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  • Interoperability of Events in the Fediverse

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    Hooray! It is now official: We have been granted funding by NLnet to support the realisation the vision we outlined in our last post. Events are at the heart of social life and deserve to be treated accordingly in the Fediverse. […] In addition, we will also investigate the Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider Specifications (FASPs) […]

  • The Work Continues: What’s Next

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    Details will follow soon — but the work on events in the is far from complete. Key upcoming milestones include: Additional updates and technical details will be shared soon. Input, testing, and collaboration from interested parties are always welcome. Or if you know any conferences we should attend, let us know.

  • Progress on the FEP for Event objects

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    The FEP-8a8e (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal) had at lot of progress in the last months. In the meantime, the document has become somewhat more extensive than originally planned, but contains not only instructions for new features that have to be tediously implemented, but also a lot of advice and points that should provide orientation for developers […]

  • Recap of CloudFest hackathon

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    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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    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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    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 […]