meta/meeting-notes/2025-04-07-project-context-braindump.md

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  • context
    • status quo
      • geopolitics
        • surveillance
      • capital accumulation
        • monopolistic gatekeepers
        • big tech
      • legislation
        • digital markets act
        • digital services act
      • fediverse
        • open-source
        • federated
        • various applications
        • limited momentum
          • self-hosting
            • expertise
              • containers
              • configuration
                • SSO
                • LDAP
            • sysadmin burden
              • operating systems
              • reproducibility
              • network security
              • software LCM
              • backups
      • state of the internet
        • network-effect-fueled oligopolies
        • commercial interests
        • enshittification
        • misinformation
        • surveillance
        • manipulation
          • gamification
        • polarization
        • IP harvested by scrapers to spam the internet with AI slop
        • gamification-fueled addiction
        • lack of democratic control
        • illegal content
        • covert foreign/commercial online influencing campaigns
          • cambridge analytica
        • polarizing filter bubbles from engagement-fueled algorithms
          • stratify society
          • may culminate in terrorism
            • qanon's role in Jan 6 capitol insurrection
        • energy usage of data centers and AI
      • open-source
        • devops
          • nixos
            • developer-centric
        • self-hosting
          • yunohost
        • fediverse
      • innovation cycle
        • research
        • commerce
        • dissemination
          • commons
          • distribution
    • ecosystem
      • stakeholders
        • EU
          • NGI
            • report
              • let users separate content and data from internet-based sofware and services
              • re-establish boundaries between content owner and service provider
              • allow mixing/matching alternative/complementary services
              • service portability + data decoupling
              • achieve openness to new entrants
                • unlock clustered service verticals with dominant market positions
            • presentation
              • commons
                • context
                  • security
                  • economy
                  • geopolitics
                • why
                  • sovereignty
                  • trust
                  • collaboration
                  • european declaration on digital rights and principles
                    • privacy protection
                    • user control and choice
                    • portability
                    • inclusion
                    • decentralisation
              • NGI
                • internet commons
                  • hardware
                  • libraries
                  • distribution
                  • server apps
                  • client apps
        • nlnet
        • OIDF
          • intro
            • fundamental right of individuals
              • privacy
              • self-determination
              • freedom of expression
            • internet is crucial infrastructure that should be maintainable long-term
              • nixos
            • transparency
              • open software
      • fediversity
        • presentation
          • objective
            • bring easy-to-use, budget-conscious, federated hosted cloud services to organisations and individuals
          • goals
            • digital autonomy
            • innovation
            • service/data portability
            • federated decentralized services
            • sustainable economic ecosystem
            • open
          • benefits
            • providers
              • ease of operations
              • share investments
              • lower maintenance
              • ease of deployment
              • part of a larger ecosystem
            • users
              • easy of use
              • data portability
              • no vendor lock-in
              • service portability
              • digital sovereignty
              • independence from big tech
          • principles + assumptions
            • run on hardware
            • target providers to offer federated services
              • digital sovereignty
              • ease dev/maintenance
              • ease deployment/running of federated services
            • federated decentralised OSS using open standards
            • service portability
          • tech stack
            • django
            • nixos
            • nix packages
            • nixops4
            • proxmox
            • bare-metal hardware
            • custom code and databases
          • services
            • Mastodon
            • PixelFed
            • PeerTube
            • Matrix
            • Nexcloud
            • Stalwart
            • Owncast
            • Lemmy
            • EduMEET
        • objectives
          • primary
            • new technical building blocks
              • 3 partners
          • secondary
            • funding mechanism
              • nlnet
        • NGI emphasis
          • replaces traditional social networking
          • create a practical, user-friendly, and secure communication environment
      • NGOs
        • waag
          • state of the internet
            • retake internet from US big tech
            • regulate tech as we do other fields
          • marleen stikker
            • book: 'het internet is stuk - maar we kunnen het repareren'
              • history of the internet explaining big tech platforms as step back in sovereignty
              • technology is not neutral
              • emphasizes human values over techno-optimism pushed by silicon valley
              • role of data access
                • understanding
                • democracy
                • control
              • mentions historical role of tactical media
        • EuroStack
          • goals
            • Sovereignty and Security
            • Sustainability
            • Decentralized Sovereign Infrastructure
            • Strong Democracy
            • De-Proprietarization and Interoperability
            • Data as a Common Good
            • Inclusive Governance
          • 7 layers
            • data + AI
            • software
            • cloud
            • IoT
            • networks
            • chips
            • raw materials, energy and water
        • open forum europe
          • principles
            • user centricity
            • competition
            • flexibility
            • sustainability
            • community
      • developers
        • want easy path to users
        • want easy updating
      • hosts
        • want managed applications
        • want off-the-shelf solutions
      • operators
        • want app store of sovereign services
        • want things to just work
      • users
        • want easy UX
        • want sovereign infrastructure
        • want tools reflecting their values
          • human-centric
          • inclusive
          • accessible
  • why
    • policy-makers
      • achieve sovereignty to deliver on digital rights
        • sovereign managed applications
        • catalyze dissemination to have internet commons reach critical mass
        • starting out with social media over gatekeepers' effect amid geopolitical considerations
      • robust technology
    • hosts
      • off-the-shelf
      • easy for host and users
      • demand due to geopolitical relevance
    • users
      • sovereign
        • no lock-in
        • private
        • SSO/LDAP
      • ease
        • simple install
        • sensible defaults
        • update/backup policies
      • choice
        • open to hosts
        • portable data/hosting
        • different apps
      • control
        • open
        • federation
        • advanced settings
  • how
    • design
      • front: app store style UI not unlike yunohost
    • stack
    • component architectures
      • traditional
        • web panel front/back
        • orchestration
        • VMs
          • hypervisor
          • application VMs
          • storage
        • supporting
          • identity management
            • authentication
            • authorization
            • accounting
          • central database
            • nextbox
            • accounting
            • state
            • secrets
          • central services
            • DNS
            • email
      • decoupled
        • clients
        • orchestration module
          • nixos
            • selfhostblocks
          • opentofu