 My name is Evan Prodromou. I'm an Open Source software enthusiast, best known for my work in wikis and in social software. I work as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I live in Montreal, love to garden with native plants, make wine, cook, and live an examined life. 61 comments
Thank you @rysiek for correcting the record. I was in the room as #ActivityPub was matured and established as a #W3C standard. @evan was co-chair of that #SocialWebWG & co-editor of the spec. Plus, he may have brought @cwebber to the group, & perhaps others as well (Jessica Tallon?). (Apologies I don’t remember.) Instrumental effort, IOW! Not to mention his previous various contributions. And, he’s such a nice guy. Yay Evan! @rysiek @evan omg I didn't even know https://identi.ca/maol was still up and preserved. Fond memories from 10+ years ago Me, https://identi.ca/dclauzel ! I still have those (infamous) notifications : « Open Farm Game posted Your Strawberries is ready to harvest » 😁 @dClauzel @rysiek @evan Le bon vieux temps... @dClauzel @rysiek I don't think I ever saw that, and if I did I don't remember, it's been so long ago. That said, welcome to Mastodon and the Fediverse, @evan. https://identi.ca/dennisjernberg (active ~2009-10, FriendFeed-connected)  Wow, that's a lot of people with ancient identi.ca accounts in replies to this! I wonder if it would be possible to make identi.ca an activitypub-compatible instance? WDYT, @evan?  Welcome to the #Fediverse @evan we tried to keep it nice over here. Hope you enjoy your stay ♥
 @evan It's good to see you on here! I want to thank you for hosting me and all the rest of us over on identi.ca, and thank you for all your work on social media infrastructure. I hope you find it okay in here with us. o/  @cstanhope yes, me too - I could see the brilliance behind StatusNet and happily jumped to Identi.ca back in the day. The seeds were sown. @evan @evan especially like the 'examined life' part! I haven't done an intro yet. Guess I need to. @Julien51 hey! How are you? I was just talking about you with Hugh McGuire over lunch. @Julien51 exhausted! We just released our climate data platform https://openclimate.network/ for COP27. I've been working like crazy for a month. Glad to get some downtime now. @Evan Prodromou I'm so glad to see you here. Just remembering the times with Identi.ca.
What @evan doesn't mention is that he's been doing fediverse stuff way back when with identi.ca :D  @evan Nice to see you here. I follow your work since Laconica! https://kaffeeringe.de/2008/07/02/twitter-vs-laconica/ @evan @jwildeboer Evan! I use wiki travel all the ducking time. Like since the beginning and it’s a core travel for my trip planning when going overseas or when doing #vanlife in Australia. Thank you 🙏 it has made my life better. @evan@prodromou.pub @evan Hi Evan! I’m new on here and tech isn’t my strong point at all so just finding my way around. I was drawn to say hello - I think we might have something in common, an enjoyment of nature, food & wine. I live an examined life though perhaps so might say too examined but I think it’s important. 🤔 Anyway, regardless I’m just saying hello and welcome. Have a lovely weekend. 😊     @a1ba Cue the jokes about a dad who left to buy a sixpack of beer and came back home 10 years later :)  @evan Hi! Nice meeting you in Mastodon! 😇✌️ I'm new here, part of Twitter migration wave, can you please add me in your list? I won't send private messages 😇 |
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@evan this has to be one of the most under-stated introductions I have seen here!
So let me offer a better one: Evan is one of the reasons we are all here. He is credited as one of the creators of the #ActivityPub protocol:
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Back in the day (a decade ago), he also used to run the biggest instance of #StatusNet, identi.ca. My old account is still there, even though I have lost access to it:
https://identi.ca/rysiek
StatusNet was the precursor of fedi.
Welcome, Evan!
@evan this has to be one of the most under-stated introductions I have seen here!
So let me offer a better one: Evan is one of the reasons we are all here. He is credited as one of the creators of the #ActivityPub protocol:
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Back in the day (a decade ago), he also used to run the biggest instance of #StatusNet, identi.ca. My old account is still there, even though I have lost access to it:
https://identi.ca/rysiek