talks update

accepted/day1/anarchitecture.md

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-# Infos
+# anarchitecture
 
-auth-name       : Substack
+Speaker       : Substack
 tag             : some things
 
-need travel fee : na
-need room       : na
-Location        : Earth?
-
-# anarchitecture
-
 As the web browser accumulates important features, we can offload more of the
 work of servers onto clients. What happens when there's no more work for the
 server to do? How can we use webrtc and p2p techniques to build internet
 services that nobody can own?
 
+need travel fee : na
+need room       : na
+Location        : Earth?

accepted/day1/pc20.md

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-# Infos
+# PC 2.0
 
-name            : Adam Ierymenko <adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com>
+Speaker         : Adam Ierymenko <adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com>
-time            : about 1 hour
-need travel fee : no (already arranged)
-need room       : no
-Location        : Los Angeles, California, USA
 
-# PC 2.0
+time            : about 1 hour
 
 This talk will be a followup to a popular blog post I made a few years ago: [Decentralization: I Want to Believe](http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/).
 
 There's a so-called ["wheel of reincarnation"](http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html) in computing in which things oscillate between centralized and decentralized paradigms. Today we are in the midst of what I call the "mainframe 2.0" era. Everyone else calls it "cloud." Here I am going to talk about what's next, about what I call "PC 2.0" and what I think it will look like and how we might get there.
 
 I'm also going to discuss some of the reasons for centralization and why decentralization is hard. PC 2.0 is predicated on solutions to a wide array of challenges, as well as (like PC 1.0) on continued technological progress in areas like computing power, cost, and network bandwidth.
+
+need travel fee : no (already arranged)
+need room       : no
+Location        : Los Angeles, California, USA

accepted/day1/peergos.md

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-# Infos
-
-auth-name: ianopolous
-tag: P2P crypto ipfs
-
-need travel fee: no
-need room: no
-Location: Oxford
-
 # Peergos - Control your data!
 
+Speaker         : ianopolous
+tag             : P2P crypto ipfs
+
 Think TrueCrypt + DropBox + BitTorrent. A secure P2P file storage and sharing network based on IPFS, fully open source. 
+
+need travel fee : no
+need room       : no
+Location        : Oxford

accepted/day2/Hackbases-infrastructure-for-postcapitalism.md

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-# Infos
-
-auth-name       : David Potocnik / david@totalism.org / @dcht00
-
-need travel fee : hope to self-org, see [http://totalism.org/base-eu](http://totalism.org/base-eu)
-need room       : no
-Location        : UK
-
 # Hackbases, infrastructure for postcapitalism
 
+Speaker         : David Potocnik / david@totalism.org / @dcht00
 
+time            : 30min + 30min (discussion)
 
 Often hailed as some ultimate constructive and radical force, hackers are subsumed by the lifestyle logic of current advanced capitalist societies. To describe a common hacker is to describe a hobbyist - hanging out at the local hackerspace and playing with personal projects after necessary paid labour. This covers their subsistence, but also probably more or less directly powers the bullshit neoliberal political reality, with its destructive effects on society and nature.
 Hackbases are a new type of institution to enable work in the other direction. They are hackerspaces you can also live in, for any period of time, with minimized need for dealing with (earning, spending) money. The goal is to design and spread a tech-forward model of infrastructure and a lifestyle, supporting free, full-time avantgarde technologists and people in general, serving the commons. This talk should equip and inspire you to visit one of the existing bases (like CHT in Lanzarote, Canary Islands @ http://totalism.org/), or even better, reorganize your living situation to start a new one.
 
-need travel fee: pls // need room: hope to self-org, see http://totalism.org/base-eu ? // Location: huh?
-duration: 30min + 30min (discussion)
-
 [http://totalism.org/base-eu]
+
+need travel fee : if possible
+need room       : hope to self-org, see [http://totalism.org/base-eu](http://totalism.org/base-eu)
+Location        : UK

accepted/day2/apathy-and-my-pet-project.md

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 # Apathy, and "My Pet Project"
 
-contact:       : dvn
+Speaker         : dvn
 
 I see two systemic behaviours in the broad hacker community, which consistantly stifle progress, and I don't think it has to be this way.
 Whether it's giving up on private communication due to societal pressure, or growing jaded from investing all your time into developing proprietary software for an ungrateful company, apathy is a grating force in open source communities. The second, and an arguabely bigger problem, is what I'm calling the "Pet Project" syndrome. People grow to love a software project like their own child, and often end up favouring, and defending it like it's their own child. This causes people to close their eyes to solutions others have already found, and creates a lot of parallel work.
 
