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Hey all you frond-end developers, what Javascript/CSS framework is the new hotness for developing fast, good looking, functional websites?

Also, I'm still in need of a designer to help me with GetTogether, most urgent need is a color scheme and icon.

https://github.com/mhall119/GetTogether

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Joseph Dickson: Foundation by Zurb is my favorite Responsive CSS framework. For JavaScript a lot of people are pretty dedicated to React JS. Although I haven't needed to use it.

葉磊: Bulma is nice for a minimal starting point, plug it with vue is a good option too.

Andrew Keech: for an MVC framework in JS, Vue2 is simple enough even I can do it; Angular was weird and complicated, React was just complicated.

heavy recommend on the vue-cli package, which wraps in Webpack bundling for easy-peasy deploy too.

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Latest Endless OS update brings better Chromium performance, Flatpak improvements, and latest software releases. Here's what's new!

Endless OS Update Brings Flatpak Improvements, Better Chromium Performance

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Another question G+: is there a standard federation protocol that doesn't specify the data payload that's being federated?

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Michael Hall: +Craig Maloney A quick look at the MediaGoblin code and I'm only seeing ActivityPub used for user profile/inbox/outbox. Do you have an example of it being used for something other than messaging/status updates?

Craig Maloney: I don't have an example handy but I do know Chris Webber (who worked extensively on the ActivityPub spec for the W3C). He's on Mastodon and has answered a lot of my questions about ActivityPub:

https://octodon.social/@cwebber

I can relay questions if you like, but it might be quicker to make an account there. :)

There's also an implementation report with the various implementations; one of which is places.pub which represents places:

activitypub.rocks - ActivityPub Rocks!

Craig Maloney: Got a response form Chris Webber:

"Ah okay! In that case, ActivityPub uses json-ld and you can extend its vocabulary unambiguously... indeed that's a large portion of the point of json-ld. In fact Mastodon already uses a few extensions! So yes you can define whatever you want/need."

I added an account that looked like yours to the conversation on Mastodon if you want to pick it up there. :)

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Okay G+, round 2: Since a multi-community website for MeetUp style event hosting was the clear winner in the last poll, how would you want to pay for it?

Our options: Donation drives (like Wikipedia), pay-per-group (Meetup), pay per community or pay for pro features

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Michael Hall: +Owais Lone I expect it will be mostly open source projects and not-for-profit groups using it

Owais Lone: In that case I think the best chance to make it self sustainable is to let users donate to it. Crowdfund or patreon could work. I don't see it generating enough funds from pro features whatever they may be if it's just open source projects using it :(

Marco Ceppi: Donations, but not from users, from corporate sponsors. More reliable stream of income and a free (as in beer) platform for users

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"Because the ratio of its use as value store as opposed to its use as medium of exchange is unhealthy."

This is something I've been trying to say on Twitter for a while. Bitcoin isn't being used as money, it's not replacing money, it's replacing gold certificates.

Originally shared by Jan Wildeboer – 6 comments

Why is #bitcoin rising beyond 10k$?

Because the ratio of its use as value store as opposed to its use as medium of exchange is unhealthy.

IMHO we must bring back the medium of exchange part. But the more the price explodes, the less attractive that is.

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Rodney: Kroner maybe

James Henstridge: +Fraser Graham: forks like Bitcoin Cash seem to show that you can still handle day-to-day transactions on the main blockchain if you relax the block size limits.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the people keeping the block size low in Bitcoin Core work for companies developing side chain solutions.

Fraser Graham: +James Henstridge Not a coincidence, just smart planning for a robust protocol.

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UBPorts has now shifted to off Canonical's store and push notification server, on top of them already using their own image update server. I'm so happy and encouraged to see the community taking ownership of the whole Ubuntu Phone ecosystem and keeping it going.

Originally shared by Marius Nestor

Ubuntu Phone OTA-3 is out!

Ubuntu Phone OTA-3 Released by UBports with Own Push Notification System

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Stefan Mikulaj: Not just you are happy about it, but all of us Ubuntu Touch fans and supporters. Amazing community did not let it die, actually it begun to thrive! Very happy and thankfull.

Omer Akram: I am actually interested to inspect what technology these guys use for Push Notifications. Is that something the desktop could benefit as well ?

Rodney: +Omer Akram It would if services supported it, but getting that to happen is not likely. Which is why it's really still only Telegram that supports Ubuntu push. It's the same service as was used before on the phones, but the server is under ubports.com - UBports | A Ubuntu Touch Community domain now.

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Want to update your OpenStore apps? Now, you can do it in system-settings!

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I, for one, appreciate my fellow open source fan boys (and girls, and all others) who get excited about cool tech being available to all.

Originally shared by OMG! Ubuntu!

In case you've ever wondered why the site is called what it is…

Me, 2009: "I want to blog about #Ubuntu, but people will say I'm just a fanboy. They'll be on forums slating me, going: "oh god, not that blog again, the one that's all "OMG! UBUNTU!!1"

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So I called it exactly that! 😆

Douglas McMillan: That's awesome, I actually did wonder about that.

Joseph Dickson: I always assumed its source was irony.

Thomas Pfeiffer: I really like that the name is up-front about what to expect from the blog. If you're looking for neutral comparisons between different distros, you shouldn't go to a blog called "OMG! Ubuntu!", and that's perfectly fine. If you want information targeted at Ubuntu fans, then you know you've come to the right place.

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Okay G+, I'm thinking about writing an open source platform that does what http://Meetup.com does

If you would use such a platform, would you prefer to self-host your own instance for your own community, or use a multi-communityservice like Github? (share for reach)

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Mike Stone: By "other people", I mean the crowd instead of the individual. Instead of one group or person shouldering the entirety of the burden, the community can contribute. That's a two way street because, while it does offload expense to the community, the community also gets assurances that their information won't disappear if something happens to you or whoever happens to be running a singular instance.

You'd be responsible for your own instance, which would be smaller subset of the entirety of events. Monitoring and maintaining a handful of groups is significantly more simple than monitoring and maintaining all of the groups. If a particular server is a problem, allow for blocking of instances.

Patrick O'Connor: https://www.attendize.com

Michael Hall: +Patrick O'Connor That looks geared towards supporting large stand-alone events with schedules, rather than many recurring events by the same group. It also doesn't look to support the concept of "groups" or "teams" that manage their own events.

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Hey Google+, does anyone know of good open source project that's like meetup.com where I can have multiple groups each managing their own events?

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Michael Hall: Well, in my case, +Endless Computers would be paying me. But that's a valid point still.

Seth Johnson: You mean like OSEM? osem.io - Open Source Event Manager (never used meetup so maybe I'm way off bat here)

Michael Hall: +Seth Johnson OSEM is for managing a conference schedule, which isn't what I'm looking for. I need something that lets multiple groups list multiple events in multiple places.

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