 Welcome. Thank you for waking up so early. I don't know if any of you were at Keynote yesterday on NGI. Next Generation Internet anyone? Yeah. I don't know about you, but I felt kind of revolted to hear what I heard. We're in February, sorry, sorry. We're in February and the EU calls are coming at a deadline in April, mid-April. That means we don't have much time to work. And I was quite surprised that the presentation yesterday didn't present a consortium, didn't present people working on this. So I will briefly present the consortium we've set up to work on ICT 28. So we're not going for ICT 24, which is what was presented at the Keynote yesterday about intermediaries giving money to projects. We're going for money that our consortium will consume and we're looking towards ICT 24 research and innovation action next year where your project will consume stuff. So this is not exactly true because part of our consortium is making software and part of our consortium is making hardware and all of our consortium is grassroots people. There are four keywords in this presentation, community, technique, training and a fourth one which is related to people and community, but I can't remember. Yeah, grassroots, I said it already, that's why. So over the last few years we met at different places. People from the federated web, people from the peer-to-peer, people from the mesh networking community and we were always having this question coming up. How do we fund our development? It took some years, but finally we have something called CCT, the Center for Cultivation of Technology that is based in Germany. That is developing a platform to offer free software projects, informal free software projects a possibility to get donations, get funding and pay their taxes without having to take care of it. I recommend you to have a look. This is our coordinator on ICT 28 which is about future hyper-connected sociality. You will hear a bit of European keywords here, I'm sorry. What we want to do really is to create a meeting space to federate existing projects. So we need to define what is social media, what we understand by social media. I was very happy that Tristan showed this SecuShare slide about we need to build a new internet. It was made by Lynx a few years ago to talk about SecuShare at the CCC. I was also happy to have a right atlas presentation just before because this is about the range of what we need to understand as social media. Something that brings free software and technology to the technical community but also things that people use who are not technical and this is very important. This is something key to our project. Maybe I should say if you can swipe one slide left. So this is the name of the consortium. I let you parse the recursive acronym. We have other acronyms that we will keep secret until April. So the very idea is to bridge these communities together. To work with people who don't have any interest in technology. People who don't need to know the chemical components of what they eat but still need to eat. So this comes from the text of Ryan T. Book. The introduction of the text of Ryan T. Book that you can find at the tour booth. Ignifugo is here. She can sell some to you. I recommend to everyone in this room reading this book. It's available in languages. So this is what we understand about community-based social media. We want existing projects, existing communities come together, say what they have to say about how we want the next generation internet to be. So this has nothing to do with how Europe wants it. Because Europe wants blockchain. Europe wants a lot of keywords that we don't care about. But we have to go by their rules in order to get their funding to our community. So that it's very clear. So Natasha is going to play with the slides. Because she knows the slide deck and what's the time? Okay. So what I want to do with this 23 minutes is present the consortium, present a bit of the project and then the last 10 minutes we talk and you tell me what the FOSDEM community in the decentralized room wants to do with this European money in the next three years. It's three years. It starts now. End of April we have the stuff done. End of October we have a response. Hopefully positive from the European Commission. And then everything starts 2019 for three years of funding. At the same time ICT 24 October 2019, no 2018, we can start applying for new projects that will receive between 50,000 to 300,000 euro each. This is a lot of work. Once we have passed the first step of having this public CSA and RIA folders in, then we have a lot more time to address other projects. So yes, this is a very important slide because ICT 28 about future hyperconnected sociality is full of keywords. I mentioned blockchain. I didn't mention fake news. So who knows that fake news existed since the Bible? Nice. If you're interested in validating this information, I recommend a book by someone called Rabinowitz about erotic literature. At the time the Bible was written, for example. Autonomedia, it's called, I can't remember. I can give the reference later. So to fake news, the European Union wants, like a number of Silicon Valley people, to give a definitive response that is algorithmic truth. We want to tackle, no, not we, not me. These people want to tackle fake news with