Come claim your tent, your t-shirt, or your tokens for the bar! The Info Desk is your one stop shop for everything you need to have a successful DWeb Camp.

If you ordered mesh devices via PreTix, come pick them up. Devices available until sold out.
And having trouble getting online? We'll help you join the Camp Wifi: dweb.freifunk.net

Come to the Pin Making Station to "make a name for yourself."

Share your name, devise a nickname, and craft a beautiful name tag button.
This is a creative way to let people know who you are!

Whether you have an hour to spare or several, come sign up to be a Link Volunteer in the Volunteer Headquarters. We will get you "Linked-in" to the volunteer system so you can sign up to pour drinks in the bar, help in the kitchen, or help at the Info Desk. If you volunteer enough hours, you can qualify for a free DWeb Camp Crew T-shirt!

Are you a Superlink Volunteer? Or maybe just someone who wants to contribute casually here and there.
Come to the Link Volunteer Orientation in Volunteer HQ.

Whether you have an hour to spare or several, come sign up to be a Link Volunteer in the Volunteer Headquarters. We will get you "Linked-in" to the volunteer system so you can sign up to pour drinks in the bar, help in the kitchen, or help at the Info Desk. If you volunteer enough hours, you can qualify for a free DWeb Camp Crew T-shirt!

Presenters tabling at Thursday's Demo Night Market are invited to gather on the Main Lawn to practice your pitches, hone your storytelling and receive feedback from mentors and peers.

We'll also test out equipment and internet connection, and ensure you feel ready to demo tomorrow!

Families - Please drop by the KINDEROPOLIS Star Tent and say hello! We'll be in the area to answer questions from 3:00PM-6:00PM.
We'd like families to gather at 05:00PM for introductions before dinner.

Welcome to the Teen program! We will get to know each other and have some time to ourselves. Parents can absolutely drop by, but also it is an opportunity to have a more independent space for exploration.

Opening Ceremony: Join us as we gather as a community for the first time, highlighting a series of powerful stories of our decentralized tools at work.

Drop your kids off in the Library where we will enjoy a kid-friendly movie of choice.

Meshtastic, Meshcore, Reticulum, and everything else that runs on LoRa. Informal meetup at the Mesh Nest (tent 5).

Bring an instrument, voice, or just ears. Come hang out and vibe in the tea tent!

Teaching the benefit of breathing and relaxing and being present to your surroundings. I will be using shaolin 8 brocades chi gung but with a twist with choy li fut (Iron Shirt) conditioning.

Start your day with some sun salutations ☀️ in this all-level morning Vinyasa yoga flow with Val.

The goal is simply to breathe and listen to our bodies. We will move gently and fluidly through unique, thoughtfully-crafted yoga sequences including standing shapes, seated stretches, grounded floorwork, and balance challenges. Come to explore and play.

Start your camp day with a high-energy, equipment-free fitness session! Designed for all backgrounds and fitness levels, this morning gathering combines jogging, bodyweight exercises, and aerobics to boost energy, clear the mind, and build community connection before a full day at Camp.

Thursday and Saturday we go running! We will meet in the Food court!
5km, 6 pace 6km/h.
Morning: 07:00–07:45
30–45 minute group run open to all participants
The focus would be on community, well being, and helping participants connect with one another outside of the main camp program.

An overview of the latest state of W3C Decentralized Identifiers, and an opportunity to discuss if and how DIDs could fit in with your own protocol and the overall decentralized stack.

Join for a short 30' intro to what blockchain actually is, but also very much what it is not.
The second half of our time is reserved to just asking questions.

Kris has been working with developers and activists for 9 years and would love to share what he learned along the way.

Christine Lemmer Webber is lead author and co-editor of the W3C ActivityPub specification. Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, working on the AT Protocol specification at the IETF. Join us for a discussion on decentralization trade-offs and other design decisions in the two protocols, and what that means for different architectures, structures, and even future points of convergence.

Moderated by Boris Mann

Operating systems are locked down and closed or don't have understanding of the web where most apps are running. Browsers are hard to change and locked into the fixed concepts of the 90s. What would happen if we create a layer in between that you control and only answers to you?

We've set up decetralized peer-to-peer mesh communicatoin at the camp. I'll show you how it works in 5 minutes and encourage everyone to join!

Crane. Tiger. Leopard. Snake. Elephant. Dragon.
Come learn animal-style kung fu with a master.

Corvids (crows, ravens, jays, rooks, and so on) are among the most synanthropic animals, with a rich social life. The Know Your Corvid project explores using automated re-identification of these species as a bridge to deeper personal relationships and perhaps a new kind of "social network"

Alte Holle has a lot of broken bikes and parts. We will get some of them running, and make fun things out of some of them - maybe some art or another vehicle - we might even fix things in this class! :)

We invite anyone who self-hosts and has an interest in community technology for an open discussion on local first cloud services such as file sharing, e-mail, DNS. We will share our own experiences in providing digital services for the neighborhood, find similar initiatives and discuss challenges and affordances.

Welcome to the Open Social Web track!
In this opening, we will be introducing the speakers and the main topics tackled by this track, as well as an introduction to the Open Social Web itself.

An open space to share lessons learned from applying peer-to-peer technologies and methodologies in real-world applications.

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.

This kickoff session traces what has grown since the inaugural D:Food track in 2024 — in tools, practitioner networks, and research — and orients participants to the core themes shaping this year's D:Food programming. Join us for a generative discussion taking stock of what the ecosystem has cultivated together at the intersection of food and tech sovereignty, and how to get involved in what's next.

Track curator, Liz Barry, presents the arc of this track and will ask everyone to do super short introductions of themselves.

This isn't just about money—it's about securing the right for connective labor (weaving, diplomacy, cross-pollination) to be valued before it becomes tangible. By moving beyond structureless reciprocity toward a deliberate culture of rituals and fair exchange, we can build ecosystems defined not by coordination mechanisms, but by mutual care.

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.

Our social operating system is due for an upgrade. So how do we build new institutional lifeforms in response to the "meta-crisis" — the compounding failure of markets and states to manage biospheric collapse and the erosion of democratic life?

Let's build a working radio mesh for the camp in one hour. Stay in touch with your friends! No internet, no cloud, no accounts required.

What is the “Open Social Web”? Why are decentralised social media so crucial today?
This talk will answer this questions by providing an introduction to the concept of protocols over platforms and the Open Social Web more broadly.

This panel dives into the critical questions surrounding the rapid development of agricultural technology. This panel brings together civil society leaders, global network builders, and researchers to critically assess the upstream and downstream risks of AgTech - from agricultural machinery and biotechnology to corporate digital enclosures. Moving beyond abstract critique, each speaker will share concrete frameworks and field methodologies illustrating how communities can evaluate, resist, or actively co-design tools that champion true food sovereignty and regional technical autonomy.

To understand why Taiwan is at the forefront of digital democracy, you must understand the price we paid. Our "Anti-Authoritarian Stack" was not built in a lab; it was forged in the fire of sacrifice and the silence of injustice.

"Human-in-the-loop" is AI's trust shorthand but the loop was designed for enterprise knowledge workers, not tenants disputing automated eviction notices or immigrants navigating AI-assisted forms in their third language. This talk examines what trustworthy AI UX actually has to look like when the stakes are survival, not productivity.

Under the guiding concept "World of UR", Lauscher and Mandina are live musicians representing the URkollektiv. The "UR" stands for "roots," the primordial, connecting force and source of creative energy that brings all art forms together. At the DWeb Camp in the Alte Hölle, we connect the "URjahreszeiten" with this spirit of living, connected ecosystems and cooperation.

How can we make it possible for anyone to build or remix their online social spaces? Learn about and play with the prototypes Graffiti and Social.Wiki and discuss how we can decentralize not just data, but also design.

Each morning, children are invited to come to hear and respond to a myth, legend or story that has been passed on from generation to generation, as told by our special guest Storyteller of the Day.

Technology is never neutral. It is built by entities with material interests and it is built to provide certain affordances.

In this lightining talk, we'll use tools from social sciences to map how power dynamics are structured within mainstream hosting processes and how they could change with a different, consent based, software architecture.

We will explore a few ways to make community governance visible to itself and put different models into communication with each other.

We will combine formal statecharts that model who holds what role and how power transitions, and structured "Talk to the Stewards" interviews that surface a community's living knowledge as narrative maps, needs assessments, and opportunity catalogs. These two models shown side by side act as a toolkit any group can fork for their own governance work.

We will also explore two other governance visualisation models including Nathan Schneider's Community Rule and Sohyeon Hwang's Governance Cards.

Most AI agents are built to be neutral, helpful, and forgettable. This talk argues that agents without cultural specificity are purely extractive — and demonstrates an alternative through Aure, a taste agent built on a Black diasporic design practice that prioritizes point of view over performance.

Every newsroom collapse this decade has the same architectural cause underneath it. This talk inventories what working journalists actually need from the decentralized web, drawn from 20 years across the industry.

In the 90's, phone number portability broke telecom monopolies. Today, we are pushing for legislation mandating email address portability to break Big Tech’s current "monopoly of convenience."

A networking session designed to build bridges between the mesh networking, P2P, and local-first communities. Through structured conversations and collaborative reflection, participants will discover shared interests, uncover opportunities for collaboration, and make new cross-community connections.

