WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.600 Hello, I'm very happy to be here, I had first done for the second time. 00:15.600 --> 00:20.600 I will start with a question, who has never heard of mobiles on before? 00:20.600 --> 00:23.000 Okay, good. 00:23.000 --> 00:28.360 So some people have heard of mobiles on before, they'd be asking a bit, it's okay, it was a long 00:28.360 --> 00:29.360 day. 00:29.360 --> 00:45.360 So I like to say that mobiles on is a bit like Facebook also, the only for the group and events 00:45.360 --> 00:52.360 part not with personal information and it has something else to it, of course, it's 00:52.360 --> 00:56.360 very diverse and interoperability. 00:56.360 --> 01:04.560 It's also federated and decentralized, so it's not one website, it's software that enables 01:04.560 --> 01:06.560 to create websites. 01:06.560 --> 01:12.320 We have a couple of mobiles on instances of the world, they can be thematic, for instance, 01:12.320 --> 01:21.280 we have some for family and kids' events, and some for political events in the U.S. 01:21.280 --> 01:26.440 For instance, this one is really picking up, we have some regional ones like for a country, 01:26.440 --> 01:31.920 we have more views on Italy, for instance, or smaller regions, and we also have some 01:31.920 --> 01:40.680 for communities, they can be private, like not open to everybody, for instance, we have students 01:40.680 --> 01:49.360 in a university in Austria or a group of activists in the Netherlands, for instance. 01:49.360 --> 01:55.680 So the main thing in Mosby, is that it's collaborative agenda, people who have an account 01:55.680 --> 02:03.120 can create an event and also manage participation, and that builds into collaborative 02:03.120 --> 02:10.560 agenda, and people can search for events by keywords, by dates, and by location, first 02:10.560 --> 02:16.760 you do usually that you filter on where you are, and the second thing is that you have 02:16.760 --> 02:23.640 groups, so a group can be like for a group of people, like to have members, and some content 02:23.640 --> 02:30.440 that is private to group members, but it's also just for a venue or an organization who 02:30.440 --> 02:37.000 wants to have a public page where they can post news and tell about their activities, and 02:37.000 --> 02:46.720 post events, of course, and if they have a group, they can be followed on the Fediverse. 02:46.720 --> 02:54.080 So we have been maintaining mobility, we started in 2019, but we have been maintaining it 02:54.080 --> 02:59.520 for the last two years, thanks to NL net grants, and then a new one, so now we are using 02:59.520 --> 03:08.560 the second grants, and we've done lots of things in 2025, about 100 issues I counted, 03:08.560 --> 03:14.800 you might not see so many new features, because there were lots of things to do also, 03:14.800 --> 03:21.520 like we've worked on bugs, we've worked on fixing some UX topics, and there is still a lot 03:21.520 --> 03:29.920 to do to be honest, we've worked on accessibility, security, infrastructure, tests, performance, 03:29.920 --> 03:37.640 and also updating components, which was fun, but we still have some new features that 03:37.640 --> 03:39.640 are good ones. 03:40.600 --> 03:45.800 For instance, one feature we added is that now the instance admin, without any development 03:45.800 --> 03:55.800 skin skills, only in a very user-friendly way, can add menu entries, it can be a search on 03:55.800 --> 04:01.560 mobility zone that you bookmark, so for instance, if you want to advertise for events in a city, 04:01.560 --> 04:07.960 you can make a search on the city, get a URL, and then use this URL to be a menu entry, 04:08.280 --> 04:15.080 or you can put links to external websites, so it's an easy way to integrate a mobility zone 04:15.080 --> 04:21.000 instance with a static website, and one news case I like very much is that some people 04:21.000 --> 04:28.600 they created a newsletter registration page, and then by magic, I don't go into details, 04:28.600 --> 04:36.280 but people who register on the newsletter, they will receive every which the upcoming events 04:36.360 --> 04:41.480 in their mailbox, so it's pretty nice for the instance administrator because they just have 04:41.480 --> 04:51.240 nothing to do for that. Second feature we did is that now we have a invite link to join a group 04:51.240 --> 04:59.160 before that you had to send a link of the group, and tell people please create an account, 04:59.160 --> 05:05.000 and then I can add you as a member to the group, and now we just send the invite link, 05:05.000 --> 05:11.640 and the users are pulled through this process, so this was really needed, and another feature 05:11.640 --> 05:17.640 is that now we can moderate new users, so we used to have like when it's open to registration, 05:17.640 --> 05:24.920 it's very nice, everybody can join, but we used to have like illegal things popping up on the home page, 05:24.920 --> 05:30.440 so now we can avoid that by activating more direction of new users, they write a little message, 05:30.440 --> 05:36.120 and then the instance admin can whitelist them, so that was also much funded, and there is 05:36.120 --> 05:43.880 very much more we'd like to do, but for now that's it, and for the short term we will focus 05:43.880 --> 05:50.360 on integration with the Fediverse, like in the Fediverse software, mobilization is using activity 05:50.360 --> 05:57.720 purposes, it can share content, and some things are actually working and implemented, but we need 05:57.720 --> 06:03.160 to refine that, like it's easier said than done, we have lots of use case, what do we want to share, 06:03.960 --> 06:10.280 so this is our next focus, we want to make partnerships with other actors of the Fediverse, 06:10.280 --> 06:17.160 like MasterDone and Goncio, and work also on the Fediverse enhancement proposal to better define 06:17.160 --> 06:25.960 what how an event should be described on the Fediverse, and our vision is that every event should 06:26.040 --> 06:33.400 be on the Fediverse, but we know not everybody will go on the Fediverse to post, so we also want to 06:33.400 --> 06:43.640 integrate with any of the websites, so we promote the use of plugin and bridges and standard 06:43.640 --> 06:51.640 format and protocol, so we can easily import events from wherever it is, and also, like export 06:51.720 --> 07:01.080 to other websites, I'm done with the presentation, I will ask my teammates to come with me, 07:01.080 --> 07:11.160 then you can ask for questions and maybe reach out, we have time again, just for one question, 07:11.160 --> 07:19.960 but thank you, and I will answer a question even before you ask, okay, it's how you can support 07:19.960 --> 07:27.400 mobility, so you have at least four ways, you can use it, so search for an instance where you can 07:27.400 --> 07:35.480 post events, you can anything you're interested in or is interested in your area, you can even use 07:35.560 --> 07:40.680 those import tools that are very nice, if there is no instance you can use, you can 07:40.680 --> 07:47.880 hand up some people and start one to advertise for events around, you can also spread the word, 07:47.880 --> 07:54.360 so if you go to a nice venue or at a nice event, tells the organizers that they can put their 07:54.360 --> 08:03.960 events on mobile zone, that it's free and nice and ethical, and if you know people or organizations 08:03.960 --> 08:09.800 that would be interested in having their own instance, you can also send them to us because we do 08:09.800 --> 08:15.000 hosting as a service, so we would be happy to develop a business model, or indeed have the 08:15.000 --> 08:22.520 and electronic funding stops for us, and so it can be like sports club or municipalities, 08:25.080 --> 08:30.760 that's a good question, yeah, I'm not sure if I heard you properly, but the 08:30.840 --> 08:37.400 her year that you have also had a dating capability, if so, how well is it received by the audience? 08:38.760 --> 08:44.200 That I can tell you. Dating? What? No. Oh, the name is written, so I buy apologies. 08:45.160 --> 08:48.920 Well, you can add a static page as a link in the menu. 08:52.520 --> 08:55.080 Thank you so much to the mobile zone team, appreciate it.