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Fission Video Chat: Travis Vachon presents ItMe.Company and SOLID Protocol

 connecting to mainnet and local browser extensions and nodes out of the box.

Note: this is a working session that is open, but we request active implementors and maintainers of js-ipfs and related IPFS protocols.

Alternate time is Thursday, Feb 11th, same time slot.

js-ipfs local node connectivity review

 and Peter van Hardenberg (researcher at Ink and Switch) 

Cambria is an experimental Typescript library for effectively managing schema change in distributed systems. It aims to allow developers to express relationships between schemas using bidirectional lenses, and to avoid mixing compatibility code into application logic.

Further details and comments on the Fission forum »

Fission Video Chat: Project Cambria with Geoffrey Litt and Peter van Hardenberg

Come join the monthly Fission Demo Day. We talk about new releases & product updates, early demos of in-progress work, planned roadmap items and we’ll invite in other people from the community to do short app demos.

Fission Demo Day Feb 2021

Come talk about Decentralized Open Networks.

Decentralized Open Networks on Clubhouse

“Tools for Thought” is an emerging category of inter-linked note taking and knowledge graph apps that are emerging.

Dylan Steck @Dylan_Steck is the creator of Cortex, which he is building to be Tools for Action.

Dylan will be talking about Cortex, how he built it over the past several years (it started as a full operating system project), and talk about his further plans. And a demo!

Full details on the Fission Talk forum »

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

Fission is presenting at the IPFS Local Offline Collaboration (Locol) Special Interest Group.

. We'll talk about our usage of js-ipfs, our user centric identity, and the WNFS encrypted file system, plus some of our recent work in coordinating with Gozala about connecting to local system nodes.

The IPFS Local Offline Collaboration (Locol) Special Interest Group is focused on understanding the challenges of users in offline or async networks, collaborating with partners serving those users, and prototyping solutions to understand how to make IPFS more useful for local offline collaboration.

https://github.com/ipfs/local-offline-collab

IPFS Local Offline Collab Mar 10th Monthly Meeting

 is the creator and coder behind Actual Budget 

He’s been featured previously for his work on porting his desktop app to the web, and some of the interesting tech and solutions he has come up with along the way.

Building Actual Budget, with James Long

Join us on the third Thursday of the month for “Demo Days”: the Fission team will talk about new releases & product updates, early demos of in-progress work, planned roadmap items and we’ll invite in other people from the community to do short app demos.

Fission Demo Day March 2021

Join Jeremy, creator of TiddlyWiki, and Boris and the Fission team to talk about TiddlyWiki on Fission and discussion editions, TiddlyWiki community support, and more.

Full details in the forum, please add your questions and suggested agenda topics 

TiddlyWiki on Fission Community Chat with Jeremy Ruston

, which is available as a Rust library, a WebAssembly module, and JavaScript to index and search your content.

Stork is two things that work in tandem to put a beautiful, fast (10ms from keydown to repaint in the demo above), and accurate search interface on your static site. First, it’s a program that indexes your content and writes that index to disk. Second, it’s a Javascript library that downloads that index, hooks into a search input, and displays optimal search results immediately to your user, as they type.

Stork is built with Rust, and the Javascript library uses WebAssembly behind the scenes. It’s built with content creators in mind, in that it requires little-to-no code to get started and can be extended deeply. It’s perfect for JAMstack sites and personal blogs, but can be used wherever you need a search interface.

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

Tienson Qin @tiensonqin is the creator of LogSeq, “A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.”

It is written in ClojureScript and is open source under the AGPL. The application is entirely front end in the browser, with some minor back end handling around Github and Google logins. You can sync your data to your own Github repo, or use the new Chrome Native File System API to read and write files directly from your desktop.

Tienson will tell us about the project and tech used, as well as show a demo of the app in action.

Overview and Demo of LogSeq by Tienson Qin

Join us for a book club discussion about Nadia Eghbal’s book, 

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

This will be of interest to anyone working on open source software, especially those who are maintainers or project leads, and those looking at different models of sponsorship and support.

https://talk.fission.codes/t/reading-list-book-club/1826

Book Club: Working in Public, Nadia Eghbal

A kick off meeting to discuss interest in running a Tools for Thought Interchange community of interest.

Two sessions are to fit in global timezones, the same topics will be discussed. You are welcome to attend both if timing permits.

