Event Federation

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Author: André Menrath

André is the leader of the project. Despite studying audio engineering and being a professionally trained pianist and piano teacher, he has always been interested in digital technologies. He began his career in software development by managing IT infrastructure for small associations and activist groups. Working in this context helped him become aware of the actual needs of people and the serious usability problems that often arise in open source projects. He firstly just reported problems, then began writing code himself. For several years now, he is employed as a Full-Stack Web Developer and Advanced System Engineer. 2020 he started regionally focused Fediverse instances that are now operated by the association graz.social – association for the promotion of ethical digital culture. @linos@graz.social

  • The latest additions to FEP-8a8e “A common approach to using the Event object type”

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    André Menrath

    First of all I would like to thank all reviewers and contributors to the FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal): @lesion, @mro, @naturzukunft, @laurin and more. This article tries to outline some areas where the FEP is currently undergoing evolution: Dates Providing an endTime is now mandatory, but guidelines how to deal with events that do not…

  • Event Bridge for ActivityPub: Upcoming 1.0 Release

    Event Bridge for ActivityPub: Upcoming 1.0 Release

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    André Menrath

    The 1.0 release of our WordPress plugin Event Bridge for ActivityPub is scheduled for early January 2025. Features based on evaluation results Over the past year, the development plan for the 1.0 release of our WordPress plugin, Event Bridge for ActivityPub, has evolved significantly. After extensive testing and an evaluation process with real users, we’ve…

  • Release of our WordPress plugin on WordPress.org – not yet

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    André Menrath

    Our plugin submission to WordPress.org has just been rejected by the reviewers because they are concerned about trademark infringement by starting the plugin slug with “activitypub”. The current name is ActivityPub Event Bridge and therefore the slug is activitypub-event-bridge. They suggest to rename it to Event Bridge for ActivityPub and adjust the slug to event-bridge-activitypub.…