PLUG Meeting for September 13^th ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **This month der.hans will present "ActivityPub: Decentralized Social Networking" for us.****** ** *For more info, Meeting time and location see:* ** *http://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html** * ** **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***der.hans**: **ActivityPub: Decentralized Social Networking* *Description*: ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol for allowing various services to interact. For instance, a long form blog engine can use an external microblogging service for comments. ActivityPub is based on the ActivityStream 2.0 data format. It provides client to server APIs and server to server APIs for server to server federating. Attendees will learn about: * Why decentralized social networking is useful * The history of ActivityPub * The history of decentralized social networking * Overview of some activities available through ActivityPub * List of services implementing ActivityPub * Now what? *Biography*: der.hans is a Free Software community veteran, presenter and author. He is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG). As a technology and entrepreneurial veteran, roles have included director of engineering, engineering manager, IS manager, system administrator, community college instructor, developer and DBA. He presents regularly at large community-led conferences (SCaLE, SeaGL, LibrePlanet, LFNW, Tübix) and many local groups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze Substation.  People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would like to help setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early. *Meeting Location*: Desert Breeze Substation 251 North Desert Breeze Blvd West Chandler, AZ 85226 The Desert Breeze Substation is on Chandler Blvd and Desert Breeze Blvd, which is half way between McClintock and Rural.  It is very close to both the south 202 and 101 freeways.  Public transportation is available into the late hours. For more information see the meeting information on our web site Contact PLUG: Email: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/email-lists.html IRC: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/chat.html Google+: https://plus.google.com/+PhxlinuxOrg Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Linux-Users-Group/ We will go for food to BJs at the Chandler Fashion Center Mall after the meeting so we can chat with each other comfortably. Please feel free to join us. Please come even if you aren't hungry, the food is not mandatory. See you there, Brian Cluff