 I'd like to collaboratively discuss these issues, provide some examples, and maybe we can discover some solutions.
+
+need travel fee : N
+need room       : Y

accepted/day2/decentralization-rhizom.md

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-# Infos
+# On distributed unicorns and decentralization myths
 
-auth-name       : olga from the wolga
+Speaker         : olga from the wolga
 tag             : rhizom cybernetic decentralization
 
-need travel fee : N
-need room       : N
-Location        : DE
-
-# on distributed unicorns and decentralization myths
-
 Since i started programming some hundred years ago i've had this
 dream of building a totally distributed unicorn with no single points of
 power and control.  After encountering many feminists, philosophers, hackers,
@@ -19,3 +13,7 @@ CJDNS just wonderful unicorns?  Which ways do crypto-fascisms loom and
 which human agencies?  How is this whole programming business entangled with
 bureaucratic, cybernetic state thinking in that it tries to appropriate,
 steer human living for control and profit?
+
+need travel fee : N
+need room       : N
+Location        : DE

accepted/day2/federated.md

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-# Infos
-
-auth-name       : Ksenia (changed speaker ???)
-
-need travel fee : appreciated, if possible
-need room       : no
-Location        : UK
-
 # Federated Wiki intro & plugin workshop
 
+Speaker         : Ksenia (changed speaker ???)
+
 Federated Wiki is a wiki where people don't have to agree. It has a cute architecture which is a mix between a wiki and a version control.
 At the venue we're planning to have a local Federated Wiki farm. Whoever is interested can learn how to set it up and use it. We would like to do an intro on the first day, and
 and offer an additional workshop about building plugins for it. The author of this tool Ward only will be able to join us remotely as he's based in the US.
 Intro 30min
 Workshop 1h +
+
+need travel fee : appreciated, if possible
+need room       : no
+Location        : UK

accepted/day2/host-at-home.md

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-# Infos
+# Host your own stuff at home
 
-auth-name       : realitygaps
+Speaker         : realitygaps
 tag             : selfhost
 
+In the modern world, where all your data is hosted on other peoples computers (the cloud) - wouldnt it be nice to host it yourself in the comfort of your own home?
+
 need travel fee : N
 need room       : Maybe
 Location        : Universe
-
-# Host your own stuff at home
-
-In the modern world, where all your data is hosted on other peoples computers (the cloud) - wouldnt it be nice to host it yourself in the comfort of your own home?
-~                                                                                                     
-~                                                              

accepted/day2/how-ruin-community.md

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 # How to ruin a community in 3 easy steps
 
-Caleb James DeLisle
+Speaker         :Caleb James DeLisle
 
 This is less a presentation than a wild tale of trying to keep the Hyperboria network a cool and
 friendly place for all kinds of people, especially women and minorities who don't have so many cool

accepted/day2/how-to-intercept.md

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 # How to intercept your bosses print jobs
 
-name: Thomas Watson
+Speaker         : Thomas Watson
-Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
+Location        : Copenhagen, Denmark
-
-# How to intercept your bosses print jobs
 
 Bonjour/Zeroconf is used to automatically configure and connect to networked devices like printers on a LAN and is widely deployed in offices and homes. This talk gives an introduction to the Zeroconf standard and shows how it’s vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. 
 

accepted/day2/lessons-learned.md

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-# Infos
+# Lessons learned from learning and teaching programming
 
-auth-name       : marina (@marinakukso)
+Speaker         : marina (@marinakukso)
 tag             : some things
 
-need travel fee : i have already bought my ticket to berlin, but would love to have some of that cost offset.
-need room       : Y (can accompany substack, or be on my own)
-Location        : San Diego, CA, USA
-
-# Lessons learned from learning and teaching programming
-
 i have been a programming apprentice for about two years. during this time, my friends and i ran a free, cooperative "anti-bootcamp" (http://cyber.wizard.institute/), and participated in a lot of informal collaborative learning in our friend group. i'd like to share with you some of the patterns and anti-patterns that i've run into learning programming as an adult with peers. this will include some of the things that were most tricky for me to learn and also some of the things we discovered that seemed to worked well when teaching.
 
