Event Federation 9 months ago

# Recap of CloudFest hackathonWhen you hear ‘CloudFest’, many people associate it with a business-to-business event, which it is, but the hackathon in the run-up to it still has a certain degree of community character. On the initiative of Andreas Heigl (@heiglandreas@andreas.heigl.org) and the support of Matthias Pfefferle (@Matthias Pfefferle), [this year’s hackathon](

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Federated Community Events

Federated Community Events 🌟 CF Hackathon 2025 Project Results 🌟 A diverse team of 16 participants explored the concept of federated communit...

) provided the resources and space for an exchange of ideas around ‘federated events’. Our group was one of the largest and very diverse. We used the first day primarily to exchange ideas about our goals and the status quo. Afterwards, we reviewed and improved existing features and developed prototypes and concepts for new ones. For me as a developer of the WordPress plugin Event Bridge For ActivityPub, the best thing about these days was to finally get to know the entire WordPress/Automattic team involved with ActivityPub in person (greetings to @Matt Wiebe and @Konstantin Obenland). I would like to emphasise a few achievements in particular, without neglecting the achievements of all:<li>Matthias Heigl took the time to take an intensive look at the <a href="https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/430" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">FEP-8a8e</a>. His many years of experience with the development of calendar features and iCal provided important suggestions for making the specification even more far-sighted.</li><li>Laura (<a href="https://working-directory.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://working-directory.com/</a>) helped to reduce the barriers new developers face when experimenting with the interaction of Gancio/Mobilizon and WordPress and others.</li><li>Finally, many thanks to Cloudfest for the great organisation and hosting!</li> **Links:**<li><a href="https://codeberg.org/cfh25-fce">https://codeberg.org/</a><a href="https://codeberg.org/cfh25-fce" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cfh25</a><a href="https://codeberg.org/cfh25-fce">-fce</a></li><li><a href="https://hackathon.cloudfest.com/project/federated-community-events/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hackathon.cloudfest.com</a></li><li><a href="https://fedivents.blog/">https://</a><a href="https://fedivents.blog/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">fedivents</a><a href="https://fedivents.blog/">.blog/</a></li> #Hackathon #Fedivents #WordPress #CloudFest #CloudFest #Fedivents #Hackathon #WordPress

Event Federation 1 year ago

# Event Bridge for ActivityPub: Upcoming 1.0 ReleaseThe 1.0 release of our WordPress plugin [Event Bridge for ActivityPub](https://code.event-federation.eu/Event-Federation/wordpress-event-bridge-for-activitypub ) is scheduled for early January 2025.## Features based on evaluation resultsOver the past year, the development plan for the 1.0 release of our WordPress plugin, [Event Bridge for ActivityPub](https://code.event-federation.eu/Event-Federation/wordpress-event-bridge-for-activitypub ), has evolved significantly. After extensive testing and an evaluation process with real users, we’ve finalized the feature set for this upcoming release as follows:<li>Basic support for 10 widely-used WordPress event plugins.</li><li>Compatibility with multiple event plugins simultaneously, as we found that switching between plugins is common and maintaining archives is essential.</li><li>Event Aggregation from the Fediverse: follow other ActivityPub profiles to get and display their events. Will only be available with select event plugin integrations.</li><li>Map WordPress event categories to federated event categories, ensuring consistency across platforms.</li><li>Customizable event summaries for platforms like Mastodon that don’t natively support events in ActivityPub.</li><li>Send reminders (via <code>Announce</code> or custom <code>Note</code>) to followers at a configurable time before the event starts.</li><li>A streamlined admin dashboard that includes health checks and feedback to guide users to easily resolve faulty configurations.</li>## Security and accessibility reviewA security and accessibility review is currently taking place, and we will also be adapting the results of this.