Watch the recorded talks from Our Networks 2018 below! We want to again thank our A/V volunteers, without whom sharing these videos would not have been possible: Yurko, Henry Wilkinson, Elon Li, and Benedict Lau.
Full archives of videos are available:
- IPFS: ipfs://QmQQfD1ztg1aG82VmUmutusbxn7tL4c2o1qHv1ivyWbNj6
- Internet Archive: Our Networks 2018 Talks (torrent available)
- YouTube playlist: Our Networks 2018 Beyond DIY: Do It With Others
Videos
Aether: Distributing social networks without distributed consensus
Burak Nehbit
The ongoing discussion about decentralisation has been dominated by the talk of blockchains lately. While they do work in certain... See session description
Althea a more distributed ISP
Justin Kilpatrick
Althea is a protocol that allows people to easily buy and sell bandwidth from each other. The session will cover... See session description
Building something together with local networks
Cecylia Bocovich / Lauren Lapidge
The Internet as it exists today is not an ideal tool for liberation or the exploration of something new. The... See session description
Closing remarks
Fandom as an alternative network
Rea McNamara / Owen G. Parry / Maya Ben David
The interdisciplinary creative practices of fandom — whether it be fanfiction, fanart, or cosplay — challenge our previously held notions... See session description
Holding Data Together: Decentralized patterns for stewardship
Brendan O'Brien
Formed in the wake of grassroots archiving efforts undertaken in 2017, Data Together seeks to contribute to a civic layer... See session description
Live streaming over IPFS
Yurko
In this session, I will present how IPFS and HLS came together to allow us to build a distributed live... See session description
Money and mesh networks
Jessica Marshall / Ashoka Finley
A talk exploring the question is it possible to build/manage communal mesh infrastructure in a decentralized fashion and pay contributors... See session description
Opening remarks
Our _stable_ networks
Grant Gallo / Jenny Ryan
What does a 'stable' deployment of a community mesh network look like? During this session, we will look at successful... See session description
Peer-to-peer applications on a mesh network
Benedict Lau
In this session, I will present Mesh Orange, a Debian-based router that runs on various single-board computers (SBCs), which together... See session description
Protocol tactics
Lars Gierth
The philosophers have only interpreted the internet, the point is to change it. IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP, and many more... See session description
The artists network, the data-body, and the social-body
Jennifer Seaman Cook
'Electronic art is electronic education is inter net and television for and about people. My television video electronic educational inter... See session description
The hybrid step toward migrating to P2P: Adding P2P backend to current centralized apps
vmon
Currently, most websites and apps depend on centralized servers despite the limitations of this structure. Migration towards P2P architectures may... See session description
Web archiving as DIY and DIWO
Emily Maemura
As the internet evolves and changes, what material of the internet's past will continue to be available? What is being... See session description
Wireless Toronto
Gabe Sawhney
Wireless Toronto is a community wireless network run by volunteers, dedicated to the growth of no-cost wireless Internet access in... See session description