(This is a wiki post that anyone can edit, by clicking the ‘Edit’ link in bottom-right corner)
Hi everyone,
Thanks again @CristinaDeLisle@how@aschrijver@hamishcampbell and many more for your contributions to (in my eyes) a solid and lively gathering! Here I wanted to bring together the lessons learned and action points from the discussion (wanted to make a wiki post, don’t know how to yet):
Things to improve
What can we improve in the next events and for meetups in general.
@aschrijver: There were worrying problems with TU Delft BBB (black screens). We should consider moving elsewhere for next event.
@aschrijver: It was not clear to me there was a Notes thing, where people could introduce themselves. So I am not on the list.
@aschrijver: We need a list of people that are responsible for places where SocialHub has a presence, and probably a place where we keep credentials for these. Right now it is unclear, who has the AP account for conf.tube (@how is finding out).
Topics to address
@j8ter: Discuss user experience and expectations in fediverse for institutions-instances (Nuno / @nunoantunes )
@aschrijver: We had a discussion after recording ended, on how the fediverse works differently and you shouldn’t follow the global timelines in most cases, but build your own by collecting Followers/Following. In Twitter the algorithm kicks in to drive engagement. In Fedi you are in charge yourself to do that. Communication style is also different in fedi, where more of a 2-way conversation works very well, instead of just broadcasting stuff out to the world.
@j8ter: Security aspects of ActivityPub and fediverse-tech (Gijs and others)
@aschrijver: I addressed this in the chat. Security audits are responsibility for projects themselves, and they are independent in their policy choices here. I think most apps are ‘security-hardened’ in the way their open source code is scrutinized, but I don’t think many formal audits have (as yet) been conducted. SocialHub might play a role here.
@aschrijver: Piotr mentioned netCommons Horizon 2020 project has expressed an interest in the Fediverse.
List actions to be taken for the next events, or ideas to be considered.
@aschrijver: I have the list of participants. We might provide it somewhere, and we might ask Jean-Luc Dorel to add more info on EC roles these people have (iff possible).
@aschrijver: We may provide the text of the chat roll, maybe on conf.tube together with the video (as suggested by @hamishcampbell).
@j8ter made a recording of the BBB-stream including the chat (screen record) that was sent to @how to put on conf.tube. @j8ter will embed (if possible) on ngi.eu/event-psge Wednesday 21 (done, @aschrijver and @how could you test, I get some weird issues w Chromium and not with Firefox).
@aschrijver: We can reiterate the video and extract all the things that came up, especially in the chat. Then create a sort of a FAQ summary article from it, where we provide very clear, concise answers to them and offer it as handout / input to the next event (could use pad.public.cat for this → HedgeDoc - Collaborative markdown notes). @j8ter we could kickoff the discussion with action points from the 1st webinar. I have added them to my introductory presentation → HedgeDoc - Collaborative markdown notes
@j8ter: Start the 2nd webinar with a brief explanation of venue features (shared notes for introduction, public chat for questions. suggestions and relevant links), possibly in the first/background slide, which I will update for this.
-@how, @aschrijver & @j8ter: decide on title for second webinar (or stick with "ActivityPub for Administrations). @j8ter suggests “Understand ActivityPub”, so the workshop can be something like “Use ActivityPub”.
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I sent an email to the w3.social admin to see if he can fix the TURN service issue.
Maybe FOSShost can redeploy the one that was used for APconf, @eth01? BTW, the conf.activitypub.rocks SSL certificate expired more than a month ago, it’s not very nice… But I do not know who handles this server. @mlemweb would you happen to know this?
This can be announced at the beginning, like one would introduce key facilities in a place.
That would be @mlemweb and @Sebastian I suppose. Since this was an ‘apconf’ account, I requested a ‘socialhub’ account so we can use it more specifically for videos related to here.
In the meantime I uploaded the videos to peertube.public.cat and they are visible on the agenda. I also updated the slides metadata on HedgeDoc to show rich links, and uploaded @j8ter’s slides as well.
The last one is 5 posts above, and I’m pretty sure I and others have mentioned conf.tube for a while in different places. So if you like to push the videos to this account it would be great. I still have the hope conf.tube admins will end up responding so we can have a socialhub account there to share more videos than just #apconf.
Welcome.
Have you seen my DM about the cooperations with universities?
We have to cancel all the cooperations because of NGI0 but I think, the contact which I sent would be a good opportunity for ActivityPub …
Well, redaktor was planned as a one of these solution you seeked in the webinar.
Those, making sense. We wanted to deliver for ridiculous low-cost and with e.g. a research part and this was why I talked to the professors and became astonished how high the enthusiasm for ActivityPub is at European universities and how much this is ignored.
However, now that I do the project in a VC-context, I can’t do both.
On the other hand and as described in the DM, I think that master thesis’ of a European major uni adds a great benefit.
Funders, please note: The decisions you recently made in a time of a worldwide pandemic shocked me.
I think this is a VERY important topic and opportunity for SocialHub, AP and Fedi. Not just universities, but involving Education initiatives of all kinds. Something I want to make part of Organizing for SocialHub Community Empowerment.
This is up to the community to engage with the institutions during the webinar and workshop. As you know we made a lot of effort to show the diversity of implementations and not single one out. Probably the focus on Mastodon comes from the perceived demand from the institution, because it’s the ‘flag ship’. But I’m also better touched by flags when they burn, when the symbol becomes a show of the diversity once the smoke dissipates.
Joost and other have contacted a number of people who would like to participate in the webinar and workshop. As you can see from the participant’s list, no Mastodon here, but a few others. I know that Castopod, Hubzilla, and Kazarma already showed up and demonstrated interest in sharing this.
Personally I do not intend to demonstrate Mastodon during the workshop because:
nobody showed interest from their community to our activities here
the implementation has always been shifting away from the specification instead of sharing their intents with the community
I’d rather have the EC experiment with something some attendants have experience with (e.g., Peertube) or something that we can ensure will be complementary and interoperable.
I would love that software developers from your list show up, simply because it’s much easier to do a workshop with knowledgeable people, and because it would help attendees figure out the opportunities at their hand if they’re willing to pursue.
In the end Mastodon is perceived as a low-hanging fruit because it replicates ‘known’ (dis-)services like Fakebooz and Gaggle. But focusing on it, IMO, would be a mistake because there’s so much more that can be done with ActivityPub than just publishing posts. The workshop is an opportunity to show-case the system, and the community should be working on figuring out ways to demonstrate means to ends, instead of the perceived need of the EC. E.g., when people mentioned “publishing without responding”, the application is not microblogging but announcements, so maybe there are other ways to announce on the Fediverse than the M.
but I think, the contact which I sent would be a good opportunity for ActivityPub …