As Match Group invests $100 million in the gay cruising app Sniffies and Grindr squeezes $440 million from a queer community in need of connection, Meetmarket proposes a different model: an encrypted and ad-free hookup and social platform for queer people that’s community-centered, structurally unable to sell out and with revenue reinvested into IRL queer events. This talk and discusison what it takes to build solidarity-based digital infrastructure, and how generative tools can bring communities into the design process from day one.

So you have an amazing idea, a transformative project, an impactful nonprofit that you need to get off the ground. Maybe it's a decentralized tech startup that you want to fund. To garner support and raise money, you must be able to answer four questions well. I will share with you the questions, and we'll do a live demo of how to improve your answers. Too often, people are so into the details they cannot see the story they need to tell. I'll help you discover your story...which is the first step to persuasive fundraising.

Shutdowns and “splinternets” are increasingly challenging the free flow of information online. BGP hijacks, DPI filtering, DNS poisoning, full infrastructure cuts, the catalogue of tools for controlling a network is developed, deployed and increasingly distributed. These are no longer edge cases.

The DWeb Dough In celebrates the centennial of Japanese American artist, educator Ruth Asawa, whose commitment to community deeply influenced the arts and education in the city of San Francisco and beyond. Artists of all ages are welcome to join this hands-on ASAWA100 “dough in,” a communal activity employed by Asawa in the creation of many of her public sculptures and fountains. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how artist Ruth Asawa transformed the ordinary with three simple ingredients - flour, salt and water!

tinySSB is a prototype for a peer-to-peer app platform that minimizes communication requirements. It works over Bluetooth LE as well as LoRa, potentially even over shortwaves and thousand of miles. Join this workshop for trying it out on your Android smartphone and a LoRa mesh using embedded devices.

A general talk about the project Alte Hölle,
the people, the beginning and current state, projects and challenges

This is a follow-up for the "Build on Pubky" talk about the open source Pubky protocol. Let's build our first apps on Pubky together!

When communities move off centralized platforms, they suddenly become responsible for decisions those platforms were making for them: membership and identity, moderation, and governance. You'll work in small groups, helping each other identify the assumptions you're already making about your communities. By the end, you'll have a written charter and map for your community and we'll harvest patterns from the group and compile a collective e-zine.

Innovation is happening every day on farms, fishing boats, and community plots — most of it never digital. Networks like Prolinnova, the Kenyan Peasant League, and the wider Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) have spent decades sharing this knowledge through farmer innovation fairs, printed materials, person-to-person exchange, and small circles where attribution and trust are kept intact. As distributed-web tools mature, there is real risk of repeating old patterns — extraction, scale, communication breakdown — with new vocabulary. This session is a grounded conversation from networks rooted in Agroecology (Nyéléni 2015): what currently works, what farmers fear, and what genuine alliance with the DWeb community would actually look like.

Let's make and mend musical instruments together!

Building artist community and audience reach in the realm of music, art and other cultural topics has been held hostage by monopolistic platforms like Instagram and Tiktok. How can we rethink the online tools that artist communities need and build something new in technical ecosystems like atproto, Fediverse and beyond.

Mainstream AI models often ignore or exploit marginalized and stateless languages. In this interactive workshop, we will explore the grassroots blueprint for building sovereign, low-resource language AI models—from ethical data collection to offline deployment in rural communities.

A live demo and opportunity to experience our Sovereignty Anchor. These physically sealed server nodes can practically 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.

It has become almost reasonable to give up on humanity. This is a case for not doing that. A live reading and open conversation from EVERYONE: A Case for Belief, Why the Human Team Can Still Win, launching at DWeb as an experiment in believing so that we create the possibility, and building the shared case together. Come feel it, argue with it, and count yourself in.

We've become overdependent on cloud and Saas - in other words centralized services and gatekeepers - for every single action in our apps. We are already seeing this unfold with upsells, blocked features, and broken apps when the connection drops. Local-first software is not a new concept; it is actually the original concept in PCs (personal computers). You used to own and run your software, not just rely on someone else to run it. Basecamp is the entrypoint to the Logos network and app ecosystem and it is local-first by design: no central servers to log into, no APIs. You run the network, you are the peer. Let me walk you through a "peer-to-peer based local-first application architecture" and highlight the benefits and pitfalls of this approach.

GainForest funds people who steward forests, directly. We do this with three pieces that fit together: data sovereignty so the communities collecting forest data own it, local AI so models that read that data can run on the steward's own device, and open nature finance so the money that depends on the data actually reaches the steward. This session shares three short stories from the field, then turns into a small-group conversation about where this kind of stack would matter in your own community.

As European policy moves towards support for an open Internet stack, we need to create sustainable, organizational vehicles to steward the society-scale products of these efforts.

I have taught the basic of self-defense through Kung Fu at previous DWeb, Police stations and for specific communities

Twelve years ago, Matrix set out to solve one of the internet's hardest problems: how to build an open communication network that wasn't owned by any one company. Since then, it has grown into one of the world's largest decentralized messaging ecosystems, used by governments, enterprises, open-source communities, and millions of individuals.

In this fireside conversation, Matthew Hodgson looks back on the journey from ambitious experiment to global infrastructure. What were the pivotal breakthroughs that allowed Matrix to succeed? Which technical bets paid off—and which didn't? What lessons were learned about federation, governance, moderation, security, sustainability, and growing an open ecosystem?

The discussion will also explore the harder questions. Why has decentralized communication remained such a challenge? What tradeoffs proved unavoidable? Where did expectations collide with reality? And what would Matthew build differently if he were starting today?

Finally, we'll turn toward the future. As peer-to-peer networking, local-first applications, AI, and personal ownership of data reshape the web, what role should Matrix play? What pieces of the decentralized stack are still missing? And what will it take to create communication systems that are resilient, interoperable, and genuinely controlled by the people who use them?

This is a candid conversation between fellow P2P technologists about twelve years of successes, setbacks, and hard-earned wisdom—and what they reveal about the next generation of the decentralized internet.

The Vatican recently weighed in on artificial intelligence with its new reflection, Antiqua et Nova, asking how AI can serve human dignity and the common good. But if you had the chance to sit down with Pope Leo, what would you want him to hear from the DWeb community?

Join Daniel Erasmus, creator of Climate GPT, for an informal conversation in the woods. Daniel has been invited as a delegate to join other AI experts in discussions at the Vatican about the future of AI (https://globalnobelassembly.org/), and is inviting everyone into the conversation. What hopes, concerns, and ideas would you bring? How can AI empower people instead of concentrating power? What wisdom should guide the next generation of intelligent systems?

The assembly will work towards the Rome Declaration-Nobel Laureates, scientific experts, policy makers, and faith leaders will gather at the Borgo Laudato Si' in the Vatican. Together, they will work to draft the Rome Declaration on an Unarmed and Disarming Peace, establishing new digital protocols to govern AI in strategic and nuclear systems.

Come pull up a chair under the trees and help shape the conversation.

Diverse communities deserve better than Big Tech and they know it. So, why is it so hard for them to join the Social Web, and what is the Newsmast Foundation doing to reduce the friction? Join an interactive session on how we can turn black holes into Day-Glo symphonies - with a free Fedi t-shirt for anyone who takes part! Content warning: strong language and dark matter.

Game On! During KINDEROPOLIS game time, kids can find a game to play, bring a game that they like to play or or work together to create a new one of their own!

We will show how individuals can easily get involved in sharing their resources with their communities so that others can benefit. Young will speak to the technical aspects of setting up a storage server and an AI server, and Andi will speak to her collaboration with artists to preserve their work.

NOMOI introduces a missing primitive for the decentralized web: verifiable, chainable delegation. Organizations grant authority through signed mandates anchored in IPFS - traversable and self-evident, without central registries, blockchains, or smart contracts. The substrate underneath federated authN/authZ, supply-chain provenance, decentralized AI governance, and multi-party approval — among other use-cases still emerging.

Lets be silly! This session we'll be on our feet playing games and telling stories together. All human shaped monkeys welcome. No experience required. Session may contain traces of laughter.

Time to craft your own name tag at the button-making station.
It's fun, it's creative, it's a great way to meet new people and use your hands.

Need to take a break? Come to the Forest Pavillion and let the waves of meditative music wash over you.
We've recruited some of our Camp musicians to create an audio relaxation sensation.

Wild Webs of Care is a participatory art installation re-imagining archival practices, through a grief lens.

Whatever times of day
You feel open to emergence
And slowing down,
We invite you to wander into the woods.
There's space for you,
To sit in our dome,
To nourish your roots,
To co-create our
Wild (d)Webs of Care
Together.

In-person training for Weavers

Research on the transition from bacterial to nucleated life reveals a universal pattern: as systems grow complex enough, the sensemaking layer stops being overhead and becomes the majority of the organism. This talk argues that the same inversion is now underway in the economy, and that the DWeb ecosystem is constructing the infrastructure through which we can reward meaningful work and prevent model collapse at civilizational scale.

The future has been stolen by billionaires, bureaucrats and boring people. In 30 minutes, we're going to steal a piece back. We'll use science fiction, design prompts and card-game chaos to turn frustration, curiosity and hope into tools, games, spaces, rituals and inventions that could actually change the world.

A blend of design + user research + marketing workshop for developers-turned-founders who are launching their product to market and want to set it up for successful early adoption among non-technical users.

Autonomous Forest is a non-profit DAO and association that acquires and collectively manages forest areas while navigating the legal challenges of operating a blockchain-based organization under German law. This presentation explores the legal structure it adopted, the alternatives considered (like foundations), and how the model could be adapted for other projects.

