Oscon 2008 Open Micro Blogging Presentation
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The document discusses Evan Prodromou's open source microblogging project Identi.ca. It summarizes the goals of making microblogging free and distributed through open standards, while also providing an alternative to the popular but closed Twitter platform. It outlines features already implemented in Identi.ca like federation and discusses future plans and opportunities for others to get involved through contributing code, translations, or spreading awareness of the project.
Oscon 2008 Open Micro Blogging Presentation
- 1. Open Source Microblogging Evan Prodromou Control Yourself, Inc. 6 Thermidor CCXIV
- 2. What to expect Rambling tangents Inside jokes Disjointed thoughts Bad puns Sly insinuations Wild-eyed enthusiasm
- 3. About me Longtime writer and programmer from San Francisco Moved to Montreal in 2002 I ♥ Freedom Stubborn as hell Not really 100% “all there” Dumb sense of humour
- 4. Ideas I've had bearfight.com Wikiclock OpenID for MediaWiki certifi.ca vinismo.com Burn All GIFs JokeML
- 5. Ideas I've had, part two Spock Mountain Research Labs iDog DeCSS JOAP kei.ki Wikitravel Identi.ca
- 6. I can't tell the difference I probably have mental problems I don't know what makes some of these things insanely popular and others not You might want to take the rest of this discussion with a grain of salt
- 7. Being crazy gets you to cool parties Invited to a “minisummit” at FSF in March 2008 Folks from OKF, FSF, CC, SFLC I was in Buenos Aires at the time Lucky me! Discussed the problem of Freedom and Network services
- 8. Web 2.0 Open You can use it. Usually. You can write software that uses the API. Rounded corners. Look! A cute whale! Awwwww!
- 9. What problem? We're supposed to have freedom Four freedoms: use, study and adapt, distribute, improve I count five. Using software on someone else's computer makes these freedoms hard.
- 10. We know how to fix that Free Software. Duh.
- 11. What problem? Page 2 “ Data is the Intel inside” - TO'R “ Open Source licenses are irrelevant” Terms of service Privacy Sociality Social Web Your freedom, my freedom We've told ourselves it doesn't matter Deep stacks Intertwingly
- 12. What is the point? autonomy
- 13. What is to be done? Agreed to become a ragtag band of superheroes fighting for autonomy autonomo.us blog and wiki autono.my was 10x more expensive Franklin Street Statement
- 14. Open Software Service Definition http://opendefinition.org/ossd Data is Open Data . But personal stuff is yours to manage. Software is Free Software . Code must be shared. Open formats. Open APIs.
- 15. Franklin Street Statement This matters. Developers should make software for Free services. Service providers should use it. Users should hold them to it. http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/
- 16. Now, back to me What was I gonna do to make this happen?
- 17. Twitter. Duh. Very popular. Web 2.0 “open”. Beloved by Web people. I used it all the time. Seemed pretty easy to implement. Losing its edge. Ripe for conquest.
- 18. What is Microblogging ? Posting itty-bitty status messages. They go out to your friends and fans. You read your friends' messages. Yay.
- 19. But also Multiple channels SMS IM RSS API + clients
- 20. What is Microblogging? part two Universal teeny-weeny message router Multicast, moved up about 3 layers on the stack, and made to work.
- 21. Why does it matter? It's really addictive Smooths over rough edges of communication Most meaningful social network
- 22. So I got cracking PHP + MySQL Commodity hosting DB_DataObject XMPPHP XMLWriter RDF
- 23. Semantic Web Open standard(s) for meaning Easy as hell to implement Easy to create data for Lowers the barrier for writing smart software Make Free Software more relevant and user autonomy more realizable
- 24. The name CIRA is awesome Stoi.ca Laconi.ca Identi.ca
- 25. Realistic Autonomy How to move to a new server and still keep your friends and followers? Start a new server and keep the network Autonomy requires federated microblogging .
- 26. OpenMicroBlogging http://openmicroblogging.org/ OAuth-based Subscriptions Posting notices (including rich media) Sharing profile
- 27. The Social Web Should Work Like the Document Web Distributed Open standards Easy linking Ubiquitous Multiple implementations Identity -- OpenID
- 28. Releasing the code Started mid-May at RCC Beta release in June autonomo.us people Friends in Montreal tech community No public links Worked out some kinks
- 29. Launching July 2, 2008 Twitter goes down Send out an email to launch CC, RWW, TechCrunch, Slashdot, Mashable, Winer 10K users in 36 hours
- 30. Hosed Not enough servers DNS not ready to move PHP bug made Jabber not work
- 31. Features missing Replies User search Clients Mobile
- 32. We got those going
- 33. What's next? AIM Better federation XMPP-PubSub UI tweaks (delete, edit, hide replies) Track Easy moving from server to server Twitter interop Multiple licenses Pownce-like multimedia I18n
- 34. Will this work? Identi.ca is a business. Open Source is disruptive. Shifts the value proposition from features to relationships . Burns out the underbrush. See: wordpress.com, livejournal.com, Wikia
- 35. What can you do? Use Identi.ca Invite your friends Write code Help with translations Link to us Make themes Make new OSSD-compliant services
- 36. What needs doing Calendaring Email Social bookmarks Social news Storage Photo sharing Video sharing
- 37. What needs doing, pt. 2 Mapping Web search Homepage Cloud computing Distributed commenting Social networking... maybe.
- 38. Other utopian beliefs I espouse Esperanto Sona French Revolutionary Calendar Stopping at crosswalks Burning Man Ecotopia and car-free cities
- 39. Do you have to share my tinfoil hat beliefs? No. But if you share some , you should help out. I ♥ Twitter Quitters. Dual-post if you must. Moving now will earn my thanks and appreciation. You may dislike Twitter's reliability. You may just want to be on the winning side.
- 40. This is Web 3.0. Just in case you were wondering why you were excited about it.
- 41. Tonight Free Network Services BOF Open Microblogging BOF
- 42. Questions?