Re: W3C Social WG and federation consensus/collaboration

On 11/04/2014 05:07 PM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm glad to see that things are moving forward smoothly on several
> fronts: ActivityStreams 2.0 is really shaping up, it looks like things
> are moving forward quickly, and so on.
> 
> 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.
I also hope we can improve this situation!

> 
> Who do we have who is actually going to be working on the protocol
> layers from:
> 
>  - diaspora (large and active!  Using something akin to OStatus)
I tried reaching out 2 months ago:
https://www.loomio.org/d/4Z28QFTn/social-web-working-group-w3c - not
much luck :(

>  - GNU Social (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 )
Would you like to start discussions with them?

Received on Tuesday, 4 November 2014 17:48:42 UTC