2026-07-10 –, P2P Portal
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?
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?
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.