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

The GNU Social website
<https://gnusocial.network/#:~:text=The%20founders%20of%20the%20GNU%20social%20project%20were%20Matt%20Lee%2C%20Evan%20Prodromou%20and%20Mikael%20Nordfeldth.>
states clearly that "The founders of the GNU social project were Matt
Lee, *Evan
Prodromou* and Mikael Nordfeldth."

bob wyman


On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 3:55 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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