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