How do we tap into collective intelligence without relying solely on words? Participants bring real questions they are holding from their projects, their communities, or their practice and the group will respond with improvised intuitive movement to make the implicit explicit and surface unspoken truths and shared patterns.
This participatory session offers something rare in technology-focused spaces: a liberatory invitation to step out of the head and into the body. Using the "Co:Oracle" methodology, this session treats collective, improvisational movement as a site of revelation and sensemaking.

This talk and workshop explores the landscape of community infrastructure for privacy, agency, and consent; and goes through a exercise where we co-design speculative infrastructure for our own communities.

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.

Dyad is a social technology company in service to collective sensemaking, with a product members use to start and find face-to-face conversations in their cities. It started as a curated-conversation project called Dare in 2024, grew into a social platform entering private beta this spring, and is on its way to steward ownership. The talk walks through the journey: what started it, where we are, where we are going, and the tension of becoming self-sufficient social technology company without becoming part of the problem were are trying to solve.

Digital Legal Entities, Run Locally:
The legal industry is the last closed-source, rent-seeking layer of modern infrastructure — paper workflows, proprietary templates, and lawyer-mediated bottlenecks at every step. This workshop demos an alternative: open-source legal infrastructure that runs locally on your laptop, treating real legal entities and contracts like software.

Research on the transition from bacterial to nucleated life reveals a universal pattern: as systems grow complex enough, the sensemaking layer stops being overhead and becomes the majority of the organism. This talk argues that the same inversion is now underway in the economy, and that the DWeb ecosystem is constructing the infrastructure through which we can reward meaningful work and prevent model collapse at civilizational scale.

A lightning talk situating the Democratic Tech Fund on four pillars: open source, decentralisation, cooperative social and solidarity economy, and commons. This talk will situate the audience in why the Democratic Tech Fund, what means “democratic”, “democratic tech”, “tech fund” and all together: what does DTF really stand for? How can this be a collective action network for the transition towards collective digital autonomy.

Grab a snack for the kids and learn the origami fold of the day.

An in-depth overview of Peer-to-Peer VPNs and their performance characteristics.

SEMEA-TEC is a university extension project that develops low-cost social technologies for family agriculture through participatory methodologies. In this session, we present two prototypes co-created with farmers: JavAlerta, an electric fence monitoring system via LoRa for preventing wild boar invasions, and Shitakiometer, an autonomous environmental sensing station for mushroom greenhouses with solar power and real-time dashboards.

Join a high-stakes tabletop simulation to architect secure, offline communication networks for a hypothetical conflict zone experiencing a total infrastructure blackout. You will learn to engineer survival communication bridges—bypassing military surveillance and physical danger—using tactical LoRa mesh, HF radio (NVIS), and ancient pre-physics optical cryptography.

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.

Most cooperative organizations don't own their means of coordination: Stripe owns the payments, Discord owns the decisions, Google owns the membership records. This talk is about how cooperative governance could look on decentralized tech stacks, and explores new governance primitives this enables, such as votes that mix democracy with active participation, membership built through vouching rather than token purchase, and strategies for minimizing governance while maintaining accountability.

How AD4M connects Holochain, ActivityPub, Nostr, Matrix and any other dWeb protocol (and centralized networks/apps) into one evolvable, agent-centric Semantic Web, a 2nd tier infrastructure for collective intelligence — enabling humans (and AI agents) to collaborate across boundaries without giving up sovereignty.

Open source powers a $100T+ digital economy; more than 99% of companies rely on OSS, 70%+ of production code comes from it, 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. FOSS and OSS licenses were 40+ years old and were designed for another era. Prosperous Software Movement is trying to fix the value-capture failure in open source.

Escuela Común relies on Coopcloud tools for its digital gardens track. On this workshop, we'll go through the tools and decide together what services we can host on the local network during camp. These could be shared storage for campers' media, a local fediverse instance, a video streaming platform, or a board for grassroots organizing.

Matrix is a relatively popular open standard for secure decentralised communication. Recently the team who created Matrix got funded to have another go at taking Matrix local-first and P2P, giving a new path towards mainstream Matrix adoption. We'd like to show off what we did, and how far we've got!

We will examine the function of money in human society from first principles, with the thesis that money as it exists today is primarily a paper-and-pen technology that does not make good use of new computational primitives such as programmable cryptography and AI. We will then collaboratively generate ideas for new ways to coordinate humans that were previously infeasible, well suited to our current technological culture, and bring human dignity to the forefront.

Each day at KINDEROPOLIS, children will explore the natural surroundings at Alte Hölle and the "Tree of Life." Today, we explore the Wonderful World of Insects and the Seedlings will take a field trip to the "Wild Webs of Care" installation and enjoy a special presentation by Deborah Tien.

Open animation film workshops. The participants can create their own animation movie by creating
paper cutouts and animate them in stop motion, frame by frame. Cutouts can be cut directly, or manually
drawn and cutted by digital plotter, or directly converted into digital graphics.
Animation can take place on our real light tables with photography, or in our virtual light table web app
provided on trixmix.tv. Audio can be recorded too. The participants can choose to publish their movie online at
trixmix.tv and can continue to work on it later after the workshops, if they like.
The drawings can be made public for later use by others on trixmix.tv too.Up to three teams can use the
photographic light tables at once during the workshop opening time, while drawing material and digital tools
can be used by many more. As this workshop requires some setup and will usually stay open longer than 90
minutes, it may fit the Unconference space, however needing some tables, power and network.

This hands-on technical workshop walks through the architecture of the Farm Hack Box — a Raspberry Pi 5 with 1 TB of NVMe storage, drawing 27 watts on a 50-watt solar panel, hosting approximately thirty services and over a million records, federating with peer boxes through a Tailscale tailnet, a Forgejo git server, an experimental Holochain layer, and a content-addressed Concordance card registry — and shows in operation how each layer of the stack maps to a specific DWeb Principle: Human Agency, Distributed Benefits, Mutual Respect, Humanity, and Ecological Awareness. The workshop is the technical companion to the political and institutional framings of the same infrastructure, and is calibrated for DWeb participants who want to see the protocols compose in service of a real working community before the abstractions appear.

In 90 minutes, every participant walks out with a runnable local-first app on their own machine: a document model and editor they designed, built, and reviewed using an AI-assisted pipeline, with the option to share peer-to-peer or deploy to the cloud environment (Vetra.)

Folk Tech 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 this session we'll talk about the principles of Folk Tech and how they apply when actually building software, and do some creative imagining together in a workshop format. I'll share the example of Spacious, a p2p audio messaging app that I (and Michael Dougherty) are building and hope to hear from you about how these principles may apply to your work.

This participatory workshop explores decentralization not just as an architectural choice but as a strategic design principle rooted in democratic values. Participants will work in small groups with real-world examples from public infrastructure, community projects to refine a shared set of conditions for decentralization that works as a value, not just as an architecture.

In this presentation, we will discuss how Federated Open Key Service (FOKS) can be employed to support PKI, secret storage, team management within and across cooperatives.

Mitch Altman is sometimes called the "Johnny Appleseed of Hackerspaces." He's devoted his life to starting them. Seth Frey has launched or led Co-ops throughout his life. As a professor at the University of California at Davis, he's made a science of self-governance, community, and other collective behaviors.

In this fireside chat, Mitch and Seth will draw from their lifelong personal experiences as a community organizers to show why community is so important to all of us and our future -- individually and collectively. They will share some of what they have learned, the very real challenges, and how we can all live better lives when we teach and learn and share within communities of our choosing.

In this talk, we will present the LABLAB experience: a participatory prototyping process held in Southeast Brazil that culminated in the LABLAB Camp, bringing together practitioners of agroecology, community technologies, open-source and decentralized approaches to strengthen our practices and networks.

The internet is dead. Long live the Mesh: a LARP

Join us for a brief Live Action Role Play where we'll simulate an internet shutdown and break into teams to try and get messages across between different people and locations using different transports and connection types.

Testing Dash Chat, a p2p messenger built on p2panda and Iroh, that's developed in partnership with communities facing shutdowns around the world. Your playing and feedback helps us make Dash Chat better! Come play!

I hear there is a hidden lake somewhere in Alte Holle...let's take the bikes we fixed to find it! Please bring a helmet!

Most LoRa boards come with prebuilt antennas, which are unoptimized and flawed.
In this workshop you will learn the basics about Radio-Antennas, build your own antenna, test it and optimize it for the LoRa frequency band.

I would like to introduce Logos - our philosophy, goals and technology stack - on the surface it is quite simple - everyone needs and deserves privacy to have real freedom. For that the tech stack needs to build on privacy and true decentralisation, not attach it as an afterthought. But tech is useless without people. Our answer to that is Logos Circles - hyper local communities focused on solving their own societal problems. The combination of philosophy, people and tech presents a promising way of actually activating and encouraging meaningful change in the world.

During these "Tinkering Time" sessions, our young campers will be encouraged to imagine and build their own ideas and inventions.

A workshop about collective intelligence, run as a live experiment in collective intelligence. How can groups think, decide and coordinate at scale without reproducing bosses, bureaucracy or technocratic control?

An experiential workshop where participants will have an opportunity to share, learn about and put into practice note-taking and storytelling techniques to preserve some of their DWeb Camp experiences — and beyond.

While building a bridge between Matrix and ActivityPub, we found that the Matrix protocol, made for instant messaging, would also also be a good fit for building private (community-based) social networks. We’d like to explain why by comparing protocols. What do they make easy and what do they make hard? What are their social implications? Eventually we will show how we integrate diverse modes of communications in a single interface in our Matrix client, Posca.

