Welcome to the The Peers Community, a highly motivated community of people with a strong interest in free software and free culture. Zola 2024-12-27T00:00:00+00:00 https://peers.community/atom.xml 2024-12-27T00:00:00+00:00 2024-12-27T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2024/community-news-2024-12-27/ <h1 id="updated-2025-01-01">Updated 2025-01-01</h1> <p>Made several minor updates to the website.</p> <ul> <li>Added the version to the footer, not just the head.</li> <li>Fixed the homepage title.</li> <li>Bumped the year.</li> <li>TODO: make some note about the version of zola, 0.19.2.</li> </ul> <h1 id="migration-to-zola">Migration to Zola</h1> <p>Once again The Peers Community has a new static site generator today, completely coincidentally the same as the ForgeFed website. I had considered migrating back to <a href="https://getpelican.com/">pelican</a>, but I prefer the speed and default configurations for <a href="https://www.getzola.org/">zola</a>. The two of them are nearly a drop-in replacement for each other, so if zola does not work out for us, I can migrate again back to pelican with little effort.</p> <p>One thing to note, some formatting doesn't survive migrating from pandoc to zola, including footnotes.</p> <p>Zola is case sensitive.</p> <h1 id="retiring-freepost">Retiring freepost</h1> <p>After a long run, zPlus retired freepost.</p> <p>To the best of my knowledge:</p> <p>First archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150205130529/http://freepo.st/">https://web.archive.org/web/20150205130529/http://freepo.st/</a></p> <p>Final archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241119092341/https://freepo.st/">https://web.archive.org/web/20241119092341/https://freepo.st/</a></p> <h1 id="project-news">Project News</h1> <p>The <a href="https://forgefed.peers.community/">ForgeFed</a> project has moved along. I have removed them from the list of Peers projects, but we will continue to keep in contact. I had been maintaining the website and hosting it, though not the registration, but even that I passed over over a year ago.</p> <p>Collaborative work or at least usage on <a href="https://notabug.org/vaeringjar/fenrisg">fenrisg</a> lasted for a few years, but the other web sites using it have changed mantainers, including my own with relation to <a href="https://forgefed.peers.community/">ForgeFed</a>. This became the main motivation for migrating to something different.</p> <h1 id="highlighted-projects">Highlighted Projects</h1> <p>Maintaining this list has taken quite a bit of time, but since 2021 it has not received any curation. I will post a copy of it here before I remove it from <a href="https://peers.community/why">Why?</a>.</p> <table><thead><tr><th>Project</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody> <tr><td><a href="https://www.arduino.cc/">Arduino/Genuino</a></td><td>Libre prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://f-droid.org/">F-Droid</a></td><td>Android application package manager</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/">Firefox</a></td><td>Free web browser by Mozilla</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://freedomboxfoundation.org/">FreedomBox</a></td><td>A personal server that protects privacy.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a></td><td>cross-platform image editor</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.gnusocial.rocks/">gnusocial</a></td><td>Federated social networking/communication software for both public and private communications.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/">IceCat</a></td><td>GNU version of the Firefox browser. Also, with the FSF directory list of <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IceCat">IceCat Addons</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://keepass.info/">keepass2</a></td><td>A light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.kontalk.org/">Kontalk</a></td><td>End to end encrypted chat, based on XMPP</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice</a></td><td>A powerful office suite, including word processor, spreadsheets, and slidedeck maker.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.minetest.net/">Minetest</a></td><td>An infinite-world block sandbox game with survival and crafting.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.mumble.info/">Mumble</a></td><td>A voicechat (VoIP) program originally implemented for gamers written on top of Qt and Speex.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.openphoenux.org/">OpenPhoenux</a></td><td>Independent Mobile Tool Community, whose devices run free software.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.replicant.us/">Replicant</a></td><td>A free fork of Android.</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/">VLC Media Player</a></td><td>A cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <hr /> 2021-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 2021-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2021/projects-jam-2021-08-13/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>I forgot to officially announce it in the channel, but several of us discussed some new artwork Iko has contributed and continues to work on. Thank you Iko!</p> <p>We discussed places for folks to host personal webpages rather than registering domains and either hosting at home such as with FreedomBox or paying for a hosting provider.</p> <p>Also, with the help of zPlus and WOTAS, I finally got the wayback machine to recognize the website as UTF-8 and to use the correct charset.</p> 2021-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 2021-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2021/community-news-2021-08-05/ <h1 id="migration-to-libera-chat">Migration to libera.chat</h1> <p>Sadly, like many other communities, projects, and folks, we left freenode behind. To my knowledge, we also no longer have a matrix bridge, so find us exclusively via irc.</p> <h1 id="new-static-site-generator">New static-site-generator</h1> <p>Peers Community has a new website today, based on the ForgeFed website, using a new tool also used by some other projects. In the past we have had a completely manual, custom web site, a bootstrap website, and most recently, a <a href="https://blog.getpelican.com/">pelican</a> generated website.</p> <h1 id="thanks-to-vikings">Thanks to Vikings</h1> <p>We parted ways with Vikings last month after nearly three years of donated hosting. Thanks so much to Vikings for helping us along the way.</p> <h1 id="blog-structure-change">Blog structure change</h1> <p>The blog now has a flat structure, separated by the year.