Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 7, 2023
This will be a hybrid meeting -- we will be meeting in-person, but there will still be an option to join online.
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6:00pm - 7:00pm -- Meet & Greet
7:00pm - 8:00pm -- Speaker Presentation
8:00pm - 10:00pm -- After Party
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Topic: ActivityPub, Mastodon, and the Fediverse
Speaker: Andy Cowell, AWS
The great #twittermigration is underway, as people leave Twitter for Mastodon. But, really, what’s interesting about that!? Well, underpinning Mastodon is a networking protocol— ActivityPub. And that can make some pictures of other people’s lunches more interesting. ActivityPub does more than enable Mastodon. ActivityPub interconnects the entire social media Fediverse, slightly but fundamentally changing how social media networks operate. Come find out how you can run your own little corner of the Fediverse on ActivityPub.
About the Speaker
Andy Cowell has over twenty five years of system administration and development experience in a variety of environments. Currently, he works for Amazon Web Services as a Senior Solution Architect working with East Tennessee enterprises.
Andy has been responsible for some of the top destinations on the Internet, such as HGTV.com, Dilbert.com, and Metallica.com. In the past, he has worn many hats, from networking admin to full-time developer, and cut his teeth as a “Wizard” with the UTK Computer Science department. Locally, he helps organize ETSA (LOPSA East Tennessee) and KnoxDevs.
not wrangling systems, he solders microcontrollers, plucks strings, paints toy soldiers, drinks bourbon, smokes pipes, and rolls 20s.
