Working on fixing our OpenGraph graphic. How is this for our next event at the end of the month? https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

We're working on some rather interesting keynotes for the next #fediforum, and can't wait until we can announce them. Before we get to that, consider watching one of the previous keynotes! https://spectra.video/w/p/2vnTAu1YNZjVDCzx43ZHr2 And register for April 28-30, online! […]

Got a cool ActivityPub or ATProtocol project that can be demo'd? We are always looking to showcase what the Open Social Web can do when smart people create great software, in our speed demo track at FediForum. A few projects have been recommended for the end of April event by our community […]

Working on something cool, to be shown off at the next FediForum. Actually, before that. But we'll discuss it at #fediforum. And not just cool, but useful for the community! We hope :-) Join us? https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

Norm MacLennan (@nromdotcom.cloud) is coming to FediForum and wants to learn more about: Existing or planned education/communication materials about the open social web for working with local institutions/organizations. Sounds interesting? Join us, online! https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

Johanna Botari (@johannab) wants to learn more about: How others are implementing open social technologies for community benefits. Looking to stay connected to those developing more niche platforms, and see what i can contribute as a technology integrator/tech services talent […]

Andre Kudra (@kudrix.bsky.social) is coming to FediForum, to learn more about: Open social web current adoption, market potential, technological streams Join us April 28-30, online? More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

Mathilde Sanders (@MathildeS) is coming to FediForum April 28-30 and wants to learn more about: Public (service) social media / business models non profit fediverse Join us? Registration is open. https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

Johanna Botari (@johannab) is thinking about running a FediForum session, saying: I would like be part of discussions on implementation and integration for community purposes. we have built and are building great tech; how do we get the non-developers who have a need to contribute to building […]

Julian Lam is thinking about running a session on: Setting up a successful topic-based federating forum without having to find actual users What an idea! Join us, April 28-30, online, for the next FediForum! https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

We are again looking for amazing demos to showcase at the next FediForum. Who has built something really cool with an open social protocol in recent months that should be seen by people? Send pointers!

Jayne Samuel-Walker (@TCMuffin) wants to learn about & is thinking about running a session on: Growing the fediverse at a rate which is sustainable in the long term. At FediForum it's very acceptable for people, even encouraged to run sessions asking questions they don't have answer to!

Cagan Mert Islek (@[email protected]) is thinking about running sessions on: * Getting personal blogs to replace social media pages (providers concept) * Creating a federated alternative to streaming services at the upcoming FediForum. Join us? https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

We are again asking people at registration time what they want to discuss about the open social web at the next #fediforum. But this time, we are distinguishing between sessions they want to lead, and things they want to learn. The differences are interesting already! […]

What topics will be discussed at the next FediForum, April 28-30? We are only find out, too! When people register for FediForum, we ask them what sessions they are planning of running, or wishing to go to. And the first answers are beginning to trickle in. Check them out! […]

Where do you meet the people who move the Open Social Web forward? All without traveling? At #fediforum of course! Join us April 28-30, 2026, online, scheduled so people anywhere from central Europe and Africa to the Americas can participate without losing too much sleep […]

I'm in for @fediforum episode 7! See everyone at the end of April.

Registration for the next #fediforum is now open. Come join us and your peers from around the world, learning, teaching, debating, and making plans for how to move the Open Social Web Forward. April 28-30, 2026, online. More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

The session notes from our un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web are online now, too. Happy reading! Also, look at the submitted position statements if you haven't already, many of them are quite interesting (linked from there) https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/notes/

A follow-up e-mail to attendees of our un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web went out a few hours ago. It contains a link to a questionnaire where you can give us some feedback. We'd love to hear your thoughts on how to make future FediForum events even more successful.

I guess we are all set for tomorrow's un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web. It's a bit of experiment. Un-conferences are bad enough :-) and now we are doing an un-workshop! We'll try and marry the high-intensity peer conversations of an unconference with the well-thought-out proposals of […]

Last chance to register for Monday's un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web. For logistical reasons, we have to end registration 24 hours before the event starts. But right now it's still open, so come join us on Monday! https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web

A number of additional submissions on how people think we should grow the Open Social Web have been added: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/submissions/ You can still join us on Monday, online! Registration will remain open until 24 hours before the un-workshop starts.

