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 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