Modal
S01:E03

Modal

Berlin
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Episode description

Modal is a newly founded collective focusing on emancipatory technology through development, design, organizing and policy campaigning. Consisting of representatives from various communities within secure and open-source technology such as GNOME, the New Design Congress with Cade Diem, [postmarket OS] (https://postmarketos.org/) and p2panda. Find more Modal events, such as the Boiling the Ocean meetups on the event page.

Recently they launched the first application Reflection which enables offline-first collaboration. To join developer meetups, see more information here.

In this talk with Tobias Bernard we touch on topics such as permacomputing, 100 rabbits and the project Dark Crystal.

0:00Introduction
3:21Start of Modal
11:25Going Offline
15:42Who's Modal
17:47Reflection, the App
24:10Funding
25:14Societal Awareness
28:26Building a Smartphone
31:02Educating vs Designing
33:04Designing for Threat Models
39:19Dark Crystal
44:17Walkaway Stack
49:25Organizing Modal
52:44Wrap-up