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

Thanks for kicking off this thread, Evan!

I'll go: I'm Dmitri Zagidulin, I'm a software engineer and open standards
evangelist, generally in the field of decentralized identity, verifiable
credentials, and the open social web. I tend to split my time between
hands-on coding on relevant libraries, managing dev teams, and
participating in standards groups. Currently freelancing, working for MIT
Digital Credentials Consortium, and several other related projects.

I'm a huge fan of the work all of you are doing in this space, and hope to
help the community in any way I can.


On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 2:55 PM Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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
>