[Fsuk-manchester] MFS Talk. Tues, 15 Nov. "Diaspora and Distributed/Federated Social Networking" by Ellie

[Michael Dorrington]

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* Talk: Diaspora and Distributed/Federated Social Networking
        https://joindiaspora.com/
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network
* Speaker: Ellie

* Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
* Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN.
"(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)"
  http://madlab.org.uk/
* Date: Tuesday, 15th November 2011 (3rd Tuesday of the month)
* Start time: 19:00
* Finish time: 20:30

Details
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This talk will be on Diaspora, which is an implementation of
Distributed/Federated Social Networking, and on Distributed/Federated
Social Networking in general.

The event will include a Q&A session, discussion and then lively debate
in the pub afterwards.

Speaker
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Ellie is passionate about educating people of the need to move away from
Centralised Social Networking to Distributed/Federated Social Networking.

Location
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The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at Madlab on Edge
Street in the Northern Quarter. "(Between Thomas St and the Craft
Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)". The venue provides wifi. The
talk is followed by an informal discussion in the bar opposite (A Place
Called Common <http://www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk/>).

Transport
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Parking: Around the venue there are parking meter bays that become zero
cost after 8pm on Tuesday so you'll have to pay up until then and the
maximum stay is 2 hours BUT MAKE SURE YOU VERIFY THIS. There are paid
parking lots around the venue, the light blue P in this OpenStreetMap
centred on Madlab
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.48427&lon=-2.23652&zoom=15&layers=M>.
A lot of them, perhaps all, are are owned by NCP
<http://www.ncp.co.uk/>. If you can't decide otherwise then park in
Manchester Arndale <http://www.manchesterarndale.com/directions.aspx>.

Public Transport: Manchester Victoria (MCV) train station, Shudehill
tram station and Manchester Piccadilly bus station are all fairly close
to Madlab, see OpenStreetMap centred on Madlab
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.48427&lon=-2.23652&zoom=15&layers=M>.
Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) train station and Manchester Central Coach
Station are not too far either.

Further details at <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester/2011-11-15>.

More Information
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General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be found
on our website.

* http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester/Meetings
* http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester/2011-11-15

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please
contact us at <address@hidden>.

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