2023-09-18 Update: PubHubs Moderation Tools

September 18, 2023

I officially received confirmation of funding. (Thank you, PubHubs team and Dutch government open-source funding team.)
I re-joined the project team after a summer break, having previously joined them as a volunteer, and joined a general meeting and a technical meeting.
I posted a short announcement/introduction on my blog.
I updated and re-started my own test-bed installation of Pubhubs components.
I made some progress on my Ansible installation scripting of Pubhubs components.
I joined the new pubhubs-hosted project discussion room, in a “stable test hub”, which we would like to use instead of Slack, both for reasons of living our values and to “eat our own dog food”.
In our pubhubs dev room, we discussed implementing email notifications using Synapse's built-in support, which would be very useful for us maintining a long-term conversation in the room; and we discussed briefly some privacy implications if we wanted to offer follow-up notifications by email, or in other ways, to users who would like to remain pseudonymous.

Get some part of my Ansible deployment tested and published?
Start self-hosting Draupnir (on a normal matrix server) to get experience of deploying and using it.

Updates needed, since around June/July.

dependencies: NodeJS and NPM: update to later than Node 12 (which was installed via Debian 11 packages). I now install via Ansible role geerlingguy.nodejs, which in turn uses the nodesource.com APT repo, and currently defaults to Node 16.
dependencies: add package libssl-dev, required by Cargo openssl-sys package dependency (error was failed to run custom build command for openssl-sys v0.9.60).

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