<description><p>Fediversity was represented in Bergen at the Nordunet Conference for 2024, with both the Internet Discourse Foundation and Nordunet themselves being present. This was a great opportunity for the different organisations in the consortium to meet with each other and exchange ideas.</p></description>
<description><p>Recently Fediversity hosted a tech session on NixOS and Kubernetes. We invited people within the community to discuss some design considerations of the Fediversity project with us.</p></description>
<description><p>PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelabs recently held their yearly conference in Amsterdam, titled &lsquo;Taking Back the Internet&rsquo;. PublicSpaces is a network of public organisations fighting for an internet based on public values. The Fediversity Project attended, to share ideas, and learn more about how people and organisations think about an ethical internet. If you are interested, you can view all sessions <a href="https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/archive/pubconf2024"




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On June 6th and 7th, PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab proudly present the fourth edition of the PublicSpaces conference under the theme &lsquo;Empowering the Internet&rsquo;. Held at Pakhuis de Zwijger, this two-day event will feature panels, keynotes, roundtable discussions, lectures, as well as art and cultural showcases, all aimed at collectively shaping the rules for a more inclusive internet. Join us as we navigate towards a digital landscape where everyone has a voice. For more information, check out the <a href="https://publicspaces.net/2024/02/01/save-the-date-publicspaces-conferentie-2024/"




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<description><p>OW2con is the European open source conference organized by OW2. An international meeting of developpers, IT companies, academics and non-profit organizations, OW2con brings together the entire open source community, during two days of presentations ranging from tech topics to business and ethical issues of open source. It also offers a unique opportunity to establish contact with peers through friendly networking sessions. OW2con is <a href="https://www.ngi.eu/event/open-source-community-annual-conference-2024/"




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The OW2con’24 call for presentations is open. This year we are giving the highlight on the theme of open source funding: what are the current solutions for innovators, start-ups or ISVs to finance their development? private or public financing? Are national and European public policies up to the challenges?</p></description>
<description><p>Join us at the State of the Internet 2024, where Waag Futurelab, alongside the Municipality of Amsterdam and the OBA, delves into the depths of the online realm. Featuring Kim van Sparrentak, Member of the European Parliament, discussing Europe&rsquo;s efforts to regulate Big Tech and enhance digital rights. Explore the impact of pivotal European laws like the GDPR and AI Act while celebrating 30 years of Waag Futurelab&rsquo;s dedication to democratizing technology access for all.</p></description>
<description><p>The Consortium behind the Fediversity project announces that the project has officially been started. NLnet, Tweag, NorduNet and the Open Internet Discourse Foundation are working together to build a new service for cloud hosters.</p></description>
<description><p>The Fediversity Project enables easy hosting for a wide variety of fediverse platforms, all based on NixOS. At the start, the project will support Mastodon, PixelFed,PeerTube, Matrix and Nexcloud, and the project is actively working to expand this offering. Other services that are offered are email (based on Stalwart) and domain registry.</p></description>
<description><p>The Fediversity project implements the visions outlined by the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative for an open internet in several ways. Most importantly, it helps with decentralisation of the internet, a core principle of the NGI, by making it easier for people to participate in the Open Social Web on their own terms. NGI&rsquo;s goal of empowering individuals in the digital sphere is helped by making it easy for them to set up their own servers and platforms. While a variety of Fediverse software exist, there are still barriers of entry for people. In order for people to be truly empowered, joining the fediverse needs to be as weasy as possible. Additionally, the Fediverse emphasises interoperability and openness, which are key concerns addressed by the NGI.</p></description>
<description><p>Fediversity is a comprehensive effort to bring easy-to-use, hosted cloud services with service portability and personal freedom at their core to everyone. It wants to provide everyone with high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use. Without tracking, without exploitation, in a way that runs everywhere and scales effortlessly. Fediversity is based on NixOS, a disruptive Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, NixOS is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages. Because it is reproducible, it is ideally suited for complex deployment scenario’s where consistent behaviour, stability and configurability matter.</p></description>
<description><p>Fediversity invites other people to join this ambitious development effort. It is a vast domain with many more challenges than what any preconceived effort could tackle by itself. This is why we invite your contribution to help us reshape the state of play, and together create an open, trustworthy and reliable internet for all.</p></description>
<description><p>The fediverse shows great potential in fundamentally rethinking how we approach the internet. It is a new way of thinking about how the internet can be a social web, and solves for the problems that the current Big Tech platforms have, while at the same time enabling a new wave of innovation and new ideas on the social web.</p></description>
<description><p>The NLnet Foundation supports organisations and people who contribute to an open internet for all. NLnet funds projects that help fix the internet through open hardware, open software, open standards, open science and open data. After its historical contribution to the early internet in Europe in the 1980’s, NLnet has been financially supporting the open internet since 1997.</p></description>
<description><p>NORDUnet is a collaboration of the National Research and Education Networks of the Nordic countries connecting universities and research institutions across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. It enables collaboration, data sharing, and access to online resources for academic and research purposes.</p></description>
<description><p>The Open Internet Discourse Foundation (OID) is founded on the belief that everyone deserves the freedom to express themselves and use the internet without constraints, and is committed to help build a better internet where individuals can truly be who they are.</p></description>
<description><p>Tweag is the open source program office (OSPO) of Modus Create, a global digital consulting firm that helps enterprises build competitive advantage through digital innovation. Tweagers are leading contributors to several open source projects — from functional programming languages to cross-platform frameworks. Tweag has extensive experience working with Nix, and many people at the forefront of the Nix community are Tweagers.</p></description>
