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title = "Announcing Forgers Guild"
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date = 2022-10-18
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["plans", "conference"]
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[Forge federation](https://forgefriends.org/blog/2022/06/30/2022-06-state-forge-federation/) is a new area of the Fediverse that is evolving. Its potential is huge and the vision one of **"Federated Software Development"**. A new technology landscape is emerging that might cover the full breadth of the [Free Software Development Lifecycle](https://discuss.coding.social/c/fsdl/15) (FSDL) and foster an ecosystem of projects and communities that can compete with proprietary platforms such as GitHub.
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In order to get there the [Major Challenges](https://discuss.coding.social/t/major-challenges-for-the-fediverse/67) that ail the Fediverse must be avoided. And with Forge Federation entering new areas the opportunity exists to do that right from the early start.
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We are preparing for an [Ecosystem
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Alliance](https://discuss.coding.social/t/fsdl-ecosystem-alliance/125)
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that can ensure the long-term health and sustainability of the field.
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We'll explore objectives, opportunities, questions and open issues in
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preparation of an **Alliance Kick-off Meeting** to be held later this
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year (2022).
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### "The Forgers Guild"
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At the [Social Coding Movement](https://coding.social) which is planned
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to be 'officially' launched in Q4 2022 the idea to "unionize free
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software" and organize into **Software Guilds** is maturing. When
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combining [different plans and
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ideas](https://discuss.coding.social/t/unionize-free-software-found-software-guilds/59/7?u=aschrijver)
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an ideal name for forge federation ecosystem alliance is: **The Forgers
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Guild**.
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Besides an open and friendly terminology of towns, residents, artisans,
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craftsmanship, apprentices etc. there's a [branding and
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positioning](https://discuss.coding.social/t/forging-free-software-branding-and-positioning-smartly/132)
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opportunity to make **"forging software"** a concept proudly applying to
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the Free Software Community.
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### Providing feedback
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Everyone is highly encouraged to add their thoughts and feedback to this
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notepad, and discuss points in the [Forge Federation
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general](https://matrix.to/#/#general-forgefed:matrix.batsense.net)
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matrix chatroom. Also your input is most welcome in [Discuss Social
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Coding](https://discuss.coding.social) where it concerns the broader
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FSDL, and in related [Social
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Coding](https://matrix.to/#/#socialcoding-movement:matrix.org)
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chatrooms.
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## Ecosystem Alliance
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### Objectives
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What do we expect / desire to be major goals of the alliance? Add your
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feedback.
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- **Welcoming and friendly** movement that offers **clear incentives for
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active participation**.
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- **Open governance and processes** fitting to our **libre culture and
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grassroots nature**.
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- **Living open standards** that are actively maintained, so they will
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**evolve and mature**.
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- **Vibrant ecosystem** focused to onboard newcomers and **fosters
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technology adoption**.
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### Candidates
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If a person or an organization is interested to become a Participant,
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but aren't sure, then add it below, together with considerations / open
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questions.
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- [Forg.es](https://forg.es): Future home and dedicated website for The
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Forgers Guild?
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- [ForgeFed](https://forgefed.org): Federation protocol for enabling
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interoperability between version control services.
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- [ForgeFlux](https://forgeflux.org): WIP ForgeFed plugins for forges
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that don't have federation support.
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- [Gitea](https://gitea.io): A Git hosting software with WIP ForgeFed
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support
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- [Bonfire](https://bonfirenetworks.org): Federated toolkit with issue
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tracking functionality
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### Participants
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Add yourself below if you want to be part of the alliance. Give
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description how you see your role in the ecosystem. Note: It is all just
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brainstorm.
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<details><summary> <b>Social Coding Movement</b> (click to expand, and
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see open issues)</summary>
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This movement is a loose affiliation of Communities and Projects and
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(hopefully) a steadily growing number of Social Coding Practitioners.
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> [**Social Coding**](https://coding.social) is about the
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> recognition that software development itself is mostly a social
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> process. The movement is dedicated to addressing the many
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> Challenges faced by the free software community and crowdsource a
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> pattern library of Best-practices and Tools to tackle them. In
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> doing so it wants to leverage the Fediverse to maximum extent.
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- Though the movement has an umbrella organization, for the ecosystem
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alliance you can consider its position as a vertical with many
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touchpoints to specific elements of the FSDL.
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- Social Coding co-shared community provides services to affiliated yet
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fully independent Communities and Projects, such as
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[Forum](https://discuss.coding.social) and dedicated website space.
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- Contact: [@humanetech](https://mastodon.social/@humanetech) (fedi) /
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[@circlebuilder](https://matrix.to/#/@circlebuilder:matrix.org) (matrix)
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</details><br>
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- [Forgefriends](https://forgefriends.org): a forge federation project.
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Observes the ecosystem to better position itself since its goal is to be
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useful to developers. _Added by Loïc Dachary, member of the forgefriends
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community._
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- [Gna!](https://gna.org): a free forge ecosystem for free developers.
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Provides feedback on the implementation of an experimental business
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model. _Added by Loïc Dachary, member of the Gna! collective._
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### :pushpin: Ideas / open issues
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Crazy thoughts on what an ecosystem alliance can do, and things that
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should be addressed.. add them below (give a handle to matrix/fedi
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account).
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- [ ] Social Coding Movement has the concept of 'being under its
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umbrella'. The Forgers Guild would be an ideal candidate. This
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participation comes with its own [benefit
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package](https://pad.public.cat/8yNgnlxmSsGYk3TfIau46A?view) (to be
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updated, elaborated).
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- [ ] Research business models (see [the business model for federated
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online services example of
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Gna!](https://forum.gna.org/t/hostea-forge-hosting-supported-by-a-collective-of-service-companies/175))
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- [ ] Match developers with funding (there is more funding available
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globally than developers willing to do the work)
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- [ ] _Idea or open issue_
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### Kick-off Meeting
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Participants (add yourself to the list):
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- [Loïc Dachary](https://mastodon.online/@dachary)
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- [fr33domlover](https://todon.nl/@fr33domlover)
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- [Aravinth Manivannan](https://gts.batsense.net/@realaravinth)
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- [Anthony Wang](https://social.exozy.me/@a)
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- [Arnold Schrijver](https://mastodon.social/@humanetech)
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- [Gusted](https://mastodon.technology/@Gusted)
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- [Cloud68](https://fosstodon.org/@Cloud68/108883423002859647) (please,
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ping us when date is set)
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- Mayel (Bonfire) (UTC+12)
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**Date**: TBD
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- Jitsi: https://meet.waag.org/ForgersEcosystemAllianceKickOff
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#### Agenda:
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(draft, preliminary)
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- Introduction, who's who?
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- Rationale for an Ecosystem Alliance: The challenge
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- Forgers Guild: Shared vision, common mission
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- "What do I want?", objectives for participants, benefits
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- Next steps
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Please see [here](https://notes.smallcircles.work/s/UnEIHW1HV) for the original draft
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