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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 of Fediverse applications that support events. It now covers: Many thanks again to all reviewers and co-editors: @lesion @heiglandreas @naturzukunft @laurin We warmly welcome further feedback from the communities of #Friendica, #Mobilizon, #Hubzilla, and other Fediverse platforms supporting events.If you’re working on such an application…
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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 exchange of ideas around ‘federated events’. Our group was one of the largest and very diverse. We used the first day primarily to exchange ideas about our goals and the status quo. Afterwards, we reviewed and improved existing features and developed prototypes and concepts for…
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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 discovered across the Fediverse (Release on Codeberg.org). Checkout this Gancio demo site, where you can see events sourced from a WordPress site in action! A special thanks to the team at Radically Open Security (@ros) for their security review. My correspondence with the pentester Marcus…
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“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 in the admin UI. We are looking forward to feedback from users. You can find our guidelines for contributing here. Unfortunately, interoperability with other applications is still limited, often caused by unresolved issues within other applications. However, we all are all working on it and…
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The latest additions to FEP-8a8e “A common approach to using the Event object type”
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First of all I would like to thank all reviewers and contributors to the FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal): @lesion, @mro@digitalcourage.social, @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 have one set are also included. In addition, a new attribute has been proposed to mark an event as open-ended, so that no end date should be displayed to users, while at the same time being available to applications, e.g. for processing a list of…
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Event Bridge for ActivityPub: Upcoming 1.0 Release
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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 finalized the feature set for this upcoming release as follows: Security and accessibility review A security and accessibility review is currently taking place, and we will also be adapting the results of this.