The Community Workshops program continues to move forward!
Since last year, we’ve been experimenting with different workshop formats and styles that involve the community. We believe we’ve come close to establishing a consistent, monthly lineup of workshops covering two areas: on the one hand, topics related to audiovisual production, multimedia, and communications; and on the other, financial tools related to Zcash, wallets, and nodes.
With that in mind, the coordinators of the Zk Av Club’s Community Workshop Program have prepared a schedule of topics covering the workshops for July through December 2026.
| Month | Comm/Media | Level | Zcash | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June | OBS + Akkadu | Intermediate | — | — |
| June | Affine | Beginner | — | — |
| July | Omeka | Beginner | — | — |
| July | Omeka | Intermediate | ZODL wallet | Beginner |
| August | Swarm | TBD | Zebra node | Intermediate |
| September | Mirotalk | Intermediate | Redbridge node | Intermediate |
| October | Cryptpad | Beginner | CypherPay/BTCPay | Intermediate |
| November | Peertube | Advanced | Nym | Intermediate |
| December | Privacy browsers | Beginner | Hardware wallets | Beginner |
The first workshops we held during the first half of the year helped us analyze the pros and cons of the process we’ve been shaping. Among these initial workshops, we can highlight the Git workshop, led by pacu, and the Signal workshop, led by Yoditar.
They exemplify what we aim to offer: experiential training activities led by expert facilitators who are proficient in the tool being taught, in a setting that allows for hands-on practice and the resolution of questions and concerns. In short, it is learning by doing—community-based learning.
What’s interesting about preparing the workshops for the July–December semester is that it has allowed us to identify community needs: tools that many community members don’t know how to use—or aren’t even familiar with—but it has also connected us with trending topics within our ecosystem, such as Nym, RedBridge, or Zebra nodes.
On behalf of the Workshop Coordinators team (me and @AuraBritoSM ) and the Zk Av Club, we hope everyone—facilitators and attendees alike—enjoys this experience, and we also hope that people will be empowered through the knowledge and use of new tools.
We are building not only a library of interviews and testimonials at the Recording Station, but also a library of educational content on the various tools that underpin the present and future of the Internet as we know it today.
Thank you all.