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Principal Research Software Engineer at CIM piloting this #bonfire instance. Expect a mix of RT from my mastodon account with genuine posts about #bonfire and the #fediverse
Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?
Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.
We have updated this instance to the latest 1.0.7 version of #bonfire. The new release includes interesting features and an exciting roadmap / roadbike for the future.
Responsible AI in RSE - a living register to support practitioners, leaders and policymakers
This collaborative post was originally published at the Software Sustainability Blog and was authored by some of the Responsible AI Study Group members: Joseph Shingleton, Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, Oscar Seip, Stephan Druskat, Sam Harrison, Arielle Bennett and B. Almarzouq.
RE: https://polyglot.city/@Stoori/117118173274259165
20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could.
Now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest
Testing comment from bonfire
You can see the extended abstract in OSM Science 2026 Conference Track Proceedings here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21576...
On Saturday, I will be giving a talk at #sotm2026 : "Who'se knowledge Counts?", where I will be talking about #inclusion in #OSM . You can see the abstract here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21576272 and info about the session here: https://2026.stateofthemap.org/sessions/FLYV3H/
I would welcome anyone interested in #feminism, #EDI #DEI to join the session and start a diaglogue
A tiny Bonfire feature that we’ve grown quite fond of 🌱
Instance admins can define their own set of default avatars, which are randomly assigned to people who haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet.
It sounds like a very small thing and technically, it is.
But after experimenting with it on the Jacobin community, we noticed how much these little details can contribute to giving an instance its own visual identity and fostering a sense of belonging to a shared digital place.
Not every feature that shapes a community needs to be big. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of tiny avatars 😊
Read more about our work with Jacobin in our case study: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe two days ago I was thinking this would be a good nice feature, but didn't want to bother with this. I'm glad you've thought of this already and have implemented. #bonfire team rocks!
A tiny Bonfire feature that we’ve grown quite fond of 🌱
Instance admins can define their own set of default avatars, which are randomly assigned to people who haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet.
It sounds like a very small thing and technically, it is.
But after experimenting with it on the Jacobin community, we noticed how much these little details can contribute to giving an instance its own visual identity and fostering a sense of belonging to a shared digital place.
Not every feature that shapes a community needs to be big. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of tiny avatars 😊
Read more about our work with Jacobin in our case study: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
Have you heard about @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe 's #telling #widget?
It is a widget for adding a #fedi comment system to your website (including #WordPress #Drupal... but also #SSG and plain html websites!)
It is also on my top-10 #bonfire features' yet
You can read more about it here: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
The feature was developed for/with their work with the German edition of Jacobin as part of #bonfire 's #codesign strategy.
You can read more about that experience here: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
Have you heard about @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe 's #telling #widget?
It is a widget for adding a #fedi comment system to your website (including #WordPress #Drupal... but also #SSG and plain html websites!)
It is also on my top-10 #bonfire features' yet
You can read more about it here: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
🌐 Happy World Wide Web Day!
Created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the World Wide Web transformed how we share knowledge online. In 2025, Sir Tim was honored as an Internet Archive Hero Award recipient for his lasting impact on the web.
I also turned 55 – and my radiologist told me I'm now cancer-free, so it's been a good summer all around.this is really good news!! congratulations to both!
@jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu so good to hear that. Congratulations, @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Today is announcement day 🔥
Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
1. Bonfire for communities
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.
A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.
2. Our first Mosaic case study
Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
3. A deep Ghost integration
Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/
4. The Telling
One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.
Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe
Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/
Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛 #fediverse #ActivityPub
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe These are great news! I do not know which feature I'm more excited with, but after having using Groups for a while, I can say that they are impressively useful and cool.
Keep making #bonfire great(er)!
This post at @bonfire@bonfire.cafe 's website about groups and other tools to organise and codesign may be of your interest: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
The paper draws on a Dagstuhl Seminar on "Research Software Engineering: Bridging Knowledge Gaps," co-organised by Druskat and SSI's Caroline Jay.
The full list of 2025 IEEE Computer Society Best Paper Award winners and runners-up is available on the IEEE Computer Society website: https://www.computer.org/publications/2025-best-paper-award-winners
The paper itself can be read via IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11017520
If you see an account on here that looks blank to you, it might not actually be blank!
It probably just looks blank to you because no one from your server follows the account yet. If you follow the account, its posts will start gradually showing up on your server too.
If you want to see the account before following:
1. Go to its profile page
2. Click on ⋯
3. Choose "Open in browser" (this option may be called "View on..." or "Show original page" in different apps/interfaces)
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