Lexicon Community

Lexicon Community ATProtocol developers working on lexicons

♨️ Attention ♨️

We're moving away from GitHub discussions to Discourse! This is the best place for long-form discussion about lexicons, how they're crafted and used, and what belongs in the Lexicon Community portfolio.

See you there!

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Event header images Hello! @ngerakines.me from https://smokesignal.events/ here! I’d like to propose some changes to the community.lexicon.calendar.event record type to support header images. Specifically, I’m proposi...

Started a discussion about adding header images to Lexicon Community defined events. #atdev #lexicons #atprotocol

Updated the website a bit to talk about the custom #atgeo checkin record I made for Anchor dropanchor.app the latest app version uses a very lightweight custom pds to store these check-ins and serve them to clients.

Thanks @bnewbold.net for taking up this role and for everything you do!

Please join us in welcoming @bsky.app to the Lexicon Community Technical Steering Committee! We’re excited to partner in shaping the AT Protocol Lexicon and supporting healthy, vibrant developer communities.

PSA

@lexicon.community you all need to host LEXICONF: a virtual conference that is 100% about lexicons

Please join me in welcoming the initial working group members: @tomcoates.bsky.social, @schuyler.info, and @mizmay.bsky.social

Also, please feel free to join our public discussions in the lcwg-atgeo-gazetteer channel in the API Touchers discord server.

Working Group Formation: ATGeo Gazetteer · Issue #13 · lexicon-community/governance What is the objective? Create a Gazetteer service application structure to support location queries to be used by applications, tools, and libraries. This working group is expected to produce docum...

📢 The "ATGeo Gazetteer" working group has officially been formed.

Request for introductions!

I'm looking for people interested in this working group that are not "American + English speaking" for either active contribution or participation as an expert. Being in the geo / location (or adjacent) field is required.

Please #repost and #share!

YouTube video by AT Protocol Development Smoke Signal an journey in building open ecosystems for communities Nick Gerakines

Smoke Signal + Lexicon Community, a journey in building ecosystems for communities, Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me

A huge run through many pieces of today’s ATProto and some future directions.

@smokesignal.events @lexicon.community

#ATmosphereConf

Working Group Formation: Mammoth Goose · Issue #13 · lexicon-community/governance What is the objective? Create a Gazetteer service application structure to support location queries to be used by applications, tools, and libraries. This working group is expected to produce docum...

Created a proposal for a @lexicon.community working group to investigate the definition and creation of a Lexicon Community Gazetteer service application structure.

cc/ @schuyler.info

Working Group Formation: Polite Goshawk · Issue #14 · lexicon-community/governance What is the objective? Explore the definition and reference implementation of Lexicon Lenses, a transformation of records from one type to another. This working group is expected to production docu...

I created an issue to form a @lexicon.community working group to explore the idea of Lexicon Lenses.

I’ve been really interested in the idea of exploring lexicon traits, type aliases, and rendering. @blaine.bsky.social spent some time with me this weekend and planted a seed. It was eye opening.

On my way home! These past several days have been a whirlwind. I’m so thankful to @bmann.ca, @knowtheory.net, @chadkoh.com, @blaine.bsky.social, and @rudyfraser.com for several days of conversations, walks, and sharing tables. #ATmosphereConf

Hi! I was in the @lexicon.community meeting and am very interested in building UI libraries! Let’s connect if you wanna support this effort

#ATmosphereConf

Really awesome session at #ATmosphereConf talking about @lexicon.community. Such great discussion. #atdev #atprotocol

We’ll be talking more at the conference about an #atgeo working group. The initial lexicon work is @lexicon.community

Tell us what you’re working on and what you’re trying to do!

Next presentation at #atmosphereconf about @lexicon.community!

The community.lexicon.interaction.like type by ngerakines · Pull Request #20 · lexicon-community/lexicon This PR introduces the community.lexicon.interaction.like type. This record is to convey the intention of "liking a thing" within the ATmosphere. Examples Liking a whtwnd blog entry: { ...

The community.lexicon.interaction.like lexicon is officially merged! 🥳 🎉 🎉 🎉

Last, but not least, we've formalized a Code of Conduct to emphasize our commitment to a harassment-free, inclusive environment where all community members feel safe and respected.

This is derived from the established and tested www.contributor-covenant.org.

We've also expanded guidance on contributing effectively, ensuring that contributions—whether technical, policy-related, or other—are supported and valued.

You also may have seen that we've welcomed to additional people to the technical steering committee! We're excited to have @bmann.ca and @essentialrandom.bsky.social lend their expertise and strengthen the community.

Governance and Contributor Updates · lexicon-community governance · Discussion #11 We are excited to announce significant changes to our Governance model, Contributor Guide, and Contributor Covenant! These changes result from considerable time, effort, and energy, and we believe ...

📢 We are excited to announce some significant changes to how we plan to organize and manage work.

We're introducing purpose-driven working groups for efforts like lexicon changes and additions. We believe this will create space for small groups to work through early ideas while respecting autonomy.

Please join us in welcoming @essentialrandom.bsky.social as a member of the Lexicon Community Technical Steering Committee!

Adoption of the updated Governance document by ngerakines · Pull Request #10 · lexicon-community/governance This updates the governance, contributor guide, and contributor covenant. #6 The README is also updated to reflect the additions to the technical steering committee. #7 #8 Rendered: GOVERNANCE.md ...

Governance pull request opened: github.com/lexicon-comm...

Please join us in welcoming @bmann.ca as a member of the Lexicon Community Technical Steering Committee!

Initial infra for Location data on #atproto:

* default venue & geo lexicons, already underway in @lexicon.community & @smokesignal.events
* Foursquare OS places integration
* venue lookup end point and widget that apps can use
* backend firehose, feeds, and search support + map visualization

Run lex-cli on push to identify lexicon errors by ngerakines · Pull Request #47 · lexicon-community/lexicon This PR introduces a GHA that runs the lex-cli on push and PR. If error output is produced, the action fails. Example lexicon validation failure Example success / recovery

Following up on this, a pull request was created to improve the process of validating lexicons during the discussion and pull-request process.

Incident 1 - h3 location lexicon · lexicon-community · Discussion #44 This is a report of incident 1. It involves the events and locations lexicon that was merged on February 3rd, 20251. That lexicon has a bug that rendered one of the types invalid. Investigation and...

Today is a milestone of sorts: Our first production issue.