Paris P2P Festival and Hackathon
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EDIT: "speakers"/"talks" link is also out of date, no info on 2025 yet
I would love to meet up with matrix, spritely, torrent and meshtastic nerds. I attended DWeb Camp in California for a couple of years and it felt balanced 50/50 between the P2P folk and the blockchain folk, which actually led to a lot of critical conversations but also the blockchain guys do want to distribute everything else too so it was good vibes all around, they just believe you have to incentivize sharing the load where us no-coiners have a little more faith in the altruistic side of man.
From their meetup.com: We organize physical meetings to discuss around P2P, decentralization, autonomous networks and communities, distributed systems, decentralized systems, offline-first apps, mesh networks, privacy, anti-surveillance, anti-censorship, security, cryptography, blockchains
They won't speak about https://joinpeertube.org
Nor about implementation of WebRTC implementation in Transmission https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/47
:-)
15 minutes for libp2p-dht
30 minutes for gossipsub
30 mins on the state of the libp2p project
30 mins on ipfs network measurements
1hr on optimizing libp2p for mobile
30 mins on an end-to-end encrypted mesh network chat service
20 mins on an ipfs DHT performance improvement
30 mins on the QUIC transport protocol
30 mins on hole punching in libp2p
30 mins on libp2p in the browser, which included discussion on WebRTC which you explicitly said was the kind of thing that wouldn't be covered (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/libp2p-browsers-future/)
Yes there's also some crypto stuff there (both crypto-currency stuff like bitcoin security, but also general cryptography stuff like zk proofs and post-quantum cryptography), but I struggle to understand why people react so negatively to legitimately interesting research because it happens to be coming from the cryptocurrency space.