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Note: this is following up on the discussion about legal entities that took place in issue #4. The primary goal is to identify possible legal homes for the fediverse.party project itself. Secondary goals include;
- mapping the space. Fgure out if there is any wheel reinvention or avoidable duplication of effort going on, and if there are any gaps.
- providing some insight into the relationships between the people behind the various app projects (eg allies vs. rivals), which may affect the prospects for smooth inter-operation between apps.
The initial list includes any formal organizations that are supporting the development of fediverse software, other federated software, and protocols/ standards. The list will be expanded, as info becomes available, to note their legal status, the activities they currently undertake, and any other activities they agree would be within their mission.
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Diaspora Foundation - provides a legal entity for Diaspora dev, under the umbrella of the Free Software Support Network (FSSN), a project of the Software Freedom Law Centre.
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Feneas (Federated Networks Association) - involves people from a number of the projects in "the Federation" (apps using the set of protocols standardized by Diaspora standard
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GNU.io - provides a legal entity for development of GNU social (and GNU FM), under the umbrella of the GNU Project, a project of the Free Software Foundation.
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SocialWG (Social Web Incubator Community Group / Social Web Working Group) - the team that formalized ActivityPub and ActivityStreams 1.0, under the umbrella of the W3C. It's W3C Working Group charter began in 2014-07-21, and expired in 2018-02-13.