Agenda on Github, please add your own suggested topics in the thread 

https://github.com/TFTInterchange/ToolsForThoughtInterchange/discussions/6

Volunteer Organizer Kick Off Meeting

 is a talk series about using computers as tools for thinking. Talks are intended to facilitate an interchange of ideas and promote the interoperability of tools.

Each talk will be 20 minutes long, with ~10 minutes for Q&A.

TfTI: July Meeting

In this talk, Mark will walk you through his personal digital garden 

, and discuss how he uses Dendron to organize knowledge for his personal interests.

https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/WUy5xtqQt3MwxcPG.html

Cerebrarium: Personal Digital Garden with Dendron

 is an investment company that is publicly listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) public stock market.

Plank describes itself as "your public family office": they invest, acquire, and help scale primarily b2b SaaS businesses.

We will have a live discussion and Q&A with 

Discussion with Laurie Baggio, Plank Ventures

​Each talk will be 20 minutes long, with ~10 minutes for Q&A.

TfTI: August Meeting

 is a talk series about using computers as tools for thinking. Sessions are intended to facilitate an interchange of ideas and promote the interoperability of tools.

​​Each talk will be 20 minutes long, with ~10 minutes for Q&A.

ToolsForThought.Rocks! September Event

​​​Each talk will be 20 minutes long, with ~10 minutes for Q&A.

ToolsForThought.Rocks October Meeting

​​​​Each talk will be 20 minutes long, with ~10 minutes for Q&A.

ToolsForThought.Rocks November Meeting

We're going to be in Seattle for a couple of days, and would love to meet some people in person!

If you're interested in decentralized web, open source and general developer topics, drop by. We're always happy to talk about IPFS and Filecoin, and our work around decentralized identity with UCANs and the WNFS encrypted file system we've implemented on top of IPFS.

We'll have a table at Optimism Brewing set aside, drop by whenever you like starting at 6pm. Note: vaccination + mask wearing required by the venue.

Fission Seattle DWeb Meetup

Calling all buidl'ers and hodl'ers! We're gathering together a small group of startup founders and company funders to meet and get to know each other locally in Vancouver.

Many of us are connected to the global web3/crypto/blockchain space and mostly work through Zoom and remote tools. This is a chance to get together and meet in person, and hopefully things get better for in-person meetings and travel in 2022.

 We'll have some beer & wine & non-alcoholic drinks, and some light refreshments.

Web3 Founders & Funders Drinks

Can we use Ethereum / WalletConnect and similar blockchain IDs to login, and then link that to encryption keys for encrypted chat messages and other content?

How can we smoothly enable QR code based logins while being non-custodial & decentralized?

Is just linking identifiers good enough? eg Sign in with Ethereum -> a Matrix native account?

Talk through Murat @ Spiel’s desired use case.

What tools does Wayne @ SpruceID have for us?

Other flows & interop. eg Matrix powered Beacon on Tezos

Further discussion and links on the Fission forum 

https://talk.fission.codes/t/linking-web3-login-with-encrypted-chat/2304

Linking Web3 login with encrypted chat

 closed a pre-seed round (capped SAFE) with a mix of angels and VCs in it. One of stranger fundraising processes he has been through to date. This is a virtual coffee session on what the pre-seed fundraising landscape is like right now.

EhList: Pre-seed funding in 2021 with Joshua McKenty

To round out the year, we're going to have a Winter Hangout Edition!

Come and talk about your projects, your workflows, your plans for 2022, and your predictions.

We're likely to use a different digital tool than Zoom to do something a little more conducive to hanging out and chatting. 

We’re going to try Sprout, made by a previous presenter 

https://sprout.place/space/a334b7f1c45f41599a6b24be176ec172

Tools for Thought Rocks! Winter Hangout Edition

Web3. Community. Open Source. Unconference.

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Tools For Thought Rocks! February Event

For this open discussion event, the Fission 

— will describe some of our tools and processes as well lead a shared discussion on open questions and topics of interest.

Please ask questions and share resources in the comments on the forum 

https://talk.fission.codes/t/recruiting-hiring-people-ops-for-remote-first-orgs/2529

PeopleOps for Distributed Teams - Recruiting & Hiring

Our Web 3.1 Unconference starts off with a summit day, featuring the leaders and doers striving to go beyond what Web 3 has become, to build what Web 3 must become. What it is, is up to us... 