blockchain to verify the information. In case you want to know, it doesn't validate with protection of sources. So we came up with another idea, which is how do people prevent fake news nowadays without blockchain? They ask their friends, yeah? They ask their friends, their friends ask their friends, and their friends ask experts, refer to people who actually know things about what is being discussed, and they get together and they make knowledge and they make this knowledge available to everyone. This is how we've been doing it forever. So we call it epistemic validation. And it's based on community practice, which means we want to go to existing communities, take machines there that will enable them to collaborate, discuss, validate knowledge, share this knowledge. But there's also another very important part to this. Once you have machines and you have software, decentralized software, to bring these people together and have them work together, you have a couple of problems. First, probably these people already have their habits. So you cannot come to a community and say, hey, look, we have a fantastic technical solution for you. This is free software. You're going to love it and you're going to use it. And they're happy and you go there and you show stuff and it works and they're super happy and you go away and they stop using it. So that's this. There's another thing also, which is they already have knowledge. You don't go to them and say, hey, we want to show you something. This is what capitals do, colonizers, Silicon Valley, et cetera. They come to you and they say, hey, we have a perfect solution. Look at it. No, we don't have perfect solutions. We have many solutions to many different problems. Social media is just not how Facebook does it or how Twitter does it. And this is certainly not how we do it. I see an anti-fascist action t-shirt. It's a bit different. So we want to bring technology, free hardware technology, for example with our partner Olimax, whom you know already, bring people who make software, put this software in the boxes, bring people who don't make software, talk to these people who make software, have them understand in a way that they can transmit that knowledge. Already we have a package and this package, we deploy it around Europe. Thousands of boxes, thousands of communities, thousands of different approaches where we can say, okay, because it's a research and innovation action. Say, okay, here we deploy RIPE Atlas probes. Here we deploy Mastodon. Here we deploy Wynuno host. Here we deploy, I don't know, Secuchare. That's the bulk of the idea. I know that you're showing this slide specifically to talk about Baobaxia, which is a very interesting project based on Git. It has no security at all. From a technical point of view, it's almost terrible to have this, but it serves a very interesting purpose in that it allows people to share knowledge, knowledges, we would say, because very different types of knowledge, to preserve their culture, to preserve... We're talking here about a community, the former slave community in Brazil. That was granted when slavery was abolished in Brazil. They were granted a large part of Brazilian territory, ranging from urban spaces to swamps and deserts. There are 2,000 communities and there is this Baobaxia network that connects 200 of them. Some of them have what we know as always-on connectivity. You have electricity, internet, and it just works. Some of them have zero electricity. This has to be delay tolerant in a way that we are not used to think about. This is that kind of use cases that we also need to take into account when we see our computers hacking away. We cannot think about all the use cases that come. For example, I had this discussion yesterday with some people who are really interested in the blockchain and they are convinced that you can use blockchain for social good. Fine, but these people in the jungle cannot use blockchain. The blockchain won't solve their problems. If 90% of what's in your fridge comes from your garden, to the blockchain your fridge is empty. So, technical systems have biases. You saw the slide of Laurence Lessie called this law. We have made this little book yesterday. Software freedom your way. There are very few paper copies left, but the bulk is here. Code is politics. With freedom comes responsibility. All actions happen in a situation. We don't say bottom up, say topless. And when in doubt, fork. So, that's the way we want to make this EU thing, working with communities, not from top down, not from bottom up, but topless, transversely, all together. And that's why I have about 10 minutes left and I want to engage with you right now about how you feel we should make stuff with this EU funding. Just before I want to tell you that we have a working platform that is a discourse at ps.soetical.com. I don't know if we have the URL here, but this is where we are going to make our EU work. Starting in April, most probably, we will start doing public stuff. There are a number of events that we'll keep on talking about this. THSF in May, RMLL in July, trans-hack meeting in the end of August somewhere, maybe in Tarnac. Other events of this community around the year. If we get the funding, probably we do something at CCC. That's it. Which one? Try HTTPS. Yeah, sorry. We