If you are an implementor of #ActivityPub, or any related social web apps or protocols, please try to come to the meeting on the future of ActivityPub standardization and related subjects next Wednesday, March 29. It's on-line and hosted by #FediForum and the W3C's Social Web Interest Community Group.

We want to hear from you! Standards should not be created in a vacuum. If you have tried to use ActivityPub (successfully or not!), tell us what you need! And perhaps get involved making it so.

@lpwaterhouse Correction: Note that 1) there is no requirement to be registered for Fediforum to participate in the session with the SWICG people, 2) FediForum itself has still available free tickets, to get one please follow the instructions on the site.

@liaizon

You can still sign up! And given Fediforum is an #unconference, you can propose and run a session if you like!

https://fediforum.org/

@UncensoredNews is interested in discussing "The Future of Internet News" at #fediforum next week.

A worthwhile and important discussion! If anybody wants to participate, you can still register at https://fediforum.org/ !

#internet #news

@boris wants to talk about "Co-op structures Onboarding and outreach Exploring what kind of orgs should run their own instance and how to support them in that " at #Fediforum, which is starting in less than one hour!

@fediforum

@debs Reading in the FediForum notes that you apparently said, in a session I didn't go to: "I'd love to explore what MAJOR investment/support for a public fediverse looks like - civic, govt, city, nonprofit - or is that too scary?"

I've pondering the same thing. But I'm having difficulties imagining it resulting in anything much better than the useless public WiFi network the city of Santa Clara, CA, next door to me, created.

We had 46 people in the session on the future of #ActivityPub and related, hosted by #Fediforum and the #W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group (SWICG). I'm told that was the largest SWICG meeting in history.

And so many implementors were there and spoke up what they need! There's real momemtum.

/cc @fediforum

Relaxing, after the first (half) day of #fediforum. Unconferences are strenuous in any case, you don’t ever doze off like in talking-head conferences, but if you are an organizer, as I am with @Identitywoman and @Dangerangel, it’s even more so!

Looking forward to day 2 tomorrow, we start again at 8:00 pacific with 5 more demos reflecting the broad diversity of apps (and people, and interests, and more) that is the #fediverse.

@evan had the idea of a “#fediverse #developer network” earlier today. Pondering this, I think this is a really excellent idea. It brings under one umbrella a whole bunch of other ideas how to move the fediverse forward, and simplifies those a lot. I think we should investigate this …

What about we do a #fediforum session tomorrow on this? Maybe @davidslifka would join us, who recently talked to some potential funders for things like that I think.

30 counts of business fraud. Hmm. Does not round to zero.

@mike @h3poteto @rabble @manton @pfefferle

Thank you very much for your excellent demos, and showing off the sheer diversity and innovation that is the #Fediverse at #fediforum

Renewed my membership in #Mydata Global today. There are lots of common values and goals between the #Fediverse and the MyData community, but very people -- like myself -- are involved in both. https://mydata.org

@schmudde MyData is largely a community building org. The value is in the conference they organize, and the collaboration activities they enable through their chapters and through Slack.

#ActivityPub, the standard that all of the #Fediverse depends on, and without which you couldn't use the app through which you read this, was created over 5 years ago.

Since, the W3C standards group that produced it disbanded and the standard has been essentially unmaintained.

Which is ... not good, given the recent rapid growth of the Fediverse and the many new apps and websites trying to support it.

@clacke what would you like it to do? Note I helped organize an apparently historically significant in size SWICG / FediForum meeting last week and also published my wish list for what needs to get done, in case you hadn’t seen it.