Guest blog by Antonia Bustamante from the DWeb Camp Core Organizing team.
Near Ubatuba, four hours from the sprawling capital of São Paulo. We were welcome in September by a Brazilian paradise of phone number library mountains and sea where one would want to stay forever: the Neos Institute. There, Coolab (a cooperative laboratory for free networks) organized the first DWeb+Coolab Camp , the Brazilian version of DWeb Camp .
The Neos Institute is located in a space
That, in the early 2000s, served as a cultural and artistic exploration center for children and adolescents. Years later, it was abandone, and the greedy tropical vegetation began. To devour the empty buildings. In 2017, the property was auctione off, and some individuals. Who make up the Neos collective, purchased. It to build a all prizes sponsored by the kahle/austin foundation socio-biodiversity project. This was the location Coolab chose to host the event, also taking the opportunity to lend the Institute. The physical internet access improvement infrastructure built during the event.
Equipment to improve the infrastructure of the Internet connection network
During our stay there, we slept in tents and shared rooms. We were nourished by culinary delights prepared by the members of the collective using local animal and plant species. We all took turns cleaning and providing wellness fax list services, and some trilingual staff made us feel at home, switching effortlessly from Portuguese to Spanish to English.
In August 2022 and again in June of this year
The DWeb Camp was held in a redwood forest located a few hours north of San Francisco. This annual four-day gathering brings together people. From around the world who are working on and interested in the decentralization of the web. Decentralize to strengthen both from a technical perspective and through collective logic and social empowerment projects.
In the middle of that forest, last year, a group around the fire invited people. To discuss a possible Brazilian version of the meeting. The meeting took shape, and this year Coolab organized the first edition, continuing its work of opening spaces for dialogue and cooperation. On community networks, decentralization technologies, and technological appropriation.