Bring your project, your laptop, and your questions. This hands-on clinic moves beyond the theory of WCAG and gets into the "how-to" of inclusive design. Whether you’re struggling with a complex UI component or curious how a screen reader perceives your DWeb protocol, let's audit your work in real-time! You’ll leave with a prioritized list of practical fixes to make your project accessible to everyone.

A ground-up implementation of Hypercore in Rust expands possibilities beyond its JavaScript-only roots. I'll discuss how and why it was made, its current status, and what we should do with it.

Decentralized systems have not solved the problem of eligibility (who can hold what, and who can transfer to whom) without reintroducing a centralized gatekeeper or severely compromising user privacy. This talk presents a general pattern that solves both, combining zkTLS-verified traits from authoritative real-world sources with on-chain enforcement that rejects ineligible transfers before they execute, opening up everything from compliant tokenized securities to privacy-preserving DAO membership.

6 years into building a peer-to-peer Slack (tryquiet.org), tortured by the hunch that there could be a much better and easier way, I went rogue and spent one year vibe coding ~10 prototype peer-to-peer stacks with the goal of making one that was a) adequate for meeting user needs and b) simpler than the first versions of BitTorrent. I didn't get as far as (b) but I discovered some really powerful approaches along the way, and/or completely lost all connection with reality. Come be the judge!

The digital enclosure of agriculture is accelerating, and a voluntary coalition of open-source agrifood system platforms is building the federated infrastructure to fight back. Join Open Food Network, LiteFarm, Our Sci, and C-Group Cooperative for a progress report, a frank airing of unresolved strategic and technical questions, and an open invitation to help shape what comes next.

How do we foster the development and the adoption of an ecosystem of decentralised, interoperable, autonomous and federated knowledge repositories?

Before Bluesky became one of the fastest-growing decentralized social platforms, Paul Frazee spent years working on technologies that never became household names—but profoundly influenced today's decentralized web. This conversation traces that journey: the optimism of the early P2P movement, the rise of blockchains and federation, the lessons of Beaker Browser, and the creation of the AT Protocol. Along the way, Paul reflects on the tension between idealism and pragmatism, why protocols must ultimately serve people—not just principles—and what it takes to grow open infrastructure from thousands of enthusiasts to millions of users.

Returning to DWeb Camp for this intimate fireside chat, Paul offers us a rare look inside one of the architects helping define the future of online public infrastructure.

ActivityPub is the open W3C standard for social network interoperation. Published in 2018, ActivityPub is implemented by over 100 independent projects, ranging from geosocial checkin clients to Mastodon, Meta Threads, and WordPress. In this introductory talk, Evan will discuss the goals and architecture of ActivityPub, its related standards, and future developments for this fundamental social technology.

Wild Webs of Care is a participatory art installation re-imagining archival practices, through a grief lens.

Whatever times of day
You feel open to emergence
And slowing down,
We invite you to wander into the woods.
There's space for you,
To sit in our dome,
To nourish your roots,
To co-create our
Wild (d)Webs of Care
Together.

The hours of 5:00-7:00pm each day will be designated 'quiet hours' for solo reflection, journaling, meditating, etc.
There will be a QR code you can scan for prompts, if you so choose.

We cannot promise to be there to enforce rules (we must eat dinner :) ), but we trust you to take care of each other.

A Decentralized Web Server that combines WordPress + Tor + Wayback Machine.

What if publishing a website required no hosting provider, no domain registrar, no cert, and no one's permission? OnionPress is a free, open-source Mac/Linux app that turns your laptop into a WordPress site running as a Tor onion service, the Wayback Machine makes it always-on. Install it, and you have a blog, a file-sharing gallery, and a globally-reachable address — all from your own machine, no cloud, and no way for anyone to take it down.

https://onionpress.org

we’ll look at real examples of “bounded” technology, tools that know when to pause or end

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly. We gotta dance!

Introduction to self-hosted, community-owned infrastructure: a distributed network of open hardware and software serving farms, libraries, makerspaces, and civic organizations. With the specific example and demo of a Farm Box.

There is a running joke in biology that everything eventually turns into a crab: the same crab-like body has evolved independently many times over. The Open Social Web seems to have its own version of this, with independent projects often converging on the same answer to what these networks are for. This talk looks at how these collectives understandings shift over time, and where it is heading next.

Heart- Head- Hands. You need to exercise each. This is the hands: make your own nametag button.
Make one for a friend.

Come to the opening session of the Weaving Groups -- small groups that will be your "family" for the next few days.
We'll divide into small "Weaving" groups and get to know each other a bit better as Camp begins.

Back by popular demand: 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, in a beautifully lit outdoor market, where you can grab a cocktail and wander through dozens of select projects demonstrating their latest breakthroughs.

In part, check out projects to help plan for what sessions to attend in the week ahead.

Take a look at some of the presenters from 2024's Demo Night: https://2024.dwebcamp.org/projects/

Drop your kids off in the Library where we will enjoy a kid-friendly movie of choice.

Bring an instrument, voice, or just ears. Come hang out and vibe in the tea tent!

DJ Dani and DJ m.f. will grace us with their grooves.

Teaching the benefit of breathing and relaxing and being present to your surroundings. I will be using shaolin 8 brocades chi gung but with a twist with choy li fut (Iron Shirt) conditioning.

Start your day with some sun salutations ☀️ in this all-level morning Vinyasa yoga flow with Val.

The goal is simply to breathe and listen to our bodies. We will move gently and fluidly through unique, thoughtfully-crafted yoga sequences including standing shapes, seated stretches, grounded floorwork, and balance challenges. Come to explore and play.

Start your camp day with a high-energy, equipment-free fitness session! Designed for all backgrounds and fitness levels, this morning gathering combines jogging, bodyweight exercises, and aerobics to boost energy, clear the mind, and build community connection before a full day at Camp.

Open infrastructure runs the world but owns none of the money that funds it. Industry, regulators, and philanthropy each decide what open source gets, and open source sits at none of those tables. The Open Source Endowment is a community-governed fund built to change that: the people who build and depend on open source own the money and vote on how it's distributed. This talk invites you to explores why open infrastructure needs its own money to have a seat at the table, and what we're learning trying to build it.

AI agents are evolving from assistants into autonomous economic actors but today’s AI stack still depends heavily on centralized infrastructure. This session explores how decentralized inference, privacy-preserving AI, stablecoins, and open protocols can enable autonomous digital economies that are global, interoperable, and user-owned.

Take a dive into ClimateGPT, the first foundational AI model engineered to synthesize climate change information to produce insights not "answers." Daniel Erasmus, head of the ClimateGPT Foundation, takes you inside this European nonprofit initiative, showing us how his publicly available, open source LLMs are revealing the social impacts, disparate connections, and deeper impacts of climate change. Trained on billions of webpages, articles and data sets, ClimateGPT is built to synthesize interdisciplinary research --to make the connections key to finding a path forward.

Many artists who have experienced structural abuse and processes of recovery carry unique insights about creativity and the way solidarity networks are to be built. This talk shares findings from a co-creation workshop that uses counter-factual science fiction as a prompt for discussing racial histories and politics of data extraction in downtown Los Angeles.

Crane. Tiger. Leopard. Snake. Elephant. Dragon.
Come learn animal-style kung fu with a master.

In this workshop you'll learn everything you need to start hosting your own wiki. Bring a laptop and by the end of the session you're going to have your own MediaWiki instance, ready to capture your thoughts and ideas.

Creating Applications on top of the Matrix Protocol is already a thing. In that workshop I can show some of the examples and the rational behind Matrix Widgets.

Meet people from the Department of Decentralization (DoD), this year's local community and infrastructure partner of the DWeb camp. This is time to get to know our collective, our people and our work and learn how you can get hands-on involved!

This will be a relaxed space to bring your device and try out some of the latest software from the Nostr ecosystem with DWeb friends. I'll have a few slides to orient people who are onboarding for the first time, but most of the time will be left for unstructured exploration of various Nostr apps.

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.

Peer-to-peer. Mesh Networks. AI. Local-first. Solar punk. Other words we love to put on slides.

This talk asks what happens when the buzzwords stop being buzzwords and become tools for land defense, Indigenous sovereignty, community-owned language data, and technologies that help humans remember how to live as part of a thriving planet.

What does it take for a community to design and build their digital tools?
This talk is thought to bring reflections on what we talk about when we talk about sovereign digital tools, and the characteristics of a community that host the flourishing of such technologies. We'll present an example in Brazilian context, and open a little space for discussions on the topic.

A lot has happened in p2panda land! This open session gives an introduction into the stack, what we are currently working, where we are heading. There will be plenty time to ask your questions, discuss ideas and meet other people from the community.

Introduction into how you can communicate off-the-grid with qaul and build your own local communication network.

The web is broken. The algorithm decides what you see, built for addiction rather than knowledge. But before the 'enshittification' of our feeds, we had a simple, resilient root system: RSS.

Let’s rage against the machine and return to chronological, human-centered feeds.

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.

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. Visit ProtopianPrize.com for more information about the prize.

