Solid
Community
Solid is powered by a community of passionate volunteers committed to the project's success. As of October 2024, the Open Data Institute (ODI) has committed to provide organisational stewardship and support to the project.
Everyone is welcome in the Solid community - discover ways to join and contribute to the Solid community.
Where to collaborate
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Solid Project Forum
Create and respond to comments, questions, and discussions happening in the community.
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Solid Matrix Chat
The Solid Matrix Chat is a live chat where community members can connect.
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Solid Community Group
Learn and work on Solid specifications.
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Events
Discover Solid events taking place virtually and/or in person around the world.
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2024 Events
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- Solid World
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- Solid Team / Inrupt
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- Description
- Solid World Recording
Solid World was held around the theme of "Solid for Social Benefit: Delivering Shared and Public Resources." We heard news from the Solid Team and presentations from the PASS Project, Open Commons, the SleepyBike Project, and Digital Flanders.
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- 2nd Solid Symposium
- Organization
- COST / [VITO
- Date
- –
- Description
- Solid Symposium was held in Leuven, BE. Sarven Capadisli gave the opening keynote Socially-aware Web discussing
Web's core principles and architectural concepts, emphasising both social and technical challenges, with a focus on standardisation and implementation efforts within Solid.
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- Solid Community Flanders meeting "Media in the spotlight"
- Organization
- SolidLab Flanders](https://solidlab.be) / [athumi
- Date
- Description
- This is an on-site event only, at De Krook (Ghent, Belgium).
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2023 Events
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Inrupt
- Date
- Description
- Solid World recording
Aaron Coburn updated us on news from the W3C's annual meeting. Jackson Morgan presented Linked Data Objects. Davi Ottenheimer presented on how Solid can enable responsible AI, and a team from Northeastern University presented on how predictive and generative AI can leverage Solid.
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World was held at 11:00 a.m. EDT/1700 CEST. There was an update on CSS, an announcement of Inrupt's Solid hackathon winners, and presentations from Graphmetrix and Motius. Eventbrite.
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- My Data Conference 2023
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- MyData
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- -
- Description
- There will be a dedicated workshop/panel session about the Solid project at this conference, alongside interesting people and presentations from many like-minded projects. Location: Helsinki
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- Solid Symposium 2023
- Organization
- COST Action on Distributed Knowledge Graphs
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- -
- Description
- The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for researchers, early adopters from companies and public administration, and the community at large to discuss the current state of the art around Solid and exchange ideas for further developments.
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World recording
Ruben Verborgh updated us on the Solid W3C Working Group, and Melissa Wood of SolidMcr announced the creation of SolidUK. Esther de Loof of SolidLab Flanders presented the findings from their first annual SOLIDMonitor report. Oz Olivo presented Inrupt's Version 2.1 release.
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- Solid App MVP's and a Guest Presentation: An Open Source Opportunity
- Organization
- Solid Minneapolis / Jon Wilson
- Date
- Description
- An online meetup discussing the essential parts to make Solid apps, and with a presentation by Chase Hunt, a contributor to SolidOS, about getting involved in open source, and the opportunities to join and help grow the Solid ecosystem.
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2022 Events
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World December recording
Jun Zhao, Hunar Batra and Rui Zhao from Oxford University presented two Solid-based applications: Solidflix and Solid Calendar. Jackson Morgan presented LDO. We also heard about the formation of a Solid W3C Working Group.
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- Solid World
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- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World November recording
The BBC Research & Development team presented their new watch party product, BBC Together + Data Pod.
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World October recording
Eliott Behar, a privacy and human rights attorney, Davi Ottenheimer, VP of Trust and Digital Ethics at Inrupt, and Michiel Fierens, doctoral researcher at SolidLab Flanders, participated in a panel discussion on Solid and New Data Regulations.
