# Use Open-Source Technologies | Franzi x Department of Decentralization [ETHBerlin]

- Channel: [Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress](https://streameth.org/ethereum-cypherpunk-congress)
- Date: 2024-10-07
- Duration: 01:15
- Topics: Education
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-Sr72VSjoOWw
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr72VSjoOWw

## Description

Short from the talk "We Need More Crypto Collectives".

Get inspired by someone who's made it real and authentic for years, consistently dedicating passion and effort to enhance. 

https://dod.ngo/
https://ethberlin.ooo/ (2023)
https://ethberlin.org/ (2024)
https://x.com/_franzihei

## Transcript

[Music] so also think it's important to practice what you Peach which means uh use open source technology wherever you can and I know it's hard people are lazy open source ux is um sometimes more cumbersome or can be a bit more clunky to use um people tend to try to go the shortest path possible but I tell you this other path is really go worth going down um so as the dod we run our open source software mostly even selfhosted for communications we use Matrix for video we use J jitsy for email coordination we use free Scout for documents we use cpet uh for all of the talk management curation and ticketing we use pre- ticks and pre-t talks for our blog we use use ghost and um most recent Edition this year for East berin was also Zupas um all of these work they are out there so I can only recommend this as like a hackathon or conference open source teex deack [Music]