</p> 2020-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 2020-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2020/community-news-2020-10-03/ <h1 id="news">News</h1> <p>In July I <a href="https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/GoZaV4JbC9">announced</a> plans to retire gnusocial.no on 2020-08-31. After three years of running the site, I decided the time and money necessary to support the dwindling number of users no longer made sense. It took me away from the Peers Community and drained me of my energy. I spent more time dealing with troublemakers than supporting a platform I could use to socialize with folks.</p> <p>I will finally remove it from the Peers projects list. The "IRL" stresses related to the raging fires and covid19 have delayed much of my activities the last several weeks...</p> <h1 id="new-projects">New projects</h1> <p>Since fun is fun, last years I started working on an emacs orgmode-based static-site-generator and a table-top RPG game. And just last week I started making a map renderer that uses pygame. I plan to eventually build a website using these tools so folks can play ttrpg games online (perhaps using jitsi or mumble).</p> <p>Earlier this year I also started writing an enterprise-data-related web app to replace features I use in one of my day jobs. Academically, I've also studied self-sovereign identity for the past several years. I worked on a project called securemailbox and also created some prototypes, one which I named peers-identity. Eventually I plan on integrating all of these so folks can use GPG to login without the use of passwords.</p> <p>None of these are official Peers projects yet. I'd really like to combine peers-bounty-hunts into the main website and I also have considered migrating the website from pelican to the orgmode SSG. We sill need to discuss it.</p> 2019-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 2019-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 zPlus https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-11-29/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Today we discussed briefly the implementation details for the "patch" feature of the ForgeFed specification.</p> 2019-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 2019-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 zPlus https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-11-01/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Today we continued testing ForgeFed demos for "Follow" activities, "Push" notifications, and tickets creation/reply using the CLIFF client. Everything is working except for federation with Vervis because of bad HTTP signatures.</p> 2019-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 2019-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 zPlus https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-10-18/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Today we worked on the Vervis demo no.3 to test the "Follow repo" and "Push notification" activities.</p> 2019-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 2019-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 zPlus https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-06-21/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>More work on defining the ForgeFed specification (protocol + vocabulary).</p> 2019-05-31T00:00:00+00:00 2019-05-31T00:00:00+00:00 zPlus https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-05-31/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Worked to improve the ForgeFed specification.</p> 2019-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 2019-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 zPlus https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-05-24/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Today we continued the discussion on the ForgeFed vocabulary, and we have written a first DRAFT for the specification.</p> 2019-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 2019-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-05-17/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>More testing of the tools that will be used for developing ForgeFed (mcfi, clif, vervis).</p> 2019-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 2019-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-05-10/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <ul> <li>update peers blog</li> <li>Vervis and MCFI testing (ActivityPub federation)</li> </ul> 2019-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 2019-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-05-03/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <ul> <li>Fix freepost issue #92 "reset password form not working"</li> <li>General chat about development of Vervis</li> </ul> 2019-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 2019-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-04-26/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <ul> <li>Fix InternetRadio #42 "Update app screenshots"</li> <li>Discussion on RSA fingerprinting for vaeringjar's project "self-sovereign-id"</li> </ul> 2019-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 2019-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-04-19/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Fix InternetRadio #43 "Change ActionBar theme for About page" Fix InternetRadio #44 "Tabs background color"</p> 2019-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 2019-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-04-12/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Fixed Internet Radio issue #41. Added pause/stop controls inside the app.</p> 2019-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 2019-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-04-05/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Housekeeping work at notabug.org/peers: - add "peers kart" and "mirrors" repositories - update project-jams list</p> 2019-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 2019-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-03-29/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <ul> <li>Registered #vervis channel on freenode for all technical discussions about vervis</li> <li>Sharing idea for "code-example" repository to collect snippets of code in various languages, and how to possibly link them to dokk</li> </ul> 2019-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 2019-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-03-15/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>freepost migrated from MySQL to SQLite.</p> 2019-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 2019-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 vaeringjar https://peers.community/archive/2019/projects-jam-2019-03-08/ <h1 id="highlights">Highlights</h1> <p>Overall discussion about the status of DOKK, and ideas for new dataset to add to the graph.</p>