Time to introduce my last new project for this year:

«Zeroform» ... is a tool for generating minimalistic, self-hostable forms, with a twist: It can generate both static (html/css/js) and/or dynamic (php augmented) online forms.

My main motivation for zeroform is to create tooling that helps me gather more precise feedback while designing and developing (especially) #faircamp and #hyper8, and to do this in a way that reflects the values of those projects: Independence, simplicity, minimalism, freedom from maintenance, absence of tracking, etc.

Basically you start with a thought, put it down as a plaintext blueprint of the form/questionnaire/doodle/survey you have in mind, zeroform turns it into finished code and design, you can upload it, use it as long as its useful/needed, and then you can just delete it.

Think of it as your own google forms, without bigtech, without dependence on any infrastructure besides the cheapest of hosting plans, commissioned and decommisioned in a mere minute.

I'm now one week into the project, since today I'm developing in the open at codeberg.org/simonrepp/zerofor…, and I will put it to use in the next days already! I have roughly one more week reserved until the end of the year for making this usable for the general public - I'll announce when it's ready. ʕ◜0ᴥ0ʔ

Faircamp 1.5 is out!

To learn what's new, check out the release page:
simonrepp.com/faircamp/changes…

Thank you so much jcx, @keefmarshall and @strk for helping with the new feature and critical fixes, @smoltron for the new finnish translations, and @toctoc, @WebCoder49, @atomkarinca and @vac for the updates to the existing translations! ❤

To learn more about #faircamp visit the website:
simonrepp.com/faircamp/

And there's more:

1. Tomorrow (July 31st) I'm excited to join @firesidefedi to talk about my projects, including faircamp! If you have questions you'd like to see asked you can send them beforehand or join the livestream! See this post for all show details: social.firesidefedi.live/@fire…

2. In recent weeks I put in a lot of effort to apply for funding for bigger developments next year, as well as to plan and prepare smaller, directly crowdfunded feature work over the coming months. As soon as there are updates on either of the two I'll send word of it - this is just to keep you up to date with some of the not so visible work that is happening behind the scenes as well. 😀

3. This release again uses (and improves) tooling for release communication that I'm currently developing and will eventually release as free software. 👍

Poster image background for this release: Alexandre Debiève/Cildo Meireles – thank you!