How do small-scale agroecological farmers successfully incorporate and govern their own technologies? This session bridges the vital social dimensions of decentralized tech with real-world, grassroots applications. Drawing from her work in Brazil, Nadia Coelho Pontes will open the session by unpacking the human, cultural, and community elements required to build digital infrastructure that truly serves local needs. The session will then transition into case studies from Luke Smith (Origin Co-op), Tamisha Lee (Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers), and Abdallah Nyangason (African Bee Consultants), who will share their firsthand experiences building community-led solutions across different global contexts.
Finally, all presenters will converge for a 30-minute interactive discussion, inviting attendees to synthesize the learnings and reflect on their own contexts and regions.

Often de-banked and banned from mainstream payment apps, paid companions, escorts, and pro-dommes can turn to shielded Zcash and other privacy-preserving cryptocurrency systems to provide the means necessary for living within capitalism but outside traditional financial institutions. In this introduction, Violet Rollergirl, a trans courtesan based in NYC, briefly summarizes how she teaches fellow sex workers and other vulnerable populations to take advantage of the financial privacy tools available today.

What could our communities’ tools become if they didn’t need to know who we are?

Most apps today are built around long-lived profiles that accumulate our histories, reputations, relationships, and access rights. These records shape how we participate-- but they can also be sold, leaked, used to categorize us, or become barriers to access.

In this workshop, we’ll imagine and design tools where identity is lighter: temporary, contextual, and bounded by time and place. We’ll explore what communities actually need technology to do, and what becomes possible when permanent digital identity is no longer the default.

No coding required and nothing you need to bring.

Decentralized technologies often assume a baseline of urban infrastructure, but true resilience is tested at the rural edge. In this session, Michael Suantak, founder of ASORCOM and eimiAI, shares the blueprint for deploying offline-first community mesh networks and sovereign, localized AI for stateless and marginalized communities.

Trust is infrastructure now, and the question of who builds it, and what shape it takes, will decide whether the next age of humanity is sovereign or captured. We can build a decentralized trust network where humanity is provable, identity is local, and every AI agent is anchored to a person.

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.

So, may I invite you to a short tour around this part of reality we often don’t look at with too much attention.

Mesh News Network is a community-run news delivery stack for offline or degraded environments, combining signed bulletin publishing, nostalgia for Usenet, Meshtastic LoRa relays, mobile-first chat access, and local S/LLM agents that turn trusted updates into readable answers and daily briefings. This session shows how newsroom cells, raspi operators, mesh enablers, and ordinary users can each play a role in keeping local information flowing when mainstream web infrastructure breaks or is blocked.

Savings circles predate formal banking by centuries and still move billions of dollars annually across communities that banks have never appropriately served. In this workshop, we'll run a live circle together and talk about what community-owned financial tools can actually look like.

Each morning, children are invited to come to hear and respond to a myth, legend or story that has been passed on from generation to generation, as told by our special guest Storyteller of the Day.

Turning off TVs and monitors in public places is fun!
Learn to solder by making a kit that turns off these annoyances from 50 meters away.
For total beginners.
Enjoy life, and turn off a TV or two today!

What does retro game matchmaking and game session sharing look like in the Atmosphere? Lessons from hacking on the AT protocol with Dojo Lobby, a matchmaking platform for emulated Sega Dreamcast and Model 3 games online.

We have a working vocabulary for the bottom of the decentralized AI stack: weights, nodes, training runs, federated learning, on-device inference, cryptographic attestation. We have almost no vocabulary for the top of it.

What does decentralized AI feel like in a kitchen, a clinic, a forest school, a co-op? What are its rituals? Its onboarding? It's repair culture? Its etiquette? Its grief?

This session treats those questions as load-bearing rather than ornamental. A decentralized AI future that wins the protocol war but loses the human layer just hands the cultural surface back to whoever has the slickest centralized interface. The interface is the politics.

I come at this as a community/ecosystem builder: someone who spends most of his time asking "what do we actually want from these systems, and what do they want from us?" In my own writing I've been developing the idea of AI Nodes: hyperlocal, embodied, ritualized points of contact with AI that belong to a place and a people, rather than to a platform. A node is not a server. A node is a shared practice with a server attached.

AT Protocol is more than the protocol behind Bluesky – it's general-purpose open infrastructure, and resource allocation may be one of its most important use cases. This talk shows how hypercerts turn AT Protocol into a shared, AI-native data layer for funding mechanisms that anybody can build on.

Make monsters or casts with plaster of paris and pipe cleaners

This will be a short demo of my new app that uses advanced cryptography to back up sensitive data to friends and family.

As there was no book out there to explain my children why I love to tinker and experiment with technology and prepare them for a world which is highly influences by technology, I happened to write "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream". I was encouraged to share what I learnt in that process.

Will secure sync of self-verifiable data one day replace RPC/APIs as the main software integration mechanism? What new ideas, protocols and tooling do we need to grow the local first software ecosystem into a true industry segment? Let's discuss Monotone View Types and Co-transactional databases: a data-centric approach to Local First. INCLUDES LIVE DEMO.

Why money (and current cryptos) stay the most centralizing technology, and how free currencies redesign value for a distributed world.

How to connect communities who live and work in at-risk areas: war-torn countries, authoritarian regimes or remote rural areas? By guiding these communities to set up their own federated ecosystems, which they can adapt, manage and use in accordance with their own values, local culture, language and politics. dComms is a project run by eQualitie since the full scale invasion of Ukraine, where we set up first Matrix, Mastodon, Delta Chat, Peertube servers in 6 Ukrainian cities. The project expanded to include Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Russia, Lebanon. Come to this presentation to hear about the local adoption stories, failures and successes and discuss the future of resilient federated tech.

Sharing insights about moving beyond feeds from building Semble, a community knowledge garden built on the AT Protocol.

I want to share my experiences with pushing open, decent(ra(dical)lized) tools in the in-person Event space (events like Berlin Hack and Tell, DoD events, DEVCon(nect), DWebCampBLN,..)

As a young computer scientist at MIT, Brewster Kahle dreamed of creating the Universal Library, a Library of Alexandria for the digital age. More than 40 years later, the nonprofit that he founded, the Internet Archive, has become a foundational part of the internet, infrastructure for some of humanity's greatest assets. In this wide-ranging conversation, Kahle speaks candidly with Joshua Davila about what it takes to hold fast to a vision for the Internet, in a live recording of the new All Models are Wrong Podcast.

Artizen is a funding platform for creative public goods: projects that make culture, community, and imagination more accessible to everyone. In this talk, founder René Pinnell will introduce what Artizen is, how it supports creators through community-driven funding, and how the Artizen Village at DWeb Camp brings this model into physical space.

We'll open with a panel discussion with Václav Pavlín, Bruno Caldas Vianna, and Wouter Kampmann before rolling up our sleeves with some hands-on workshop time to help people get started with their own local AI applications.

The original goal of the DWeb principles was to distinguish our ideals against the behaviors of many centralized web projects and firms then, as now, pursuing excessive wealth, or engaged in unethical and criminal endeavors. We always wanted these principles to live and evolve.

And today, we ask: how can we re-imagine these principles as a way of determining where we collectively want DWeb, a movement and an ideal, to go? And what do we want DWeb to be?

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) gives developers a legal right to request interoperability with dominant mobile platforms, but knowing how to use it is another matter. This talk walks Free Software developers through what Article 6(7) means in practice for iOS and Android, introduces the FSFE's DMA Interoperability Survey as a community tool for documenting shared experiences, and invites technically minded contributors to help build the evidence base needed to counter gatekeeper narratives and push for real enforcement.

Simulating a reputation-based sharing economy where communities share their resources and rate one another on reputation and fairness. The goal is to understand how we could replace money with measures that represent our values, to create a regional economy with more social equity and environmentalism built into the way that communities interact.

Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee on why building an open social network meant designing for scale from day one — and what the Atmosphere's bet on open computing looks like ten years after the first Decentralized Web Summit.

A short and easy introduction into the "Walkway Stack" for everyone who wants to learn about radical peer-to-peer systems

As AI reshapes what we see and trust, many communities remain invisible or misrepresented. This session explores how participatory, decentralized systems can expand visibility and rebuild trust in the age of AI.

Want to make a zine about feminist ideas, online safety, organizing, local resources, or strategies of resistance? In this hands-on workshop, we can pour our ideas into zines.

After a brief introduction to the history of zines as tools of underground communication and a few inspiring examples to show their power and simplicity, we will start making our own zines.

No experience needed. Let’s get folding!

And Other Stuff (AOS) is building a freedom tech collective outside the usual startup and nonprofit models: no VC, no equity, no fees, and fully open-sourced operations. This session shares how we built that model across very different ecosystems, and what it takes to create infrastructure that helps activists, journalists, and organizers build for themselves.

In this workshop we will discuss and try TollGate, a protocol that enables anyone with a router to operate as an internet service provider.

A hands-on follow-up to the Hypercerts on AT Protocol talk. We'll design funding, decision-making, or evaluation mechanisms together — adapted to the room, ranging from conceptual sketches to technical deep dives.

Divine began as an attempt to bring back Vine, but quickly turned into something much bigger: a decentralized, human-first social video platform built to resist enshittification, AI slop, and centralized control. Since its announcement, the project has drawn massive attention — from hundreds of thousands of curious users and former Vine creators to coverage in outlets like TechCrunch, The Guardian, and TechRadar — revealing a deep hunger for a more creative, user-owned internet.

You have a vision for how to make the world a better place and now you're wondering: how do I raise the money to realize this idea? Where to begin? We'll gather a variety of professionals working in philanthropy -- private foundations, government grantors, individual donors -- to answer your questions and demystify the process of raising nonprofit funds.

