Gioacchino Mazzurco

👥 1 conference
🎤 1 talk
📅 Years active: 2019 to 2019

Biography

Gioacchino Mazzurco is a free thinker and tinkerer, he actively participates in libre hardware and free and open source software development with important contributions to projects likes LibreRouter, OpenWrt, LibreMesh, RetroShare and KDE, he is also recognized for its contributions to community networks. He studied Energy Engineering and graduated in Computer Science at University of Pisa. After living in various cities in western Europe he is now based in the Barcelona neighborhood, were thanks to it's multidisciplinary knowledge he keep impulsing collaborative initiatives, that spreads from ethical food supplying to community managed communications technologies. He has been invited to talk at many events, his story telling skills together with it's spread knowledge are greatly enjoyed by the public. Gioacchino has been involved in the Retroshare project for almost 10 years and has contributed to several parts including the asynchronous messaging, the web interface and Android port. https://librerouter.org/article/gio/

— biography from FOSDEM 2019
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/speaker/gioacchino_mazzurco/

Conferences

1 known conferences

👥 FOSDEM 2019 📅 02 Feb 2019

🎤 Retroshare JSON API
02 Feb 2019 show details

RetroShare is a platform that allows users to create a fully decentralized network with a high level of security, privacy and confidentiality. It offers a unique combination of features (File transfer, publishing channels, forums, distributed chat, asynchronous email,...) that provide users lots of ways to interact. Its generic nature allows to create new services based on an existing cryptographic and networking backend.

The presentation will start with a short overview of the RetroShare software and motivate the need for a JSON API to safely access the features offered by the core of the software. Our JSON API, to be released in December 2018, uses clever techniques to automatically generate handles from existing code based on Doxygen capabilities as well as a very compact serialization technique. We will explore the potential of the JSON API with concrete examples including the --preliminary-- web interface and Android RetroShare clients. Finally, a call to developers will be made, based on generic examples, while proposing multiple ideas of distributed services to be developed on top of it.

The detailed plan for the presentation will be the following. Each line indicates the approximate time duration and number of slides. The presentation is tuned to approximately 20 mins.

Overview of the Retroshare platform

Services offered by the application (FT, channels, forums, identities, etc)
Architecture (libretroshare + Qt UI, main components)
Motivation for a JSON API (use of RetroShare as a background library for decentralized communication, Android client, web interface, getting rid of old UI...)

The JSON API

Automated serialization
Automated JSON API code stub generation
Interaction, syntax
Authentication

Concrete examples

RetroShare's new web interface
Experimental mobile chat app based on RetroShare JSON API
ElRepo.io App based on RetroShare JSON API

Call for contributions

ideas of applications
conclusion and contacts