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It's Richie May 12, 2025

A few weeks ago I was asking around for an invite to #FOSStodon for our #Koalagator calendar FOSS project only to have folks quickly tell me that drama was afoot.

Sounds like things have settled down https://hub.fosstodon.org/fosstodon-community-statement AND that the project has recommitted to being an inclusive space for marginalised communuties.

Very glad to hear this! Thanks @fosstodon team for all you've done and continue to do for the FOSS community, @Gina especially.

Now, about getting my project onto fosstodon. @Gina any chance of an invite?

Koalagator is a multi-year code revival project of a 10 year old much loved calendaring platform. We have big ambitions to make local community events easier to discover on the open web, away from big tech control.

https://github.com/koalagator/koalagator

#FOSS #Koalagator #Calagator #Ruby #RubyOnRails #CalendarPlatform #CommunityCalendar #CommunityOrganising #SelfHosting #FOSStodon

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It's Richie Apr 21, 2025

thanks so much for boosting this post everyone! Its already led to someone commenting on the discussions and letting me know about a project that may help!

The FediRails project that helps add ActivityPub to Rails codebases.

https://gitlab.com/experimentslabs/federails

#Rails #Fediverse #Events #Microformats #Ical #ActivityPub #Developers #SoftwareDesign #FOSS #OpenSource #CommunityCalendar #Feedback

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Ruby gem to bring ActivityPub to your app - Documentation

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It's Richie Apr 21, 2025

For over two years now I've been working on the revival of a community calendar that was built in the heady days of the sharing economy before Uber and friends extracted every ounce of community goodwill in their thurst for profit.

A FOSS self hosted community ecosystem calendar (like say one for the local indie band scene) seems like a natural fit for the fediverse.

I've been unpacking some ideas for how this might work in the discussions on the code repo.

Would love folks to give it a read and give any feedback.

https://github.com/koalagator/koalagator/discussions/51

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ActivityPub / Mastodon integration - What would be ideal? · koalagator koalagator · Discussion #51

We're looking into Activity Pub integration towards increasing discoverability of events and also as a way to support greater sharability and discussions around upcoming events. Im writing today to...

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