PLUG Meeting for September 13th
This month
der.hans will present "ActivityPub: Decentralized Social
Networking" for us.
For more info,
Meeting time and location see:
der.hans:
ActivityPub: Decentralized Social Networking
Description:
ActivityPub
is a decentralized social networking protocol for allowing
various services to interact.
For
instance, a long form blog engine can use an external
microblogging service for comments.
ActivityPub
is based on the ActivityStream 2.0 data format. It provides
client to server APIs and server to server APIs for server to
server federating.
Attendees
will learn about:
- Why decentralized social networking is useful
- The history of ActivityPub
- The history of decentralized social networking
- Overview of some activities available through
ActivityPub
- List of services implementing ActivityPub
- Now what?
Biography:
der.hans is
a Free Software community veteran, presenter and author. He is
the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, BoF organizer for
the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and chairman of the
Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG).
As a
technology and entrepreneurial veteran, roles have included
director of engineering, engineering manager, IS manager, system
administrator, community college instructor, developer and DBA.
He presents
regularly at large community-led conferences (SCaLE, SeaGL,
LibrePlanet, LFNW, Tübix) and many local groups.
The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze
Substation. People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would
like to help setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.
We will go for food to BJs at the Chandler Fashion Center Mall
after the meeting so we can chat with each other comfortably.
Please feel free to join us. Please come even if you aren't
hungry, the food is not mandatory.
See you there,
Brian Cluff