Re: Introductions (was Re: First 2023 SWICG meeting call on Fri May 19)

Backgammon over AP sounds really cool!

Evan

> On May 18, 2023, at 9:19 AM, Marnanel Thurman <marnanel@thurman.org.uk> wrote:
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> Hello world. I'm Marnanel, I live in Salford in England.
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> I'm interested in the nuts and bolts of the protocol, and finding ways to test them. I also have a lot of thoughts about backgammon over ActivityPub, but let's save that for another post.
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> In 2019-2020 I built a system called kepi which was intended to be a microblogging system in Django. After a year or so, I got to the web UI and I realised that JavaScript on that scale is not my strong point, and nobody was interested in helping out, and I was getting ill, so the project has been moribund since then.
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> I have been hoping that some of the modules can survive as standalone Python libraries. I haven't split them out yet and I'd value help in doing so. They are:
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> - bowler: incoming ActivityPub via django-rest-framework
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> - sombrero: outgoing ActivityPub 
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> - trilby: reimplementation of the Mastodon UI via django-rest-framework and oauth-toolkit
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> - busby: webfinger, host-meta, and other .well-known protocols
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> - (tophat: web UI, which as I say doesn't work)
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> See https://gitlab.com/marnanel/chapeau/-/tree/main for more details.
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> For anyone wondering: kepi was originally called chapeau, because it was a bit like Mastodon in Python, and "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry begins with a childhood anecdote about adults thinking his picture of a snake eating an elephant was a hat. But there was an existing project called chapeau, so I renamed it after one of the components.
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> M
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