Federated Social Web Summit 2012/notes

Taken live during the meeting on https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fsw

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Welcome to the 2012 Federated Social Web Summit

2012-300 at Say Media HQ, San Francisco

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Note takers (please help!)

• Tantek Çelik - http://tantek.com/
• Evan Prodromou - http://evan.status.net

Evan Prodromou - introduction to the day

Presentations

StatusNet

• open source social stream server
• microblogging

Identi.ca

Challenges:

• identi.ca gravitational pull
• bad onboarding

Really big challenges

• Microblogging origin
• Enterprise vs. consumer
• AGPLv3

OStatus

• ActivityStrea.ms Atom for data
• PuSH
• WebFinger or URLs
• Salmon

Good stuff:

• PuSH streams are everywhere

Challenges:

• Salmon unimplemented - besides Cliqset (defunct), Statusnet is the only one that rolled it out
• World moved to JSON
• PuSH publishers, but not a lot of subscribers

Really bad challenges

Recently: Pump.io

• node.js, NoSQL,

API: inbox and outbox

Shane Caraveo of Mozilla Apps Group

working on Social API in Firefox

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Social_API
• https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/10/22/help-us-test-the-social-api-with-facebook-messenger-for-firefox/
  • in Firefox beta, download and try it out
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/SocialAPI

"bringing social functionality into the browser"

Julien of Superfeedr

• PubSubHubbub progress

Tantek Çelik

IndieWebCamp - http://indiewebcamp.com/Main_Page

• POSSE - http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE
• FEED - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_%28Grant_novel%29

Erin Jo Richey:

• PuPuPu - push, pull, publish
• erinjorichey.com

Joar Wandborg - http://wandborg.se

• http://talka.tv
• Working on an open source veresion of Disqus
• Using CORS of XMLHttpRequest level 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing)
• built on Python & Flask microframework
• SQLAlchemy

Chris Webber

• Mediagoblin - http://mediagoblin.org/
• Decentralized Facebook/Youtube - media hosting
• showed video
• Cat massacre!

Jaisen Mathai

• Open Photo project - http://theopenphotoproject.org/
• wanted to makes sure all the photos we take of our kids are around when they're 20 years old
• synchronize online photo services
• synchronized across multiple devices
• supports DH dreambojects, S3, local ++ for storage

Harlan Wood

• entrepreneur working on a startup - http://enlightenedstructure.org/
• Demos:
  • http://alpha.openyourproject.org -- fork CC web page to smallest federated wiki instance
  • http://www.forkthecommons.org/ -- fork CC web page to markdown in github
• Distributed and forkable content
• creating a new federated wiki instance at test-fed.harlan-t-wood.openyourproject.org
• working on a gem to do reverse markdown - convert HTML to markdown - https://github.com/xijo/reverse_markdown/
• will import (only) cc license
• polyglot on the back end
• Goals: diff and merge as well as forking. See: http://enlightenedstructure.org/Software_Zero/

Martin Atkins / Say Media

• building blocks kind of guy
• SayMedia
  • now owns Typepad
• dialback authentication http://martin.atkins.me.uk/domain-federation-protocol/

Brett

• Elgg - http://www.elgg.org/
• started in 2003 as a thesis project for education, grown into an open source project by Ben Werduller and David Tosh
• Brett took over as lead developer in 2008
• late 2010 -> open source, foundation
• Dept of Energy has internal social network
• Dutch gvt uses for internal comm
• lorea is an offshoot, based in Spain

Ben Werdmuller

• used to work on Elgg
• now working on latakoo: http://latakoo.com - "Make Video Simple"
• communication through different identity schemes
• needs of media companies to publish

Patrick Deegan

• open source for ... ? (showed a PDF document with a outline tree of people/projects)
• http://idcubed.org
• moonshine for big data
• personal control of data, user access control,
• user-centric data store, Python, Django
• personal data sharing

Tom Brown

• Ruby developer, Austin
• Alternative currencies
• blog: http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/
• Soci -> open source currency (this is kind of nuts)
• VBSR market
• Opentransact.org

occupy.net Sam Boyer and Andrew Mullin

• provide collaboration systems to occupy
• http://directory.occupy.net - built in Drupal
• Semantic interoperation is it possible
• OpenStreetMaps

Sylvain Carle - afroginthevalley.com

• did a distributed yelp two startups ago - Praized then Needium
• from Montreal originally, now living in SF
• now a developer advocate at Twitter
• Great Open Source support
• Rules of the road in Twitter content.
• @froginthevalley
• http://github.com/twitter

Joseph Smarr

• 3(!) years on Google+
• opensocialweb.org bill of rights for social web 5 years ago - Sept 5, 2007

prev. CTO at plaxxo

• working on google+
• –
• tripwires in API tos docs harm federation between bigger players
• examples of what copies of data can do: timehop, jolicloud me, klout
• Ideal: POSSE
• Practical: Get every site to give me a feed of my own content unencumbered by own TOS
• (Re)building a movement in 3 steps
  • 1. apps that demonstrate benefits of data portability
  • 2. movement adovcating user rights
  • 3. bridge gaps with proxy services

Brad Fitzpatrick - http://bradfitz.com - @bradfitz

Two things

• WebFinger
  • status from my point of view
  • has to move faster
• Camlistore (http://camlistore.org)
  • summary, status update
  • own your shit

Phil Wolff

• personal data ecosystem consortium
• user-centricity
• personal control over personal data is good for users and the ecosystem

Kaliya - more on Personal Data

• ...
• limited liability personas

Victor Greg(sp?)

• Datacoops.com
• ... groups as first class citizens
• ...

Barb

• datavenu.com
• ...

Tom Lord

• CRUX - http://basiscraft.com/crux.html
• p2p network designed for single user nodes
• based in js, rss
• runs on raspberry pi?
• ...

Dave Crossland

• Social fonts
• google fonts: temporary business model
• knowledge model in the future

Monica Wilkinson

• building a real time activity streams engine with node.js, mongodb, redis
• crushpath director of platforms(confirmed?)
• http://activitystrea.ms
• http://asms.cloudfoundry.com/
• https://github.com/ciberch/node-activities-boilerplate

Leif Warner / Janrain (sp?)

• http://schema.org
• Changeset Protocol for RDF http://docs.api.talis.com/getting-started/changeset-protocol

END OF PRESENTATIONS

break - 30 minutes

14:10 restarting

intro to BarCamp style sessions

Session 1:

SESSION: ActivityStreams in #microformats2

Problem: API+TOS suck. API leads to TOS in practice due to culture, companies add TOS to APIs.

HTML = no TOS

Atom -> Entry -> h-entry

AS activities on indieweb sites (that people are publishing today)

• note
• article
• bookmark
• photo
• video
• books read (vs. purchased)
• likes
• comments
• events

properties on posts (that people are publishing today or care about publishing)

• geo - p-location
• published - dt-published
• image of the thing - u-photo
• tags - p-category
• people - mentions
• reply-to

homework assignment to indieweb publishers:

• 1. add microformats2 h-entry support to your HTML posts:
• 2. add ActivityStreams object type root class names to your h-entry elements, e.g. h-as-note, h-as-article

Examples of sites now doing this:

• http://tantek.com/
• ...

15:10 sessions

SESSION: ...

16:00 session summaries

16:10 FSWS2012 closed!