1. We are Legion:
Decentralizing the Web
Deb Nicholson
Community Manager, MediaGoblin
OLF, September 29th 2012

2. Photo courtesy of Dan Murphy
all rights reserved

3. Monopoly is serious business

4. ...and also mail delivery

5. Television Station Ownership
Women: 5.87%
African Americans: 0.6%
Latinos: 1.25%
Asian Americans: 0.95 %
White (non-Latino): 81.9%
Source: Out of The Picture from Free Press

6. A series of tubes

7. Some Existing Projects
● Status.net ● Diaspora
● MediaGoblin ● Friendica
● Buddy Cloud

8. Lots of tools have already
been built!

9. Serving across instances?

10. Serving across instances?
Check!

11. Serving across instances?
Check!
Identity management?

12. Serving across instances?
Check!
Identity management?
Done.

13. Parts that
need work
● Decentralized
search
● Groups & Tags
● Categorization
● Relationships
● Spam handling

14. Technically it
works...

15. Easy?

16. Join the legion!

17. Thanks!
CC.BY.SA
From MediaGoblin:
Balloondog by Rob Myers
Its all gone horribly wrong by Rob Myers
Cat Spider Finger by Chris Webber
From Wikipedia:
Northern Lights by un:Varjisakka
Rotarydial by R Sull
Tubes by Stefan Riepl
GFDL from Wikipedia
Metal Movable Type by Willi Heidelbach
CC.BY
The Smile of a Man with a Wild Fan Base
by Ibrahim Iujaz from Wikipedia
Public Domain from Wikipedia
Ronald Reagan
The first email! All rights reserved. Me: deb@eximiousproductions.com
Courtesy of Dan Murphy http://www.mediagoblin.org