dustycloud/posts/activipy-v0.md

title: Activipy v0.1 released! date: 2015-11-03 10:00 author: Christine Lemmer-Webber tags: activipy, foss, federation

slug: activipy-v0

Hello all! I'm excited to announce v0.1 of Activipy. This is a new library targeting ActivityStreams 2.0.

If you're interested in building and expressing the information of a web application which contains social networking features, Activipy may be a great place to start.

Some things I think are interesting about Activipy:

: - It wraps ActivityStreams documents in pythonic style objects

-   Has a nice and extensible method dispatch system that even works
    well with ActivityStreams/json-ld's composite types.
-   It has an "Environment" feature: different applications might
    need to represent different vocabularies or extensions, and also
    might need to hook up entirely different sets of objects.
-   It hits a good middle ground in keeping things simple, until you
    need complexity. Everything's "just json", until you need to get
    into extension-land, in which case json-ld features are
    introduced. (Under the hood, that's always been there, but users
    don't necessarily need to understand json-ld to work with it.)
-   Good docs! I think! Or I worked really hard on them, at least!

As you may have guessed, this has a lot to do with our work on federation and the Social Working Group. I intend to build some interesting things on top of this myself.

In the meanwhile, I spent a lot of time on the docs, so I hope you find reading them to be enjoyable, and maybe you can build something neat with it? If you do, I'd love to hear about it!