In St Louis after Strange Loop, on Saturday, September 23rd, 2023

A community event for everybody interested in local-first software in St. Louis, MO.

​We particularly want to bring together people who are actively working on local-first projects — be it building frameworks or tools, developing local-first apps, or doing research in the area. But we also welcome people who are simply curious and want to learn more about the topic.

​The event will have an informal unconference style. Instead of a series of long presentations, we will have self-organized discussion groups around your topics of interest.

Registration is currently full. Add your name to the waitlist - we will be doing a final announcement on Friday.

Organizers:

• Brooklyn Zelenka
• Martin Kleppmann
• Peter van Hardenberg

​Thank you to Fission, Ink & Switch, and DXOS for sponsoring the event.

Feel free to to add a mini profile with links to you, your organization, and any projects

• Open Source. Community. Decentralized Web. Co-ops and Collective action.
• Co-founder at Fission, you can find all our projects on github https://github.com/fission-codes
• Find me on the social internets https://bmann.ca/
• Ask me about IPFS, tools for thought, DWeb, event organizing, my food wiki, and post-open source
• Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada

• Tools for thought. Advancing Local-first architecture. Narrow gap between humans and computers.
• My Github
• Twitter: @iamwil
• What are missing tools for local-first? Why local-first now? What are the structural advantages of LoFi?
• San Jose, CA

• Third-Wave Commercial Open Source. Vipassana. Off-grid. Co-ops.
• (Ex-)Founder of nilenso, India's first worker-owned tech co-op
• Founder of the Fortyfourforty Forest Society (a hacker village land co-op)
• Author of Vipassana for Hackers, meditation for the practically-minded
• Founder of Endatabas, a hybrid SQL document database with full history
• @deobald everywhere: GitHub, Mastodon, Twitter, deobald.ca
• immutable data is (arguably) the yin to local-first's yang
• Halifax, NS, Canada / Bangalore, KA, India

• Let's make Internet more collaborative 🥰
• CXO at PartyKit
• Find me on Twitter, GitHub, BlueSky, Mastodon
• Interested in: realtime, multiplayer, local-first, collaborative tech, but also books, pierogis, and plants
• London, UK (come visit our beautiful office!)

• Building experimental personal computing systems.
• https://briarproject.org
• paul (at) briarproject.org
• Mesh Networking, Structured Editing, and Computer Interface Design.

• Building DXOS, a platform for building local-first, multiplayer, interoperable apps where users own their own data.
• https://jessmart.in
• jess at dxos.org
• Interested in building tools for building tools.

• https://github.com/zormit/
• Ethersync
• Interested in building/contributing to open source software
• Hamburg, Germany

• slightly-surreal creative-coding
• tldraw
• youtube.com/@TodePond
• elk.zone/mas.to/@Todepond
• cellular automata / / fractals / / esoteric coding / / infinity
• London

• Independent consultant/contractor - available for hire!
• Co-lead of https://github.com/cucumber project (15 years old! 🥒)
• https://mattwynne.net/about
• TypeScript / Ruby / Refactoring / TDD / OpenSource / Sustainability / Simplicty
• Nelson, BC

• Building E2E encrypted social networking applications
• Half Light
• nichoth.com
• Interested in the intersection of local & encrypted data.

• One liner
• Organization or project affiliation
• Places to follow you on the internet
• Some things you're interested in, keyword style
• A geo-location
• Everything is optional

Links to software. Please link to (open) source code, your attendee profile is the right place for company affiliations

• Briar Project is an offline-first, p2p messaging system that supports transmitting messages over the tor network, WLAN, and Bluetooth.
• https://briarproject.org
• Android Source Code
• Desktop Source Code
• Briar is built on an encryption and synchronization layer called Bramble to privately synchronize directed acyclic graphs.

• Endatabas is a hybrid (HTAP) SQL document database with full history
• https://github.com/endatabas/endb (Docs)
• Steven Deobald / Håkan Råberg - Common Lisp, Rust, Apache Arrow

• E2E encrypted social networking, based on Webnative Filesystem by Fission
• the github organization

• a one liner of what it does
• a cool source code link
• some keywords and/or associated people

• A developer platform for building local-first, multiplayer, interoperable apps where users own their own data.
• https://dxos.org
• React and TypeScript SDK

• Real-time collaborative editing of local text files.
• It's in the ideation/planning phase
• Talk to Moritz Neeb

• Fission's local-first, edge computing stack for decentralized web applications with auth and storage without needing a complex backend.
• https://odd.dev/
• TypeScript SDK, UCAN, WNFS
• Workshop: https://github.com/oddsdk/local-first-unconf-workshop-2023

Links to notes from sessions. You might try a HackMD, feel free to PR in a Markdown file in this repo directly, or external links and resources as needed

• Themes / Why
  • Local-first naturally suggests more control and ownership over your code, not just your data
  • Local code and data seems more forkable than cloud apps with a hidden-away server
  • We want TLDraw to have plugins and support extension
  • Webhooks for local-first?
• Goals / Ideas
  • Tinker if I want, or have a prebaked experience if I don't want to tinker
  • interoperate with current world of data silos (2-way sync w/ cloud services?)
  • store code in the data layer
  • What's the modern UNIX pipe? Where are the seams for intervention in GUI software?
• Challenges
  • edit code safely: undo / version control
  • schema divergence (Cambria suggests some initial directions)
  • how far can you customize while still being able to collaborate?

• What does commerically successful local-first software look like?
• @ConradIrwin
• ./notes/local-first-and-capitalism.md