 My name is Cornelius Schumacher and I would like to talk about an initiative I started over the last couple of weeks That's the fair web services initiative. And what is this all about? We have achieved a lot of freedom by running free software ourselves So next cloud is a great example you can control about your data by running the software yourself But actually we also all use a lot of web services, which are run by other people and there we give up a lot of the freedoms We have achieved so what can we do to actually get some of our freedoms back and make sure that we have the same control about our Freedoms when we are using web services and not only when we are using software we run ourselves And to illustrate the point I created a nice web service. That's bike shed as a service. It's brand new. It's awesome It's great. You can upload your bikes there and you get this beautiful protective shed Which makes sure your bikes are well protected and dry and everything It's green because I like green and I took the freedom to choose the color of the bike shed because I'm running the service And because I'm a nice guy and I release everything as free software, of course So that's what I do. This is the complete code. I hereby release it under the AGPL So feel free to use it feel free to do everything what you want with that. It's complete. It works and It's free. So we are all fine, right? Everything everything is great Unless you actually read my terms of service Well, you probably can't There's one sentence in there and because I'm a nice guy will tell you what is what is what it's saying there It says you give exclusive user rights of all your bike data to the service provider So this is only because I need to earn some money and I need to create a business model on top of that So I need some rights from you. Yeah, but it's a very simple clause. Just just click okay, and you will be fine And it's actually not only about your data Of course, I have all the locks of the service which is running and everything is locked there So I own the data of course as well So I need that because I want to run some business on top of that to earn money to create free software So but it's a free service, of course you have free uploads you have unlimited storage and everything you you can use that wherever and Again, because I'm a nice guy. I provide you a convenience feature. So you are allowed to download your data In the original form if you pay me just five dollars a month. That's a great API for that maybe and I also have the enterprise account which is also great because this is for my friends They're my friends in the insurance and advertisement industry So so they'd like to have this data so I can answer money so I can write better free software for for all of you So you just pay with your data. You just pay with your money and the industry pays for the rest. So that's that's great But is that actually great Have we solved the problem and they're actually much many other problems like some I touched some of them in terms of service lock in Sustainability what happens if I go out of business who protects your bikes then? Privacy metadata The triple payment you pay in all kinds of forms Security a hack ability. Can you change the color of the bike shed? I'm running the service. So it will be green And there are a couple of attempts to solve this Some are quite familiar to some of you And I think they are all great but what this missing is something which puts all these things together and really covers the full Web service experience basically and that's why why I started to collect things and I started this initiative of fair web Services to collect criteria what makes a web service actually fair so that you can run it without giving up your freedoms and I use the term fair because free is kind of ambiguous and can be Misleading and it's kind of reflecting what this is about. It's more about a contract between the user and the operator It's it's not so easy as a free software. I can enforce everything by a license and the fair web services idea is based on five principles Substitutability so that I can actually exchange the service by something else I can run the better bike shed and the user has the freedom to choose the bike shed and the color Transparency that I know what is happening with my data where it's thought how it's processed Of course respecting privacy making sure the data secure and a fair model of operation So paying for access to your own data is kind of not fair and to express that in more detail We collected a number of criteria and I won't go through all the of them But they have to be API is how to access the data. There has to be clear terms of use They have to be documented processes how data is success Paying for services. Okay, but artificial barriers for paying for your own data. That's something which is not fair So these are the criteria I want to discuss and we are the beginning here and I would really like to Invite you to join the discussion so that we maybe can come to a state where we can put a batch This is a fair web service on the website where operators have a way how to tell users. I'm respecting these criteria I want this cyber web service to be fair and also for users to be able to choose so we could start with a kind of a self certification so that Once we have a finished set of criteria people can say okay I respect them and users can use that but this could also grow into a more serious thing like like a professional Certification with an organization behind that which is actually checking if the service provider Here's a tears to the criteria So this is the idea. I want to discuss this further. There's the website fair web services dog It's not running the bike shed, but it contains all the information. I told you So and this should also be the place where we can discuss things. I invite you to go there invite you to leave your comments there and your thoughts and today at 1430 in age 3004 I will hold a workshop and I invite you to be there so we can discuss these criteria We can make sure that we agree on something which actually Retains our freedoms when we are running free web services and that's it. Thank you