Happy GAAD Day, everyone! We have officially launched the crowdfunding campaign for Eventably. The world's first fully accessible events management and ticketing platform:
it seems that local technical #meetups are on life support in many cities. the news about #womenwhocode really set me back this week knowing the impact they have had on many women in the industry.
i would love to hear some positive news about groups that meet regularly that are thriving. link me!
I'm continuously surprised by how few of my co-workers at a PHP company are active in the larger PHP community (meetups, open source development, blogs, ...).
We're still in awe by the recent Kirby #meetups that took place in Düsseldorf, Munich and Hamburg. It's so great to see people passionate about Kirby gathering together, exchanging ideas or even collaborating on projects. 🙌
This is an analog to Meetup.com but is a part of the Fediverse and uses ActivityPub.
This has a few amazing implications...
So!!! You create a personal account on the server and then create a group. The group can then create events.
This is multiuser administration! So the group is separate from your personal account. So you don't have to share passwords for the group account. Instead, you have members join and then assign them administrative privileges. That's huge!
Further, whenever you create an event, it posts it via ActivityPub as well! So you don't need a separate Mastodon account to "crosspost". (Kinda like when we posted a meetup event, we would then cross post to Twitter. - You don't do that here. It's just one place and any fediverse account that follows you can interact with you via any other software / service.
So! I can follow my FXBG Hackers Mobilizon group from my Mastodon account. It just looks like a normal account from here. (you can view it at: @fxbghackers ).
You can view that link through Mobilizon or through Mastodon and it will appear differently (see screen shots).
Here's the cool thing. I REPLIED to the Mobilizon event announcement with my Mastodon account via the Mastodon software and it shows up AS A COMMENT in the Mobilizon event page!!!!
Are there any sites which track #web#conferences / #meetups with an open #RFP? Could really use some help finding a good conference to present some cool new ideas at. 🙏
ActivityConf/ ActivityFed makes sense as a name for the proposed online conference, but I’d like us to come up with something more descriptive and fun for the monthly meetup name. Any suggestions?
Here’s an example, inspired by Open Tech Will Save Us;
Federated Freedom For Humans
Seems a little clunky, I think we can do better. But you get the idea.
#ruby#rails folks - does anyone know of any active groups or meetups in the Toronto area? I'm keen to meet some folks IRL that are using Ruby and/or Rails daily.
@simmonli I'm not sure abour Toronto, but I am considering trying to start one in #detroit. Additionally I am considering trying to compile a list of #ruby#meetups similar to rubyconferences.org
Kbinauts, do you like community meetups?
Well, one of the good thing out of the Snoo Platform (reddit) was the Global Reddit Meetup Day (GRMD), and local subreddit meetups....