Beyond GitHub: Building Open Source on Radicle
2026-11-04 –, Workshop 1

Discover how Radicle provides a sovereign, peer-to-peer home for open source. You’ll leave knowing how Radicle works, why it matters, why communities choose it over centralized forges and how to start using it.


2026 is shaping up to be a turning point for code collaboration. As centralized forges struggle under the growing demands of agentic development, more developers are looking beyond the platform model searching for resilience, ownership, and autonomy.

Radicle has emerged as the most widely used decentralized alternative: a sovereign, p2p network for code collaboration built on Git, with more than 20,000 repositories actively hosted across the network.

In this workshop, we’ll introduce Radicle as a permanent home for open source, not only for human developers, but for a new generation of autonomous software agents that need to discover repositories, propose changes and collaborate without relying on a centralized intermediary.

We’ll explore how Radicle works, how developers collaborate on repositories, and what peer-to-peer code infrastructure makes possible for human and agentic workflows.

Come with a laptop and Radicle installed.

Eleftherios is the founder of Radicle. He is a Greek-born technologist with a background in Mathematics and Network Science. Formerly the Vice President for Data Science and Engineering at SoundCloud, his passion lies with sovereign networks.

Yorgos <3 Open Source, (worked at Red Hat and left to tackle a bigger problem in OSS), open space unconferences (so helps run SoCraTes-Crete.org and JCrete.org) and open, decentralised communities that he helps run virtually, or locally, on the paradise island of Crete! He is passionate about home automation and digital privacy.

Daniel is a software engineer and developer advocate for the Radicle project. Having previously worked on Aragon, IPFS and libp2p, he brings over a decade of experience developing software with a focus distributed systems. He's passionate about open-source culture, developer tools, and the Web Platform, and enjoys applying insights from various disciplines to software development.