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Fission Demo Day January 2021

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Fission Demo Day Feb 2021

Fission Video Chat: Dylan Steck presents Cortex, Tools for Action

IPFS Local Offline Collab Mar 10th Monthly Meeting

Building Actual Budget, with James Long

Fission Demo Day March 2021

TiddlyWiki on Fission Community Chat with Jeremy Ruston

Stork: Fast web search for static sites, with James Little

Shared Private Files in Webnative with Brooklyn Zelenka

Overview and Demo of LogSeq by Tienson Qin

Fission April 2021 Demo Day

My life in a Python Package: a Human Programming Interface, by karlicoss

Chiffre: Privacy First E2EE Analytics

Book Club: Working in Public, Nadia Eghbal

Kosmik App: Visual Tools for Thought

Fission Demo Day May 2021

Tools for Thought Interchange: atJSON

Tools for Thought Interchange Part 2: Stand Off Editors with Codex

Work in Public Club: Reading - Tim Wu's Master Switch

Spiel: chat as hierarchies of channels with Murat Ayfer

Fission Demo Day June 2021

PolyPoly: Developing Fair Economic Systems for Data, with Laird Brown

IPFS Community Meetup (External)

Browsers 3000: 6 week hackathon

Building Zero Data Apps & Entrepreneurship with Rosano

IPFS Cluster

Fission Demo Day July 2021

Advanced Web with Penny McLachlan

TiddlyWiki Community: Core Savers & Syncers, Upload Plugin, & Discourse Forum

Filecoin Foundation Overview with Danny O'Brien

VulcanizeDB overview for Filecoin

Origin + Webnative-Filecoin Brainstorming

Fission

Hi everyone!
A little last minute for the event tomorrow (today!), Thursday, Aug 25th, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 1800 CEST. We're joined by Danny O'Brien from the Filecoin Foundation. Danny was previously at the EFF, and  recently joined the Foundation full time .
The Filecoin Foundation's goal is stewarding the governance of the Filecoin ecosystem, funding critical projects around it and advocating for the future of Filecoin and its stack of decentralizing tools: IPFS, libp2p, etc.
​The foundation team will also be building out the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW), the charitable wing, whose activities include preserving and distributing the world’s knowledge, supporting the dweb community, funding related R&D, and educating the public about the benefits of a redecentralized net.
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Get Your Recovery Kit!
We've now got a recovery kit option in the  Fission dashboard . Since we don't have the keys to your private content, we didn't previously have a way to help you get it back if you lost access. Now, based on related R&D we did for Protocol Labs and Filecoin, we can give you a recovery kit that you can store, which when combined with the other half of the kit on our servers, can unlock your encrypted content and link it back to your account.
This is a pretty big technical milestone, we still have lots of work to do on usability. For now — please  do  go and checkout the  recovery kit flow  and store it somewhere safe.
IPFS Operators Group
JeffG  on our team is organizing the  IPFS Operators Group . We're connecting the people who are operating IPFS at scale and as services to other users to share best practices, give feedback on code, config, and more. This is an invite only group, message us at  hello@fission.codes  if you're interested in getting involved, or drop by the Discord and ping  jeffg .
Tools For Thought ROCKS!!!
We just wrapped the August community event for  ToolsForThought Rocks! . This is a "spin out" of the two part TFT talks that Fission hosted, with volunteer organizers finding speakers, and anyone welcome to run and promote events of their own to the TFT community. It's being mostly run on Luma (the same software we use for these emails and our events), but in "community" mode. Check the  YouTube channel  for past recordings, and visit and sign up for the community at  toolsforthought.rocks .

