Re: Introductions (was Re: First 2023 SWICG meeting call on Fri May 19)

st 17. 5. 2023 v 20:56 odesílatel Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
napsal:

> I’ll take this moment to make a self-introduction ahead of the meeting.
>
> My name is Evan Prodromou; I am an entrepreneur and technologist who has
> been working on the social web since the mid-2000s.
>
> I’m primarily known in this community for my work as co-author of the
> Activity Streams 2.0 and ActivityPub specifications.  I co-chaired the
> Social Web Working Group with Arnaud and Tantek.
>
> I was also the founder of Identi.ca, creator of GNU Social and pump.io,
> and co-author of the OStatus specification.
>

I appreciate your contributions to the social web, Evan. However, I believe
there may be a minor inaccuracy in your statement. To the best of my
recollection, it was Matt Lee who originally founded GNU Social, as a
spinoff from GNU FM. Let's ensure we properly acknowledge the efforts of
all contributors in our shared history of social media innovation.


>
> For the near future of ActivityPub, I’m *very* interested in developing
> an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) extension in-band, using the media type on
> `content` elements. I recently published some HCI research
> <https://evanp.me/2023/05/15/re-designing-the-mastodon-user-interface-for-better-personal-relationships/> on
> this topic and how important it is to supporting personal relationships on
> the social web.
>
> I have a social web account on https://cosocial.ca/evan . CoSocial is the
> Mastodon cooperative that I co-founded.
>
> Further information about me and my work here:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou
>
> Evan
>
> On May 17, 2023, at 12:56 PM, Dmitri Zagidulin <dzagidulin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Finding a regular meeting time slot that works with everyone continues to
> be an impossible task.
>
> In the interest of getting momentum going, we'll be having our first
> SWICG call of the year this coming Friday, May 19, at 9 am EST / 6 am
> Pacific / 3 pm CET over at:
>
> https://meet.jit.si/social-web-cg
>
> Apologies in advance to those who can't make it, let's continue the
> discussion on what we can do to accommodate more people (perhaps alternate
> biweekly calls, one on Fri and one on Saturday, etc).
>
> AGENDA:
>
> 1) (NON-AGENDA item) Although the common first call agenda tradition is
> introductions, I'm wondering if we can shortcut the introduction process by
> doing it elsewhere, such as on the SWICG mailing list, or SocialHub forum.
> Otherwise there's a good chance that we'll take up the whole call with
> intros. :)
>
> 2) Overview of the W3C Community Group process (code of conduct,
> governance, etc) to refresh our memories.
>
> 3) Discussion and proposals for:
>
> * What are the goals and current focus of SWICG
>
> * What is SWICG's relationship with the other centers of community and
> discussion, such as SocialHub https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/,
> Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEP) https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep,
> the Fedidevs Matrix chat rooms. (My view on this: We can all work together
> with those communities, without co-opting or interference.)
>
> * Governance process for adopting Work Items. (For a good example of an
> existing effective Work Item Process, see the Credential Community Group's
> process doc: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/workitem-process/ )
>
> 4) Other discussion as time allows.
>
> Thank you, talk to you soon.
>
> Dmitri
>
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:55:15 UTC