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A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate

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Bonfire

@Bonfire 9 hr. ago

Excited for this workshop tomorrow at @CIM@bonfire.cim.warwick.ac.uk

If you or anyone you know is in the area, whether in the University of Warwick's orbit or not, please come along to co-design the #OpenScienceNetwork, #Bonfire, and our #codesign methods themselves.

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ivan

@ivan yesterday

didn't really liked luxembourg city, but the fact that they have free public transportation is one of the most amazing and empowering thing i had experienced in a while...

ivan

@ivan 5 days ago

“Federated social media’s contribution to digital autonomy runs wider than another place to post. Public money funded a supply of parts and put it where anyone could reach it. Researchers used it to start rebuilding scientific publishing, a magazine’s readers used it to turn an audience into a membership, and a town can use it to let a river tell everyone what the water is doing. None of those had a commercial version to copy, and all of them exist.”

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Bonfire

@Bonfire 5 days ago

Linux Magazine talked to us about how and why we build Bonfire.

What we want next is "not a bigger Bonfire, but a network of cooperatives covering the whole supply chain of a community's digital space", who "do it together" rather than leave you to "do it yourself".

Because "federation, we don't see it as just a technical thing. We see it as a social, economic, and political tool as well."

Link: Supporting the Social Web: How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms

Also happy to spread the love for @coopcloud@social.coop, @coquest@social.coop, @SocialCoop@social.coop and more, check out the links at the end of the article! Thanks to @horncologne@fosstodon.org for a lovely conversation, and @linuxmagazine@fosstodon.org for publishing it, in a piece that also features the great @cwebber@social.coop and @tsyesika@mastodon.nu from @spritely@social.coop.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #opensource #freesoftware #OpenCooperativeEcosystem #OpenScienceNetwork

Supporting the Social Web: How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms, by Jeffrey A. McGuire in Linux Magazine (PDF)

Bonfire

@Bonfire 5 days ago

It was such a great experience to join the open source conference in luxembourg!
Huge thanks to the amazing @_elena@mastodon.social and @Gina@fosstodon.org for organising and curating the Decentralised Technologies for Digital Sovereignty track, It brought together lots of the people and conversations we need right now.
And thanks to @samvie@chaos.social to keep pushing the fediverse forwards ✊️

Bonfire

@Bonfire 6 days ago

Coming to the Open Source Conference in Luxembourg today? @oscl@mastodon.opencloud.lu 🇱🇺

Come say hi! At 15:30 we'll talk about digital sovereignty, why it's more than a server, what is the ecosystem we're building towards and keep asking ourselves: where's Franca? 🔥

pretalx.com/open-source-conf... #DigitalSovereignty #Fediverse #OpenSource #Bonfire

A presentation slide on a red background with the title "Where's Franca?" and the confused john travolta's meme

Sovereignty Is More Than a Server: Public Digital Commons with Bonfire Open Source Conference Luxembourg

Digital sovereignty is not achieved simply by replacing one platform with another. A public institution may host its own server and still inherit someone else’s assumptions about identity, processes, moderation, participation, and governance. This talk presents [Bonfire](https://bonfirenetworks.org) , an AGPL-licensed modular framework for building self-hosted and federated digital spaces using open protocols such as ActivityPub. Rather than asking every administration, university, or public body to join the same network and using the same platform and set of features, Bonfire allows each organisation to assemble a space around its own needs: public communication, institutional communities, cross-organisation collaboration, research networks, or moderated discussions. Institutions can operate the infrastructure themselves or work with cooperative hosting providers, define their own roles and participation boundaries, and connect with peer organisations without surrendering their data, policies, or roadmap to a single vendor. Drawing on Bonfire’s work with research and education partners - including the University of Warwick, Princeton University and UCL - the talk will examine what this model changes in practice. It will also address what remains difficult: operational capacity, engagement and participation, moderation, migration, interoperability, and the long-term sustainability of public-interest infrastructure. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating sovereign communication tools: not only where a service is hosted, but who controls its data, code, policies, evolution, and relationships with other institutions and with a realistic understanding of where Bonfire can contribute today.

Bonfire

@Bonfire last wk.

Belgian journalism cooperative Apache is going to be testing Bonfire as a space for its readers, inspired by #Jacobin work in Germany.
Independent media building community spaces where readers and journalists can meet, participate, and connect across the fediverse. This is the kind of social web we want to support.
Their ongoing diary of leaving big tech is worth a read (in Dutch): apache.be/vaarwel-big-tech

Ernstige kwetsbaarheden in Belgische eID-software blootgelegd

Apache zegt “bye bye big tech”. Ontdek in deze doorlopende blog hoe en waarom.

ivan

@ivan 2 wk. ago

quanto è importante e contemporaneo lo spettacolo sul vajont di Paolini...
youtube.com/watch?v=q7CarpRf...

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lebout2canap ⏚

@lebout2canap@mastodon.tedomum.net 3 wk. ago

@gardian A paragraph is duplicated. The one that starts with “The rule-selection interface was”. cc @Bonfire

Bonfire

@Bonfire 3 wk. ago

@lebout2canap@mastodon.tedomum.net fixed, thanks! @gardian@social.manade.org

Ben Lockwood, PhD 🌎

@benlockwood@ecoevo.social 3 wk. ago

It would be pretty cool to have a fediverse version of ResearchGate. Someone should look into that. Someone with a lot more free time than me.

#fediverse #AcademicChatter #academia

Bonfire

@Bonfire 3 wk. ago

@benlockwood@ecoevo.social openscience.network goes beyond that 👋

Bonfire

@Bonfire 3 wk. ago

Originally published on Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy blog, this article by @s0hw@hci.social and @andresmh@hci.social reflects on a semester of collaboration with Bonfire. Together, we explored how Governance Cards could help communities describe how they organise and govern their shared spaces.

Community rules will ship alongside federated groups in the upcoming Bonfire release 🎉

bonfirenetworks.org/posts/ma... #Governance #Crowcards

Making Community Governance Legible: A Semester with Bonfire

A collaboration with Princeton explores how Governance Cards can help communities explain how they organise, make decisions, and care for their shared spaces.