Lets be silly! This session we'll be on our feet playing games and telling stories together. All human shaped monkeys welcome. No experience required. Session may contain traces of laughter.

In the face of increasing climate disasters, social unrest, and the collapse of long-held economic systems, people around the globe have been building innovative solutions that empower, engage, and protect their communities - providing alternatives that are both locally relevant and globally applicable.

This conversation invites practitioners working across countries and contexts doing the work to be in community with one another, share what's working, what we're learning, and where the challenges lie.

Together, we'll explore what is truly required for community designed, owned, and governed infrastructure to effectively mitigate the growing effects of climate, social, and economic rupture, and approaches to scale.

The root of our social graph is personal contact data and private relationship data - for most, that data is spread across a half-dozen SaaS vendors who pollute it and make it difficult to use. Bringing that root local is a massive personal and community health unlock.

This effort is underserved, high leverage, and just the beginning of what is only recently possible to explore and implement.

I am engaged in ongoing context development around community health for my communities. To make that useful, I built a toolkit. We'll run it against a popular open source application that handles contact data - to evaluate it's safety and efficacy as an application that deals with our personal contact and relationship data.

Then we will discuss plan to help our communities take control of their contact and relationship data, and gain meaningful insights from that data to improve community health.

Then we will workshop our own applications - or any application that handles personal relationship data that we would like to cover - evaluating them for safety and efficacy in supporting personal network health. If we have time or the group wants more discussion - we can discuss future directions for this type of validation methodology to any depth - even if it is preferred to workshopping our own tools.

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?

Ethereum is decentralized, credibly-neutral infrastructure that maintains global verifiable state. What does the Ethereum protocol do today and what is being built next? It's an invitation to the room to discuss where it fits in the decentralized web.

Game On! During KINDEROPOLIS game time, kids can find a game to play, bring a game that they like to play or or work together to create a new one of their own!

Habitat is building a self-hostable, open-source platform for organizations and communities to own the data that backs the communication and collaboration tools we use to work together! This talk focuses on how many of our challenges are borne out of the forces that exist to make user interfaces as magical and frictionless as possible and the supporting infrastructures as invisible as possible.

Private payments rely on a global uniqueness guarantee to prevent double-spends, making them incompatible with local-first architectures. This talk explores introducing trusted hardware to remove this requirement, enabling a design that is local-first, but still uses consensus as a fallback.

Matthias Kirschner author of the book, will present the video version in English of "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" and together with his children who participated in the creation of the story, discuss the topic with people young and old. Then, enjoy a raspberry ice cream social with handmade ice cream by master tinkerer, Luca Bonissi.

Come to Chaos Infusion, drink tea, and play Chess or Go

Come to the Button Making Station to "make a name for yourself."

Share your name, devise a nickname, and craft a beautiful name tag button.
This is a creative way to let people know who you are!

Join a collaborative, outdoor game where we completely disconnect from software and digital devices to build the original decentralized networks! Using day-to-night elemental techniques—like mirrors, smoke signals, torches, and acoustic Morse code—groups will take turns transmitting and decoding secret messages across the camp.

After some time for reflection and a brief singing warmup for everybody, let's recite, read, rap and sing words that are on our hearts and minds.

Bring words or a melody you like, whether a poem, lyric, essay, or even a protocol spec, and we'll read, recite, rap, and sing it together. A circle process with space for reflection, writing, and sharing. No musical skill needed.

I have taught the basic of self-defense through Kung Fu at previous DWeb, Police stations and for specific communities

Hear from Freifunk Berlin volunteers about their approach to community networking in the city.

We're plugging together an ad hoc modular p2p algorave orchestra.

Escuela Común is an online and in-person event where organizations throughout Abya Yala actively partipate in training for documenting human rights violations, land defense movements, while also hosting the server infrastructure and technical knowledge that supports these struggles, using co-operativelly built tools like Red Abya Yala and Coopcloud.

The Ethical Technology Assessment (ETA) framework, Inspired by the Grassroots innovation assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) and developed through OpenTEAM and the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance, is a community-owned scoring practice for technology that works more like Consumer Reports or Human Rights Watch field documentation than a compliance badge — with three confidence tiers, claim-level evidence threading, structured dispute resolution, and automatic confidence decay that forces re-review. This five-minute lightning talk introduces the framework, demonstrates the live single-page assessment tool covering Hardware, Software, Datasets, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and Seeds & Germplasm, and leaves the audience with one clear next action: score a tool and contribute to a score in their own community before the camp ends.

NextGraph is a protocol, a framework, and a platform that supports easy development of Local-First, decentralized, secure and private apps, with end-to-end encryption.

By combining the best of the local first world (Yjs, Automerge CRDT libraries), a Graph database (RDF), DID (decentralized identifiers) for users and documents, and end-to-end encryption plus encryption at rest, we provide an SDK that offers all the requirements of portability, interoperability and security needed today for building a true alternative to Big Tech platforms and products. The ecosystem of apps built with NextGraph is growing, and it is getting easier to use the SDK specially with the ORM. Let's explore what can be done today with NextGraph, including the new ELFA project that has just started, and that aims at delivering a full suite of apps for productivity tools and social network.

Grab a snack for the kids and learn the origami fold of the day.

The internet is built on centralizing assumptions that create an asymmetric power imbalance, used to great effect by Big Tech, but generally to the detriment of our freedom, power to choose, and ability to maintain strong stewardship of our own data. We will demo IdentiKey's new mesh routers & symmetric P2P protocols, talk about cryptographic keys for identity, and how to reclaim digital sovereignty today.

Grounded practices, real cases, and alternative financing tools. The question is no longer whether the current model is broken; most people in the room already know it is. The real question is more demanding: what approaches already exist that allows us to fund democratic digital infrastructure differently, and what still needs to be invented? This session focuses on concrete practices from the Social and Solidarity Economy: cooperative financing, civic crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, and public-commons partnerships capable of sustaining technologies that serve collective needs rather than extractive growth.

Secure Scuttlebutt has been an influential decentralisation ecosystem for years. In this brief talk we revisit it and also highlight recent work and why it is still a good option for 2026.

The workshops. The provocative talks. The deep technical problems. What questions and conversations have risen up for you?

Bring them to the Linden Theater for two afternoons of Unconference!

A short talk on what we've learned from vibecoders participating in our Lambda Prize program, a developer incentive program for Logos. And why human builders still matter even when AI can write the code.

This workshop will explore a set of future governance pathways for an open-source exit to Community, using the LiteFarm farm management app 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.

An interactive journey through the history of the Internet using a yarn gifted to Tommi by their grandma. Together, we will travel in time to discover what shaped the Internet, and how decentralisation is key to save it, collectively!

In this interactive workshop we will play to learn about the various challenges and opportunities in building cooperative governance structures that can manage centralization and maintain what is decentralization.

The workshop will introduce the Open Metadata Exchange (OME), a decentralized network that enables libraries to share and discover public domain and Open Educational Resource (OER) metadata across platforms while maintaining local standards and control. This session will create space to explore and get feedback on the operational model and governing principles that can allow and encourage widespread participation of OER libraries and resource platforms in the OME.

A presentation on how we’re deploying community mesh networks in rural communities in Ghana. I’ll share a case study from Step Network’s deployments in Ghana's Eastern region and how we’re working with the Internet Society and local communities to address the licensing barriers that hold these networks back.

Do you care about civic infrastructure to keep human voices from being drowned out by AI slopaganda and bot disinformation?

Help us think through digital-physical infrastructure (think "speakers' corner") to collect community perspectives, certify community membership & "proof of humanity", with the ultimate goal to amplify the collective voice.

Float, or the Funding Lab for Open Agroecological Technologies, is at its core a protocol or process designed to get resources directly into the hands of community-led, open agroecological innovators. In this session, participants can expect a deep dive into Float, a space for Q&A.

Open source toolkit and methods for soil health monitoring

Each day at KINDEROPOLIS, children will explore the natural surroundings at Alte Hölle and the "Tree of Life."

clan (https://clan.lol) is a peer-to-peer reproducible infrastructure framework that makes your infra easy to manage and independent of platforms and sudden policy changes.

We will give a brief background of our work and guiding methodology, share highlights from our recent white paper “Privacy-First Archiving: Implementing Secure, Decentralized Storage to Protect Mobile Media” mapping the development of our novel p2p DWeb backend, and give an overview of how our flagship mobile archiving app Save leverages decentralization to help safeguard people and their evidence from censorship, surveillance, and data loss by enabling them to securely archive, verify, encrypt their media and send it to Nextcloud, the Internet Archive, and our DWeb backend.

We will also share how our human rights-centered research and development methodology helps to ensure the free open source tools and resources we create with and for front-line communities are responsive enough to meet their evolving needs to provide meaningful resiliency in their given contexts.

adz (p2panda) moderates a panel around the research for future peer-to-peer data-types with two prominent researchers in the field, Santi Bazerque and Aljoscha Meyer.

An overview of Onion Services, and how it can be helpful for the DWeb community.

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) advocates for a society where users are empowered to control technology and have full control over their devices through Free Software. This talk outlines three key FSFE initiatives, Device Neutrality, Router Freedom, and the Next Generation Internet project, aimed at countering the growing dominance of big tech and empowering users and policymakers alike.

A fishbowl-style discussion bringing together hardware geeks, solidarity activists, and infrastructure nerds, to explore how community networks can navigate the jump from "underground" projects to officially recognized infrastructure. We’ll swap strategies on securing formal support and resources without losing our decentralized soul or grassroots autonomy.

