Our final panel today is about invisible bridges: digital infrastructure is present in all our digital interactions, yet often remains invisible. "We're not the People who deliver the food: We build the metal wire that is used to build a bridge to have a car driven over it wich delivers the food - but this not so easy to communicate about." With @Adam Burns of the project sig0namectl, @Probabilita of @npub1vjew...q05t and @Holger of @Python Software Foundation.

Our project directors Patricia Leu and Marie Kreil are now looking back on eight years of the Prototype Fund. Among other things, they talk about the wild early years, federal travel expense laws, pizza, Lego, talks about and with the Prototype Fund, (mega) demo days & weeks, pandemic, foreign intelligence operation, open source licenses, table sizes, Wi-Fi in the mountains of India, procrastination when it comes to applications, and so much more.

We're so excited to have Jac sm Kee @Jac sm kee at our stage! "It is a weird time right now: We have seen how digital technology has become on of the main driver of violence. [...] I imagine a not so far future generation asking us: What have you done about it? The story of tech as being created to dominate over people is exhausting. It is important to be reminded, how critical, radical and revolutionary the open source idea, the community and their projects are in this context."