This is an example of Groundmist -- uses Ink & Switch Tiny Essay Editor, but you can login to Bluesky and publish to White Wind.
With the share URL, anyone should be able to login and edit.
Intros
Andres software engineer, moved to Vancouver 2 years ago building stuff, what's possible cross posting - Bluesky / Mastodon series of accounts, post info about Venezuela NorthSky contributor!
Natasha work in edtech at UBC not contributing right now, interested hear what people
Peter VG decentralized tech for a while like the move to ATProto learning it now is a good time app -> hashtag counting / trending app
David open source for a long time putting together a personal website - FB, goodreads, etc looking ATProto, put Bluesky feed on website, maybe auth system, Feathers.Cloud, will add Bluesky support
Danny believer in open standards, ATProto one built a podcast app, intro to RSS as distribution, open standards are great! stuff like ATProto for creators is good - why build subscriber base on a platform that doesn't come with you
Theo joining community what tech is emerging ATProto a few weeks ago interested in decentralized, open source see value in infra like this, attribute data Not Twitter, FB -- value in open protocols
Paul moved to Vancouver 10 years ago originally musician generative audio, web browser personalize, carry around on ATProto synthhash
Rowan physics research don't know much about ATProto fan of open source
Wesley working with local first, p2p, distributed web for a while working on ATProto https://cosmik.network -> https://bsky.app/profile/cosmik.network things are coming true! it's what got me excited, actual innovation people are excited and experimenting!
Anish developer! open source, open networks in Vancouver for 2 years - came to DWeb early local first, dev energy
An here from Germany Building SpaceHey https://spacehey.com/about Intends to add both ActivityPub and ATProto Support is coding it in PHP
Notes and Links
IndieSky Europe Notes https://atproto.wiki/en/working-groups/indiesky/europe-april-2025 Figjam (password WurstSky) https://www.figma.com/board/AlN0FlY6qyyJewC4aJey7j/Untitled?node-id=40-131&t=LKck8GjYDkTRvLpq-0
NorthSky are local! https://northskysocial.com/ worker owned co-op, going to start with PDS hosting have a graphical account migration tool they are working on
Gander Social https://gandersocial.ca Canadian ATproto app, Boris is getting more info
Web Summit Vancouver Meetup what do we want to cover?
Browsing your account data using AT Proto Browser https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/ and PDSls https://pdsls.dev/ PDSls will let you apply edits, by deleting / recreating record
Groundmist https://editor.groundmist.xyz Local first editing, you can then link with ATProto account and publish to WhtWnd This post is live https://whtwnd.com/bmann.ca/3lnyr7gug7c2v (but may have local edits applied that Boris hasn't published yet)
Graze custom feed building https://www.graze.social/ has a mode where it inserts ads to pay curators
Deer Social https://deer.social/ fork of Bluesky Social App codebase -- "client only" (uses Bsky backend for everything) has some changes applied to tweak things, Boris did a demo of setting verifiers
PinkSky https://pinksky.app/ "instagram clone" - re-uses Bsky post types