🚀 ActivityPub Rocks Portal: From Standards Movement to Grassroots Fedi

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Portal summary

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  • Title: ActivityPub Rocks!
  • Theme: Fediverse Developer Portal
  • Audience: Software creators → inclusive, all roles
  • Domain URL: activitypub.rocks (owner: @cwebber)

Key objectives

  1. Provide an active and up-to-date entrypoint to the Fediverse for the developer community.

  2. Get people started and onboarded on their Fediverse adventure to unlock its full potential.

  3. Highlight the role of Standards Movement and Standards Process as pillars for evolution.

  4. Facilitate discovery of the Grassroots Fediverse with its many independent initiatives.

  5. Stimulate and foster inclusive and open collaborative ecosystems to emerge.

Requirements

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:exclamation: Help needed. This is an important requirement.
:question: To be determined. Needs further elaboration.

  1. Automated build, deploy, etc …
  2. Automated recognition of stale links, e.g. a failing test.
  3. To allow as many people to edit as possible use a simple format, e.g. Markdown.
  4. To allow as many people to be able to make code change, reuse components from large ecosystem.
  5. To allow people to work together, the format should support good diffs in version control.
  6. Creating new pages should be as simple as possible, i.e. it should only require creating a file.
  7. Without JS enabled all pages display property and the site is fully functional.
  8. Accessibility … :exclamation:
  9. Internationalization … :question:
  10. Fediverse Integration … :question:

Accessibility (a11y)

  • Conforms to common A11Y standards (WCAG, …)
  • A11Y testing during development, CI builds.
  • Testing and approval before initial launch of fedizens active in / dependent on A11Y.

Proposed solutions:

Content strategy

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Visual design

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