<div class="mirror-content" data-reactroot="">​Hi everyone!​A little last minute for the event tomorrow (today!), Thursday, Aug 25th, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 1800 CEST. We&#x27;re joined by Danny O&#x27;Brien from the Filecoin Foundation. Danny was previously at the EFF, and <a href="https://twitter.com/mala/status/1417511235105427460" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">recently joined the Foundation full time</a>.​The Filecoin Foundation&#x27;s goal is stewarding the governance of the Filecoin ecosystem, funding critical projects around it and advocating for the future of Filecoin and its stack of decentralizing tools: IPFS, libp2p, etc.​​The foundation team will also be building out the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW), the charitable wing, whose activities include preserving and distributing the world’s knowledge, supporting the dweb community, funding related R&amp;D, and educating the public about the benefits of a redecentralized net.<div style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:1rem"><a href="https://lu.ma/rkqxb6c6" class="btn" style="background-color:#de3163;color:#ffffff;border:1px solid transparent;padding:0.75rem 1.5rem;border-radius:8px;font-size:1rem !important;line-height:1 !important;word-break:break-word;display:inline-block;text-align:center;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none !important" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sign up to join</a></div><h2>​Get Your Recovery Kit!</h2>​We&#x27;ve now got a recovery kit option in the <a href="https://dashboard.fission.codes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Fission dashboard</a>. Since we don&#x27;t have the keys to your private content, we didn&#x27;t previously have a way to help you get it back if you lost access. Now, based on related R&amp;D we did for Protocol Labs and Filecoin, we can give you a recovery kit that you can store, which when combined with the other half of the kit on our servers, can unlock your encrypted content and link it back to your account.​This is a pretty big technical milestone, we still have lots of work to do on usability. For now — please do go and checkout the <a href="https://dashboard.fission.codes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">recovery kit flow</a> and store it somewhere safe.<h2>​IPFS Operators Group</h2>​<a href="https://twitter.com/midijeffg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">JeffG</a> on our team is organizing the IPFS Operators Group. We&#x27;re connecting the people who are operating IPFS at scale and as services to other users to share best practices, give feedback on code, config, and more. This is an invite only group, message us at <a href="http://hello@fission.codes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hello@fission.codes</a> if you&#x27;re interested in getting involved, or drop by the Discord and ping jeffg.<h2>​Tools For Thought ROCKS!!!</h2>​We just wrapped the August community event for <a href="https://lu.ma/toolsforthought.rocks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ToolsForThought Rocks!</a>. This is a &quot;spin out&quot; of the two part TFT talks that Fission hosted, with volunteer organizers finding speakers, and anyone welcome to run and promote events of their own to the TFT community. It&#x27;s being mostly run on Luma (the same software we use for these emails and our events), but in &quot;community&quot; mode. Check the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqBLhQvk74O7Z4sqTVQYOVg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">YouTube channel</a> for past recordings, and visit and sign up for the community at <a href="https://toolsforthought.rocks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">toolsforthought.rocks</a>.</div>

Filecoin Foundation, Recovery Kit, and Tools for Thought Rocks

Hello everyone!
Fission's monthly demo day is  tomorrow, July 22nd, register here »
recap of Fission's internal Hack Week apps Lil Patchy, using Fission with a browser web extension to save screenshot bookmarks to IPFS
Moon Garden, a "tool for thought" example using Fission's webnative SDK
Recovery Kit: we've got a non-custodial way to backup and recover your private keys
Community Demo: Joris Herman is working on a storage stack library to power "own your data" apps, including a Fission integration
And -- new Fission  website , BROWSERS3000!!!, and Fission + Filecoin mini update.
Tools for Thought
The  Tools for Thought Interchange now has its own Luma community , as well as volunteer organizers Jess & Betty. 
Jess has arranged a July speaker session  next week, July 28th . Linus Lee is the first confirmed presenter, talking about incremental note taking, and Monocle, a personal search engine.
The organizers meet in the  Fission Discord chat  if you'd like to get involved.
Upcoming Events
Other upcoming events include:
Advanced Web, with Penny MacLachlan , who is the Product Manager on the Chrome Web Platform team, joins us to talk about advanced web capabilities that her group is working on and promoting (July 29th, 2021)
TiddlyWiki Community Call:  Core Savers & Syncers, Upload Plugin, & Discourse Forum (Aug 17th, 2021)

<div class="mirror-content" data-reactroot="">​Hello everyone!​Fission&#x27;s monthly demo day is <a href="https://lu.ma/2gepb3d2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tomorrow, July 22nd, register here »</a><ul><li>​recap of Fission&#x27;s internal Hack Week apps<ul><li>​Lil Patchy, using Fission with a browser web extension to save screenshot bookmarks to IPFS</li><li>​Moon Garden, a &quot;tool for thought&quot; example using Fission&#x27;s webnative SDK</li></ul></li><li>​Recovery Kit: we&#x27;ve got a non-custodial way to backup and recover your private keys</li><li>​Community Demo: Joris Herman is working on a storage stack library to power &quot;own your data&quot; apps, including a Fission integration</li></ul>​And -- new Fission <a href="https://fission.codes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">website</a>, BROWSERS3000!!!, and Fission + Filecoin mini update.​Tools for Thought​The <a href="https://lu.ma/community/com-mmvGpDTZoRDsxou" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tools for Thought Interchange now has its own Luma community</a>, as well as volunteer organizers Jess &amp; Betty. ​Jess has arranged a July speaker session <a href="https://lu.ma/tfti-july" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">next week, July 28th</a>. Linus Lee is the first confirmed presenter, talking about incremental note taking, and Monocle, a personal search engine.​The organizers meet in the <a href="https://fission.codes/discord" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Fission Discord chat</a> if you&#x27;d like to get involved.​Upcoming Events​Other upcoming events include:<ul><li>​<a href="https://lu.ma/ofdgspc8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advanced Web, with Penny MacLachlan</a>, who is the Product Manager on the Chrome Web Platform team, joins us to talk about advanced web capabilities that her group is working on and promoting (July 29th, 2021)</li><li>​<a href="https://lu.ma/6l5y65il" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">TiddlyWiki Community Call:</a> Core Savers &amp; Syncers, Upload Plugin, &amp; Discourse Forum (Aug 17th, 2021)</li></ul>​</div>