How are marginalized agricultural communities across the globe building their own infrastructure and adapting technology to their specific climates? Hosted by Shalini, this interactive session opens with a look at community-led resilience in rural India—from feminist farming practices to decentralized Wi-Fi mesh networks. Following the introduction, participants will choose their own adventure and break out into one of three simultaneous, hands-on workshops led by our international fellows. Whether you want to prototype solar-powered irrigation, master participatory soil testing and data tracking, or engage in grassroots design, this session offers a deep dive into practical, farmer-governed tools.

Public-interest technology does not survive through code alone. Digital commons require continuous coordination between communities, institutions, maintainers, contributors, and funders — structures capable not only of building tools, but of caring for them over time: setting priorities, distributing responsibilities, managing conflicts, and protecting the values embedded within the infrastructure itself. This session moves from strategic principles to institutional architecture, using role play and co-design to collectively work out what governance for democratic technology actually looks like in practice — and what it means for the Democratic Tech Fund right now.

Take an adventure in the beautiful land of Alte Holle! Enjoy the sights and some light physical exercise.

During these "Tinkering Time" sessions, our young campers will be encouraged to imagine and build their own ideas and inventions.

Escuela Común relies on Coopcloud tools for its digital gardens track. On this workshop, we'll go through the tools and decide together what services we can host on the local network during camp. These could be shared storage for campers' media, a local fediverse instance, a video streaming platform, or a board for grassroots organizing.

I don't have any good answers but I'd like to discuss this with others. Websites like Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg are having trouble providing open access to content while being overwhelmed by badly behaved bots scraping content to train AI models. In response, Most open content websites are closing their websites to bots in general, even good, essential bots. How can we build a distributed system to facilitate and enforce good behavior by bots?

This talk will briefly introduce the Seattle Community Network (SCN) (https://seattlecommunitynetwork.org/), a non-profit community-run internet access initiative and group helping to improve digital equity for vulnerable and low-income groups in the Seattle, WA area in the Pacific Northwest US.

The sneakerweb is a parallel web where data is transported by physical media.

In this workshop, participants will install the sneakerweb tool on their own machines, create a domain, publish their own website to it, and swap sites with each other.

The sneakerweb is powered by Willow, the Meadowcap capability system, and Willow's Drop Format (https://willowprotocol.org).

Join us for a collaborative brainstorming session on how marginalized communities in conflict zones can protect their cognitive sovereignty. Together, we will explore and co-design blueprints for eimiAI—an initiative to deploy fully offline, highly quantized Large Language Models (LLMs) on solar-powered edge devices to translate indigenous dialects and provide critical data without cloud surveillance.

Network among community networks practitioners and interested people. Exchange knowledge and learnings, and introduce interested people to the best practice and creation of community networks.

Wild Webs of Care is a participatory art installation re-imagining archival practices, through a grief lens.

Whatever times of day
You feel open to emergence
And slowing down,
We invite you to wander into the woods.
There's space for you,
To sit in our dome,
To nourish your roots,
To co-create our
Wild (d)Webs of Care
Together.

The hours of 5:00-7:00pm each day will be designated 'quiet hours' for solo reflection, journaling, meditating, etc.
There will be a QR code you can scan for prompts, if you so choose.

We cannot promise to be there to enforce rules (we must eat dinner :) ), but we trust you to take care of each other.

We present the results from the "DWeb Seminar: Current Science & Grand Challenges" held in August 2025 in San Francisco with a hand-picked set of twelve practitioners and researchers.

And Other Stuff (AOS; https://andotherstuff.org/) is a freedom-tech collective building open systems that protect human agency, communication, and connection. After participating in the camp planning session in Berlin, several members of our collective volunteered to support BitChat as an offline, BLE mesh-based texting app for DWeb Camp, and we would also be glad to host an AOS village or tent where campers can learn about our work, experiment with Nostr, and potentially use a camp-local relay.

Liz Sweigart and Rabble, AOS co-founding members will introduce who they are, how they work, and what they are building, followed by informal opportunities for campers to connect with attending AOS team members.

Users of Pubky applictations fully own their identity and decide themselves where their data is hosted. Credible exit and optional self-hosting enable full user self-sovereignty.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly. We gotta dance!

Under the guiding concept "World of UR", Lauscher and Mandina are live musicians representing the URkollektiv. The "UR" stands for "roots," the primordial, connecting force and source of creative energy that brings all art forms together. At the DWeb Camp in the Alte Hölle, we connect the "URjahreszeiten" with this spirit of living, connected ecosystems and cooperation.

Lauscher & Mandina | URrequiem
https://youtu.be/9AyAqMxnxJQ?is=Wolw8duv3XUIkv9o

Lauscher & Mandina's Linktree
https://linktr.ee/Lauscher_Mandina

Drop your kids off in the Library where we will enjoy a kid-friendly movie of choice.

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? Join us for a participative sonic meditation, where participants each tap their own device to exert direct control on the tempo of the sonic material, and discover together the joy of cocreating a vibey groove.

Weaving groups are a great way to get to know 5-6 new people. You'll meet each evening as your "family" away from home, led by a trained Weaver/facilitator. New connections built through the week. (Note -- if you missed the first formation night, check in with Mix to see if you can form a new group on Night #2).

Hosted by Liz Barry and mai ishikawa sutton.

Liz will share parts of UC Boulder Professor and MedLab leader Nathan Schneider's forthcoming book about the deep roots of protocols that generated today's institutions and how you can work with protocols to create the institutions of the future.

mai will also share some writing, then open the floor to others to read aloud their own writings or share other pieces that they love and want to share.

DWeb Camp has brought together people from all around the world. Come share music that we love, listen and dance as a way to recognize each other in our vast, expansive web of cultural roots.

Teaching the benefit of breathing and relaxing and being present to your surroundings. I will be using shaolin 8 brocades chi gung but with a twist with choy li fut (Iron Shirt) conditioning.

Start your day with some sun salutations ☀️ in this all-level morning Vinyasa yoga flow with Val.

The goal is simply to breathe and listen to our bodies. We will move gently and fluidly through unique, thoughtfully-crafted yoga sequences including standing shapes, seated stretches, grounded floorwork, and balance challenges. Come to explore and play.

Start your camp day with a high-energy, equipment-free fitness session! Designed for all backgrounds and fitness levels, this morning gathering combines jogging, bodyweight exercises, and aerobics to boost energy, clear the mind, and build community connection before a full day at Camp.

In this talk I will present some proof of concept of a fork of Ethereum, incorporating some concepts of Artificial Intelligence. Information technologies, and in particular Blockchain technologies, face great challenges in a new context of a new cycle of Artificial Intelligence. In order to properly address these challenges I am proposing some new conceptualization of Distributed Systems, underlying my technology, and some first implementations of what would be a 3rd generation Blockchain (or Turing Test Blockchain concept). More specifically, I will talk about a modified deposit contract, an embedded AI model supporting the p2p or discovery function, and a smart contract implementing related logic; and related concepts.

How modern science gets funded, conducted, published, and preserved was never engineered, it emerged, and what emerged simply doesn't work anymore. This working session takes a real paper, breaks it into atoms, and walks those atoms through a proposed stack of DIDs, ATProto Lexicons, and IPFS. On this walk, we are foraging for the gaps in a technical substrate that enables persistent, atomic, compositional science.

Simocracy is a small experiment that lets you write a short brief for an AI agent and put it in a conversation alongside other agents and humans. This session is a discussion about what that does to a room. We will run a short live demo with sims debating a topic the room picks, then break out for small-group conversations about who writes these agents, whose perspectives they carry, and when you want them around. No background needed.

How can we center agricultural data sovereignty in the rapid development of open ag tech? Kicking off the morning of Camp Day 4, this panel brings together international perspectives to explore the critical need to build digital, social, and legal infrastructure that allows communities and land stewards to maintain control over their own information. Moderated by Steve Francis, the session opens with an introductory framing on data stewardship and navigating the tensions between open access and data enclosure. Panelists will then share concrete case studies highlighting community-led approaches to data ownership, ranging from Indigenous-led technology design in Aotearoa (New Zealand) to evaluating true cost accounting and participatory science. The final portion of the session will be dedicated to a collaborative discussion on building data commons that protect knowledge rather than exploit it.

The web3 community has developed magical technologies, but real-world adoption still feels like an uphill battle. But what if, instead of trying to convince the legacy world to use our tech, we designed our own city-like safe spaces, with our own tech, on our own terms?

How can we leverage technology to protect human rights, rule of law, and democratic values? In this collaborative session we explore tools, mechanisms, and potential new ways of supporting social movements across the world.

Crane. Tiger. Leopard. Snake. Elephant. Dragon.
Come learn animal-style kung fu with a master.

Peer-to-peer. Mesh Networks. AI. Local-first. Solar punk. Other words we love to put on slides.

This talk asks what happens when the buzzwords stop being buzzwords and become tools for land defense, Indigenous sovereignty, community-owned language data, and technologies that help humans remember how to live as part of a thriving planet.

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.

This is a panel of long-running movement builders from Free Software campaigning, platform cooperatives, rural deliberative governance, and cross-sector bridging work. These folks will share what worked, what broke, and what they'd do differently to help others in designing campaigns, cooperatives, and coalitions that are shaping change in society.

