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Progress report
Attendees: Koen, Ronny, Valentin, Jean-Luc Dorel (European Commission)
- Working website at fediversity.eu
- Set up a Git repository
- Will be restructured for more clarity
- Set up Mastodon and Pixelfed, Pixelfed planned
- Working on deployment automation that will be shared
- 45 grant proposals for Fediversity projects
- 547 total proposals for the NLnet October deadline
- It will take until end of December for selection, 4 reviewers
- Cannot disclose preliminary survey due to impartiality requirements
- Koen met Walter (CEO of NORDUnet) and Erik Kikkenborg (our new contact for Fediversity)
- Got declarations of intent from 3 universities
- Discussed to offer all of the projects in the proposal, as well as
- Edumeet
- It's quite new but can completely replace BigBlueButton, more open
- Developed and adopted by NORDUnet
- Allows us to connect Geant, since they're also very interested
- EduVPN (https://www.eduvpn.org/client-apps/)
- Will help us connect with SURF (https://surf.nl), talked with Wladimir
- Nextcloud
- The nordics still use Owncloud, this might help them switch to more open software
- Edumeet
- We may be able to connect the new applications to the fediverse
- Recording videos with Edumeet you can publish them on Peertube and publish them in the fediverse
- This makes it easier for institutions to see all the projects
- Jean-Luc: This sounds like a digression. The project is primarily about the fediverse, please keep that in mind.
- Please document whatever you do and make sure it's reproducible
- Koen: These are very important to get the universities on board, and opens up future opportunities to transition them to FOSS and fediverse
- Changes in personnel:
- Matthias left Tweag
- Taeer joined the project, will soon leave
- Valentin and Nicolas joined recently
- (brief explanation of the role of Nix and NixOS)
- (discussion of advantages and drawbacks of the computational approach Nix takes)
- We will nixify the pilot applications
- We have chosen Proxmox is an intermediate layer to programmatically create virtual machines and virtual networks
- There's an NGI-funded project that allows deploying Proxmox with NixOS
- This will help involve people who are already hosting with Proxmox
- Jean-Luc: What about EDPS (https://www.edps.europa.eu)? They could be a downstream "customer" for the project.
- They need a data protection impact assessment of Mastodon
- Koen: Remy will pick this up