wolftunemy co-founder friend has a decent-paying day job, and he's paying this Masters student to work on Snowdrift.coop full-time over this summer (basically we can only afford effectively minimum wage, but it's something, and the guy is a solid Haskeller happy to work cheap as he loves what we're doing)
wolftuneSnowdrift.coop is a new (untested) economic model for patronage because we're building a network-style matching system to assure that we're all in this together
wolftuneThe name comes from the "snowdrift dilemma" which is one of these game theory things about the challenges of addressing collective action, how to get everyone to cooperate to fund public goods
wolftuneThey were originally ONLY allowing anyone to log-in through proprietary silos. And that's what made us most hesitant to think they were even working in the right direction originally
wolftunethere's some other strangeness about Gittip and the policies and sorta naive wishful approach… I think a lot of it is decent though, I don't hate them
wolftuneThe founder, Chad, wants openness, so he won't talk to anyone privately ever, and that means people can't have their private concerns addressed easily, it means certain voices are absent from the discussion
wolftuneanyway, I still think they have a place. Gittip is a sort general whatever gifting ongoing system, and since we're really project-focused, FLO-specific, we have a certain niche. We're not trying to fund the social activists that Gittip was funding. We're sad about the drama and problems there. It isn't good for us in any way.
wolftuneI've talked to people who go on two sides with this (A) "You should do the gift hack that Gittip does!" (re: Snowdrift.coop), and (B) "Yeah, Gittip is probably totally legally questionable / illegal"
wolftunewe're doing some uncomfortable wheel-reinventing, but it's been necessary in some ways to have what we need and fit our ideals (which aren't just dogmatic — we think being ideal is key to building community support early on, especially from those who care most)
wolftunebret: so our compromise is to only have a small set of *requirements* and otherwise just *encourage* ideals (that page I linked to above re: ads and more)
LoqiGittip is a payment system that allows individuals and organizations to receive 'tips' to their gittip account which is associated with a number of different silo accounts such as github, bitbucket, twitter, openstreetmap, etc http://indiewebcamp.com/gittip
wolftunein summary, Flattr is fine for a little bonus tip system. I've never heard of anyone really funded substantially on Flattr, it doesn't solve the snowdrift dilemma at all, it's a proprietary system, and otherwise it's ok
wolftuneI really hate wheel-reinvention (despite that we're doing a lot of it after all). I feel responsible to at least do my homework and not clutter the world with another competing thing before checking what's out there.
wolftunepauloppenheim: thanks for the thoughts, and your characterization is good. Note that the other element is: it's *strictly* for FLO projects. If the community funds you, then you have no excuse to stay proprietary!
wolftuneif we could just have a tax to fund everything FLO, that'd work (at least in terms of funding, although there are some arguments for engaging a more voluntary market approach)
tantekbut I might amend that slightly to: it's basically decentralized public research but in private hands because we've given up on centralized public institutions
wolftunetantek: FWIW (and I have mixed feelings about this), Snowdrift.coop is itself centralized by design. It's a bit like Wikipedia / Wikimedia. But the cooperative governance helps, and everything is FLO… and MAYBE one day we can figure out how to make it run in a more distributed way
wolftuneAnyway, I have mixed feelings as I think democracy and control and freedom matter, but centralization isn't always terrible otherwise. I'm not a dogmatic anarchist or anything
wolftunethanks, we're always welcoming feedback and such, and certainly any Haskellers (or simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript devs) who want to come help are certainly welcome!
tantek!tell aaronpk, benwerd, kevinmarks please review: https://indiewebcamp.com/start_a_page what do you think as a reference for new folks joining the community, to help lower the barrier to creating new pages?
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snarfedKartikPrabhu: right, that's why i mentioned the username part. the username in the bridgy url needs to be someone (anyone) who is signed up, like you
KartikPrabhusnarfed: i got it working just fine... but i want to have it not have mf2py (as an example) in a sub-folder because I already have mf2py stuff anyway
snarfedideally i'd package it as a proper pypi library, and all the dependent libs would be separate, and fetched via a requirements.txt file…but i haven't done that yet
glennjonesIt’s hard for identengine as larger silos go out of their way to block this type of bleed profile data/control, but I on our own domains it a lot easier
willnorrisShaneHudson: yeah, that’s what I was thinking. A lot of this work has been going on for years, so any contribution to the w3 WG could be considered derivative of that
anNofMeaaronpk: so here’s a question - if someone accidentally used something licensed under CC-SA, and that made it into a W3C doc, would the SA clause of CC over ride W3C’s claim over the material?
tantekalso is there a general comments field in the form? thought there was - you can either add a note there or blog it (the confusion) and add a URL in the form's notes/comments field.
