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Working on interoperability of Events in the Fediverse. Events are at the heart of social life and deserve to be treated accordingly in the Fediverse!

With support from @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz and @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl

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Event Federation
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🗓️ Start: February 1, 2026 11:00 am ⏳ End: February 1, 2026 12:00 pm 📍 Location: Av. Paul Héger 2/6, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgien, Av. Paul Héger 2/6, 1000 Bruxelles, BelgienWe’re delighted to announce that our proposal for a BOF/unconference session at this year’s FOSDEM for events and calendars in the Fediverse has been accepted. Hooray!<a href="https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/N98KEF-shaping_the_future_of_events_and_calendars_in_the_fediverse">https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/N98KEF-shaping_the_future_of_events_and_calendars_in_the_fediverse</a>Events in the Fediverse are gaining momentum. As an appendix to the Social Web track on Saturday, this BoF offers an open discussion space to shape the future of federated event publishing and calendars.Several free and open-source projects in this area are already collaborating across the Fediverse. An in-person meeting creates space to deepen that cooperation, welcome users, operators, developers, and all interested participants, and to build trust between communities and projects. Together, we aim to refine shared goals, discuss challenges, and explore how social and technical aspects of federation come together to support a healthy, interoperable open social web for event management and calendars.https://event-federation.eu https://gancio.org https://lauti.org https://mobilizon.org https://bonfirenetworks.org

【FOSDEM – BOF/Unconference: Shaping the Future of Events and Calendars in the Fediverse】
We’re delighted to announce that our proposal for a BOF/unconference session at this year’s FOSDEM for events and calendars in the Fediverse has been accepted. Hooray!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/N98KEF-shaping_the_future_of_events_and_calendars_in_the_fediverse

Events in the Fediverse are gaining momentum. As an appendix to the Social Web track on Saturday, this BoF offers an open discussion space to shape the future of federated event publishing and calendars.

Several free and open-source projects in this area are already collaborating across the Fediverse. An in-person meeting creates space to deepen that cooperation, welcome users, operators, developers, and all interested participants, and to build trust between communities and projects. Together, we aim to refine shared goals, discuss challenges, and explore how social and technical aspects of federation come together to support a healthy, interoperable open social web for event management and calendars.

https://event-federation.eu https://gancio.org https://lauti.org https://mobilizon.org https://bonfirenetworks.org

https://event-federation.eu/event/fosdem-bof-unconference-shaping-the-future-of-events-and-calendars-in-the-fediverse/

Event Federation
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【Mastodon adds support for updates of Event objects】

I got ask this question a hundred times (as an Mastodon admin, workshop leader, or “Fediverse-mentor”).

“Somethings wrong: why is Mastodon not showing my updated event?”

The answer was simple. Mastodon did not support updates to Event objects or any other objects that it does not natively support, but are converted to a note/status, such as Article. It will soon, though. The code was finally merged into the main branch yesterday.

The main reason was that “Mastodon does pretty arbitrary processing steps to the article before storing it in the database, and those steps are subject to change; if those steps changed between two versions of an article, the changes in processing will also be recorded as edits, misrepresenting them as a change of the underlying article” (Comment by ClearlyClaire).

These reasons are understandable, but I think that the positive aspects of this change far outweigh them. Thank you @Mastodon@mastodon.social !

Event Federation
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【Interoperability of Events in the Fediverse】

Hooray! It is now official: We have been granted funding by NLnet to support the realisation the vision we outlined in our last post.

Events are at the heart of social life and deserve to be treated accordingly in the Fediverse. […]

In addition, we will also investigate the Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider Specifications (FASPs) for discoverability and filtering of public events.

#FASPs #Fediverse #NGI0 #NLnet