July Forest Gathering Recap 🌲

Thanks for joining our Monthly Forest Gathering! It was great to see and hear from old and new faces on DFOS. If you didn't make it this time, rsvp here for the next one!

At this weeks Forest meeting, Yancey walked through where DFOS is headed, structured around four pillars:

• Our own internets. The shared web has gotten spoiled, we've all pulled back from it for good reason, DFOS is a way back into something we actually control.
• Full stack. Metalabel used to run on Slack, Notion, Discord, and Mailchimp, adding up to roughly $3,300/yr for a 10 person team. DFOS collapses all of that into one thing. Free right now with a 10% transaction fee, DFOS Pro coming later this year at $30/mo with a 5% fee instead.
• Creative network. Not just what's happening inside your own space, but shared connective tissue across DFOS. Think a global calendar, open studio weekends, that kind of thing.
• Built for good. The DFOS protocol cryptographically verifies your data as yours. Yancey's own local backup tool (DFOSBox) already syncs his posts into markdown files on his hard drive, and a public version is on the roadmap.

Ana Roman shared her new space, The Digital Body, an application only space for new media artists, cyberfeminists, and anyone curious about bodies, data, and algorithmic injustice. It has a techno fascist watchlog, a toolbox for hardware builds and cyberdecks, a cyberfeminist reading room, a Glitch Lab for coding questions, and Max for Live / Ableton lessons.

A few other things happening right now:

• Reminder: SpaceCamp cohort for spacerunners starts August 2 in this Spacekeepers group on DFOS Home.
• LAN Party summer school (video game art, from Tokyo/Paris curatorial duo Land Party) has 2 weeks left, tickets on Metalabel.
• The reading club is regrouping to pick its next book led by Robert's leading it - find in DFOS Home > Groupchat > Reading club

We'll see you on August 20th for our next meeting 🌐