creating Federation working group

I forgot this one, sorry:
http://loom.io/discussions/615

@altruism thank you for sharing those links!

I just joined. Federation is exactly the topic that made me want to get invited onto Loomio.

I think there are some hurdles to keep in mind:

1. A lot of different projects right now have different ways of federating. Friendica uses Zot, StatusNet uses OStatus, and BuddyCloud uses Activity Streams over XMPP. They're all probably going to use their own federation protocols for at least a while, rather than working to standardize on one. So, this means we'll probably have to think of ways to translate each other's protocols. Perhaps we could set up different kinds of backends for our federation system to make use of in the interim.

2. We can have the best federation spec on the planet, but that's only half the issue. We also need to improve how our pods receive and broadcast user data and content. Maxwell explained it in this sense, and I think it's an accurate statement: "You can know how to speak many different languages, but if your vocal chords aren't very developed, you're going to run into problems."

So, we need to not only think about how Diaspora could federate with other platforms, or even other pods, but we need to think about how D* handles incoming and outgoing federated data.

Sean makes an important point - federation is broken on D* not because of language but ability (afaik). Still it's important to make sure we have the best language and that we have a group who is interested in working on improving the language with other parties as well.

Ps. Support for the group is quite strong. I'd say strong enough to already create it? ;)

Consider it done. Motion passed!

Extending discussion here: http://loom.io/discussions/814

Motion passed!

That laxatives are working then, Sean? (sorry)

Goob, let's use common sense here...

Did this working group happen? I also created a discussion about what federation protocol we use here: https://www.loomio.org/discussions/6233