people; it can buy them, copy them, download them. On the surface the world looks like it's breaking into pieces. Underneath, it is converging into a single shape: one situation, wearing many flags. Your situation, too. In some places this future arrived years early. There, people learned a hard lesson first: when the state meant to protect you becomes the one watching you, freedom stops being something handed down from above. Ordinary people, not hackers or experts, hold on to it the only way left: sideways, among each other, without asking permission. That hard-won knowledge is what this conversation puts on the table, because what one place learned early is fast becoming everyone's. At the end of the world, something still grows. The matsutake mushroom comes up only in wrecked ground: forests humans have clear-cut, the ash of Hiroshima, where it was the first life to return. It cannot grow alone. It lives laced into the roots of the trees around it, each feeding the other. In Oregon, the people who forage it are refugees, scattered by wars, making a life in the damage. The anthropologist Anna Tsing followed them, and called what she saw collaborative survival: in ruined ground, nothing lasts by itself. You get through by working across difference, with people unlike you. There is no clean elsewhere to escape to, no pure past to return to, and no surviving alone. Purity is the lie half the world is reaching for right now. What survives ruin is the opposite: mixed, spread out, growing into each other, with no center anyone can cut. So this is a conversation about collaborative survival in practice: how people in very different situations get through the ruins together, yours included. It looks plainly at the tools that ask no one's permission: encryption, decentralization, crypto, AI you can run yourself instead of renting from a company. What can they really do for a regular person, your parents or your neighbors? Where do they fall short? It won't pretend the tools are magic, or that everyone selling "privacy" and "freedom" means it. The room itself is a first attempt at the thing: different people, thinking together, because no one gets through alone. A conversation, not a lecture. It opens with a short story, moves into small groups and an open circle, and ends by gathering what surfaced into a shared document sent to everyone who came. No need to be technical. No need to come from where this started. The person beside you is living through the same thing. Nothing here is on a stage or on the record, so take part as much or as little as you like. Come if you've felt it. Leave with a clearer picture, sharper questions, and a few more roots, because roots that grow together are the hardest to cut. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/KUGD8V/ Solidarity Station Yisi Liu PUBLISH ABUVZW@@talx.dod.ngo -ABUVZW Garden Club: Rewilding the Web with Tapestries en en 20260711T150000 20260711T160000 1.00000 Garden Club: Rewilding the Web with Tapestries The web was supposed to be a garden — wild, tangled, and alive. Instead we got feeds, tabs, and algorithmic landlords. Digital gardens are pushing back: personal, non-linear collections of notes, ideas, links, and media, tended over time and shaped by the gardener's own logic rather than an algorithm's. They are the web as it was imagined before the feed took over. Tapestries grows from the same soil. Developed in collaboration with the Internet Archive, it is a tool for thinking and publishing differently. You drag digital objects — text, images, audio, video, software, entire web pages — onto a blank infinite canvas. Size, placement, and arrangement are entirely up to you. The result is not a document, a feed, or a slideshow. It is a living assemblage: a tapestry you can embed anywhere on the web, that readers can explore, comment on, fork, and remake as their own. This session runs as a genuine garden club, or weaving circle: a space where people come together around a shared practice, contribute according to their capacity, and leave with something made collectively that none of them could have made alone. There are three ways in: Plant — Participants new to Tapestries are guided through making their first one. The prompt is rooted in the web we want: the knowledge we want to tend, the connections we want to make visible. Individual Tapestries made in parallel become a distributed garden — different plots, same soil, open to all. Tend — A collective Tapestry stays live and projected throughout the session, an open canvas anyone can contribute to: a quote, an image, a web page, a piece of audio, a link to their own digital garden. It becomes a living document of the room's thinking, shaped by everyone present and authored by no single voice. Graft — For developers and the technically curious, this strand opens the tool itself to scrutiny and reimagining. What's missing? What should it connect to? What would make Tapestries genuinely useful in low-bandwidth environments, in languages other than English, or for accessibility needs the current build doesn't meet? Feedback is compiled and shared publicly afterward as a community wishlist that seeds the next phase of development. Every participant who plants or weaves leaves with something real: a working Tapestry, embeddable on any web page, shareable with their community, and open to continued tending. The garden doesn't close when the session does — it's the first meeting of an ongoing community of practice, with an open, community-shaped roadmap and a fork-and-remake culture built into the tool itself. At its root this is a session about the kind of web we want to live in. Not the web of engagement metrics and extractive platforms, or the web flooded with AI slop and crawling with automated agents, but the web of the digital garden: personal, porous, human, tended with care, and open to whoever wants to come and explore it for a while. Gloves optional. Weeds welcome. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ABUVZW/ Solidarity Station Dan Visel PUBLISH CQXGRY@@talx.dod.ngo -CQXGRY Community Data Centers en en 20260711T160000 20260711T170000 1.00000 Community Data Centers The use of modern digital technologies relies on accessing data or software stored on external servers housed in data centers. The share of global data center ownership held by big tech is growing rapidly; by 2030, over 60% of total capacity is likely to be owned by large hyperscaler companies. To counter this oligopoly of (compute) power, this workshop aims to introduce and strengthen community data centers. It begins with a presentation that introduces the concept of community data centers and four different archetypes thereof, identified through an ongoing participatory research initiative. In the second half of this workshop we gather in smaller groups to map the community data centers that exist within the dWeb ecosystem and share knowledge about their needs. The outcomes of this workshop will be a mapping of existing community data centers, a better understanding of their recurring needs and hopefully some actionable ideas on how we can collectively address them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CQXGRY/ Solidarity Station Tara Merk PUBLISH XPK3GG@@talx.dod.ngo -XPK3GG How would you start an independent blog today? en en 20260711T170000 20260711T180000 1.00000 How would you start an independent blog today? What would you recommend to a family member or friend who wants to start a blog? The Forty years on, the tools for independent publishing have never been more abundant, yet the path through them is more winding for non-technical writers. A facilitated workshop to map the landscape together, and to figure out what the missing piece looks like. gets harder the more concretely I picture her. I want her to keep her words on her own machine, under her own domain, free to move. That rules out Substack, Wix, and Notion before we begin. The honest path, markdown files, a static generator, a host, is the one most developers take, and the one most non-developers cannot take alone. The choice is one of workflow, not platform. And the workflow has to be honest in a particular way: simple enough to start in a single afternoon, but built so the user can see how it works and grow into it. Low floor, high ceiling, no walls. She would start simply by writing, yet the entire power of browsers and internet protocols is not hidden magic, but a reward for digging deeper and hacking more. This workflow is the right shape, but no tools enable both the simple start and the creative growth. 36 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee made the website a publication medium anyone could use, in principle. 24 years ago, Aaron Swartz and John Gruber refused to bring writing "down to the level of the computer," and Markdown made the notation humane. 18 years ago, Tom Preston-Werner created Jekyll and let people "blog like a hacker." Files became a website, for those who could run a build. 3 years ago, Steph Ango wrote "file over app" and gave the principle its name: *the app is ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.* Obsidian made that principle ordinary for non-developers writing notes. The publishing half of "file over app" is the landmark still missing. The Cambrian explosion of editors, generators, and hosts has not closed the gap. If anything, the path for a non-technical writer is more winding now than when there were only three options. Forests work because the roots are shared, slow, and underground. Independent publishing is root infrastructure for the open web, and most of the pieces already exist. What's missing is the maintenance, the connecting, the path-clearing that turns scattered tools into something a non-developer can walk. And I'd argue that is what directly determines how diverse and free the internet is. I'd like to map the landscape with you. For seven years, I have built infrastructure for independent publishing in the Chinese-speaking community, before I learned to think about tools rather than platforms, about what fits a person rather than what scales to a market. Those are blind spots only different perspectives can cancel out, each starting from someone's own real experience, and that is what I would like you to bring. We'll leave with a shared reference: what's good for whom across the current tools, where the honest trade-offs are, and a sketch of what the missing landmark might look like. And if you have been meaning to start a site of your own, you'll leave with a plan to start one. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - medium https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XPK3GG/ Solidarity Station Guo Liu PUBLISH RX3FCF@@talx.dod.ngo -RX3FCF Last Call: Make your own Button en en 20260711T133000 20260711T150000 1.03000 Last Call: Make your own Button PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - longer https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RX3FCF/ Button Making Station PUBLISH NBQVBX@@talx.dod.ngo -NBQVBX KINDEROPOLIS Kung Fu with Sifu Young Wong en en 20260712T093000 20260712T100000 0.03000 KINDEROPOLIS Kung Fu with Sifu Young Wong KINDEROPOLIS gets the day started with kung fu. While Sifu Young Wong's sessions are especially tailored for the enjoyment of the children, the classes are open to all who wish to learn. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NBQVBX/ Kinderopolis Young M Wong PUBLISH DKA9WS@@talx.dod.ngo -DKA9WS Happy Trails to You! en en 20260712T100000 20260712T103000 0.03000 Happy Trails to You! We hope you made some new friends and happy memories here at Alte Hölle. Exchange contact information and make a wish that you will to see each other again at the next Dweb Camp! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk / Presentation - shorter https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/DKA9WS/ Kinderopolis 🌱 Andi Wong 💙 Ishadai Sky