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Mozilla Festival proposals for 2018
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Decentralized Publishing #499

Open mozfest-bot opened 6 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 6 years ago

[ UUID ] f8ea5173-3894-4764-8b4f-9414b4ff0ce8

[ Session Name ] Decentralized Publishing [ Primary Space ] Decentralisation [ Secondary Space ] Openness

[ Submitter's Name ] Sethu Sathyan [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Mozilla Kerala [ Submitter's GitHub ] @sethusathyan

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Kuruvilla George [ Other Facilitator 1's GitHub ] @aiyankovil

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Stanly Johnson [ Other Facilitator 2's GitHub ] @stanly-johnson

[ Other Facilitator 3's Name ] Syam Kumar [ Other Facilitator 3's GitHub ] @syam3526

What will happen in your session?

Our session aims to educate people on the decentralized future of the internet, we are ushering in a new era of inclusiveness using Blockchain and other decentralized technologies. We will explain how anyone can become part of a decentralized system of news and content sharing free from any censorship. This will enable journalists and whistle blowers from all over the world to securely and safely exchange immutable reports and content to the audience. News dissemination and self-expression should be open to all and should not be controlled by a few corporations, the advent of blockchain network, which can arguably never be taken offline is the best way to do it.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The goal of our session is to educate people about the nuances of decentralized technologies and their potential. Once people are able to wrap their heads around the concept of Blockchain, we will talk about the benefits of an open-ledger news dissemination platform. We need more journalists and content creators to be aware of this platform. The larger goal is to help participants to appreciate decentralization as a philosophy and the concept of trust over the internet to build decentralized applications on their own or contribute to existing projects.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Projector and Office supplies

Time needed

60 mins

stanly-johnson commented 6 years ago

We plan to showcase an opensource DApp that lets users upload and share content in a peer-to-peer model. The solution will be completely decentralized and distributed, it will be hosted on the systems of users that opt-in to the platform. We will also be giving a quick rundown on how to develop and deploy such a DApp, and why it is necessary in the Web3.0 world.

KadeMorton commented 6 years ago

@sethusathyan @aiyankovil @stanly-johnson @syam3526 thanks for the submission! If you want (but you don't have to), feel free you see if you want to work our zone theme into your session https://github.com/KadeMorton/Xenshana

rysiekpl commented 6 years ago

Might be relevant to somehow connect to #466 I guess (disclaimer: I am the person who proposed that session).