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- Solid Amsterdam
- Organization
- PLDN
- Date
- Description
- Register here
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World September recording
Graphmetrix previewed the launch of their Trinpod service at Trinpod.us and Trinpod.eu
Esther de Loof to us about SolidLab Belgium
Melissa Wood told us about the latest Solid Manchester meetup
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- Collaboration Call: Pods for empowering Due Diligence process
- Organization
- SolidMcr Meetup - Manchester
- Date
- Description
- Right to Rent, Right to Work, Pre-Employment Screening, preventing modern slavery, DBS checks - CDD Services introduce two products requiring help to reach market. Sign up on EventBrite
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- Solid, Linked Data and Decentralized Web Meetup
- Organization
- MCH 2022](https://mch2022.org/) / [Muze
- Date
- Description
- Muze hosts a meetup about Solid, Linked Data and Decentralized Web at MCH 2022, in Zeewolde, the Netherlands. There will be talks and workshops on three afternoons, starting at July 23th. If you've got something to show or tell, or just tell us that you're coming, please mail to mch@muze.nl.
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording
Presentation:
Ruben Verborgh told us more about Solid Lab
Aaron Coburn told us about the v2.0 Inrupt ESS lanch
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording
Presentation:
Flanders Data Utility Company Team: Hear first-hand insight into how the Flemish Data Utility Company wants to stimulate citizens’ trust in sharing data, by focusing on responsible and secure data sharing. The Data Utility Company’s Solid Pod platform is designed to establish trusted data ecosystems on this groundbreaking technology. The Data Utility Company’s platform mitigates the costs and risks associated with innovative technology, lowering the threshold for organizations to enter the Solid ecosystem.
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- Introducing Solid IRL
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- Solid Minneapolis / Jon Wilson
- Date
- Description
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- Person-Centric Data: Solid, Pods, Personal Data Stores & Interoperability
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- Solid Mcr - Manchester / Mel W.
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- Description
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording
Presentation:
Philippe Duchesne, DataVillage & Luk Overmeire, VRT. DataVillage is developing a platform to perform confidential data processing on personal data, where end users can allow service providers to process their data to produce derived data, while having the guarantee that the original data will not be read by the service provider itself. DataVillage will be joined by VRT, the Flemish public broadcasting company, which is using the DataVillage platform to build a user-controlled content recommendation service for its audience.
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording
Presentations:
Jasmine Leonard, Solid developer tool PodPro
Sebastien Rosset, ActivityPods, a new kind of architecture for web applications which aims to reconcile the ActivityPub and Solid standards
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording
Presentations:
Gertjan de Mulder, PROV4ITDaTa
Pete Edwards, The V1.1 release of the Conformance Test Harness
All links from the meetup are shared on Solid Forum
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording
Presentations:
Sarven Capadisli, W3C Solid Community Group Chair and Solid Editor, presented the recent milestone release of Solid Protocol Version 0.9.
Ruben Verborgh, Professor of decentralized Web technology at Ghent University, presented a vision on access, query and search across the decentralized Web, and the role that Web APIs play therein.
All links from the meetup are shared on Solid Forum
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2021 Events
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording
Presentations:
Timea Turdean gave an update about SolidOS - the operating system for Solid. SolidOS code home: https://github.com/solidos/solidos
Justin Bingham gave updates on the growth of specifications in Solid and the Solid team.
Jeff Zucker explained the new Solid Glossary welcoming to newcomers. The glossary contains libraries, essential tools, documentation, and community topics.
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- Solid Implementer Feedback Session
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- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- The Solid Editorial Team would like to increase communication with community members who are actively implementing Solid compliant server or client technologies. This session is open to the public, and we welcome everyone to attend this session. However, in an effort to maintain focus on the stated goals of the session, only individuals who are actively engaged in implementing Solid compliant server or client technologies will be queued to speak. To actively participate, an implementer must: 1. Be a member of the Solid Community Group 2. RSVP in advance to feedback@solidproject.org. Must be able to cite active implementation work. Legitimate citations include links to Github repositories, links to product descriptions on websites, or otherwise credible explanation of active work efforts. Implementers are encouraged to submit questions, issues, or topics in advance to feedback@solidproject.org. This may be included in the RSVP, or sent separately afterwards. Minutes will be recorded, and posted to https://github.com/solid/specification/tree/main/meetings.