Speakers on the panel include:

Matthias Kirschner (Free Software Foundation Europe) presenting on "Public Money? Public Code!" (PMPC), a movement started in 2017, that has been one of the most successful campaigns for digital rights. Matthias will unpack the specific choices that let a single campaign framework grow into a movement of more than 200 civil society organizations and over 39,000 individuals worldwide.

Guil Maueler (Regens Unite) brings five years of gathering climate activists, cooperators, DAO builders, ReFi protocols, DeSci collectives, artists, and policy nerds into the same room.

Olivier Schulbaum (Platoniq Foundation, Democratic Tech Fund) will share about solidarity funding infrastructure Goteo.rg, drawing lessons from 15 years of supporting community-led initiatives through crowdfunding, matchfunding, and what we now frame as "crowdvocacy." Concrete cases he'll discuss include street vendors’ organising, La Nuestra, a testimonial digital archive against gender-based violence, and emerging models from renters and care workers such as Las Kellys.

Ray Xiang closes the loop with Nantang, a rural reconstruction community in China with more than 20 years of cooperative organizing, whose experiments with mutual aid, local deliberation, and — more recently — DAO governance and digital identity tools show both the promise and the fragility of building shared rules, records, and trust in a living, ordinary community.

This panel is a working conversation about the thin, hard-won connective tissue between movements that share goals but rarely share a table.

Turning off TVs and monitors in public places is fun!
Learn to solder by making a kit that turns off these annoyances from 50 meters away.
For total beginners.
Enjoy life, and turn off a TV or two today!

I will present a concrete framework of the different ways social networks can be (de-)centralized through the field of network science and go through the different modelling, analysis, and optimization methods for sustaining and protecting decentralized social networks. Some very useful and intuitive concepts such as network connectivity, fragmentation, and redundancy will be explained, visualized, and discussed.

Local Community and Edge Networks can host services, but lack an easy standard way of publishing and discovering services hosted within them. sig0lease offers an open, distributed, standards based method of service publication and discovery within autonomous local community networks.

tinySSB continues to innovate on the "small-tech side of things": Join this research and developer-oriented workshop to learn more about our plans and help us understand your ideas for a non-web, non-server, non-Internet and minimalist communication tool that can't be taken away from you.

Reconfigurable computing promises orders of magnitude increases in computing ability, in addition to substantial power savings. This talk provides an introduction to the subject, along with different kinds of computational paradigms that are "coming of age" or "on the horizon".

Some of us have watched this future arrive early, and now the same machinery is reaching everyone, everywhere. This is a conversation about what ordinary people actually do to stay a little free inside it: what crypto, encryption, and community-owned AI can really offer them, and where the easy answers break down.

Meet the Pollinators, a diverse group of technologists, activists and artists working at the intersection of decentralized web, digital rights, and public interest tech. In this session, 5-6 Pollinators will present their work and projects in P2P, FOSS, and anti-authoritarian tech, highlighting how they empower marginalized communities through solidarity, capacity building, and open social innovation.

"Decentralization" can imply particular network topologies while bundling together a set of related values like credible exit, data sovereignty, privacy, permissionless participation, and censorship resistance. This talk teases those values apart and makes the case for pursuing them directly, framed by what they enable rather than what they prevent.

AI systems are consuming the world's content without compensating its creators. This session explores data streaming as a new paradigm — where content flows to AI in real time, with built-in rights management, usage tracking, and fair compensation — and asks what it would take to make this infrastructure decentralized, sovereign, and governed by the communities it serves.

What comes after cyberpunk and corporate techno-utopia? In 30 minutes, we'll invent new science-fiction genres for futures we might actually want to inhabit.

What if we've been building the wrong thing? What if the decentralization project is not a project of technological development but one of human development. I will show just how much of successful decentralization depends on people with tremendous training in collaborative and autonomous work.

Each day at KINDEROPOLIS, children are invited to enjoy an art activity that is inspired by the daily storyteller's offering at Story Time.

How can the principles of living systems be used to design a better web? In this session we’ll present some basic ecological principles that govern living systems, and then break into small groups to brainstorm together how those principles can be practically applied to building software that better supports rooted, flourishing, living systems.

The DWeb community has been out in the world, trying things. Some are working. Others… not so much.

This choose-your-own-adventure session will start with brief intros to two workshops focused on patterns that work:

• 4 Key Elements for Effective Community Governance Organizations
• Entanglement by Design

Followed by intros to two workshops focused on how things go wrong:

• Anti-patterns of Exit to Community in Web3
• Wins, Wreckage, and Wisdom: How Projects Survive (and Why They Don’t)

We will then all gather back together for a FishBowl session (a lively and participatory rotating panel discussion) to share noticings, ahas and inspirations.

A working session on a real question being navigated by a federation of open-source food sovereignty tools — LiteFarm, Open Food Network, and Our Sci. As AI agents enter our communities, how does value flow? Who benefits, who pays, who decides? We'll explore three real-world contexts and share early data from Open Food Network's ongoing experiment with AI-empowered power users.

This session explores what it looks like to build the open social web for real-world resilience across mesh, mobile, and peer-to-peer infrastructure. Through examples including BitChat, Agora, White Noise, and Divine, it looks at how freedom tech can connect social, network, and device layers to support communication and coordination in low-resource and anti-authoritarian environments.

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:

What have we learned? How has the early promise of decentralization panned out? Where to go from here?

Simocracy is a small experiment that lets you write a short brief for an AI agent and put it in a conversation alongside other agents and humans. This session is a discussion about what that does to a room. We will run a short live demo with sims debating a topic the room picks, then break out for small-group conversations about who writes these agents, whose perspectives they carry, and when you want them around. No background needed.

I have spent the past year doing a deep dive into fictions that imagine dystopian futures, exploring what rhymes with the future emerging out of our complex present and what these stories can tell us about our own experiences hoping and coping our way into the world we're co-creating.

I'll first compare works by authors like Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, William Gibson and Audrey Schulman, and media like Fallout and Silo, through the lens of eschatology and "existential hope"; and then we'll do an exercise on writing into speculative futures with the scaffolding of a condensed version of the Microscope scenario-writing & gaming format.

Our online and offline lives are increasingly surveilled and controlled by global technology companies and governments. Without safe community governable tooling to direct our digital and physical lives on a global scale, it will become increasingly hard to resist the rise of technofascism. This talk is hosted by a collaboration between Metagov, Crownshy, and the Decentralized Deliberation Standard and we’ll share our first steps towards safely co-directing our fate online, and play with a prototype that demonstrates an interoperable stack of decentralized civic-tech tools (Polis, Talk to the City, Heyform, Red Dwarf and others) built on AT Protocol.

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.

Most of the tools that genuinely carry our thinking today, that constitute in the philosopher's sense an extension of the self or mind, are rented infrastructure we do not control. This workshop maps our own cognitive root systems and asks what local-first, open-source architectures make possible when sovereignty, not just privacy, is the design goal.

As industrial agricultural platforms accelerate corporate data enclosure, predatory data scraping, and top-down digital monitoring, grassroots movements are reclaiming the technical architectures that govern their livelihoods. This panel showcases practical infrastructure co-designed directly alongside land stewards across three distinct global contexts. Featuring field insights from rural India, the open grain fields of the upper Midwest, and Indigenous-led labs in Hawaiʻi, the speakers will demonstrate how decentralized systems can amplify localized innovation and support data sovereignty.

We will explore how to build bridges between complex decentralized protocols and the practical needs of non-technical domain experts.

How can social media and messaging protocols become more decentralized? We will review the state of the art of distributed interactive media protocols, including Secure Scuttlebutt, Nostr, ATP, decentralized revisions to ActivityPub (FEPs), and Decentralized Trust Graphs, and its relationship to local-first software.

I would like to host and facilitate a workshop to collectively explore the interdisciplinary design space based on two foundational pillars: 1. p2p local mesh-networking using local low power wireless broadcast (e.g.using LORA) and 2. the self sovereign identity paradigm (e.g. using DID methods that support self certification) --- with the rather unusual aim to conceptualise methods to ‘maintain rough consensus within radically transparent LOCAL community governance models’ (e.g. self certifying expressions of preference aka ‘pseudonymous local public voting’)

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!

Now we learn to live with spirits again.

We have achieved a world where compute is abundant, yet managed, networked, and useful compute remains scarce. In this talk, I detail an approach to building F2F (friend-to-friend) cloud infrastructure using Guix that maximizes utilization of managed compute, as well as incentivizes friends to help friends host infrastructure.

What is Grof® Breathwork? A bit of history, how the method works and what are its benefits.

Each morning, children are invited to come to hear and respond to a myth, legend or story that has been passed on from generation to generation, as told by our special guest Storyteller of the Day.

Wilds Webs of Care is a place to tend to our roots and imagine technology anew.

It's an altar space, participatory installation, and resting zone. You can decide how you'd like to engage, and how much. There will be facilitated 'sparks' throughout the days when the energy feels right.

You're welcome to engage on your own (or with your friends), as you'd like, when you'd like!

We ask that you treat the objects with care, and we invite you to leave pieces of tech that you love(d) for others to remember and honor.

Explore the transition from transactional "local search" to ambient "local resonance" through a distributed acoustic vibe engine designed from the eccentric subcultures of SF and Portland. This presentation and live demo showcase how decentralized mesh nodes run localized, 1-bit audio entropy models to dynamically modulate physical environments without compromising individual privacy.

Local-first knowledge bases with self-hosted integrated agents allow for people to leverage LLMs without having to trust the companies hosting cloud models.