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Lightning Talk Development and Protocol

The Future of Open Source is Social

Jer Miller · @jeremie.com
Saturday, March 28, 2026
4:20 PM – 4:30 PM PT
Great Hall South
Available in-person & via livestream — Stream 1 (Great Hall South)

open source changed the world, but now it’s stuck in the age of pull requests and gatekeepers. what happens when you build it on a social protocol instead? (and complimentary to tangled) jeremie miller — creator of XMPP (the protocol behind whatsapp, zoom, and billions of daily messages) and bluesky board member — will demo something new built entirely on AT Protocol that reimagines how open source software gets discovered, shared, and trusted. this one’s going to break some brains.