Let's federate all WordPress events around the web!

Several projects are moving towards having federated events:

According to HostingTribunal WordPress powers 34% of Internet websites (:scream_cat:), which often has a calendar using some plug-in like Events Manager. What about allowing all these events to get federated? :heart_eyes_cat:

We already have two plugins to federate WordPress articles, maybe they can be a starting point to federate also events?

The best IMO would be create a plugin compatible with the most used events managers. :green_heart:

PS
Please disable the 1 link limit…at least put 3 for new users: it’s frustrating for new users (which mostly are power users if they are here)… :pray:

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This is great, I was looking into this very idea last year. Basically, I had settled on using Jeremy’s ActivityPub PHP library, but development of the lib seems to have stopped at the beginning of the year, and I started working on something else before trying to implement this.

Again and again I hear from people that Events are one of the main reasons they are on fb.

Anyhow I’m open to collaborating, though time is limited atm!

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I also spoke with him and the development got stuck… :frowning: but seems that somebody else did the job:

What do you think?

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Oook, just trying to push ActivityPub forward and promote related projects! :smiley_cat: :deciduous_tree:

PS
fixing the posts

If this works for Wordpress, which would be wonderful, how well would it work for MediaWiki?

(Alliteration not intentional.)

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no idea, sounds OT, maybe you can create a new topic about it! :smiley_cat:

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@Emphack you might be interested in the developer discussion about event federation at Petites SingularitƩs.

What is your relationship with the Wordpress development team? Would you take charge of a Wordpress category here?

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Very interesting, thanks! :smiley_cat:

I’m just trying to aggregate informations and share ideas: I’m using WordPress and several plugins (like the AP one) for a community project, but I’m not currently developing any of them.

If you’re already registered could you link this topic in that thread please? :green_heart:

I found a team which is actively working into something pretty close to a WP/AP Events/POIs plugin: FairSync.

They are more focused on using Solid in order to sync Events and POIs between WP instances, but they are open to integrate also AP if somebody is willing to help.

Any volunteer? :mage:ā€ā™‚

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That’s a great idea!

The events calendar from modern tribe is the best event platform for WordPress I’ve seen. Something compatible with that would be a boone.

I’m not much of a programmer but I’d love to support a project integrating with this plugin!

GatherPress is the WP and AP-equipped solution we’d like to see replacing Meetup.com for the WordPress community — and anyone else using WP to organize events.

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100%. I get this all the time, where people ask me why I didn’t make it to an an event, and it’s because I didn’t know about it because the invite was sent on FB.

Is there a working group for federated events yet, like the threadiverse group (Eventverse? Happenverse?) I’d be keen to sit in.

I would like to point to @andre who with help of NLnet are working on:

Part of that work includes..

WordPress Plugin: ActivityPub Event Bridge

We are developing a WordPress plugin that is integrating popular event plugins with the ActivityPub plugin. For more information visit the plugins git repository or the WordPress.org plugins site.

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@aschrijver Thanks a lot for providing this reference here. I totally missed it.

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:hugs:

Are these called task forces, or chapters? It might just be the Eventful chapter that makes it happen. Might be the slogan..

Eventful chapter. We make it happen.

Ubiquitous event services for the Social web.

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IIRR both Indymedia and the Pirate Party called them ā€œworking groupsā€, although in this context that might be too easily confused with W3C Working Groups, which are a totally different and much more formal structure. How about ā€œinterest groupsā€ or ā€œfeature groupsā€?

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