ShaneHudsonThe questionnaire didn't seem particularly useful at all. It was mostly just asking for name and organisation. Seemed to be more targetted on getting the organisation to join the W3C than whether the person would be useful.
tantekgRegor`: and in this case it may involve some design tweaks too - since IndieWebCamps are semi-regular, and very different # of them per year. Figuring you might want to take the opportunity tweak the templates for the design you have/had in mind accordingly.
gRegor`Sure, I can take a look at it. I think a two column table will work for a start. navbox and navbox-row let you set up a two-column table with multiple rows.
aaronpkmy understanding is that if webmention becomes part of the W3C work, then it would not be possible for anyone who had contributed to the W3C group to fork the webmention spec
KevinMarks_this is costing startups thousands in lawyer fees to fix the lawyers mis-statement of practice, and potentially damaging their interests by precluding contribution to open source/open specs
tantek!tell shaners did you ever get the photos from IndieWebCamp Hollywood 2013 uploaded anywhere? When you find them, please upload with http://indiewebcamp.com/Special:Upload - thanks!
LoqiIndieWebCamps are brainstorming and building events where IndieWeb creators gather semi-regularly to meet in person, share ideas, and collaborate on IndieWeb design, UX, & code for their own sites http://indiewebcamp.com/IndieWebCamps
tantek.comedited /Template:IndieWebCamp (+7) "link heading to IndieWebCamps since that page basically provides an expansion of what this template shows" (view diff)
tantekdoes that make sense to you aaronpk? having the {{IndieWebCamp}} template link its header to the /IndieWebCamps page which basically expands everything in the template?
tantek"Open Source Bridge 2015 Interest Form \ In 2015, we plan to host two Open Source Bridge conferences, one in Portland, Oregon, and one in another city. If you're interested in bringing Open Source Bridge to your city, let us know!"
voxpellisnarfed: what I'm wondering is that I'm seeing that all tweets replying to a tweet mentioning a URL also has that URL in a in-reply-to / u-like-of or similar – making it look like they are actually liking/replying to that URL rather than to a tweet
voxpellisnarfed: ok, then I should probably stop using Bridgy for Twitter until I do POSSE:sing of all of my tweets (which I unfortunately due to my setup likely won't do for quite a while :/)
voxpelliwell, if all of the URL:s I tweet will be treated as alternate representations of my tweet then peoples interactions with my tweets will be sent to weird places
voxpellisnarfed: but it will be impossible to distinguish a "guessed" like of my page from a real like of my page – would likely prefer all guesses to be a u-mention at max
voxpellisnarfed: another thing I wonder is about the URL – the likes from Bridgy all have the same rel-canonical, but with different content – I'm expecting a URL to always mentioning the same sites so my system gets confused after the first one
voxpelliwould it be possible to return all likes + the original post in the ping then? as that's how it would have to be referenced if they themselves supported mf2
snarfedmost other people are de-duping on source url - which is different for every like - and only use u-url or rel-canonical for rendering. maybe try that?
snarfedvoxpelli: (also, including all likes/comments/etc in the same ping wouldn't really work, since more likes and comments could arrive after i send it, and i want to be able to send them too)
voxpellithen it would just be a matter of supporting different individual sites posting mentions from other sites, which while it has a certain impersonation problem is a needed workaround to get silos supported
voxpellisnarfed: that was all the questions I had at the moment – will try to get my endpoint updated to support Bridgy better and will hopefully start using it myself again in the future :)
voxpellisnarfed: just one more thing regarding the in-reply-to – couldn't it make sense to have an option telling Bridgy to require rel-syndication to flag anything from that account as an original post? To enable partial POSSE:sing?
cuibonoboKartikPrabhu: based on what the PHP spec has so far, documentation is designed for people who want to use the language, while a spec documents the properties and behaviors of the language
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Loqibenwerd: tantek left you a message on 7/29 at 6:37pm: please review: https://indiewebcamp.com/start_a_page what do you think as a reference for new folks joining the community, to help lower the barrier to creating new pages?