Towards A Common Glossary for Decentralized Technologies

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Description

Type: virtual workshop
Length: 2 hours
Date: between August 7-9
Duration: once
Language: English

Objectives

• Learn about the 7 key challenges that hinder the adoption of decentralized applications
• Deep-dive into design and developer onboarding & naming. How do we name things across the ecosystem? Where does terminology help or hinder understanding across different protocols and applications? What are appropriate metaphors and descriptions for different user groups?
• Where can we converge on particular names for key concepts? How would we go about creating a common glossary?
• This work is part of DOTS: Decentralization, off the shelf.

Material and Technical Requirements

Platform: video conferencing
Technical considerations: We want to hear questions and comments from audience throughout the workshop; we will need a remote facilitation / canvas tool (e.g. Miro, Pushpin).
Additional considerations: Max number of participants: 20 (speaking), 50 (live chat)

Presenters

Name: Eileen Wagner, Program Manager at Simply Secure
Email: [email protected]
Url(s): decentpatterns.xyz
Twitter: @bumblblu
GitHub: @bumbleblue

Eileen advises teams and organizations on UX design and research at Simply Secure. Her focus is on information architecture, content strategy, and interaction design--or anything that helps people make sense of complex technologies. She works with numerous projects in decentralization and security, and enjoys facilitating relationships between the builders and users of technology. Her background is in analytic philosophy and mathematical logic, and she won’t stop talking about demoing barbershop music.

Name: Karissa McKelvey, Technology & Partnerships at Digital Democracy and Research Fellow at Simply Secure
Twitter: @okdistribute
GitHub: @okdistribute

Karissa researches technical architecture design and its impact on usability, safety, and resilience. Her contributions to decentralized applications are depended upon by at-risk users including human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society activists living within repressive environments. Previously, she led user and developer experience for dat and hypercore, a decentralized data sharing tool and peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol. Her background is in political sociology and data science, and she loves making weird musical art that touches your funny bone.