Re: GNU Social

[Ivan Vučica]

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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:59 AM, Diogo Cordeiro <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey! :)
>
> Well, based on that, I think the current GNU Social HTML snippet would be
> something like:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> <h3 id="social"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/social";>GNU
> Social</a></h3>
> <p>GNU Social is a social communication software for both public and private
> communications. It is widely supported and has a large userbase. It is
> already used by the Free Software Foundation.</p>
>
> <h4 id="social-activitypub-support">
>   Get (at least basic) ActivityPub support via a plugin into GNU Social
> </h4>
>
> <p>
>   There are some architectural ideas/philosophies that make parts of AP
>   hard to implement - the private message bits primarily.
>   Supporting AP would be greatly benificial to the fediverse - especially
>   when it comes to simplifying app/client development, since that's part
>   of the spec and something OStatus does not cover.
> </p>
>
> <p>
>   <strong>Skills</strong>: Good understanding of PHP, being able to read
>   someone else's code, being able to follow a comphreensive spec.<br>
>   <strong>Mentor</strong>: None<br>
> </p>
>
> <h4 id="social-database-migration">
>   Migrate GNU Social's database
> </h4>
>
> <p>
>   Much desired large and tedious task.
> </p>
>
> <p>
>   <strong>Skills</strong>: Good understanding of PHP and SQL,
>   being able to read someone else's code.<br>
>   <strong>Mentor</strong>: None<br>
> </p>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am interested in getting the basic ActivityPub support done (or at least
> spend the summer trying) ^^.
> For now, I think this still can be considered to be a draft as there is
> still time both for other ideas and to volunteers for mentor (related
> thread: https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues/304 ). :)
>
> Regards,
> Diogo
>
> On 12 January 2018 at 22:42, Mikael Nordfeldth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Diogo!
>>
>> Thanks for getting in touch on IRC. I think a great GSoC would be to get
>> (at least basic) ActivityPub support via a plugin into GNU social. There
>> are some architectural ideas/philosophies that make parts of AP hard to
>> implement - the private message bits primarily.
>>
>> Supporting AP would be greatly benificial to the fediverse - especially
>> when it comes to simplifying app/client development, since that's part
>> of the spec and something OStatus does not cover.
>>
>> Database backend migration is another, albeit probably too large and
>> tedious, task that is much desired.
>>
>> --
>> Mikael Nordfeldth
>> https://blog.mmn-o.se/
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>>
>>
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