En début d'année, j'ai décidé de relever le défi #UnJourUnePhoto. Cette initiative avait un double objectif : d'une part, m'encourager à maintenir mon activité sur Mastodon, et d'autre part, partager avec vous mes différentes activités associatives.
Cependant, lorsque je suis submergé par mes diverses activités, ma première réaction est souvent de négliger mon temps personnel. Pourtant, ces publications contribuent justement à prendre soin de moi. Je suis tombé dans un cycle où j'ai manqué plusieurs jours, voire des semaines, m'empêchant ainsi de publier de nouvelles photos.
Après une lutte entre moi et moi-même, j'ai enfin accepté qu'il n'était pas grave d'avoir manqué quelques jours. Pour me rattraper, je vous propose de découvrir quelques clichés après ce pouet, et je vais essayer de reprendre une publication quotidienne :)
Une grosse partie du mois de février a été mangé par le #offdem. Cette image représente le moment où nous avons fait l'émission Source au Caldarium pendant la soirée de lancement du Offdem.
Last weekend FOSDEM took place in Brussels, Belgium. However it was O₄FFDEM that provided the space for about 20 people to meet and discuss the future of events in the Fediverse for the whole Saturday. Among them developers like @lesion (developer of Gancio), setop (upcoming coordinator of Mobilizon), @dreirik (foss.events), @laurin (contributor to ActivityPods) and community members, (h)activists and event organizers like @becha or @eest9, just to name a few, and myself. Eventually, there were people from half of Europe: Montpellier, Strasbourg, Graz, Amsterdam, Italy, Vienna, Ljubljana, and Rotterdam.
Expectations
It was impressive how, despite the number of people present, it was possible for the group to de facto moderate itself, in particular through the experienced careful intervention of a few at the right moments. We began with a short round of introductions, in which expectations for the day were also clarified. We first decided to talk about values, to clarify what needs and concerns are generally present. We were all united by the desire to become independent of Big Tech, although there were several completely different concepts of how this would be achieved from a single point of view in the mix.
Dilemmas
It has become evident that in the case of events, from of a software developer’s point of view, one cannot simply speak of users, but must distinguish between organizers and participants, although the distinction can also be blurred in the case of a small community. Following dilemmas were identified:
regional vs global calendars
topical vs mixed calendars
aggregation vs autonomy
moderation vs censorship
Advantages of a physical meeting
The discussion about these aspects was extensive and, admittedly, did not always seem to me to be very target-oriented. However, it was necessary to balance our different backgrounds and bring us up to the same level of knowledge and it became more concrete after the lunch break when we decided to compare and work out the intentions and use cases of the existing applications and developments in more detail. I could recap this in detail here, but I think it is best to write a stand-alone follow-up article. Each project has its own approach: some focus on local communities, some focus on private events an another wants to provide a way to organize larger political movements with as few social features as possible. On top of that, people have come up with use cases that no developer ever seemed to think of before.
One activist’s question, “What’s the difference between federation and interoperability?“, which had been floating around the room all day, was finally addressed in a satisfying way with examples. Even if all applications can successfully aggregate and display events of others, it does not mean that they respect all mechanisms that control how the event is listed, whether the event is joinable via ActivityPub, whether these joins have to be manually approved, whether some event details visibility have a certain scope, etc.
Calendiverse
Perhaps one of the most important points was to enable the creation of event calendars, which are also aimed at people who do not want to have an account anywhere, but are simply looking for events. From the point of view of people looking for events, regional or topic-specific calendars are particularly important. Which events are aggregated and shown on an individual platform would be in the hands of the platform operators, which would then automatically play a major role in moderation.
Why use ActivityPub?
ActivityPub covers most of the features iCal offers for creating calendars by aggregating multiple sources, but adds a few more:
Follow relationships become tangible
Social media like features:
Boosting
Liking
Replies
Push, not pull based
Joining (Participants management)
Use moderation and governance tools from the Fediverse
Getting to a Common Ground
Mobilizon has already introduced a huge set of custom properties and ways to manage event objects in the ActivityPub world. We decided on a process to re-evaluate their choices and draft a Fediverse Extension Proposal (FEP) for the least common set of them. What makes an event:
Private locations which may be disclosed on participant’s acceptance
From Whom
To Whom: Public, Private, Unlisted
Why if not want to get listed just not “send” the event: e.g., Mobilizon -> federated groups -> federated private events
Let the sender of an event set the discoverability : the recipient might mistreat that
We decided to deal with advanced mechanisms such as sub-events, recurring events, irregularly rescheduled events in the future.
Summary
All in all, it was simply nice to get to know each other and exchange ideas with other people who pursue common or similar goals. Especially the exchange between developers and non-developers, who were in the majority, was of great importance from my point of view. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to capture all the aspects in such a short recap. If you are missing something important, please have a comment. Many thanks to all of you, especially the organizers and those who were taking the meeting minutes.
