@blog Insightful post. People in the SWICG geosocial task force are trying to turn your third strategy's hope into help. We’re writing explainer docs for implementing specific user stories, which has instigated work on a few related missing pieces to make federated Foursquare possible. It’s gonna happen!
Notes from the 2026-04-09 #SWICG #GeosocialTF meeting:
- @herebox update on geosocial work presented at AT Protocol Atmosphere conference
- @evan microsyntax for location doc PR
- FediForum session planning
https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/L0a0Gqvz4
Next meeting: 2026-05-14
Agenda: https://github.com/swicg/geosocial/wiki/2026%E2%80%9005%E2%80%9014-agenda
Notes from the 2026-03-12 #SWICG #GeoSocialTF meeting:
- First draft of explainer doc merged: https://github.com/swicg/geosocial/blob/main/explainer.md
- Starting of validation implementation of Places OrderedCollection proposal
- Starting microsyntax proposal for location without server-side support
Notes from the 2026-01-08 #SWICG #GeoSocialTF meeting:
- @evan’s Personal Places API proposal
- Discussion of how an overlapping W3C Community Group and Working Group might function
- The FOSDEM Social Web track is going to be even more awesome this year
# 2026-01-08 Geosocial task force meeting ## Attendees - Jeremiah Lee [@[email protected]](http
The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web.
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/
For a meeting that didn't have but 1 agenda item before it started, the SWICG Geosocial Task Force just had a discussion packed second meeting figuring out how to make location data better on the social web.
Next meeting on February 13.
Notes: https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/D7yKLjJQs
# Geosocial Task Force Call 2025-01-09 ## Present - Jeremiah Lee, [@[email protected]](https://
Jeremiah Lee
