Christine Lemmer-Webber
Christine has devoted her life to advancing user freedom. Realizing that the federated social web was fractured by a variety of incompatible protocols, she co-authored and shepherded ActivityPub's standardization. She has also contributed to many other free and open source projects, including co-founding MediaGoblin. Christine established the open source Spritely Project to solve known problems in existing centralized and decentralized social media platforms and to re-imagine the way we build networked applications - work that now continues here at the institute under her guidance as Executive Director.
Sessions
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!
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
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/
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?
This talk invites three representatives from large social networks to discuss how they view the future of P2P from a broad range of expertise in the field of social networks and peer-2-peer. Daniel Holmgren from Bluesky, Matthew Hodgson from Matrix, Adz from P2Panda and Christine Lemmer-Webber from Spritely and ActivityPub.
The session will be moderated by Sammy from the Willow protocol.
There will be a space for interactive questions from audience participation.