Right, good afternoon
It is the lightning talks sessions at DebConf Hamburg 2018
We've got seven speakers, and I guess we'll just get going
Starting with Tobias Platn???, talking about Debian on Power9.
Yesterday I, hm no, on friday, I received my new Power9 machine.
A Talos 9 (II).
And it has an IBM Power9 processor
So, the only ??? I know that will ??? is Debian.
Then, this is a new PowerPC 64 bits architecture,
that can run in little-endian mode.
I downloaded a Debian installer.
First, I chosed the stable version, but
that crashed during install.
And, then I retried a different version, a daily version.
And this one, which is based on Buster, correctly installed.
I can even have a graphical environment, working out of the box.
And, the installer then complained that there is no boot partition.
For all the PowerPCs, and this boot partition is not needed, since the TalosII
has a newer systems ??? starting used petitboot.
So, that needs to be fixed in the Debian installer.
That it doesn't puts you a warning on Power machines.
And now I have a working Debian installation,
which I can use.
(thanks) [applause]
Thank you very much, that was very quick.
Next up is Thimothé Jeussoin ???,
talking about Movim, the XMPP social platform.
Give him a moment to get set up
I think it's a bit below this way
Who already heard about the platform Movim ?
OK, so we have a couple of people that knows about the project here.
Just to present you what I ??? could be a parallel universe
but is actually the current universe we're living with.
Lots of different chat platofrms.
The same thing on social networks.
We keep reinventing the wheel all the times
We don't have this problem with e-mails
hopefully actually the e-mail standards came way before before all of those
proprietary solutions
So we have once heard that Microsoft and Google still uses SMTP, IMAP, for now.
So everything is compatible, and we have a lot of clients on top of that.
But for chat, and social networks, it's not the case.
So the idea worth??? Movim is to build a social platform.
In there, we can put a little couple of ingredients.
First, it needs to be Open-Source, for the transparency, for the fact that you can
feedback improvements, for the security part.
I think that you guys here knows about the advantages of Free Software, and
especially on the communication part, on social networks, but it's not enough
We also need to be in control ??? ??? social network.
So it need to be simple and transparent: - On the UI
- but also on the protocol level.
On the really deep below stacks.
So we'll need to have a strong and stable encryption,
so we don't also invent an encryption - talking about Telegram, here -
And, yeah, need some trusts in sights here.
I mean a community, and not a company that you will blindly trust
to take care of all of your communications
But it's not enough.
It needs to be decentralized. Because centralized social networks, ??? opensource
if it's only one instance, you have to still trust the instance. So would like to
deploy your instance, you would like to trust someone else,
you can only, sometimes, trust only yourself in seldom cases
Decentralization also brings robustness
So that's too many times that actually one server is failing, think Signal
had an issue recently, about this kind of thing there.
The issue was with the Amazon servers ???, didn't worked for a couple of hours.
And then, resist again censorship and control.
Same thing with Telegram, I think in Russia.
I'm talking more about the IM part, but it's also applicable to social networks.
It's exactly the same thing, just that the exchanges of information are a bit different.
So, you need these steps but
all those platforms here
(I just made this conference 3 years ago, just added Mastodon recently)
So i might talk about different sorts of platforms
There is communication between those platforms, kind of standards that are
starting to come in, especially between Diaspora and Mastodon,
but there is still a lot of work to do there.
So, the secret ingredient is about compatibility, about extensibility.
Don't try to reinvent the wheel again,
don't try to create another social network,
or another IM platform that will have all those communication troubles.
So, I mean a long-term vision.
And, actually, the secret ingredient is standardization, in these things.
So, this standard should issue/ have a couple of features
support news feeds, communities, IM, presences, ??? video conferencing,
security, bridges to the Web.
And then it will be real-time.
And, wait a minute
This protocol actually exists, it's called XMPP
So the goal of the project is: - take XMPP implemented
- and doing a lot of innovation on top of the project
So, server-side it's a simple XMPP client, webserver, simple to install
(PHP, MySQL PostgreSQL)
And user-side, it's also a browser, it's responsive, it's fast, and is built
actually for small communities.
There is pods all around the world
You're really invited to deploy your own pods.
There is already ten thousands accounts on the official pod
30 languages
Debian packages coming soon
Thanks to the help of some people in this room.
And, that's it !
So if you want more information, everything is on the website,
you can join the chat room.
Or, the twitter.
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