Fission Demo Day, TFT new community

Hello everyone!
The Tools for Thought  Part 1  &  Part 2  recordings and links are now up on the blog. We may intersect this topic in future Fission Tech Talks, but this will spin off into its own community speaker series. You can  follow the ToolsForThought profile  directly and unsubscribe from Fission if you prefer — we won’t be offended!
The events for the rest of June are up now:
June 10th (this week!),  Spiel with Murat Ayfer : a social chat app that uses Twitter logins and has hierarchical chat and an interesting aesthetic
June 17th:  Fission Demo Day June 2021
June 24th:  PolyPoly, Fair Economic Systems for Data,  with Laird Brown: a less technical, more policy and business model focused talk on data co-ops and more.
First week of July summer break: Happy Canada Day! Happy Independence Day!
July 8th:  Building Zero Data Apps & Entrepreneurship, with Rosano:  what are business models and support structures for building & maintaining apps that don’t centralize data?
As always, drop by the  Fission Discord chat  for interesting links and discussion on topics like this.
Are you interested in presenting? Want off this list? Other feedback? Send us an email  hello@fission.codes .

<div class="mirror-content" data-reactroot="">​Hello everyone!​The Tools for Thought <a href="https://blog.fission.codes/tools-for-thought-interchange-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Part 1</a> &amp; <a href="https://blog.fission.codes/tools-for-thought-interchange-part-2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Part 2</a> recordings and links are now up on the blog. We may intersect this topic in future Fission Tech Talks, but this will spin off into its own community speaker series. You can <a href="https://lu.ma/toolsforthought" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">follow the ToolsForThought profile</a> directly and unsubscribe from Fission if you prefer — we won’t be offended!​The events for the rest of June are up now:<ul><li>​June 10th (this week!), <a href="https://lu.ma/v9357b3z" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Spiel with Murat Ayfer</a>: a social chat app that uses Twitter logins and has hierarchical chat and an interesting aesthetic</li><li>​June 17th: <a href="https://lu.ma/j8yxbol2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Fission Demo Day June 2021</a></li><li>​June 24th: <a href="https://lu.ma/rmpvbwcy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PolyPoly, Fair Economic Systems for Data,</a> with Laird Brown: a less technical, more policy and business model focused talk on data co-ops and more.</li><li>​First week of July summer break: Happy Canada Day! Happy Independence Day!</li><li>​July 8th: <a href="https://lu.ma/scg5e55h" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Building Zero Data Apps &amp; Entrepreneurship, with Rosano:</a> what are business models and support structures for building &amp; maintaining apps that don’t centralize data?</li></ul>​As always, drop by the <a href="https://fission.codes/discord" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Fission Discord chat</a> for interesting links and discussion on topics like this.​Are you interested in presenting? Want off this list? Other feedback? Send us an email hello@fission.codes. </div>

Tools for Thought, Upcoming Events June

This week, on Thursday, May 20th, we’ll have our monthly Fission Demo Day.  You can register on Luma »
We’ll be covering:
Fission joining the Decentralized Identity Foundation, and upcoming platform support for DID interop
Fission VS Code Plugin: create new apps and publish directly from within VS Code
Account Backup: a demo of the alpha version of secure account backup. 
Plus, Jeremy Ruston will demo some of his recent updates on  TiddlyWiki .
Our next two Fission Tech Talks will be a special large scale discussion on interchange between different Tools for Thought.
May 27th: Tools for Thought Interchange:  an overview of atJSON by Blaine Cook, and how it is used at Conde Nast as a “100 year format”, plus a group discussion on other topics related to the tools for thought universe
June 3rd: Tools for Thought Interchange Part 2:  scheduled for an Australian time zone friendly slot, Iian from Codex Editor will talk about Standoff Editors and showcase his work. We’ll continue other topics from the first event.
Past events that are up now, including video recording:
Chiffre: Privacy first e2ee analytics, with François Best
Kosmik App: a visual tool for thought with an IPFS database
All of our future and past events are available on the  Fission Luma page .
Join our Discord chat  if you have any questions, or would like to suggest a future topic or speaker.

