Speakers for the Oct 5th and 6th PfP✨ Toronto have been finalized! Plus some news from around the web

Early announcement: Join us in Toronto on Oct 5-6, 2026 to discuss how we can preserve an open, equitable web, where no one company holds the keys.

An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026.

Exploring the 'Protocols, Not Platforms' paper alongside a curated digest of recent AI crawler policy shifts and developer experiments.

With an extended link round-up featuring digital sovereignty mixed messaging, a series of reports on AI, and some awards recognition!

A roundup of infrastructure news for those publishing on the new web

From Toronto, London, and Vancouver.

A report on the IETF AI Preferences Working Group (AIPREF) interim meeting at the Cisco Innovation Lab in Toronto from April 14th to 16th

Amongst the blooming cherry blossoms and the busyness of students on reading break preparing for exams, the global AT Protocol community conference ATmosphereConf convened at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver BC from March 26-29. This is the second year of the conference. Although supported by Bluesky

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

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The Executive Summary for the Protocols for Publishers ✨ London Stakeholder Forum (jump to recap here) shipped last week and contained a page with 14 action points distilled out of the conversations in the room.

We will be discussing those action points more in the future but here are two

A community of hackers, journalists, bloggers, developers, thought leaders, civil society activists and more gathered at Newspeak House, the independent college of political technology, on February 4th and 5th to participate in the London edition of Protocols for Publishers, discussing future alternatives for publishing on the web.

This is the

Watch the trends and align for the good.

The last pieces have been locked in for our next in-person event in London.

Firstly, we would like to announce or last speaker: Jeremiah Lee from the Interledger Foundation who will be discussing developments in web payments.

SPEAKER: WEB PAYMENTS

Jeremiah Lee is a program officer for the 

Don't just *think* about what comes next, think about what you can DO about it to make it work for you! Also, PfP✨ London speaker reveal!

A bonus edition of the Newsletter with some event announcements and a bunch of links

Join us in London on Feb 4-5, 2026 to discuss how we can preserve an open, equitable web, where no one company holds the keys.

(a paraphrased quote from our pal Ben Werdmuller.)

Last month the votes on the expression of interest form for a PfP✨ event in Europe was heavily leaning towards end of January, but since then has shifted to February as the most popular. Because EU Open Source Week, the EU

This edition of the newsletter is a bit of a catch-up on links since we have been busy with outreach to potential speakers, participants, and sponsors for the second in-person Protocols for Publishers ✨ event in Europe. The next PfP event looks to be in London, UK and