Re: W3C Social WG and federation consensus/collaboration

On 11/04/2014 05:07 PM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> There is something I'm actively worried about: I know it's a major goal
> of this group to produce a standard around federation that can help
> unify the federated web (this is why Jessica and I are excited to
> participate!).  Unfortunately, while we have several federation
> standards already and real, active implementations of these, the other
> federation groups do not seem to be participating.
> 
> Who do we have who is actually going to be working on the protocol
> layers from:
> 
>  - GNU Social (OStatus)
>  - diaspora (large and active!  Using something akin to OStatus)
>  - tent.io (tent protocol has its own ideas https://tent.io/docs )
>  - friendica (has some very similar ideas in Zot:
>     https://github.com/friendica/red/wiki/Zot---A-High-Level-Overview )

I just met, here at 31C3[1], Michael Vogel[2] who works on Friendica.
Tomorrow, or one of next 3 days of this event, we'll get together and
take some time together trying to catch up on work in Social WG and
Friendica.

He mentioned trying to follow our mailing list and gave me quick
feedback that he found it hard to follow all the conversations. I'll
follow up here after we get chance to speak but maybe we'll need to
create some kind of more accessible interface for people like Michael,
who focus on their implementations.

Warm greetings from Hamburg :)

[1] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014
[2] http://www.dabo.de/ | https://github.com/annando