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Description
Filecoin Meetup Paris 2022
A
Thank
you
so
much
paige
and
thanks.
Everyone
very
excited
to
chat
with
you
today,
as
you
just
mentioned,
I'm
brynn
o'donnell.
This
is
my
colleague
caitlin
donovan,
and
we're
very
excited
to
speak
with
you
today
about
our
work,
building
the
digital
commons
and
trying
to
realize
the
benefits
of
decentralized
storage
for
social
good.
Yes,
we
are
from
the
social
impact
team
across
both
the
filecoin
foundation
and
filecoin
foundation
for
the
decentralized
web
and
social
impact
is
something
that
has
always
been
of
personal
value
to
the
both
of
us.
A
B
A
Great
so
yeah,
that's
a
bit
about
us
and
today,
over
the
course
of
the
next
15
minutes,
we're
going
to
tell
you
about
the
work
of
social
impact
across
these
two
organizations
about
why
we
work
how
we
work
we're
going
to
talk
about
some
real
life,
examples
from
our
project,
partners
of
non-profits,
etc.
That
are
leveraging
blockchain
and
decentralized
tech
and
then
also
highlight
some
opportunities
for
you
all
to
engage
with
us
and
our
work
so
diving
into
the.
A
Why
social
impact
has
three
main
reasons
for
why
we
do
the
work
that
we
do,
and
so
the
first
is
trying
to
build,
protect
and
preserve
the
digital
commons.
We
really
want
to
preserve
humanity's
most
important
information
and
make
sure
that
no
one
single
entity
owns
it.
It
can't
be
compromised
or
abused
and
remains
in
the
hands
of
the
public,
and
so
we,
as
as
paige
mentioned
the
title
of
our
talk,
isn't
up
there.
But
it
is.
A
The
second
reason
why
we
do
the
work
that
we
do
is
to
realize
some
of
the
potential
benefits
of
decentralized
storage,
such
as
filecoin
for
social
impact
initiatives.
As
many
of
you
know,
decentralized
storage
is
so
much
more
than
just
a
cheaper,
more
cost-effective
way
to
store
your
data.
It
has
a
myriad
of
other
benefits,
so
ali
mentioned
some
of
them.
Molly
mentioned
some
of
them,
but
I'll
reiterate
so.
Censorship
resistance
is
one.
A
We
know
that
data
stored
in
a
geographically
distributed
way
can't
be
subject
to
jurisdictional
or
geographic
censorship
restrictions
in
the
same
way
that
web
2
data
is.
We
also
know
that,
because
of
that
geographic
distribution
of
data
storage
data
is
more
resilient,
there's
no
one
single
point
of
failure.
A
We
also
know
that
to
data
stored
in
blockchain
systems
is
more
transparent
because
it
has
that
central
public
ledger
and
then
finally,
it's
immutable
because
of
that
ledger,
it
can't
be
altered
or
it
can.
But
it's
a
lot
of
work
and
everyone
sees
that
it
has
changed
and
then
the
final
reason
for
why
social
impact
does
our
work
is
because
we
really
want
to
expand
the
use
of
decentralized
technologies
to
empower
and
serve
global
needs.
A
lot
of
folks
in
web3
talk
a
lot
about
building
a
better
internet.
A
B
Funding
comes
from
two
separate
entities,
so
there's
file
queen
foundation
and
there's
file
queen
foundation
for
the
decentralized
web.
Filecoin
foundation
focuses
on
championing
specific
protocols
in
technology,
including
file
coin
lib,
p2p
and
ipfs,
whereas
filecoin
foundation
for
the
decentralized
web,
which
I'll
probably
refer
to
as
ffdw
moving
forward
to
save
my
breath
on
this
hot
summer
day
supports
all
open,
decentralized
technology
and
protocols.
It
is
tech
agnostic.
B
B
Our
social
impact
work
is
guided
by
three
main
goals,
which
we
call
our
abcs.
The
first
is
to
accelerate
the
adoption
of
open
decentralized
technologies.
The
second
b
is
to
build
communities
of
champions,
to
support,
open
and
decentralized
technologies
and
c,
is
to
communicate
the
values
and
the
benefits
of
open
decentralized
technologies.
B
B
This
line
of
effort
is
created
to
share
resources
and
provide
learning
on-ramps
to
teach
folks
about
the
values
and
benefits
of
decentralized
technology,
both
to
the
public
and
to
policy
makers.
We
also
empower
users
and
creators
projects
supporting
young
developers
as
well.
As
you
know,
those
folks
who
just
want
to
upskill
their
skills
to
level
up
their
skill
set,
so
they
can
quickly
adopt
and
contribute
to
open
decentralized
technology.
A
A
They
submit
that
to
the
international
criminal
court,
and
so
that
was
the
first
ever
dossier
of
evidence
of
its
kind
that
leveraged
blockchain
for
its
verification
and
authentication
potential
yeah
big
deal.
It
was
awesome
and
so
we're
continuing
to
explore
how
else
blockchain
might
be
a
critical
tool
for
activists
and
human
rights
and
justice,
documentation
and
verification.
A
Another
benefit
I
mentioned
earlier
is
censorship
resistance.
