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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 |
Planned |
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Pixelfed |
In progress |
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Peertube |
In progress |
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?WriteFreely |
In progress |
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Mattermost |
None |
Distant future maybe |
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Matrix |
None |
Distant future maybe |
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None |
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