We’re nearly two months away from DWeb Camp taking place this July near Berlin!

DWeb Camp is an event that is co-created by everyone who participates. So as we get closer to the event and proposed sessions and activities roll in, the program begins to take shape.

When Camp organizers were in Europe earlier this year, we asked everyone we met which topics, approaches, and ideas were most top of mind for them when it came to how we distribute power over digital networks. This culminated into the 10 tracks we have this year: Anti-Authoritarian Stack; Cultivating Tech for Food Sovereignty; Decentralized Design; Decentralized Hardware / Local Community Networks; Open Social Web; Peer-to-Peer & Local First; Public AI; Solidarity Tech; and Sustaining Infrastructure.

At this month’s virtual meetup, we’re going to highlight a few of the projects and content tracks you’ll see at Camp this summer. Here are this month’s speakers:

• Will Scott, Protocol Labs: Will is fascinated by network resilience. His work includes internet measurement, privacy-protecting messaging systems, and distributed protocols. He currently works on microproxy networks at Snowstorm, and charting digital human rights at Protocol Labs. A resilient dweb is critical infrastructure for maintaining our digital human rights as we look towards an uncertain future. This presentation will put forth one way of decomposing the problem space, and point towards some of the tipping points that will be focused on in the Anti-Authoritarian Stack content at Camp this summer.

• Organizers, Community Privacy Residency: The Community Privacy Residency (CPR) is a 3-week residency bringing together researchers, builders, and community organizers to co-design and build open-source tools for community privacy. They will share the mission and motivations for their project and some of the cutting edge questions on privacy on the decentralized web. The team will be attending Camp this year, just before the residency takes place in the latter half of July.

• Member, Freifunk: Freifunk is a a non-commercial initiative for free wireless networks based in Germany. They're a part of a global movement for free infrastructure and open frequencies, to democratize the media through free networks. One of their members will share the history and visions of Freifunk, and talk about they're approaching the network build out at Alte Hoelle, the DWeb Camp venue this year.

Please join us on Thursday April 30 at 10am PT for this virtual meetup and get a sneak peek on what’s to come at DWeb Camp this summer.

The presentations will be followed by an audience Q&A with the speakers.

The topics covered in this meetup embodies the DWeb Principles on Humanity:

1. The objective of building a decentralized web is to protect human rights and empower people, especially those who experience systemic inequity and prejudice.

2. We stand for people having agency over their own data and relationships, rights to free expression, privacy, and knowledge, as these are essential to human empowerment and dignity.

AGENDA

00:00 - 00:06 = Welcome & announcements
00:06 - 00:18 = Will Scott
00:18 - 00:30 = CPR
00:30 - 00:42 = Freifunk
00:42 - 00:57 = Speaker discussion + Q&A
00:57 - 01:00 = Concluding remarks

WHEN: Thursday April 30 (local times below)
SF/Seattle/Vancouver/Phoenix: 10:00 AM
New York/DC/Boston: 1:00 PM
Buenos Aires/Sao Paulo: 2:00 PM
Berlin/Amsterdam: 7:00 PM
Bangalore: 10:30 PM

LOCATION: Online
Once you have registered we will send you a confirmation email with a link to join the meeting.

About DWeb Camp

DWeb Camp 2026: Root Systems is a five-day gathering in nature for builders and dreamers dedicated to building a decentralized web (DWeb). A web that is private, resilient, and beyond the control of a few central powers. Like forests, decentralized systems derive strength from what lies beneath the surface: dense networks of roots, sharing resources without hierarchy, and coordination that persists even when individual nodes disappear.

DWeb Camp: Root Systems invites participants to build technologies that–like living ecosystems–adapt, regenerate, and endure.

The event will be held at Alte Hölle, just one hour southwest of Berlin. The venue sits on the grounds of a forest hotel dating back to the 1800s. Once a Stasi recreation site, Alte Hölle is now owned and inhabited by a collectivist community of friends who are turning this space into a sustainable venue for group events of technologists, hackers, artists, and activists. Set on 100,000 square meters of lush meadows and ancient forests, Alte Hölle is both a community and location with values that resonate deeply with DWeb, a place we are excited to nourish and leave richer than when we arrive.

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Want to learn more about DWeb Camp? Visit dwebcamp.org.

If you would like to ask us questions directly, come to this info session.