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  • Recap of CloudFest hackathon

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    André Menrath

    When you hear ‘CloudFest’, many people associate it with a business-to-business event, which it is, but the hackathon in the run-up to it still has a certain degree of community character. On the initiative of Andreas Heigl (@heiglandreas@andreas.heigl.org) and the support of Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle), this year’s hackathon provided the resources and space for an […]

  • Event Bridge for ActivityPub 1.0.0

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    André Menrath

    When is the right time to release version 1.0.0? – If I had waited until every interoperability issue was resolved, probably never. However, the main goal of this plugin is now realized: enhancing the WordPress ActivityPub plugin to support third-party integrations – specifically, ensuring that events from popular WordPress event plugins can be shared and […]

  • “Event Bridge For ActivityPub” plugin released on WordPress.org

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    André Menrath

    It’s been a long road, but now a first version (v0.3.5) of the plugin is available via the official plugin sources on WordPress.org. Further features are almost ready and will follow in the coming days. This is includes some more complex features like aggregating events from other remote ActivityPub actors and improvements like better accessibility […]

  • 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

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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. […]