2023-05-31 Online meeting

Draft agenda:

• Show-and-tell, 5 min each. Whoever has something to show (working code, test, documentation) that is likely of interest to other Fediverse developers and not broadly known yet.

• Discussion of best agenda for regular network calls.

• Open discussion.

Some of the attendees (add yourself with name, project affiliation/role, Fediverse handle) – entirely optional

• Bob Wyman @bobwyman@mastodon.social

• Ryan Barrett @snarfed.org@snarfed.org

• Jeremiah Lee @Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

• narF @narF@mstdn.fr (i work in video games)

• Johannes Ernst @j12t@social.coop

Backchannel: let’s simply use General on https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-developer-network:matrix.org

Notes (previous call’s notes are at https://fedidevs.org/notes/20230410 )

• Let’s do introductions on the Matrix Intro channel, part of the Fediverse Developer Network room, linked from https://fedidevs.org/

  • The admin/mods of the Matrix Space could pin the important rooms (channels) as “recommended” to give them more visibility in the Space.

  • New visitors should be directed to the Space (instead of a specific room) using this link: https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-developer-network:matrix.org

• Tim Bray’s high throughput filtering library, posts:

  • https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/09/02/Hello-Ruler

  • https://github.com/timbray/quamina

• Bob: working on “prospective search” – discussion of Fediverse applications

• Johannes: generating single markdown page with the Webfinger file from various representative fediverse apps, second single markdown page with actor files

  • Feedback: generally useful, should be on the website

• Ryan: proposal for how to translate identity and mechanics between protocols: AP, IndieWeb, Bluesky, Nostr: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#translate

  • Feedback is welcome! Comment here or here

• Jeremiah requested JSON-LD help regarding an idea for extending the Actor and Activity object. Bob pointed to JSON-LD.org playground for validating.

• Check out the FEP process and repo!

• Role of this meeting in the future?

  • W3C planning to restart monthly meetings

  • Jeremiah: keep it as a meetup for fediverse developers to share progress/pains/requests for help

  • Ben: helpful to create trust with other developers, easier to discuss wild ideas via a/v chat than writing sometimes

  • Bob: What’s the best programming language to put example code in for fediverse developers?

    • Jeremiah: curious to know what the language spread is among server implementations

    • Bob asked, in jest, about the Bliss programming language. No one had heard of it. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.470

Future meetings:

• about once a month, “between” SWICG meetings

• Structure: brief (like today, 5-min) updates / requests for help from developers: hear what other people are working on, struggling with, …

• Encouraged to tell up-front what question/update you want to share, so people have an idea up-front what the content of the meeting will be.