Fission Update: December 2022

Fission
Dec 19, 2022

Announcements

Early Bird Tickets On Sale Now!

We are thrilled to share that our inaugural Future of Computing conference will take place April 25-27, 2023 in Toronto, Canada at the historic Paradise Theatre!

Tickets are on sale now. Use code "EARLYBIRD" for $100 off until January 20th, 2023. 

We are hard at work inviting the brightest minds across the distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and programming ecosystems to present at the conference. You won't want to miss this special event.

In The News

The big news in the DWeb space is of course the migration from Twitter to Mastodon. According to a recent article in Techcrunch, Mastodon has doubled its user base since Elon Musk's takeover, gaining nearly 500,000 new users.

Have you created a Mastodon account? Join Fission in the Fediverse and follow us for updates.

Events Recap

Here are the recordings of our most recent community calls: Nov Distributed Systems, Nov UCAN, Dec IPVM, Dec WNFS, and Dec Fission Reactor

Tomorrow (12/20) we have two more community calls to close out the year - a meeting of the Distributed Systems Reading Group and the UCAN Community Call.

We hope you can join us!

New On The Blog

LabWeek22 Recap

Protocol Labs recently brought the PL network together in Lisbon for a distributed conference. Here's our recap of the event.

Distributed Work: Using Discord for Async Communication

Learn how Fission models its work and communication style on the distributed systems we help build and support in this new blog series.

CoD Summit 2022: Decentralized Authentication

At the 2022 Compute Over Data Summit, Fission's co-founder and CTO Brooklyn Zelenka gave a presentation on how UCANs help enable computation in distributed systems.

Projects We Love: Capyloon

Learn about Capyloon, a resurrected version of Firefox OS built on top of the decentralized web technologies like the IPFS protocol.