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 * You can find technical documentation for the Debian Social team on our

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IRC

#debian-social on oftc

Salsa

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-social

Logo

https://salsa.debian.org/debiansocial-team/branding

Sysadmin docs

TechnicalDocumentation Page

E-Mail

TODO

 

Introduction

Welcome to the wiki home of the Debian Social team. It's still early days for us, so things can change fast.

The Debian social team aims to run a few services under the debian.social domain. Our goal is to create a safe space for Debian contributors (whether their project members or not) to share what they're doing in the project and to showcase their work, collaborate with others and share knowledge. Just like planet Debian, it's completely fine for these platforms to have a personal touch, however, our goal is not to create any kind of social network per sé.

Service name

Service URL

Upstream URL

Status

Plemora

pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.social

Planned

Pixelfed

pixelfed.debian.social

pixelfed.social

In progress

Peertube

peertube.debian.social

joinpeertube.org

In progress

?WriteFreely

writefreely.debian.social

writefreely.org

In progress

Mattermost

None

mattermost.com

Distant future maybe

Matrix

None

matrix.org

Distant future maybe

WordPress

None

wordpress.org

Possibly soon

The Debian social team aims to:

  • Maintain policy on what can be posted in terms of content on these platforms (adherence to CoC and other Debian social standards, advertisements, etc)
  • Install and upkeep these services
  • Moderate content and train volunteers who are willing to help moderated content
  • Motivate community members to contribute their content to these platforms

Use cases or needs that we aim to address

  • Create a safe space where Debian developers and contributors can keep in touch.
  • Have a platform where official debian teams can communicate or publish updates.
  • Have a platform available that the Debian publicity team can use, if they wish. (existing sites have been known to be problematic in various ways over the years).
  • Share photos from DebConf on our pixelfed instance, this is a better alternative than only posting them to Instagram or Facebook. Many photos also get posted to Telegram groups, which are very ephemeral and difficult to share from on the web. Many DebConf photos currently become lost forever or difficult to find again.

  • Share photos from meetups and sprints that are happening around the world so that other members can follow and keep up and feel included in the community.
  • Upload tutorial and howto videos. Many great video howtos are created but get lost in the ocean of youtube or remain somewhere on a hard disk.
  • Record podcasts covering Debian topics, interview members and famous personalities.
  • Host DebConf videos and make the popular ones easy to discover.

Team Admins

  • Jonathan Carter
  • Rhonda D'Vine
  • Kyle Robbertze

Moderators

We're looking for people who are willing to help moderate. Sign up here if you're interested in helping out, with a brief description of what you're interested in (optional, eg: content, moderation, maintaining services, etc).

  • Your name here

Meetings

  • The next meeting is TBD!

Roadmap

There is a lot of work ahead before the first service can even go live, if you're enthusiastic about these services, we ask you to please be patient.

Phase 1 (Early 2020):

  • [done] Get a machine to host services on. DSA might be able to provide us one, we could rent one, and a DD is contacting a hosting provider to check whether they could assist us.
  • [done] Agree on how we want to implement these services (containers, VMs, how to document, etc)
  • Consider a delegation from the DPL
  • Announce the project, perhaps on micronews / d-d-a
  • Add some beta testers who are willing to endure some bugs

Phase 2 (Q1-Q2 2020):

  • Initial 3 services:
    • peertube
    • plemora
    • pixelfed
  • Get authentication (probably against salsa?) set up for a few services and start opening them up
  • Do an initial announcement and call for moderators
  • Set up a mail alias

Phase 3 (Q2-Q3 2020):

  • Open up services to people who are willing to help test

See also

  • The FediverseTeam is related in the sense of maintaining the federated software within Debian