- From: Robert W Gehl <rwg@yorku.ca>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 09:17:10 -0400
- To: public-swicg@w3.org
Hello, all -- I plan on attending the meeting, at least for an hour or so. I'm Rob. I'm an academic who has been studying what I call "alternative social media" for over a decade. I mainly consider the relationships between technical infrastructures and social practices, drawing heavily on a science and technology studies perspective as well as feminist and Marxian ethics. I've published papers on Twister, GNU social, social networking on the dark web, and Mastodon/the fediverse. I'm currently working on a book about the fediverse. To that end, I've read all the meeting minutes from the Social Web Working Group (and a bit from the Interest Group) and studied things like the User Stories the IG created. I am particularly interested in the fediverse as a new approach to social media moderation and governance. I hope this is useful to the Group, since I am not a coder. My academic affiliation is Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice at York University in Toronto. Regards, Rob On 5/18/23 01:03, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > st 17. 5. 2023 v 20:56 odesílatel Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name > <mailto: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 <http://Identi.ca>, creator of > GNU Social and pump.io <http://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 > <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 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou> > > > Hi, I'm Melvin, I'm a grass roots developer working on the social web. > I accidentally fell down this rabbit hole about 15 years ago while > trying to build an online card game. I wanted to make a system so that > when users logged in, and got an achievement, they would be able to own > it, and take it with them across different systems. My original thought > was "surely someone must have done this", and I was pointed to various > efforts, from openID, to the first SWXG, then to FOAF, and then Solid, > the SWWG, and most recently to Nostr. Each system offering different > trade offs. > > I enjoy it when different systems work together and grow a network > effect. I try to build things I want to use myself, and that I could > recommend to my friends. > > Knowing the W3C web stack quite well I think it's a mixed bag. If you > were to cherry pick the best parts you would achieve a good degree of > interop and massive scalability. My hope is to try and use what I've > learnt to help grow projects working in the space, and find viable > technical alternatives to the current incumbents, that offer a new > generation of innovation. > > > Evan > >> On May 17, 2023, at 12:56 PM, Dmitri Zagidulin >> <dzagidulin@gmail.com <mailto: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 <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/ >> <https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/>, Fediverse Enhancement >> Proposals (FEP) https://codeberg.org/fediverse/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/ >> <https://w3c-ccg.github.io/workitem-process/> ) >> >> 4) Other discussion as time allows. >> >> Thank you, talk to you soon. >> >> Dmitri > -- Robert W. Gehl (he/him/his) Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University Fulbright Scholar, University of Calgary www.robertwgehl.org | @rwg@aoir.social Sent from our OS on our Internet
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