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| [20:31:13] | <mstenta[m]> | https://twitter.com/AaronBobeck/status/1590776331775741963 |
| [22:22:35] | <mstenta[m]> | paul121 jgaehring symbioquine pcambra 3wc ~ they/them Farmer Ed Ok sooo... I went down a little rabbit hole... 😄🐇 |
| [22:22:58] | <mstenta[m]> | I set up a Mastadon account: https://fosstodon.org/@farmOS |
| [22:24:25] | <mstenta[m]> | And a GitHub repo w/ an action that publishes commit messages to both Mastadon and Twitter: https://github.com/mstenta/farmOS-microblog |
| [22:24:53] | <mstenta[m]> | https://fosstodon.org/web/@farmOS/109323003652149870 |
| [22:25:12] | <mstenta[m]> | https://twitter.com/farmOSorg/status/1590906546271264768 |
| [22:25:26] | <mstenta[m]> | proof of concept... thoughts? |
| [22:26:28] | <mstenta[m]> | one neat thing we could do with this: when a new blog post gets published we could automatically add a commit to this repo |
| [22:28:06] | <mstenta[m]> | it also provides a way to grant more folks access to publish tweets/toots, without the need to share twitter/mastodon passwords |
| [22:29:40] | <mstenta[m]> | one thing i like about this idea is it creates a record of official announcements |
| [22:30:15] | <mstenta[m]> | it won't capture engagement on each platform, of course... (likes, comments, retweets, etc) |
| [22:30:35] | <mstenta[m]> | but maybe still nice as an archive |
| [22:40:01] | <mstenta[m]> | ooh what if we embed mastodon on the farmOS.org homepage... |
| [22:40:38] | <mstenta[m]> | looks like this will generate an iframe: http://www.mastofeed.com/ |
| [22:41:38] | <mstenta[m]> | so we'd have "microblog" on the homepage, w/ news, updates, and links to full blog posts |
| [22:42:10] | <mstenta[m]> | all controlled from another Git repo 😄 |
| [22:43:24] | <paul121[m]> | Sounds pretty useful! |
| [22:44:01] | <paul121[m]> | I made a fosstodon account today too, mastodon.social is closed for signups haha |
| [22:44:18] | <mstenta[m]> | oh wow! have they been flooded? |
| [22:44:44] | <paul121[m]> | I think so |
| [22:48:22] | <paul121[m]> | Release notifications could be automated too? |
| [22:48:50] | <mstenta[m]> | Yesss! |
| [22:48:51] | <paul121[m]> | At any rate it makes our lives kinda fun, and that's the whole point of this, right? :D |
| [22:48:58] | <mstenta[m]> | YES! |
| [22:49:37] | <mstenta[m]> | (i needed something fun to hack on) |
| [22:59:13] | <mstenta[m]> | https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS.org/pull/60 |
| [22:59:52] | <mstenta[m]> | just another proof of concept to start the discussion ^ |
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| [23:07:21] | <mstenta[m]> | https://deploy-preview-60--gracious-brattain-bdd606.netlify.app/ |
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| [23:36:30] | <symbioquine[m]> | <mstenta[m]> "I set up a Mastadon account..." <- Followed! |
| [23:49:10] | <paul121[m]> | Could newsletters be added to the community blog as well? And be archived/tooted with this same infrastructure? |
| [23:49:55] | <paul121[m]> | Maybeeee emailed but we could probably do that manually :-) |
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| [00:35:54] | <paul121[m]> | In the past we talked about using Buttondown which uses markdown and has an API: https://docs.buttondown.email/api-reference/introduction |
| [06:39:16] | <mstenta[m]> | Automate all the things!! |
| [06:40:14] | <mstenta[m]> | > one neat thing we could do with this: when a new blog post gets published we could automatically add a commit to this repo |
| [06:40:14] | <mstenta[m]> | a big question in my mind... for both this ^ and "sending a newsletter" paul121 is: what is the trigger? |
| [06:40:44] | <mstenta[m]> | we don't really have an explicit "publish" action |
| [06:40:58] | <mstenta[m]> | maybe when a PR is merged? |
| [06:41:58] | <mstenta[m]> | and we have a blog category for "Newsletter" perhaps? or... maybe a separate `newsletters/**` directory we could trigger GH actions on? |
| [06:43:05] | <mstenta[m]> | another slight oddity with all this: the date of a blog post isn't necessarily when it is published exactly |
| [06:43:28] | <mstenta[m]> | so some things to think through... but i love the ideas generally! |
| [06:45:16] | <mstenta[m]> | > Release notifications could be automated too? |
| [06:45:16] | <mstenta[m]> | I am SO glad you suggested THIS too! I might look into that next... it would remove another manual step from the release procedure! https://farmos.discourse.group/t/2-x-release-procedure/1070 |
| [06:45:56] | <mstenta[m]> | And it would be a perfect followup to the Docker Hub automation I have ready to merge as well |
| [06:46:56] | <mstenta[m]> | Now I'm curious if OpenCollective has an API as well... 🤔 (also for automating release announcements... and maybe newsletters too!) |
