Notices by Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca), page 5

Jamming with @dawn on adding #wiki capability to the #CoSocialCa #Wordpress blog https://cosocial.info so we can use it as our home base and open it up to members to work on together.

Anyone have recommendations on plugins for this?

Use #CoSocialWPWiki if you've got ideas around this!

The #BBC is now running their own Mastodon server.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

"We are now running an experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc where you can follow some of the BBC’s social media accounts, including BBC R&D, Radio 4 and 5 Live. We hope to be able to add more accounts from other areas of the BBC at some point."

For now, they've got a handful of accounts they're hosting on the server, and it's a 6 month experiment

@BBCRD seems to be the main R&D account

Thanks @Django for sharing about your plans for https://press.community for Canadian journalists

And @reiver for sharing about your fediverse hosting service https://spacehost.one/

We'll include those links in the wrap up from the event

Good morning!

If you represent an organization from news or civic society in #Canada, come join us for an overview of the #fediverse

@evan is going to be giving a 45min introductory presentation, and then we'll have open Q&A with attendees.

Join us later today 4pm PST / 7pm EST https://lu.ma/fediverse-canada

#CoSocialCa members are welcome to attend! I see a couple of folks have registered already.

Please spread the word to people new to the concepts of open social media and wanting to understand for themselves and their organizations how to get involved and what it means.

Thanks @evan for taking the time to do this!

We're getting started right now if you want to hop in and join us https://lu.ma/fediverse-canada

CBC did a video and article on “What is the fediverse and why does Threads want to join?”

It featured @evan & @bkeegan as experts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/fediverse-explainer-1.6905837

Please share this article with Canadians in news, regional government, and other orgs that should be owning the platforms they post on.

For people that want to know more, join us Monday, July 31st for a Zoom discussion with Evan https://lu.ma/fediverse-canada

We’re hosting the first #CoSocialCa event. The first topic is Federated Social Media for Canada.

How can Canadian news, civil society, and all levels of government connect with social media that can be owned and be interoperable?

Please share with your local news orgs, or any organization that wants to learn more about the #fediverse

Sign up to join us July 31st, 4pm PST / 7pm EST https://lu.ma/fediverse-canada

#canada #cdnpoli #CdnMediaFediverse

I posted about #CoSocialCaTechOps exploring using Fastly as a CDN to the new #Fediverse category of their developer community site https://community.fastly.com/t/cosocial-using-fastly-cdn-for-mastodon/96

Anyone else have good guides on CDN + Mastodon combos? I’m guessing tootctl media pruning features heavily.

Looking forward to discussions with the team! @jenn @haubles @simonwistow @anildash

Hey #CoSocialCa we just had about 40minutes of downtime from backing up the server and doubling its CPU/memory size.

And yes, I used my own account as a test to move over all followers.

Ping #CoSocialTechOps if you see something out of place.