On profite de la pause midi à l'#offdem pour visiter le datacenter qui héberge les serveurs de #neutrinet \o/
(déso pour la qualité des photos c'est via mon tél ;-P)
I were at #FOSDEM to show and discuss #fedora#languages#translation progress, and instead I went to #OFFDEM in which I had a really pleasant time, unfortunately, I were not able to stay on Sunday for personal reasons...
I'll try talking here about these data, until I consolidate this in a more structured way.
I a reminder, my goal is to measure the efficiency of the way we work (translator communities, devs and distribution), to open discussion.
And more NGI0 things to do at #FOSDEM & #OFFDEM. We'll have 2 BoF sessions. Saturday at 10:30 there's the NGI0 network meetup inviting (prospect) NGI Zero projects to meet & greet, and have a discussion about the Next Generation Internet.[1]
Sunday at 10:00 is the NLnet Office Hour to ask NLnet anything you want to know about Open Source (NGI0) grants.[2]
And you're also very welcome at the Zero Grantees Feedback session at OFFDEM.[3]
We're looking forward to go to #FOSDEM. There will be lots of talks by projects supported by NGI0. In fact, one talk short of the answer to life the universe and everything.
We'll also have a stand in Building K where you can come and collect your favourite hexagon stickers and/or talk to us.
There'll also be activities at #OFFDEM including an open table conversation. Plus even more things to do at FOSDEM Fringe.
We've listed it all here https://nlnet.nl/events/20240203/index.html.
Hope to see you at FOSDEM!
This weekend @linos is going to attend OFFDEM (FOSDEM) in Brussels. There will be a Fediverse Event-Gathering on Saturday:
Fediverse Event-Gathering
We are some hackers that currently work on different solutions serving the same goals: free users from having to use Meetup or GAFAM sh*t to aggregate and organize their events. We want to gather and work together and agree on common standards to benefit from interoperability and each other. Current solutions we are working on include but are not limited to:
quick presentations of each project to help understand common features and differences
discuss and agree on a common standard for event data in the Fediverse
use the rest of the day to hack-a-thon, chat, learn, cooperate
We expect a number of 5-10 people joining from the mentioned projects. Other people are welcome to join if they are interested in the topic and/or like to contribute to one of these projects.
Next weekend I'll be at #OFFDEM in Brussels: @ #UnCiv meetup, https://oxygen.offdem.net/t/unciv-meeting/249, Mesh networking, federated events coordination, looking for partners for projects in Balkans & rural networking, LikaCamp, Climate Justice, connecting with AMRO & APC friends, permacomputing & squirrels... Looking forward! thanks @natacha, @how , @adalanerd , @XavCC & all others who are making this amazing event happen!
Brussels, I am in you! We made it past the farmer-protests & waffle-burgers... and now I do not feel like partying tonight, but starting early tomorrow morning at #OFFDEM . See you soon, @natacha@how@adalanerd@XavCC
If you are coming to FOSDEM and like to connect with old or new #communities beyond the actual conference, find a list of possible events on // foss.events: https://foss.events/#February
Wishing everyone a great time - wherever you finally end up going ^^
Have you been to #OFFDEM? What was your experience like? Should I go thru the hassle of cross country traveling to another to take part in a two day event?
Pour la 5ème fois, @ps organise ce festival intersectionnel sur les pratiques collectives et sur la production de technologies libres à Bruxelles, le 1er week-end de février à VSP :blob_black_block:
Cette édition aura pour thème principal “démilitarisation : un enjeu du Libre ?”
> Alors que l’économie industrielle accélère sa course destructrice contre notre environnement, tuant toute forme de vie au profit des capitalistes, améliorer nos connaissances et notre cohésion participe au désarmement de nos ennemis. Une quête d’émancipation.
Last year I wrote the above toot about #OFFDEM. It still rings true, and even louder.
This year I'm writing this to you, and I say it most sincerely:
You are so precious people, you create hope, you carry hope, you take care of hope, you share all the more! You're blasting away at heavy problems we're facing
I've just returned to my hometown after a week of collaborative work with hacktivists in Brussels on the subject of water (access, pollutants, privatisation, global warming, etc.).
Then I come across the national press/media 'releasing' the news on an extremely serious situation in France.
I had prepared a text to be published and shared with OFFDEM with the intention of showing the origins of cooperation between the military complex and industry, particularly in the field of chemistry, using the example of PFAS.
Unfortunately, I was unable to finish it.
It's not just in France
To put it more briefly: we and you need to work together, we need help and mutual aid, millions of people and even billions are in hell every second of our silence and our wait-and-see attitude.