| [06:53:26] | <mstenta[m]> | I feel like the flow of this is starting to gel in my mind:... (full message at <https://libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/v3/download/libera.chat/74427d7105...) |
| [06:54:02] | <mstenta[m]> | And all of it (I think) could be automated from the farmOS-community-blog and farmOS-microblog repos! |
| [06:56:40] | <mstenta[m]> | (... pondering whether or not farmOS-microblog should just be another branch of farmOS-community-blog... just to simplify/unify... but I think there are some good reasons to keep them separate too...) |
| [06:57:31] | <mstenta[m]> | Excited to brainstorm more on all this! Wish the next monthly call wasn't a whole month away! 😄 |
| [07:00:27] | <mstenta[m]> | In either case... jgaehring paul121 symbioquine if y'all like where this is headed, any objection to moving https://github.com/mstenta/farmOS-microblog to the farmOS GH org and making a second commit to announce that we're on Mastodon? 😃 |
| [07:25:56] | <mstenta[m]> | It does look like OC has an API for updates: https://graphql-docs-v2.opencollective.com/update.doc.html |
| [07:25:56] | <mstenta[m]> | GraphQL is very foreign to me though |
| [08:44:13] | <jgaehring[m]> | <mstenta[m]> "In either case... jgaehring paul..." <- go for it! I wish I had more bandwidth to give to all this stuff right now, but trying best I can to get Field Kit to beta (finally) plus other competing interests, so don't let me be a blocker for any of this, all looks great! |
| [08:44:33] | <mstenta[m]> | awesome!! |
| [08:45:11] | <mstenta[m]> | ps: i also just made a free buttondown acct: https://buttondown.email/farmOS 😄 |
| [08:46:15] | <mstenta[m]> | for some reason doing actual programming feels harder with one arm, but this kind of stuff is doable, so i'm just rolling with it! |
| [09:55:26] | <mstenta[m]> | https://farmos.discourse.group/t/funding-proposal-buttondown-email-basic... |
| [10:31:16] | <mstenta[m]> | > In either case... jgaehring paul121 symbioquine if y'all like where this is headed, any objection to moving https://github.com/mstenta/farmOS-microblog to the farmOS GH org and making a second commit to announce that we're on Mastodon? 😃 |
| [10:31:16] | <mstenta[m]> | went ahead with this :-) |
| [10:31:19] | <mstenta[m]> | https://twitter.com/farmOSorg/status/1591090730507853825 / https://fosstodon.org/web/@farmOS/109325881538051078 |
| [10:32:19] | <mstenta[m]> | Just had another idea: can we automatically announce monthly / weekly call links with this? |
| [10:33:14] | <symbioquine[m]> | mstenta[m]: That's awesome! |
| [10:33:35] | <mstenta[m]> | I suppose at the very least I can set up a cron script somewhere to do that haha |
| [10:34:05] | <mstenta[m]> | Oh! Maybe on the irc.farmos.org server... |
| [10:34:27] | <mstenta[m]> | Since its already on 24x7 and we're paying for it |
| [10:34:40] | <mstenta[m]> | Or another GitHub Action perhaps... |
| [10:35:46] | <mstenta[m]> | Maybe another action in the same repo would work |
| [10:36:11] | <mstenta[m]> | The funny thing about the way this is set up is we need to tweet/toot to commit changes to the repo 😆 |
| [10:36:13] | <symbioquine[m]> | The tricky bit would be getting it to run at the right time without running super frequently... |
| [10:36:24] | <mstenta[m]> | Mmm yeaa |
| [11:48:05] | <threewordchant> | <mstenta[m]> "And a GitHub repo w/ an action..." <- that's super cool! never seen anything like that, amazing collaborative praxis 👏 |
| [12:24:49] | <mstenta[m]> | And if you aren't on Mastodon or Twitter you can just subscribe to our GitHub Actions: https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS-microblog/actions 😆 |
| [12:26:49] | <symbioquine[m]> | Maybe https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS-microblog/commits.atom would be better... |
| [12:27:18] | <mstenta[m]> | https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/900/704.jpg |
| [12:35:42] | <mstenta[m]> | > The tricky bit would be getting it to run at the right time without running super frequently... |
| [12:35:43] | <mstenta[m]> | Now I want to figure this out... |
| [12:37:18] | <mstenta[m]> | Weekly dev calls seems pretty straightfoward: https://cron.help/#0_9_*_*_Thu w/ a message like "The #farmOS weekly dev call is today at 12 pm noon Eastern. All are welcome! https://meet.jit.si/farmos-dev" |
| [12:37:32] | <mstenta[m]> | Monthly call is trickier... |
| [12:37:39] | <mstenta[m]> | https://askubuntu.com/questions/1361146/crontab-date-definition-for-only... |
| [12:38:14] | <mstenta[m]> | But if we ran it every Wed, with a secondary bash conditional... somehow? |
| [12:38:29] | <mstenta[m]> | (via GitHub Actions I'm thinking for both) |
| [12:38:45] | <mstenta[m]> | https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-g... |
| [12:46:49] | <mstenta[m]> | https://antonydandrea.com/running-a-cron-job-every-2nd-wednesday-of-the-... |
| [12:59:55] | <mstenta[m]> | Think this'll work? https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS-microblog/pull/1 |