 Length: I am flexible. this talk can be longer or shorter based on the time you have available. i can do 20 minutes, but can also do up to an hour or down to 5 minutes. i am also flexible with regard to the content. if you think that a related or additional issue would be more relevant to the audience than what i've included, i'm happy to discuss modifications.
 
+need travel fee : i have already bought my ticket to berlin, but would love to have some of that cost offset.
+need room       : Y (can accompany substack, or be on my own)
+Location        : San Diego, CA, USA

accepted/day2/mapping-the-megacity.md

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+# Mapping the Megacity - Challenges of applying a developed world software standard to a devloping world context
+
+Speaker         : Hegazy
+time            : talk ~15 minutes, and 15 minutes discussion.
+
+For the past 9 months a team has been trying to map all formal and informal transportation in Cairo in a digital format. Such digital transit information is generally incoded in GTFS, the General Transit Feed System. However, applying GTFS to the Egyptian context is a challenge: How do you encode Stops where none exist? How do you define 10 different sorts of microbuses each with their own conventions, defferntiating them from public buses when only one cetagory called 'bus' exists? 
+Public transportation in Cairo is an organic being in constant change, and a result of many individual solutions; not unlike squating. In this talk I will share the challenges of mapping the unmappable, and raise some interesing thoughts. 

accepted/day2/mr-peel-goes-to-cyberspace.md

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-# Infos
+# Mr. Peel Goes To Cyberspace
 
-auth-name       : Dmytri
+Speaker         : Dmytri
 tag             : p2p communism
 
-need travel fee : no
-need room       : no
-Location        : Berlin
-
-# Mr. Peel Goes To Cyberspace
-
 Resisting Digital Colonization with Technological Disobedience,
 Counterantidisintermediation and Venture Communism.
 No Servers! No Admins!
+
+need travel fee : no
+need room       : no
+Location        : Berlin

accepted/day2/software-assisted-aided-squatting.md

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+# Mapping the Megacity - Challenges of applying a developed world software standard to a devloping world context
+
+Speaker         : brabo
+time            : 5-10 minutes, discussion perhaps 10 min?
+
+Some years ago I was inspired to take a list of known empty residences and transform it to a google maps so people could use it to find places to squat. I tried to build further on this by scraping real estate websites. Sadly, it is too big for me alone, and involves software I myself am not good enough at. So, let us all take a couple minutes to consider what we may be able to create here.
+length - talk ~ 5-10 minutes, discussion perhaps 10 min?

accepted/day2/stealth-refactoring.md

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-# Infos
+# How Stealth Refactoring is Wrecking our Codebases
 
-auth-name       : naomi rosenberg
+Speaker         : naomi rosenberg
 tag             : refactoring, micro-management, professionalism
 
-need travel fee : N
-need room       : Y
-Location        : Planet Earth
-
-# How Stealth Refactoring is Wrecking our Codebases
-
 Because management are perceived not to value refactoring, developers fear being “told off” for doing it. So we refactor less than we’d like to, and when we do, we often sneak it in, hidden amongst functional changes.
 
 We know insufficient refactoring leads to technical debt. Stealth refactoring creates problems, too. Reviewing a diff mixing functional and non-functional changes is time-consuming and error-prone, costing money and introducing bugs. Also, stealth refactoring tends to focus only on the “geographical area” - the function, file or module - that we are “touching” at the time. What are the implications of that for the coherence and consistency of our codebases?
 
