Ronald Ashri: The Federated Social Web and Drupal - Notes from the Drupalcon BOF meeting

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The first meeting in a Drupal-specific context regarding the Federated Social Web took place at the Copenhagen Drupalcon. It was very interesting both because of the range of people interested and because we got a first-hand account of developments from James Walker who is a key part of the Ostatus effort. This blog post is a brief write-up of what was discussed and links to further information.

The meeting started with a series of introductions by participants including the reasons they were interested in a federated social web. The answers were very encouraging because in addition to the expected concerns regarding breaking apart silos of information and control (I am thinking of you facebook.com) there were also some very practical needs regarding interoperability and decentralisation in enterprise environments. This is great because noble thoughts (and efforts) on their own a federated social web will not make.

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