Building a Fediverse Presence with Jekyll, Ruby and WebFinger by Tom Brown

This event is planned without a speaker. You can volunteer to present this topic. If no volunteers come forward before the event date, it will be presented by the Montreal.rb group organizers.

(Event description is below the timeline. Click read more to see it)

Event Timeline:

• 6:30pm - Pre-talk Networking Time - Anticafe Place Des Arts (294 Saint-Catherine St W, 3rd floor, Montreal, QC): this is a coworking space, so the event costs about $10 that covers drinks like coffee/tea and snacks like chips/pretzels/cookies; sign in on Anticafe's computer when you enter and pay Anticafe for your stay when you leave; after signing in, go to the 3rd floor*, turn left, and then walk to the presentation room with the projector screen*. The venue is a coworking space, so its employees might not know about the event. Contact the organizer, Andy Maleh, via DM if you get lost or have questions.
• 7pm - Talk - Anticafe Place Des Arts
• 8pm - Networking Time - NYKS Bar (1250 Rue de Bleury, Montréal, QC): Networking time continues at 8:00pm (if we don't find seats at NYKS Bar, we could meet at Benelux at 245 Sherbrooke St W instead).

Building a Fediverse Presence with Jekyll, Ruby and WebFinger [1h] - Tom Brown

Jekyll is a static blogging platform written in Ruby. The fediverse allows people on different platforms and sites to interact socially. In this talk, Tom will describe how your fediverse identity can use the same domain as your blog, how to add a fediverse follow button to a static site and lessons learned from developing and dogfooding a fediverse server.

Speaker Bio:

Tom Brown is a software developer interested in digital identity who has attended many Internet Identity Workshops, IndieWebCamps and online Fediforums. Tom has added open standards related to identity to business, educational and open source software. Online, he goes by herestomwiththeweather.

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If you have a Ruby talk idea you would like to present at a future Montreal.rb meetup, please contact the organizer (Andy Maleh) to get your talk scheduled in an available future meetup month (it is also possible to bump talks by organizers of the group into later months to take one of their month slots for your talk). You can also contact the organizer if your company is interested in hosting a future Montreal.rb meetup at their Montreal office. Note that speakers must present in-person in Montreal because the goal of the meetup is to encourage more in-person networking and socialization around Ruby Software Engineering topics with maximum communication bandwidth. Talks are recorded and posted on the @montreal-rb YouTube Channel if talk speakers agree.