 I will make some technical suggestions for optimising how we refactor, but the main issue is cultural. Is our shame around refactoring entirely due to management, or are devs responsible too? How can we sell simplicity to people who may not be aware of its value? Can we create a culture that legitimises - or even rewards! - a practice that is, after all, essential to developing good software?
+
+need travel fee : N
+need room       : Y
+Location        : Planet Earth

inFlux/ToolboxforCyberneticTotalitarianism.md

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-# Infos
-
-auth-name       : Ksenia
-
-need travel fee : appreciated, if possible
-need room       : no
-Location        : UK
-
 # Toolbox for Cybernetic Totalitarianism
 
+Speaker         : Ksenia
+
 This would be a very short talk that I would like to become a discussion as quickly as possible.The aim is not so much mapping out and going over the things which creep us out: such as for example blockchains and linked data
 but to invite people to look at the dystopia scenarios, set of tools and strategies which which might come in handy for navigating cybernetic totalitarianism. It is really a continuation of several long and short conversations I had with quite a few people,
 at least two of them will be amongst the attendees.
 
+need travel fee : appreciated, if possible
+need room       : no
+Location        : UK
+
 ## ksenia choosed this talk between the 2 she made we will see if we can put this one somewhere sometime

inFlux/holistic.md

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-# Infos
+# unix & holistic technologies
 
-auth-name       : noffle
+Speaker         : noffle
 tag             : holistic prescriptive unix web distributed node
 
-need travel fee : N
-need room       : N
-Location        : San Jose, CA
-
-# unix & holistic technologies
-
 Every technology lies on a spectrum: prescriptive technologies, like car
 assembly lines, have dependence on large non-individual organizational
 structures in order to function; while holistic tech is self-reliant and
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 in taking control of the toolchain? Let's look at where the unix
 philosophy and the web fit in.
 
+need travel fee : N
+need room       : N
+Location        : San Jose, CA
+
 ## Seems that you are motivated for this KSP to happend, would you give your slot for that ?

inFlux/privileged-service.md

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-# Infos
+# Privileged Service
 
-auth-name       : Friedel [(@dignifiedquire)](https://github.com/dignifiedquire)
+Speaker         : Friedel [(@dignifiedquire)](https://github.com/dignifiedquire)
 tag             : privilege service web
 
-need travel fee : N
-need room       : Y
-Location        : Freiburg, Germany, Earth
-
-# Privileged Service
-
 Privilege is nothing someone should feel guilty for, it rather should remind us
 of the responsibilty that we have, to profoundly serve the people around us. Extending from
 this, the things we build and the way we interact with one another should reflect this responsibilty.
 
+need travel fee : N
+need room       : Y
+Location        : Freiburg, Germany, Earth
+
 ## awaiting confirmation from friedel

proposed/no-second-life-chances.md

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 # No second (life) chances
 
-name       : Nick Merrill <ffff@berkeley.edu>
+Speaker       : Nick Merrill <ffff@berkeley.edu>
+
 time: 30 minutes - 1 hour depending on needs/wants
+Over the course of it's beta, from 2003 to 2007, Second Life transformed in vision from a peer-to-peer market society with no hierarchies and no scarcity, to a hypercapitalist society, driven by corporate verticals and labor exploitation. How did this happen?  The aim of this talk is to surface patterns in communities, cultures, and socio-technical systems that make labor ownership difficult to build and enforce. Ultimately, we look toward the question: How can we prevent the present generation of idealistic developers, bent on subverting traditional mechanisms of application and data control, from falling into the same trap as Second Life?
+
 need travel fee : would be neded, yes, i am a student
 need room       : yes
 Location        : oakland, ca, usa
 
-Over the course of it's beta, from 2003 to 2007, Second Life transformed in vision from a peer-to-peer market society with no hierarchies and no scarcity, to a hypercapitalist society, driven by corporate verticals and labor exploitation. How did this happen?  The aim of this talk is to surface patterns in communities, cultures, and socio-technical systems that make labor ownership difficult to build and enforce. Ultimately, we look toward the question: How can we prevent the present generation of idealistic developers, bent on subverting traditional mechanisms of application and data control, from falling into the same trap as Second Life?
-
-
 NOTE: this talk would be accepted but there currently is no funding for the required travel.