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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/)
      • Nextcloud
        • The nordics still use Owncloud, this might help them switch to more open software
    • 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