On Sunday, people got the chance to play with apps built on Holochain’s Moss or send small packets from device to device using Tiny SSB. In one room was a debate with HyperHyper Space’s founder, Santiago Bazerque, and in another were coders testing out Greg Slepak’s (OK Turtles Foundation) Shelter Protocol and its first implementation, Chelonia. David Thompson (Spritely Institute) explained the nuts and bolts of object capabilities, helping a roomful of CRDT experts imagine how they might build on top of datasets Spritely. Later, Matthew Weidner drew from his academic work to show how collaborative editing might be possible in the DWeb. that natively runs decentralized protocols like IPFS, IPNS, and Hypercore. And rounding out the day, Ying Tong Lai took us through a threat modelling exercise with an eye to the fact that the EU is rolling out digital IDs in just a few years.
Santiago Bazerque (center) leads a discussion “From ‘conflict free’ to ‘conflict resolution’: a case for a BFT distributed database”
THE OUTCOMES: The DWeb Seminar was structured with a tangible output in mind: that the participants would produce a paper synthesizing what happened during our time together. Christian mused it could capture a “timestamped zeitgeist” so that in a decade we can look back at what this group thought was important.
The idea of a DWeb Textbook is being nurtured as an open source, community collaboration, with the assets to be stored in the DWeb’s Gitlab. A group of a half dozen people stepped forward to get the ball rolling.