IDEA 20091101 Whats Your StatusNet Presentation

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Status.Net

Stories of Status Failure

Are you that OBAMA?

• What is the official OBAMA account?
• People believe what they read...

FAILWHALE

• Global pop-culture around service failure: good or bad?
• FAILWHALE phenomena, service downtime

Hospital ICU

• Ravi Reddy, Doctor at UCSD Scripps
• Needs to know ICU patients vitals up to when they happen!
• Legal reasons, can't use public services, or non HIPPA compliant services

Open Source Solutions

The Right Solution

• Your life and your business are your own. Take control of your status.
• Take control of your personal data! How is it used?
  • Could be on your domain!
    • aka, planet.gnome.org, but status.gnome.org
  • Could be Private (intranet)
• Need the trust of a Community effort to make opensource status updating software.
• Need something federated and scalable beyond one person or companies efforts.
• Need many options, that suit your needs and projects
  • Global website
  • Hosted solutions
  • Roll your site, service, or own web app with open source

Status.Net: The Community Project

Background

• FAILWHALE
• Evan Prodromou (founder)
  • Wikipedia
  • Wikitravel
  • Wikiclock ;)
• Identi.ca Launched in the pocket
• Status.Net: The Company
  • Growing up
  • #REALIDAD: To Support (and take out the trash)
  • 1 year old open source startup, montreal + SF + global!
  • Brion Vibber
    • Architect of Mediawiki
    • Chief Architect
  • Me (rejon)
    • Inkscape + OCAL
    • Creative Commons
  • And More Open Source All-Stars!

Solutions

• Status.Net: The Service
  • #REALIDAD: To Serve
• Global Site: http://identi.ca
• Basic -> Hosted Service
  • Intermediate -> extreme service, privacy for pay
• Advanced -> Install Yourself
  • Super-Advanced -> Have Status.Net install

The Software

• Status.Net: The Software
  • #REALIDAD: To State
  • Technology
    • StatusNet is federated, meaning it pushes out and accepts notices through OMB
    • Remote Subscription
    • Plugins
      • Twitter Integration
      • Facebook Integration
    • API
      • StatusNet API]
      • Twitter API]
        • Can bridge with twitter, and serve as bi-directional bridge
    • Theming
    • Admin interface (Coming Soon)
    • Services, Powered by Status.Net
      • http://identi.ca/ the original StatusNet site, and still the largest
      • http://bleeper.de/ largest German language site.
      • http://brainbird.net/ - has enabled the infini-scroll plugin and [real-time updates]
      • http://army.twit.tv/ - Leo Laporte's TWiT Community site
      • http://status.net/wiki/ListOfServers our list of public sites, add yours!

The Movement

• Autonomo.us Free Network Services

Get Involved

• Identi.ca, Your Status Powered by Status.Net
• Sign-Up for your own status subdomain: *.status.net
  • http://status.net
• Install (and Hack on) the Software
  • http://status.net download the source

Hacker Challenges

Top Five challenges to do today!