Last weekend I was invited to speak at Paris P2P Festival #0, a French (Paris and Lyon!) community around P2P and cryptography technology:
- France P2P (& Cryptography) - The french community interested in all things P2P
- France P2P (& Cryptography) | Meetup (cc @guylouis)
It was a 5 days festival with very interesting projects and talks.
Some highlights very close to our principles:
- Berty, a secure, private, decentralized and open-source messenger (ring a bell?): https://berty.tech/ (and protocol for the VacP2P team: Wesh Protocol · Berty Technologies) (talk: Mainstream Introduction to the Berty Protocol - Paris P2P)
- How Can Journalists Protect their Sources Today: How Can Journalists Protect their Sources Today - Paris P2P
- Censorship resistant websites on Bittorrent+Bitcoin: ZeroNet : Workshop - Open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network. - Paris P2P
- Privacy-preserving web search and video streaming: Building privacy-preserving online services: application to Web search and video streaming systemse - Paris P2P
- Protecting privacy in the age of AI: Protecting our Privacy in the age of AI - Paris P2P
- When is decentralization not a good idea: When is decentralization not a good idea? - Paris P2P
- How to Join and Contribute to Open Source Communities: How to Join and Contribute to Open Source Communities, by Manfred Touron - Paris P2P
- The Commons Stack: Realigning Incentives around Public Good: The Commons Stack: Realigning Incentives around Public Goods - Paris P2P
My own talk+slides: Why mass adoption of P2P tech will happen in countries in crisis
Video should be available soon (talk in French slides in English).
