Welcome to the Debian Social Team
Welcome to the wiki home of the Debian Social team. It's still early days for us, so things can change fast.
Introduction
The Debian social team aims to run a few services under the debian.social domain.
Plans so far is to host:
- pleroma - a federated microblogging platform (as of 2020-02-26: busy with basic configuration)
peertube - a federated video sharing platform (as of 2020-02-26: basic initial configuration done, alpha state: https://peertube.debian.social)
- pixelfed - a federated image sharing platform (as of 2020-02-26: busy with basic configuration)
And potentially more to come in the future. We've had requests for mattermost and matrix, and we're also interested in hosting either WordPress or write.freely, but we have a lot of tasks ahead to get our initial services running properly, please be patient!
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. 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.
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
Some use cases or needs that we aim to address
Microblog:
- Create a safe space where Debian developers and contributors can keep in touch.
Photos:
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.
- 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
Videos:
- Upload tutorial and howto videos. Many great video howtos are created but get lost in the ocean of youtube.
- Record podcasts covering Debian topics, interview members and historical figures.
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).
Meetings
- The next meeting is TBA!
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)
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
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
You can find technical documentation for the Debian Social team on our TechnicalDocumentation Page