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** Lots of people ask me to define federation

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* So, what does federation mean

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* Want to get started? (using PyPump)

http://pypump.org/en/latest/

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http://pypump.org/

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** Are we federating yet???

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* Federation history, in brief

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** (non/pre-web federation)

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* A technical dive into ActivityPump

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** ActivityPump's predecessor: pump api

http://pump.io/

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http://w3c-social.github.io/activitypump/

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** ActivityStreams

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http://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

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** Okay so how do we send these around (endpoints!)

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http://json-ld.org/

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