Notes from the March 2022 Solid World webinar

by Maria Dimou (CERN)

Thursday 10 Mar 2022, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Notes from the 2022/03/10 Solid World Webinar.

Presentation material will appear on https://solidproject.org/events.

Agenda of this event:

Monthly updates — Oz Olivo

Announcement of the new "Data utility initiative" in Flanders - uses ESS.

 

Guest presentations

• Jasmine Leonard, Independent Solid Developer

Jasmine  present PodPro (https://podpro.dev), a new  tool for developers working with Solid Pods. Nice UI, possible competitor  to SolidOS or Penny. Maria D. suggested to implement a friendly ACL management interface. For now the tool is meant for developers.
Try the tool via https://podpro.dev. Its purpose is to:

1. connect to >1 pods at the same time
2. read the request and response headers, to know what information is sent and returned from the pod.

• Sebastien Rosset, Independent Solid Developer

Sebastien presents ActivityPods, a new kind of architecture for web applications which aims to reconcile the ActivityPub and Solid standards.

When data changes in the pod some bots are activated. https://welcometomplace.org For events' creation. By default they are all private.

Links from this event
Assembled by Kyra Assaad

Oz’s Update

• Oz talked about the Flanders Data Utility Company’s Solid platform

Jasmine’s Presentation

• PodPro
• Email Jasmine at hello@podpro.dev

Sébastien’s Presentation

• Sébastien is a Member of Virtual Assembly (English version), a French non-profit organization working on the web re-decentralization
• His project aims to reconcile the ActivityPub and Solid standards.

Implementation

• MoleculerJS framework
• SemApps

Demo

• Welcome to My Place

GitHub Repos

• GitHub repo for ActivityPods
• GitHub repo for Welcome to My Place

Contact

• Email Sébastien at sebastien.rosset@assemblee-virtuelle.org

Please contact Maria Dimou for further information on the CERN-Solid collaboration.