Hear from other leaders like yourself, striving to deliver on the promises and greater purpose of Web 3. The educators, community leaders, and entrepreneurs. The realists, the idealists, and the evangelists. The heart centered humans who see that Web 3 should not only become something more for the benefit of society, but who know that it muse, and it will through their participation and leadership.

, then come back to secure your event ticket. This will be a full day of deep conversations, insightful presentations, and innovative new ideas. 

This ticket is also your pass to our Web 3.1 Unconference day. We will be sharing further details in the coming weeks.

Web 3.1 Summit + Unconference  (CRYPTO ticket)

This is the big show, our online Unconference to discuss What will it take to deliver on the promises of Web 3? What do we need to address? What open standards and design patterns do we need? How do we build guardrails for society and put our humanity at the center.  What it is, is up to us... 

, then come back to secure your "you name the price" ticket. You may also be interested in our pre-conference summit day with a full day of deep conversations, insightful presentations, and innovative new ideas. You can purchase that special ticket here:

If you would like to donate via any cryptocurrencies, please get your ticket for $0 and send payment to @ 

Web 3.1 Unconference 

Boris has hosted discussions and given presentations on this general topic for several years now. 

1) There are a number of emerging code licenses that are not the same as classic open source licenses that are 30+ years old

2) Changing licenses may lead to greater success for code maintainers 

Review of some emerging licenses and approaches — Cross Licensing Collaboratives, Parity / Prosperity, "Fair" Licenses vs Open source

Code and the digital bits aren't a scarce resources — they can be infinitely copied. But support, maintenance, dealing with security and issues ARE a scarce resource.

Some previous presentations and resources:

Join us for an overview of some emerging licenses, bring your questions and topics of discussions, and share what has and hasn’t worked for you. 

Please share additional comments and resources in the forum 

https://talk.fission.codes/t/emerging-code-licensing/2530

Emerging Code Licensing

​Each talk will be ~25 minutes long, with ~20 minutes for Q&A.

Tools for Thought Rocks! March Event

We're gathering together a small group of folks in Seattle to talk Web3 of all kinds and get to know people in the PNW.

Web3 Seattle Social

Join us to meet the BLOOP team to talk about what they’re building and demo an early prototype. 

The app is going into private beta and you’ll have an opportunity to sign up.

BLOOP is an open-source social browser that lets you curate and share your maps of the web. 

This is a special edition event for TFT Rocks. We’ll be announcing our regular monthly meeting for April 2022 soon. 

Join the community to share your own TFT related events 

Bloop Prototype Demo

TFT Rocks Monthly Session

This event is designed for artists to learn about the space, decide if it's right for them, and to equip themselves with knowledge and experience in working by themselves, with representation, or as part of a team in the emerging NFT space.

Join us for a day long gathering held in the ECOMSquare Commerce Cafe in Vancouver. The day will include guest speakers, hands on workshops (bring your laptop & phone!), Q&A and breakout chats to learn from others, and advice from other artists.

Web3 presents a multi-layered, complex learning curve for Newbies, and/or individuals who are unfamiliar with the space. The potential that Web3 offers to creators is significant and we feel there are many creators who can benefit from shared information, basic knowledge and learning more about the possibilities. Potential opportunities for artists:

 There is no charge for the event, but we are taking applications from local Vancouver artists. Please register using the form above and we will be in touch after reviewing your application.

, but we will be sharing educational materials and have some speakers presenting via remote video.

We will be following Covid protocols and restrictions, which may or may not include masking and vaccine passports. We'll be updating our policy closer to the event.

This is a no-charge event for artists put on by our lead organizers:

Have questions? Looking to sponsor or volunteer? Click the contact the host link to send the organizers a message.

Workshop: Intro to  NFTs for Artists

We're kicking off more regular first Monday of the month coffee meetups across EhList again.

Join us at ECOMSquare's commerce cafe to meet other EhList founders.

EhList Founders Coffee Vancouver

Jess & Boris are coming to NYC and are organizing the first in person Tools for Thought Rocks Meetup.

 5-minute talks on a variety of subjects. Let us know as part of registering if you have something to share! 

An interactive session on "mediums" and "workflows." More details coming soon!

After the talks, we're going to grab some dinner as a group. Details to follow.

Tools For Thought Rocks NYC

An initial kick off Meeting to talk about Filecoin accounts, logging into dapps, FIL.js, interop and more!

Please see and comment / add to the agenda here: 

FIL Accounts & App Logins Working Group

Thank you to Jordan Ellis from PolyWrap for giving us an overview of the their system 

The IPFS community is exploring various usages of WASM for which PolyWrap has many tools.  

