MediaGoblin Federation - First Demo

(originally shared on the Pump.io network by the #MediaGoblin project)

It might not look like much, but the screenshot above is the first demo of federation in MediaGoblin. This is using the Pump API, with MediaGoblin talking to Pump.IO!

The Mediagoblin project has been making great strides in incorporating the upcoming ActivityPub standard, and have gone as far to have developed a related toolkit for Python called ActivityPy. One noteworthy feature of the ActivityPy toolkit involves its ability to load both ActivityStreams and Microformats side by side and convert both things into into Linked Data. The Mediagoblin blog had this to say of it:

The agreement that ActivityStreams, Linked Data, and the “IndieWeb Stack” (for lack of a better term) were not required to work together, and that we could produce multiple deliverables, has eased that tension in the group and allowed us to work collaboratively.

The project has reiterated that there is still much work to be done. However, it is very exciting to see their progress.