About TOPLAP Social
CONTENTS STILL EVOLVING
TOPLAP Social is intended as the home for live coding on Mastodon. It is for those involved with live coding in some capacity - practitioner, organizer, learner, researcher, getting started, or exploring.
Joining
If you want to participate in our live coding community, please request an account and briefly tell us about your live coding interest. If you are already engaged in live coding, one sentence is enough ("I'm currently live coding in Tidal, Hydra and Mercury.") If you are learning or curious and exploring, tell us more about what you want to do with live coding and why you want to join. If you don't mention live coding or something closely related, we will likely leave your account request in "Pending" and ask for more detail.
When you join - Profile + #introduction
Once you have your bearings please add details to your Profile and tell us about yourself with an #introduction post.
Goals for TOPLAP Social
We are striving for an active, engaged, supportive, diverse, and safe environment.
Moderation (MORE COMING SOON)
Monitoring and managing content will become more important as our community grows. Fortunately, Mastodon has built-in tools to help. We plan to flesh this out as soon as we can, and plan to expand our team of admins to help review and respond to posts that may diverge from our shared community interest. For now, you can post any concerns about content to the @toplap shared admin account.
Content Aids (MORE ON THIS COMING)
Community and Project Accounts
We have made a point of bringing in local community accounts and project accounts.
Using TOPLAP Social
Hometown
We run on a forked instance of mastodon called Hometown. It has a few key enhancements, including local-only posts, and an increased post limit of 1500 characters (up from 500). https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
Admin team
We use @toplap@toplap.org as a shared administrative account.
We are actively looking for people interested to help. We need more people to help bring diverse perspectives and cover more timezones and (human) languages. We are seeking help with content moderation. As it's a brand new community, run with a flat structure by consensus, you'd have a hand in helping shape the community as it grows.
Costs / Open Collective crowd fund
For longevity of this server, we will establish an operating fund. This needs to be sustainable for the long term. The server costs are ~ $25 USD per month, which will increase to $35. With event streaming, infrastructure costs will grow to $50+/month. Our $100 referral credit has expired and we are now accruing hosting costs monthly.
The TOPLAP opencollective crowd fund is now available. People with funding sources and those with adequate means can contribute to the costs. Locations with advantageous exchange rates can also be considered.
Contributions: https://opencollective.com/toplap
More about Live Coding
Live coding is a movement in performing arts tech that began around the year 2000. TOPLAP is a loose organisation formed in 2004, to collectively explore and promote live coding.
You can read more about live coding in Live Coding: A User's Manual. Available via open access.
The aim of this server is to help host a community of live coders on the fediverse. You can find a growing list of live coding communities and project accounts (on this instance and beyond) in this post.
The home of live coding.
Admin account for TOPLAP Social, currently shared by @highharmonics, @sarahghp and @yaxu
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