Video will be recorded, please do use the IPFS Discourse forum for additional comments and questions 

https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/polywrap-overview/14861

PolyWrap Overview

What does it mean to have multiplayer tools for thought? Can we use them to scale synthesis — sense making for groups?

Kicking off our #ScalingSynthesis series on multiplayer tools for thought and convergence, 

 research project, looking at the fundamentals, tools, processes, and patterns to support the hard job of coming together to make sense of our world. 

, will introduce the topic,  share some current needs and thoughts, and help facilitate the conversation. 

Group discussion and sharing of tools and Workflows welcome. Perhaps we’ll come out with some useful synthesis ourselves!

Scaling Synthesis - Multiplayer TFT

Grab your formal tickets from the Ticketh site 

https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/Gatherings/blob/main/2022-09-15-BLN-blockchainweek.berlin/agenda.md

Will you be joining us for the end of day social? Feel free to invite 

Chain Agnostic Gathering Berlin

The Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance (CASA) is gathering in Berlin at c-base during the day for active discussion of standards and working group. You can 

If you are attending the CASA Gathering, let us know if you're going to stay for the social. We are also welcoming the ETH community in Berlin to come join us for the evening!

Right now, it looks like The Merge will happen some time on the 14th, and so we are inviting everyone to join us at end of day at c-base for a social on the 15th. A post merge party!

Bar and snacks and indoor / outdoor space available, as we celebrate The Merge, catch up with friends old and new.

CASA C-Base ETH Merge Social

The Fission team is in Berlin for Dappcon, CASA, ETH Berlin and other gatherings. 

We’ve booked some space at Full Node to work out for the day, and are going to run a session on FIL Accounts and App Logins. 

We’ll likely also cover flows around the upcoming FEVM — EVM support on the Filecoin chain. 

FIL Accounts Working Group Berlin UX Jam

We last hosted an event at The Poutine Kitchen back in October 2019.

We’re back combining Canadians, Web3, gravy, and maple syrup on September 16th in Berlin. If you’re interesting in open source, p2p, IPFS, Filecoin, privacy & encryption, or just want to meet some friendly Fissioneers, come join!

We'll be around from 6pm until 8 or 9pm, and have some stickers and other gifts to share.

Fission & Friends Poutine in Berlin

We'll be doing a drop in working session around Filecoin accounts, FEVM, and flows for users and developers in the Filecoin and EVM ecosystems.

We'll be working out of the Hacker Base space @ Garagem Lisboa during open co-working time, anyone is welcome to drop in.

FIL Accounts Working Group @ Hacker Base Lisbon

Join us for "UCAN Have Drinks" at The Rooftop Bar at The Art Inn in Lisbon (18h local time). This is a beautiful space overlooking Lisbon to have a bite to eat and meet other people building apps on IPFS and Filecoin.

 teams are collaborating on great standards like UCAN to make for great on- and off-chain distributed identity and storage.

Anyone interested in distributed auth, apps on IPFS, and persistence to Filecoin — come join and hang out, grab a toucan sticker, and get to know everyone :)

UCAN Have Drinks in Lisbon

Mastodon and the ActivityPub protocol that make up the Fediverse are undergoing a huge surge of interest.

Come and learn about some of the basics of Mastodon, a tour of the interface, who and what to use it for, and interactive Q&A and group exploration.

We'll also look at using Hometown, a specialized fork of Mastodon, and how it could be used for a decentralized network like the Protocol Labs Network. PLN members are welcome to sign up and try out the system at 

Mastodon Show & Tell, PLN Ideas

We are refreshing the UCAN community site! This meeting will help us align on what we're updating, what assets or copy we need, and who will take the lead on various tasks. We'll also discuss a UCAN explainer video that is in the works.

UCAN Website Refresh Kick-Off

Did you know that the Internet Archive now has a Canadian edition? And that they have an amazing space in downtown Vancouver that supports everything from servers to socials?

Join the Fission team & Internet Archive Canada at The Permanent for an evening of presentations, lightning talks, and the first of hopefully many sociotechnical conversations connecting the Decentralized Web in Vancouver and beyond.

If you’re interested in tech, open source, decentralization, policy, or any similar sociotechnical topics, come join us!

Doors open. Presentations will start promptly, followed by Q&A.

Boris Mann

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