We
partner
with
folks
who
are
supporting
investigative
journalism
through
increasing
access
to
primary
source
documents,
largely
obtained
through
freedom
of
information,
act
requests
in
france.
It
is
called
the
free
access
to
administrative
documents
legislation,
but
they
make
it
easier
for
journalists
and
activists
to
access,
annotate
and
analyze
primary
source
materials
hosted
on
decentralized
technologies.
A
The
last
benefit
I'll
mention
is
that
immutability
component,
some
of
our
project
partners,
are
working
to
fight,
link,
rot
and
fun
fact
about
link
rot
in
2021.
The
harvard
law,
school
and
new
york
times
did
a
study
where
they
looked
at
over
2
million
urls
and
found
that
over
25
of
those
urls
were
either
completely
broken
or
went
to
inaccurate
sources,
and
this
starts
to
become
really
important
when
you
think
about
the
importance
of
this
in
legal
cases.
A
So
when
lawyers
and
judges
are
trying
to
reference
like
case
citations
or
earlier
precedents,
and
then
the
links
just
no
longer
work,
who
knows
what
sorts
of
obstacles
we'll
face
if
this
isn't
tackled?
So
a
lot
of
our
project
partners
are
working
to
provide
web
archiving
tools
to
authors,
scholars,
lawyers
etc,
so
they
can
store
their
links
in
an
immutable
way
in
the
long
term.
B
So,
as
mentioned
earlier
to
realize
benefits
we
the
benefits
that
bryn
just
mentioned.
We
really
need
to
educate
and
grow
our
community,
so
we're
focused
on
two
main
audiences:
that's
the
general
public
and
policy
makers.
On
the
policy
side,
we
have
a
project
partner
we
signed
on
that
is
placing
diverse
tech,
talent,
ideas
and
training
into
legislators,
offices,
placing
computer
scientists,
developers,
engineers
and
other
talented
technologists
as
advisors
in
one
year,
fellowship
programs.
B
They're
partnering,
these
communities
with
tech
experts
to
help
support
them
with
navigating
this
journey
and
at
the
end
of
the
project,
they're
going
to
produce
some
content
to
share
about
their
learning
experience
and
pay
it
forward
for
others
who
are
looking
to
dive
into
this
technology,
but
we're
just
getting
started
on
expanding
our
educational
impact
initiatives
and
we
really
need
your
help.
We
do.
A
We
can't
do
it
alone,
I'm
going
to
mix
up
our
order.
Can
we
have
your
help
passing
stuff
out
right
now,
so
you
all
have
a
second
to
fill
these
out
before
we
dive
into
some
opportunities
for
you
to
engage
with
our
work,
because
again
we
can't
do
it
alone.
We
have
a
question
for
you.
All.
We've
talked
today
a
lot
about
how
we're
trying
to
preserve
humanity's
most
important
information,
but
like
what?
What
does
that
mean?
A
It
means
a
lot
of
different
things
to
a
lot
of
different
people,
and
so
we'd
like
to
hear
from
you
all
what
you
think
is
humanity's
most
important
information
that
should
be
stored
on
the
long
term.
The
more
specific
you
can
get,
the
better
are
there.
Data
sets
like
environmental
data
sets,
or
instead
of
saying
something
like
literature.
A
Take
on
that
stamp,
caitlyn
and
I
are
both
gonna
have
envelopes
and
there's
also
one
at
the
front
desk
when
you
leave
so
come,
find
us
at
the
networking
happy
hour
I'll,
be
hanging
out
in
the
garden.
Caitlin
will
be
somewhere
and
let
us
know
what
you
think,
but
some
other
ways
to
engage
with
us.
While
you
fill
that
out,
hopefully,
are
highlighted
on
this
slide
here.
B
Speaking
of
opportunities,
so
we
did
just
close
our
first
annual
rfp,
however,
we're
intending
to
reopen
an
rfp
for
2023.
So
what's
an
rfp,
oh
apologies!
This
is
my
grant
making
background
shown
in
action,
a
request
for
proposals,
so
please
submit
your
ideas
stay
tuned
for
when
that
opens
up,
feel
free
to
reach
out
to
us.
We
also
have
another
opportunity
that
you
can
engage
in
right
now.
B
They're
called
our
explorer
awards,
so
these
are
fast-paced,
small-scale
grants
that
are
used
to
financially
support
people
who
are
looking
to
learn,
teach
or
inspire
others
about
decent,
open
decentralized
technology.
They
range
from
1k
to
10k
in
us
dollars
and
it's
super
light,
lift
no
strings
attached
other
than
a
one.
Paragraph
write
up
on
what
you
use
the
money
for
and
what
you
gain
from
the
experience.
B
So
some
examples
of
like
projects,
we're
looking
to
fund
could
be
an
nft
exhibition
or
a
workshop.
It
could
be
a
salon,
an
intimate
salon,
style
dinner,
where
you're
just
discussing
projects
about
web3
you're
stoked
on
it
could
also
be
some.
You
know
small
small
funds
for
early
scoping
work
for
a
larger
endeavor
or
grant
submission.
We
want
to
hear
from
you
so
find
us
after
this
talk
or
just
follow
the
link.
If
you
want
more
information.