Social Use of StatusNet

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[edit] Attendees

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[edit] Intro to Social Actions (Peter)

  • Not on status.net yet, a lot of possibilities.
  • Ceate an open source database actions people can take on any issue, which is updated every 30 minutes from various sources.
  • 60 actions sources contributing right now.
  • Donating, petitions ... crowdsourced or traditional actions, distributed through as many channels as possible.
  • "Action Packs"
  • Indexing the actionable-web, without crawling through all the content.
  • Use case for status.net: starting an instance.
  • How can this work if you were going to create a custom action pack? For example, different channels of actions? Action pack generator?
  • Using tags: "people" tags, hashtags -- perhaps an action built upon this (stephane, sarven)
  • John: can we know who did it? How do we measure impact?
  • Peter: the hardest part for us is asking partners to help us track something. It's hard for them to do.
  • Michael: http://act.ly/
    • Using a micro-url to be brandable, identifiable
  • Michael: http://ushahidi.com/

[edit] What do we want to get out of this session?

  • Look at the use-cases for the social issues
  • Look at specifically how status.net can be applied
  • What needs to happen to make it compatible to social uses

[edit] Notes

  • John: how do you get around proxy issues when things are geographically/politically locked down? How do we set up a network inside/outside of Iran/China that cannot be shutdown?
      • If you can federate and have software that talks to one another; server A gets blocked, maybe some ability to broadcast?
  • Quick guide to how to set up a status.net instance, or provide a virtual image, including how to get around censorship in the manual.
  • If we need something set up - might be better to do it through private messaging? This will depend on the community.
  • Shaping of keywords into categories (using tagging) -- bottom up definition of information rather than top-down.

Short examples of use-case studies:

  • Bots -- responding automatically to status updates
  • Expert-systems (emergencies, health, real-time, non-ambiguous, city-wide systems, typhoon alerts, directories)
  • Ambient information
  • Accident prevention
  • Flash mobilization
  • Bots that track hashtags -- and contact a human to respond
  • Adding weights, statistical analysis on the networks to give prominence on important information
  • Karma system
  • What does that mean if someone has a lot of followers? (systems interpretation of implication)
  • Related tags, to allow alternative way to explore relevance.
  • Value in being able to share information within an isolated community
  • Is there a threshold/critical mass for a vibrant community?
  • Over time: tags forming over a topic
  • Automate a way to aggregate tags
  • Group dynamics: we need resources, we need power... these are quantifiable and cultural.
  • Instead of critical mass/threshold - we can look at frequency of updates.
  • What would be needed for first nations (aboriginals) to reconnect amongst each other?
  • Food? Water? Air? Stability of government?
  • Quality of life directly proportional to ability to grow network
  • Creating connections does not happen in isolation
  • When do you apply closed community, when do we need to have an open community?
  • Peter: we're talking about what's possible when we're all connected - what do we want to see happen with people who are not plugged in?
  • Michael: take specific communities that are tackling a social issue. Identify how we can bring this to higher prominence on status.net -- doing better analytics by pulling in better data.
  • Stephane: privacy issue? Not sure I'd like my account pulled into to a datastream.
  • Food-drops: aggregate food drop information through status.net
  • Social enterprises -- is this organization having an impact? provide proof and feedback loop, find the feeds that are being produced, compile this as a resource to funders and supporters
  • "http://www.todaysmama.com/" -- support group for mothers at home
    • They are doing this through existing apps, through the site, mobile devices
  • Microblogging makes it easier to post, we need to manage that data better.
  • Stephane: bi-directional live stream
  • John: capability for segregated persona
  • Microblogging functionality that can be spawned on-top of the twitter stream.

[edit] What kinds of features do we need to serve some of these?

  • Peter: a feed subscriber
    • This is being built, you can import any feed.
  • Peter: need re-empowerment without depending on third-party server applications
    • A backup service to Twitter (redundancy)
    • Some people are already doing this for their own status updates.
  • Current software has a lot of potential for open data -- through APIs, open standards
  • Microformats, RDFa support
  • Microformats for calendar events -- linked to the actions? "This is not only an action, but an action that has to happen on such a date."
  • Search aspects across federated systems, creating some kind of node where data streams go through.
  • Build in opt-in, mining for keywords. System suggest people I'm interested in.


[edit] What can we do that will help bring these communities together?

  • Bringing social change/action groups closer to developer communities.
    • John: that's what we're doing here today.
  • Balance social discussions with developer discussions.
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