<div class="mirror-content" data-reactroot="">​This week, on Thursday, May 20th, we’ll have our monthly Fission Demo Day. <a href="https://lu.ma/13ez2zgs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">You can register on Luma »</a>​We’ll be covering:<ul><li>​Fission joining the Decentralized Identity Foundation, and upcoming platform support for DID interop</li><li>​Fission VS Code Plugin: create new apps and publish directly from within VS Code</li><li>​Account Backup: a demo of the alpha version of secure account backup. </li></ul>​Plus, Jeremy Ruston will demo some of his recent updates on <a href="https://tiddlywiki.fission.app" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">TiddlyWiki</a>.​Our next two Fission Tech Talks will be a special large scale discussion on interchange between different Tools for Thought.<ul><li>​<a href="https://lu.ma/ck0cke0x" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">May 27th: Tools for Thought Interchange:</a> an overview of atJSON by Blaine Cook, and how it is used at Conde Nast as a “100 year format”, plus a group discussion on other topics related to the tools for thought universe</li><li>​<a href="https://lu.ma/yd1w65cq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">June 3rd: Tools for Thought Interchange Part 2:</a> scheduled for an Australian time zone friendly slot, Iian from Codex Editor will talk about Standoff Editors and showcase his work. We’ll continue other topics from the first event.</li></ul>​Past events that are up now, including video recording:<ul><li>​<a href="https://vimeo.com/545583149" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Chiffre: Privacy first e2ee analytics, with François Best</a></li><li>​<a href="https://blog.fission.codes/kosmik-app-tool-for-thought-ipfs-database/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Kosmik App: a visual tool for thought with an IPFS database</a></li></ul>​All of our future and past events are available on the <a href="https://lu.ma/fission" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Fission Luma page</a>.​<a href="https://fission.codes/discord" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Join our Discord chat</a> if you have any questions, or would like to suggest a future topic or speaker.</div>

Fission May 2021 Demo Day

This Thursday April 15th is our monthly Demo Day, with an overview of how we’re talking about Fission and what we’re seeing people use it for, product updates, plus app and feature demos from the team and the community.
We’ll be covering:
Dashboard and App Management:  our Dashboard app now has app management features, including showcasing how you can build an app that creates apps for users on the fly, with its own subdomain
Serving files with Fission Drive:  every account has its own web native file system. Use the Fission Drive app to easily upload files, and then use a simple IPFS gateway API to serve up the files.
As well as other updates and discussion about the Fission’s edge identity, data, and other open source building blocks.
Join us for Demo Day »
And, join us next week, April 22nd, for  My life in a Python Package: a Human Programming Interface, by karlicoss »
The latest full video is up on the blog:  Overview of LogSeq, with Tienson Qin
Suggest speakers for May
We’re booking now for May talks. Have suggestions? Want to speak yourself? Email us hello@fission.codes or drop by our  Discord chat .

<div class="mirror-content" data-reactroot="">​This Thursday April 15th is our monthly Demo Day, with an overview of how we’re talking about Fission and what we’re seeing people use it for, product updates, plus app and feature demos from the team and the community.​We’ll be covering:<ul><li>​Dashboard and App Management: our Dashboard app now has app management features, including showcasing how you can build an app that creates apps for users on the fly, with its own subdomain</li><li>​Serving files with Fission Drive: every account has its own web native file system. Use the Fission Drive app to easily upload files, and then use a simple IPFS gateway API to serve up the files.</li></ul>​As well as other updates and discussion about the Fission’s edge identity, data, and other open source building blocks.​<a href="https://lu.ma/vz6pmmq3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Join us for Demo Day »</a>​And, join us next week, April 22nd, for <a href="https://lu.ma/69ennufm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">My life in a Python Package: a Human Programming Interface, by karlicoss »</a>​The latest full video is up on the blog: <a href="https://blog.fission.codes/overview-of-logseq-by-tienson-qin/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Overview of LogSeq, with Tienson Qin</a>​Suggest speakers for May​We’re booking now for May talks. Have suggestions? Want to speak yourself? Email us hello@fission.codes or drop by our <a href="https://fission.codes/discord" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Discord chat</a>.</div>

A reminder that today’s Thursday event is at 12am UTC / 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT. Late for our European friends, and morning for folks in Asia, where Tienson, creator of LogSeq, will be presenting from.
LogSeq  is an open source “tool for thought” that is local first, and experimenting with interesting new browser APIs, like the Chrome native file system API to read and write data right in your desktop file system.
You can still  sign up to attend the event »
Next week we’re back on a regular Thursday schedule. Dima aka @karlicoss is presenting My life in a Python Package: a Human Programming Interface.

<div class="mirror-content" data-reactroot="">​A reminder that today’s Thursday event is at 12am UTC / 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT. Late for our European friends, and morning for folks in Asia, where Tienson, creator of LogSeq, will be presenting from.​<a href="https://logseq.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">LogSeq</a> is an open source “tool for thought” that is local first, and experimenting with interesting new browser APIs, like the Chrome native file system API to read and write data right in your desktop file system.​You can still <a href="https://lu.ma/sx1k4i49" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sign up to attend the event »</a>​Next week we’re back on a regular Thursday schedule. Dima aka @karlicoss is presenting My life in a Python Package: a Human Programming Interface.</div>