Have you ever considered that your insights during a presentation could inspire others and stimulate further discussions?
Imagine a decentralised platform where you can instantly share your thoughts, ask questions, and engage with fellow attendees. We’re building a web application to do just that.
By creating a vibrant online community centered around Devcon presentations, we can:
Amplify speaker impact: Give speakers the recognition they deserve by fostering discussion around their work.
Enhance attendee experience: Create opportunities for meaningful connections and knowledge sharing.
Drive innovation: Spark new ideas and collaborations through open dialogue.
We believe this decentralised platform has the potential to transform the way we interact at conferences.
We need your input! Please share your thoughts on an app that would allow users to like, comment, and chat about Devcon presentations before, during, and after the event. Your feedback will help us create a platform that truly meets the needs of our community.
This sounds interesting! Is there already something existing or do you start from scratch? Can you elaborate on who this “we” is? Do you have some links?
There might be some overlap with the fileverse DIP: DIP-38: A sufficiently decentralized collaboration stack for Devcon 7 - but would need some more information to really give feedback as requested.
Hi @ligi , “We” are www.solarpunk.buzz . The decentralised backend is ready for group chat, comments, blog post UX design is getting ready, then we build the front-end for the web application.
What we need is the talks related information / schedule to created commenting and group chatting per presentation.
Thanks for the info!
We use pretalx for scheduling - you can get all the data about talks and scheduling from there in a machine readable way once we release the schedule.
You can look at the API here: Talks — pretalx 2024.2.0.dev0 documentation
We aim to deliver a small set of decentralised functionality as the first step. These could be built upon in the future to have a more rich feature set. For now, we will be happy if presentation topics could be liked, commented on, group chat discussions could be performed per scheduled talk in a decentralised way.
Cool - looking forward to the DIP! And yes - by posting here you did perfect - this is how it should be.
I think not having moderation might be dangerous - especially in the space we are - there might be a lot of spam and even scams.
I am writing to you regarding our recently submitted improvement proposal, DIP44. We have initiated the development process, and it will remain fully transparent, you can monitor our progress on GitHub at any time. Additionally, the UX/UI design is currently underway, and we will be providing all necessary graphical assets.
We would greatly appreciate DevCon’s support in promoting this proposal through its social media platforms, channels, or any other means you deem appropriate.
Could you please let us know by the end of August 26th if this is possible? Your timely response will be crucial in helping us determine the next steps and direction for our project.
I just merged DIP44 - but that only means it is formally correct. After discussing it with the team we see 2 big issues:
There is a lot of overlap with the efforts of the fileverse DIP (DIP38 - and we are already talking to them for a long time & we have seen prototypes/mocks - and most likely accept their DIP) - so advertising your app to our attendees will confuse them, not lead to a consistent experience and fragment the userbase.
the moderation problem I was bringing up here a while ago is not yet addressed - but it is important to us that things we advertise to our attendees can be moderated.
So we encourage you to build something else or join the efforts that already exist.
It’s been a while but we just wanted you (and ofc everyone) to know that we developed the app we mentioned earlier. It’s an anonymous communications platform called Devcon.buzz. Built on Swarm (https://www.ethswarm.org/) Devcon.buzz offers a secure platform for real-time chats, live agenda updates, and anonymous discussions, all free from censorship. It empowers users with full control over their communication, creating a vibrant community space for enthusiasts at Devcon!
For those interested in the technical backbone, we’ve published on our blog an in-depth look at the app’s architecture, exploring Swarm’s decentralized storage, secure SSH tunnels, and seamless scaling with Google Cloud. Devcon.buzz: decentralized communication app for Devcon
We are going to release the app later this week, I’m gonna keep you posted about it!
Thanks for the update! Looking forward to trying it out once it is not a “coming soon” image on google drive anymore.
Still see the problem with the overlap with DIP38 - I think this will really confuse users - but we need to see once it is possible to try it out - but from the description there is huge overlap and could lead to fragmentation and hinder collaboration.
To promote safety and respect compliance requirements of Devcon and its host country, Thailand, we have introduced an opt-in content filtering mechanism. To avoid human moderators accessing and reviewing uploaded content, we utilize AI and one of the newest open-weight LLMs, the LLama 3.2 3B. For an effective and robust solution we do this via calling the API of CloudFlare’s Workers AI .
having moderation done purely by an AI feels a bit dystopian to me tbh.
Thanks for you comments, we really appreciate them! You can try it on https://test.devcon.buzz/ if you’d like.
We also made a demo video, you can reach it in our latest X post: x.com
Hi! We have not said that we are Devcon partners, we just tagged Devcon’s X account. I can not edit these posts because X does not allow that, but we are going to make sure not to tag Devcon in our further communications. Thank you for your understanding!