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording, Schedule a Solid Project Review: https://calendly.com/marrelle-bailey/website-research, Join Inrupt's Developer Workshop, Tani's Presentation: Website, Waitlist, Email: tani@mysilio.com; Enno's Presentation: His slides, Strategy, GitHub repo, Maintiner app link, Presentation App, Contact Email: mailto:tech@netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl; Maria's & Jan's Presentation: Slides, CERN-Solid document index, Chat, The completed PoC Project description, Indico, The PoC Project repo: Comment module, Indico Registration autocomplete, CERN mirror of the repo, The current Follow-up project, Policy document for a CERN Solid server
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Solid World Recording; Ruben Presentation Links: Community Solid Server Gitter, Support for authorizing groups of people, Demo project for how to create your module, InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) support, and Public instance of the Community Solid Server; Jackson's Presentation: Interesting Chat
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- Women of Solid
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- Virginia Balseiro
- Date
- Description
- Marrelle Bailey was the hostess.
Talks: Marrelle Bailey "You Matter As You", Juliette Carter The BBC and Solid.
Maria Dimou CERN-Solid Proof of Concept.
Recording
Additional links: You Matter As You slides, The BBC and Solid slides, CERN-Solid Proof of Concept slides.
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording
Also Notes by attendant Maria Dimou
Ruben's Update: Community server & installation guide
Oz Update: Compability Survey
Jeff’s presentation
Kyra Assaad’s presentation; DEI Team Gitter; Kyra's Twitter
Sarven’s Presentation
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording
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- NLnet; NGI webinar on Linked Data
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- NLnet foundation
- Date
- Description
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- DI2F: Decentralising The Internet With IPFS and Filecoin
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- Aalto University, Finland
- Date
- Description
- Solid over the Interplanetary File System
Fabrizio Parrillo (U. Basel, Switzerland), Christian F Tschudin (U. Basel, Switzerland)
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- Solid World
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording
Also Notes by attendant Maria Dimou.
Tim’s Flanders Press: Read about the news from Flanders; Digita: Digita Resources and Reuse Patterns; Swedish Public Employment Service: Proof of Concept (PoC)
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- Your Personal Linked Data Graphs with Solid
- Organization
- Lotico
- Date
- Description
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- Understory Digital Garden Club — Solid
- Organization
- Understory
- Date
- Description
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- Solid World May
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording
Also Notes by attendant Maria Dimou.
Jackson Morgan’s links: Liqid Chat Demo, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Client Repo API Repo.
Christian Buggedei's links: Darcy.is, Help Needed.
Aaron Coburn's and Jack Lawson's links: Notifications Demo, PodBrowser, Docs.
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- Solid World April
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording
Also Notes by attendant Maria Dimou.
Tim's talk: Web's 32nd Birthday.
Oz’s talk: Survey for the Universal API.
Graphmetrix' talk: Website, sign up for a Trin Pod.
Nextcloud/PDS Interop's talk: PDS Interop Website, PDS Interop, Yvo Brevoort, Solid Test Suite, PHP Solid Server, Nextcloud Solid Server, slides.
Spoter.Me's talk: homepage.
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- Women of Solid
- Organization
- Virginia Balseiro
- Date
- Description
- Marrelle Bailey was the hostess.
Virginia Balseiro gave us a short introduction to Solid, Timea Turdean talked about RDF.
Sharon Stratsianis told us about SolidOS.
Hindia M. Mohammed presented on the authentication process in Solid.
Recording for the first Women of Solid Meetup is up on YouTube.
Additional links: Introduction to Solid slides, RDF in Solid slides, SolidOS slides, Authentication in Solid slides.
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- Solid World March
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- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording. Also Notes by attendant Maria Dimou.
Community Spotlights: Virginia Balseiro who created Women of Solid and Digita for their introduction videos.
Ruben Verborgh gave an update on Community Solid Server (CSS) (mentioned links: his chat from his pod).
Osmar Olivo asked for feedback on Pod Spaces.
LifeScope presented what they're working on (slides).
Creafree (slides).
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- Solid World February
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording. Also, Notes by attendant Maria Dimou.
Tim Berners-Lee’s Update: New York Times and Reuters Next conference.
Ruben Verborgh’s update on Community Solid Server: recipes.
Osmar Olivo update on Node.js support: Inrupt Solid Client Libraries.
