laconica-wordpress-01

Making Laconica and WordPress work together

2009-07-12 SAT, Montréal

Sarven Capadisli
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Overview
About identi.ca
- A micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica tool
- Post small (140 chars or less) text notices
- Subscribe to the notices (of friends or groups)
- Groups (like mailing lists)
- Attachments (file or oEmbed)
- Conversations (threaded view)
Free Network Services

Franklin Street Statement:
- Free Software + Free Data = Free Service
Open Software Service Definition:
- Free Software
- Free Culture/Data
- Open Standards
Support for Open standards
- Makes it easy to build compatible software
- RDF (FOAF for Social Graph)
- Atom, RSS
Semantic data
- microformats, RDF(a)
- Smart data neutralizes the advantage of proprietary/patented/really smart software
- Open data > Open source
Protocols
- OpenMicroBlogging (Federation of services ~ Ideal for scaling)
- XMPP
- OpenID for authentication
- OAuth for authorization
Licensing
- Affero General Public License v3 (AGPLv3)
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (Free culture)
Support other Free Network Services
- OpenStreetMaps
- Geonames
Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn
- "Everybody there speaks English"
- People all around the world want to participate!
- Got @lang ?
Also
- Remote API (e.g., mashups, use from different UAs)
- Plugin system (e.g., themes, other services)
- It scales (e.g., distributed services)
- Lots of smart people are working on it ~ community!
Autonomy

You deserve the right to manage your own on-line presence.

If you don't like how Identi.ca works, you can take your data and the source code and set up your own server (or move your account to another one)
How are they similar?
- 5min install
- Free software, Open source/standards
- For the community, by the community
- Terms of Service
- status.net ~= wordpress.com
- A lot of Tools!
Laconica + WordPress tools
- Laconica tools (post from WordPress to Laconica)
- JavaScript badge
- PHP badge
- XRDS-Simple + WP-OAuth (post from Laconica to WordPress)
- oEmbed-WP NFB video plugin (Works the same way in Laconica)
- RSS dent
Laconica Apps

Apps for Laconica:
- Desktop (Linux, Mac OS, Windows)
- Multi-platform (Adobe Air, Firefox extensions, Text editor extensions, Jabber/XMPP)
- Web Apps (Bots, Posters, Lifestreams, Search engines, WordPress, Statistics)
- Mobile (S60, Blackberry, Androis, iPhone, OpenMoko, Windows Mobile)
- Badges, widgets, plugins, and a ton of scripts
Laconica Community
- Join Groups, conversations, advocate
  - !identica
- IRC
  - irc.freenode.net #laconica
- Email
  - join laconica dev mailing list
- Blog
  - tag posts with #statusnet, #identica, #laconica
- Wiki
  - add examples, help research, brainstorm, translate
Colophon
Thanks!