Over 40 position statements is a lot to read. So we tried to create a summary for what the community thinks how to grow the Open Social Web: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/summary/ But reading the actual submissions is probably more interesting […]

It's just one week until our un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web! The event page has been updated. Now we have the basic agenda, plus the submissions from attendees, and an attempt to summarize them. Now also with Techdirt logo (as @j12t and @masnick.com are co-organizing) Later today […]

If you have not registered / submitted yet for our online un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web on March 2, you are still welcome to do so until the day before it starts. Any submission might not get seen by as many people, but certainly we'd love to have you attend […]

We received about forty submissions for the upcoming #fediforum unworkshop on "Growing the Open Social Web" by Monday's deadline. That means submissions from about half of the people who have registered so far, and should make for a great conversation! Happy reading! […]

Today's the deadline for the position statements for the Growing the Open Social Web workshop! Check out (most) of what's been submitted so far: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers About 1 of =3 of attendees registered so far have sent something: everybody else, this […]

I wrote up a position statement for @fediforum's unworkshop on March 2. https://werd.io/growing-the-open-social-web-2/ #fediverse #fediforum

Anthony Zone (@ozoned) has submitted this contribution to our upcoming Growing the Open Social Web workshop: Be friendly. Be supportive. Share. Build communities. Donate to developers. Donate to admins. Create content. Whether that’s trying different software and showing people, creating docs […]

The deadline for submission statements for the upcoming un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web is coming up in four days, just after the weekend. A great time to write something amazing up that will help the entire community move forward. More info and registration […]

Norm MacLennan (@nromdotcom.cloud) put his position paper for the upcoming Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop on his blog: https://my.badtake.space/growing-the-open-social-web/

Mark your calendars! The next twice-yearly online FediForum unconference will take place April 28-30, 2026. This is not to be confused with, and in addition to the special un-workshop we will be convening March 2 that focuses only on Growing the Open Social Web. Registration is open for the […]

Tim Bray (@timbray) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says: My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate

How do we Grow the Open Social Web? Good question! But lots of people have good ideas, and many of them are coming to our online un-workshop on this, March 2. Some of them are already listed on our event page, with the ideas they submitted. Sounds interesting? Join us! […]

Jayne Samuel-Walker (@TCMuffin) thinks this post best describes they are trying to do with their efforts on the Open Social Web: https://social.seabass.systems/@seabass/statuses/01KFHBCGX14GSSAEMYWWJMVQFS From their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop coming up March 2 […]

Elisabeth McDonnell suggests it would be good to have a more in-depth, strategic analysis of where we’re falling short from a growth and engagement perspective. From their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop . Join us March 2? […]

Larissa Baca (@babaklar) thinks we can best grow the Open Social Web by continuing to talk about how it benefits the community and how it is not run by tech giants who don’t care about people. For their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 […]

Klaudia Zotzmann-Koch thinks the Open Social Web would get adopted more broadly used if universities, cities, local and federal governments and public broadcasting media etc had accounts. From her submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2. More […]

The 1st FediForum un-workshop is a month from today! Are you registered yet? In this un-workshop, we'll try to figure out together what the best strategies and tactics are to grow the Open Social Web, based on short position statements that people submit when registering […]

Greetings to #fosdem in Brussels! It sounds like there will be a full track on the topic of the #socialweb tomorrow with lots of interesting presentations! Good luck to all the presenters, and have a great time discussing the #fediverse. #fediforumfriday

The first position statements for our upcoming un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web are in. We have added them to https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers Agree? Disagree? Have something to add? Submit your own position statement as part of your registration! This […]

If you attended #fediforum before, you now should have received an invite to our upcoming un-workshop on "Growing the Open Social Web". It's intended to be half way between unconference (agenda is entirely open) and workshop (focused, with up-front paper submissions). This un-workshop is a bit […]

Lots of Open Social Web events are coming up. * Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM, Brussels, this Saturday. * Protocols for Publishers, London, Feb 4-5. * FediMTL, Montreal, Feb 24 * and then our own Growing the Open Social Web workshop, online, March 2. * ... We track them at […]

Thanks @wearenew_public for the shout-out about our upcoming FediForum un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web in their newsletter. Are you interested in growing the Open Social Web? Then join up with like-minded people from around the world and us, on March 2, online. More info and […]

On March 2, we are going to try something different. Something in addition to the regular twice/year FediForum un-conference (so don't worry). We will run an un-**workshop**, on a topic that many in the community have told us is very pressing for them: How do we grow the Open Social Web? When […]

@fediforum I can't wait! I got my ticket.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/115934767765808123 This is a big, important topic.

On March 2, we are going to try something different. Something in addition to the regular twice/year FediForum un-conference (so don't worry). We will run an un-**workshop**, on a topic that many in the community have told us is very pressing for them: How do we grow the Open Social Web? When […]