Noel DeMartin’s Presentation: Slides, Media Kraken, journal.
Jasmine Leonard’s Presentation: Slides, PodExplorer, Solid Forum, Solid Website, GitHub Repos.
Hindia Mohammed’s Presentation: Ekseli
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- Solid World January
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording.
Resources from event: Solid Operating System (OS) Roadmap, Community Solid Server (CSS), Inrupt's Enterprise Solid Server (ESS), Ruben's Code for the lights, Specifications, Specifications Panels (open to all).
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2020 Events
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- Solid Networking December
- Organization
- Jackson Morgan
- Date
- Description
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- Solid World December
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording. From Ruben's presentation: the Community Server, Ruben's live list with his CSS Pod. From CERN's presentation: slides, Indico source code and the Indico webpage. The Data Village website. Digita's Inox.
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- Solid World November
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Full recording. Notes by attendant Maria Dimou.
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- Solid World October
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording of Inrupt demonstrating their React SDK. Recording of Janeiro Digital demonstrating their work on Personal Health Stores for the NHS. Notes by attendant Maria Dimou.
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- Solid World September
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording and slides: Community Solid Server update (Ruben V.)
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- Solid World August
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording and slides: Community Solid Server (Ruben V.), Community Roadmap (Tim B.L.). Notes by attendant Maria Dimou.
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- Solid World July
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording and Slides
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- Solid World June
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording
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- Solid World May
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording
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- Solid World April
- Organization
- Solid Team
- Date
- Description
- Recording
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- Solid Toronto
- Organization
- Li Lu
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- Description
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- Solid San Francisco
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- Travis Vachon
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- Description
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- Solid Oviedo
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- Alejandro Juan García
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- Description
- recording and slides
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- Solid Barcelona
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- Noel De Martin
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- Description
- slides
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- Solid Berlin
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- Christian Buggedei
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- Description
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- Solid Amsterdam
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- Jeroen van Beele
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- Description
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- Solid Khartoum
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- Ali Siragedien
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- Description
- recording
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2019 Events
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- Solid Enschede
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- Erwin Folmer
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- Description
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- Solid London
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- Kartika Tulusan
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- Description
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- Solid Montreal
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- David H Mason
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- Description
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- Solid London
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- Kartika Tulusan
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- Description
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- Solid Copenhagen
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- Sarmad Reda
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- Description
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- Solid Amsterdam
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- Jeroen van Beele
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- Description
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- Solid Berlin
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- Christian Buggedei
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- Description
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- Solid Beijing
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- Ivy Dom
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- Description
- Solid Beijing 2019
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- Solid San Jose
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- John Bartas
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- Description
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- Solid Hague
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- Bart Roorda
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- Description
- The PLDN, Linked Data, Solid Intro & Demo
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- Solid Oviedo
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- Jose Emilio Labra Gayo
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- Description
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- Solid Berlin
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- Christian Buggedei
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- Description
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- Solid London
- Organization
- Paul Worrall
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- Description
- Inaugral Solid London Video
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- Solid Toronto
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- Li Lu
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- Description
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- Solid New York
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- Brian Cort
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- Description
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- Solid Seattle
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- Jon Pederson
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- Description
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- Solid San Jose
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- John Bartas
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- Description
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- Solid Utrecht
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- Pieter van Everdingen
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- Description
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- Solid Berlin
- Organization
- Christian Buggedei
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- Description
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- Solid Boston
- Organization
- Kelly O'Brien
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- Description
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- Solid Boston
- Organization
- Kelly O'Brien
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- Description
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- Solid Saxony
- Organization
- Team 4C
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- Description
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- Solid Stockholm
- Organization
- Eduardo Ibacache Rodriguez
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- Description
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- Solid Berlin
- Organization
- Christian Buggedei
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- Description
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2018 Events
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- Solid Oslo
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- Eduardo Ibacache Rodriguez
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- Description
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- Solid Utrecht
- Organization
- Pierluigi Casale
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- Description
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- Solid Boston
- Organization
- Mitzi László
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- Description
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2016 Events
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- Solid Montreal
- Organization
- International World Wide Web Conference
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- Description
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