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!

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.

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.

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/

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.

A hands-on workshop for anyone who wants to start a local meetup where activists, builders, and curious neighbors can learn and build censorship-resistant tools together. We'll work through the practical playbook — venue, format, first three sessions, safety, funding — using the Logos Circles model as a concrete template you can fork.