This document welcomes participants to DEVcon and discusses the organization's mission to promote decentralization through developing a generalized transaction database, peer-to-peer protocol engine, content delivery system, private messaging capabilities, decentralized browser and API, basic services, and education about decentralization. It also notes the historical trend of concentrated power and wealth inequality that decentralization aims to address.

1. Welcome to DEVcon

2. Thanks!
Aeron
Sarah
Roland
Christian

3. Thanks!
Comms

4. Thanks!
You!

5. History
Progress
has lead to
Concentration of Power
aka centralisation, wealth inequality, ...

6. History
Greater leverage for the powerful than the
plentiful?

7. Internet
Many-to-many comms
Prerequisite infrastructure, not an end

8. (Blind) Trust
Applicable for small communities
Social accountability, implicit reputation system

9. (Blind) Trust
n/a for multinationals, governments
“Transparency for the powerful, privacy for the rest”
Assange

10. Our Mission
Ð
Decentralisation
Distribution

11. Rewrite the rulebook on...
...efficiency
...reliability
...security

12. Tagesmenüs
(Daily Menu)

13. Generalised ubiquitous secure compartmentalised
transactional database
aka notary, judge, executioner for decentralised applications

14. Formal database & transaction language
no more SQL

15. Generalised p2p protocol engine
common infrastructure to our p2p protocols

16. Content mass-publication & delivery
Printing-press and library for decentralised applications

17. Many-to-many secure private messaging
- or -
Multikey, multivalue, ephemeral DHT
Lonely hearts for decentralised applications

18. Decentralised Browser & API
The Window to this (Brave, New) World

19. Basic Services
The healthcare and plumbing of decentralised applications

20. Education & Awareness
Creating practitioners of this new paradigm

21. Over to...
(You)