Open Tech Will Save Us: Recent Episodes
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Open Tech Will Save Us is a virtual meetup, taking the form of a monthly live video stream broadcasting on the second Wednesday of every month at 5pm UTC.
We discuss issues relating to technology, especially the importance of Open, Interoperable standards, and how they can enable decentralised tech to keep our data private while still enabling communication.
- Holger and Karissa, representing DeltaChat, and Matthew from Matrix, will hold robust discussions on the subject of Open Tech: will it save us? Surely Open Tech can be used for all kinds of bad things? They will also discuss how Matrix and Delta Chat's approaches differ technically and organisationally.
- Dendrite, a next generation Matrix homeserver written in Go, has entered beta. Join Kegan, from the team, to find out the state of the project and why we're all excited about it again.
- David Jacovkis (@dvdjaco:matrix.org) from femProcomuns (https://femprocomuns.coop) will present https://meet.coop, a videoconf service operated by coops. He'll discuss the challenges and opportunities of this approach for the sustainability of Free and Open Source projects.
Ag3m, from La Quadrature du Net will joins to present "Some thoughts on moderation and censorship in a decentralised world". https://www.laquadrature.net/en/
Sean DuBois (Sean-Der, @sean-der:matrix.org), WebRTC-knower and author of WebRTC for the Curious will discuss his recent work in the space. https://webrtcforthecurious.com
Damir Jelić will present the latest news on the Matrix Rust SDK
- Jonathan Beri, known Maker of Things (@jberi@toot.cafe) will be presenting Making it easier to make Things: WebAssembly and the Internet of Things WebAssembly is moving beyond the browser - but is it ready for IoT apps and tiny embedded devices? Yes...ish. In this talk, learn about the state of running Wasm on embedded devices and what's left to solve.
- Matthew Petry from Pine64 (@fire219:matrix.org) presents his experience with running Synapse on RockPro64 cluster, plus some thoughts on his time with Pine64!
- Nad from Element dives into the recent rebrand, in which he worked to combine three brands into one, all while working to maintain a strong identity - highly recommended for Design and Product nerds fans
- Jay Graber (@arcalinea, @arcalinea:matrix.org), creator of Happening and all-around decentralisation fan will summarize an overview of the decentralized social media ecosystem that they're working on.
- Ania M. Piotrowska (@aniampiotrowska), known for her work on Nym, Loopix, and at UCL will present "Building private future for the internet with the Nym mixnet".
- Burak Nehbit (@nehbit, @burak:tomesh.net) will give a deep dive into his work on Aether P2P.
- 1:00 Rabble talking about Planetary and SSB
- 31:19 Annie on Ditto
- 1:10:20 Erik on Synapse Perf
- Mike Hoye from Mozilla will be talking about "Verbs in the fediverse"
- Eugen (@Gargron@mastodon.social) will talk about "how we keep mastodon.social running at scale" as a Q&A
- ... and a new VIP tour of Dendrite, the next-gen Matrix Homeserver!
- Matthew Hodgson technical co-founder of Matrix.org to introduce and speak about the importance of decentralisation and privacy
- Saúl Ibarra Corretgé from Jitsi on the rapid growth they've experienced since the start of the 2020 crisis
- David Dias from IPFS IPFS introducing gossipsub in libp2p, including the security hardening work that they've been putting into v1.1!
- Valère, from Matrix and Riot, who will present the importance of UX and cross-signing keys in end-to-end encrypted communications.