Darius KazemiDec 30, 2019

I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io

The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.

Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070

Gathio

An easier, quicker, and much less privacy-invading way to make and share events

Show threadAaron PareckiDec 31, 2019
This is very cool! Nice overloading of polls for RSVP buttons!

I've been working on events too, and just launched https://events.indieweb.org last week! It federates via Webmention, including adding photos, comments and blog posts via Webmention replies. I've been thinking about whether and how to add ActivityPub to it and this is giving me some ideas now!
IndieWeb Events | IndieWeb Events

Show threadDarius Kazemi
@aaronpk Oh cool! Yeah, tbh my main issue with most events solutions out there is that their federation models seem really weird to me. It was important for me to make an event (lower case) into an Actor that people can follow, and then it can send out Events. Other implementations take the AS2 vocab spec too literally and make human users their Actors, and you follow a human and they emit Events that they "own" over time
Dec 31, 2019 at 4:59pmWeb
Show threadAaron PareckiDec 31, 2019
I agree with you on that! I think this is also a similar issue I've seen on how we've been doing "indie events", where an individual person posts an event on their own website. (We have at least 6 years of examples of this at this point.) But I've always thought of events as being their own thing even if they're hosted by a specific person. So this is my attempt at flipping that around and making events a first-class entity.
Show threadDarius KazemiDec 31, 2019
@aaronpk we should probably do our once-every-two-years thing where we actually meet up and talk about this stuff since we live in the same city huh
Show threadAaron PareckiDec 31, 2019
😂 has it been that long! Yes we definitely should! I'm around this week!