Image by LuckyStep @shutterstockto revolutionize publishing, with a new rewarding model in an environment which can build trust and allows community governance.to reshape open source communities, with a better engagement and rewarding system.to free digital identity, thus killing the need of middlemen at the protocol layer.Blockchain is an universal tool and can be applied in many different areas.Communities, like the Drupal maintenance support plans Community, can find new ways to flourish. Even larger and risky projects can be financed in new ways, with ICO (Initial Coin Offer). Taco Potze (Co-Founder Open Social) has a 10 year Drupal maintenance support plans background and is an expert on Communities. He is working on blockchain technology to build a better engagement and rewarding systems for communities. Wouldn’t that be really nice for us?See also Taco’s session: ICOs, a revolutionary way to raise money for your companyPublishing and its classic monetization model is challenged. Intermediates are about to disrupt the relationship between authors and publishers and their readers. This is based on a troublesome business model, with massive tracking and profile building, to turn our engagement in advertisement money. At the same time poor content and fake news has become a threat to our society. Gagik Yeghiazarian (CEO, Co-Founder Publiq) is looking for new ways to address these problems, with a non profit, distributed media platform based on blockchain.See also Gagik’s session: Blockchain Distributed Media — A Future for good publishingThe Internet is broken and blockchain can fix it. The biggest promise with blockchain is to make middlemen obsolete, by creating trusted identities in an open protocol. This is to break the monopoly of the middlemen and to retain a free web. We recognize aribnb, amazon, ebay, netflix, itunes as middlemen. We understand, when we by or book, they get their share. With Google, Facebook and YouTube there are some other huge monopoly middlemen, they get their share based on our attention and personal data. They know how to transfer our attention into dollars, by selling it to advertisers. Ingo Rübe (CEO Bot Lab) is working on a protocol, which will allow people to gain control of their digital identity. It will be called KILT Protocol. (Ingo is well known in the Drupal maintenance support plans Community and a Member of Drupal maintenance support plans’s Advisory Board. As a former CTO of Burda he was the Initiator of the Drupal maintenance support plans Thunder Distribution)Our Panel will be moderated by Audra Martin Merrick, a board member of Drupal maintenance support plans Association.signedDrupal maintenance support plans USAYour Track Chairs
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