had the hosting without HTTPS when I made this slide. Now there is HSTS, so you cannot go to HTTPS. All right. I didn't talk about the platform, I didn't talk about the partners. Do you want information about the partners? So I mentioned Olimax. GAMDI is around the French registrar. We have an open university through a very interesting, nice project called Cobra Collective. Have a look, CobraCollective.org. They're doing lots of very interesting things with remote communities in the Amazonian. We have a large volunteer network, Service Civil Internationale, which is going to be 100 years old in 2020. That's four. We have CCT to coordinate the action. CCT is very important because it's an intermediary to free software projects. So for example, I don't know, hobbyo.io is using CCT as the official entity. So we have, I'm a bit lost now. Oh yeah, we wanted Via Campesina. Via Campesina, do you know about this organization? It's a peasant organization, worldwide organization of anti-Monsanto farmers. But they're too busy right now, so they won't do it. Yeah, PEP Foundation, pretty easy privacy. So a tip when you make new consortium, Switzerland pays for stuff that Europe would pay for normally, so it's free money for your consortium. Maybe NetWood, we have to talk about this. Who else, that active from University of Amsterdam? They've been doing a lot of data analysis from activism. Yeah, and we're trying to get EIC network into the consortium, but they're very slow to respond. So if you have press outlet or better bridge of consortium, it's okay. And probably I'm eating on your time, so I will stop here. Actually, since it was, they kept saying, And now it's time for us to start working on this. Let's start working on it, as if no one's been working on this. So thank you. Regarding the consortium, I'd love to chat to you about when we can help with envy. In terms of partners, I would also maybe possibly suggest open net, might be a very interesting entity to look at for democratizing your domain name at work. But mostly, I just wanted to say, I think our focus should be on building, where we build a lot of open sources, we build great things for ourselves. Wonderful hobby projects, not to put them down in any way. They work great, they're designed great for us, not for everyone else. And I think part of that problem is that we're not diverse. So I think one of the key things that we should maybe look into is diversity in our own community so that if we make our community more diverse, the people building these things, then we can decide for ourselves, and still decide for ourselves. So I will repeat for the record. I won't repeat everything, of course. And I'm very bad at repeating things I hear also. So Aral thanked me for a feeling for the last two days that he found his tribe. So yeah, I think it's very nice. He also suggested that we could contact OpenNIC and Indy to talk about consortium partnership. He also mentioned diversity. Oh yeah, and you see yesterday saying that we need to start work on things like if nobody was working on it. And diversity in our community. As I complained about the lack of diversity in this room for the day, I must say that we didn't try anything about it in our consortium, but it happens that more than half of the people working with us are women. So Natasha is here and Svetlina is here also. So maybe I can pass the mic, it will be easier if someone wants to talk. Hi, so I was in Brazil, the Columga people a few months ago in the community with no electricity, tried to build up a GSM network and I'm a little confused with this weather. Yesterday at the keynote, I was seen very obviously know that if you want to build new networks with new ideas without breaking stuff that you build them in some kind of sandbox. And one other thing that was really interesting about Brazil is that it's the only place where I work or people are building community networks where they've actually specifically specified that they don't want to connect to the internet. Most people just want, you know, oh great, you're going to give us internet. Brilliant, we can have Facebook. These people have actually said, that's the last thing we want. We want to build our own community network first, see how that works from grassroots up and then maybe we'll federate. So it seems to me that that would be a really good idea and the question is, is the EU, because yesterday we also heard that the new internet is about EU values which I wonder what they are. I think it's part of that tech will fix the human problem problem. But is the EU in any way going to help me to find projects that would help build community networks in Brazil that are specifically against federating with the likes of Facebook? Yeah, except it won't be within the consortium because Brazil is not part of the countries we can work with which is very problematic because Barbaxia is a Brazilian project and we have many interesting contacts there. There is also Radio Mundial, Digital. That's an alternate DRM acronym that you can use. Digital Radio Mundial, it's a way to connect of a short wave, send data of a short wave long distance, alternate to internet cables. So yeah, have a look at this. Time is up, so I need to leave the floor. Thank you. We are around today and looking forward to meet some of you.