Convener: Johannes Ernst (@j12t@social.coop)

Participants who chose to record their names here (9 total):

• Anca Mosoiu (@anca@mastodon.xyz)

• Andreas Sander (@andi1984@social.saarland or @andi1984@toot.cafe)

• Les Orchard (@lmorchard@mozilla.social)

• @risottobias@tech.lgbt

• Jeremiah Lee (@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold)

Notes

Links:

• https://fedidevs.org/

Who are we?

• Developers and designers building products on top of ActivityPub

• Startup folks

• Community meetup organizer

• Mozilla developer experience folks

• Builders of new platforms

• People developing voting systems

• Software Engineer building things for myself to learn

• Troublemakers

• Open Research tool builder

• Mastodon instance admin

• iOS developer

• Open Source Foundation employee

What do we want out of this?

• Resources for developers, users

• Ideas and tools for exploring applications

• Advice about how to do stuff

• Other developers to bounce ideas off of

• Ideas for how to do this when there isn’t tons of money involved

• Help finding other developers

• A clear way to get started as a developer. I have an expectation that I can get Hello World working in a couple of hours

• A central place for people to come if they want to learn about the Fediverse

Compare ActivityPub developer experience with onboarding experience in the WordPress ecosystem:

• onboarding experience compared between Wordpress vs ActivityPub

• meetup, we talked about design, fixed bugs, be in the same room with 100 people,

• contributor days - maybe not hackathons but “interoperability days” or plug-a-thons

Governance

Funding

• do-ocracy / tyrany of people who can do things or want to do them, vs stewardship of building things non-technical people want

• funding for people to make software even if they don’t have a very large incomes / hiring marginalized stuff

• sponsors like for walkathons - non-developers to participate granularly, code up XYZ,

Idea: Contributor days with options for sponsoring certain outcomes

• PR department group

• ombudsman for users

• Open Collective

• some name for the group

• focus on just ActivityPub

Who wants to participate:

• Anca

• Jeremiah

• Andi (although not having very much AcitivityPub knowledge) :)

• @risottobias@tech.lgbt

Some help to build a foundation, if we can get $100K for funding

What are some nonprofits / do-good organizations who can help?

• marketing pitch for Fediverse, not the individual software