The Distributed Web

[mozfest-bot]

[ UUID ] cf68948d-7808-4b4f-820a-feb9495f0774

[ Submitter's Name ] David Dias [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Protocol Labs [ Submitter's Github ] @diasdavid

[ Additional facilitators ] Pedro Teixeira (@pgte)

What will happen in your session?

This talk will go through the design of IPFS and how we can build fully decentralized Web Applications.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Share with the MozFest community the latest updates on IPFS, the InterPlanetary FileSystem, and what people are building with it so far. There are really many recent exciting developments!

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

Just projector and we are good :)

Time needed

less than 60 mins

[daviddias]

A little bit more intro to this one:

The Web, the platform that we love and learned to rely on, has converged to a centralized, failure prone, exclusive and censured platform. However, the Internet, the underlying network that connects every device together, is not the fault for how the Web platform has turned.

We need to bring the distributed properties of the Internet back! That is why we, the IPFS community, are building the InterPlanetary Filesystem, a mountable and distributed file storage protocol that provides cryptographic versioning (never move the same piece of content twice), free deduplication (avoid hitting the server several times for the same data) and distributed discovery (make Web Apps work ‘offline’!).

[daviddias]

Hi everyone! Me and @pgte just submitted 3 sessions for MozFest, these are:

• The Distributed Web
• Building Google Docs without the Google (CRDT + IPFS)
• InterPlanetary Linked-Data

We are happy to adjust the content and size or bring other topics from the IPFS ecosystem to be presented and discussed that you would like to see at MozFest.

Thanks!

[timcowlishaw]

Hey there David! This also sounds great. my immediate response is much the same as to #130 - any idea of your expected audience for this would be very useful, in particular the level of prior knowledge and expertise participants would need? Really interesting stuff though. Thanks!

Tim

[dvigneshwer]

Hi @diasdavid

As MozFest is approaching we require the following information from your end to better support your session in the Decentralization learning forum space. You can get back to us by replying to this issue or emailing us directly, whichever communication channel is convenient to you.

1. Provide us a brief outline of your session topics and time estimates
2. Does your session require any additional materials or electronic equipment other than a projector and general office stationery?
3. Please let us know if you want to make any modification to your session proposal

Thank you! Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.

[daviddias]

Hi all!

We've been actively brainstorming about how to make this session more in line with Mozfest model and set a goal that would enable us to transform the session from a lecture to a participatory discussion. We believe we came up with something that will be fun and informative!

Our goal is for everyone to leave this session with a shared understanding of the current issues presented in the Centralized model of the Web, how we can mitigate and fix them and how the future looks like.

The outline will look like:

• Intro and present the structure of the session
• Break into groups and identify where the Centralized model falls short. Participants will work together and list issues, including technical (architecture wise) and non-technical (power structures, governance and so on).
• Cluster the findings
• Quick Intro to IPFS
• The IPFS approach to create the Distributed Web and how its architecture is designed to answer the issues gathered during the breakout groups
• Tackle outstanding issues (cards that didn't get checked) and list other alternatives
• Create a plan to continue the conversation

There is a lot to unpack here and we will timebox its segment to ensure that we don't derail into tangent topics.

As for materials, we will need:

• A wall
• A projector
• Sticky (or Slicky, if available) notes

[cubicgarden]

projector or screen is problem, wall might be more tricky however... Ravensbourne is mainly open plan and has few walls

[daviddias]

Looking forward to meet and chat with everyone tomorrow at 12:15h 🌟

[daviddias]

We've updated the contents of this session. Now it is 343% more participatory and 268% more fun!

The session will be hosted by me (@diasdavid) and @arcalinea with the help of @pgte, @whyrusleeping and @nicola \o/

[arcalinea]

The agenda and brainstorm doc for the Distributed Web session: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fAf_bghe0EMk8Cre892v22hc0MNCHAp3K697hUIdaL4/edit?ts=59f58f6e