On May 14, 2019, the Framasoft association launched a fundraising campaign to verify the interest of the wider community and secure the finances for the project. At the end of the campaign, on July 10, 2019, the objective was reached with more than thousand contributors and more than €58,000 raised.
A test platform was put online on October 15, 2019, to allow supporters of the project to discover the tool and give first impressions with most of the UX features, but still without federation. The first version was planned for the first half of 2020. On June 22, 2020, at the time of the beta3 release, version 1.0 was pushed back to autumn 2020. On October 27th 2020, the first version was officially launched and presented through visual guide. On November 17 new version 1.02. was released with few updates and numerous new languages supported. Independent developer of Fedilab released an Android app for Mobilizon.
In January 2021 over 60 active Mobilizon instances were recorded in the registry.
Mobilizon offers the following features:
Some of the features were also inspired by needs of activists and some of the features known from Facebook UX were intentionally avoided:
""We also understood that Mobilizon had to move away from the Facebook-style social features that exploit our ego and motor the attention economy. In the Mobilizon we designed, there are no likes, incentives to create the narrative of your life on a wall, and no echo chambers to these frustrating dialogues where everyone shouts and no one listens"."
The software is written in the Elixir programming language with Phoenix, a lightweight framework that takes advantage of Elixir.
The user interface is built with the VueJS framework.
Mobilizon is federated to a network of instances capable of communicating with each other thanks to the ActivityPub protocol, a W3C standard. It will also enable interaction with other software applications that make up the fediverse, such as Mastodon, PeerTube, etc. Most federation code comes from Pleroma, popular microbloging software.
Barbara Rose
Barbara Ellen Rose (June 11, 1936 – December 25, 2020) was an American art historian, art critic, curator, college professor, and filmmaker. She was born in Washington, D.C.. She wrote the screenplay for the 1977 documentary "". Rose wrote for "Vogue", "Art in America", "Artforum", and "Partisan Review".
Rose died on December 25, 2020 from problems caused by breast cancer in Concord, New Hampshire, aged 84.
Bronisława Kowalska
Bronisława Kowalska (1955 – 26 December 2020) was a Polish politician. She was a Deputy from 1993 to 2005 and was a Member of the European Parliament in 2004. Kowalska was born in Starachowice, Poland.
Kowalska died on 26 December 2020 from COVID-19 in Warsaw at the age of 65.
José Luiz Carbone
José Luiz Carbone (22 March 1946 – 27 December 2020) was a Brazilian footballer and coach. He was born in São Paulo. He played for São Paulo, Ponte Preta, Metropol, Internacional, Botafogo and Nacional (SP).
He played for the Brazilian national team from 1973 to 1974 making six appearances.
Carbone died of liver cancer in hospital in Campinas, Brazil on 27 December 2020 at the age of 74.
Marian Jochman
Marian Gerard Jochman (2 February 1935 – 27 December 2020) was a Polish long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Jochman died on 27 December 2020 at the age of 85.
Antonio Velasco Piña
Antonio Velasco Piña (8 September 1935 – 27 December 2020) was a Mexican novelist, spiritual writer and essayist. He was the founder of La Nueva Mexicanidad, a group supporting Aztec religion. He was born in Buenavista de Cuellar, Guerrero.
Velasco Piña died on 27 December 2020 in Mexico City at the age of 85.
Phil Niekro
Philip Henry Niekro ( ; April 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020), nicknamed "Knucksie", was an American baseball pitcher. He played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), 20 of them with the Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves. He played with New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays.
Niekro was honored into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997. He was born in Blaine, Ohio.
Niekro died of cancer on December 26, 2020 in Flowery Branch, Georgia at the age of 81.
Hugo Travers
Hugo Travers (born 6 April 1997 in Sèvres), also known as HugoDécrypte, is a French journalist and YouTuber.
Blaine, Ohio
Blaine is an unincorporated community in northern Pease Township, Belmont County, Ohio, United States. It has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43909.
Pease Township, Belmont County, Ohio
Pease Township is one of sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census showed 14,309 people living in the township.
Flowery Branch, Georgia
Flowery Branch is a city in Hall County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had 5,679 people living here.
Margaret Weis
Margaret Weis (born March 16, 1948) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer and author of dozens of novels and short stories. She is one of the creators of the "Dragonlance" game world.
In 1983, Weis signed up for a job as games editor at TSR Inc. She didn't get that job. She was, however, hired as book editor. She worked in the TSR book division until 1986.
Weis was born in Independence, Missouri. She now lives in Wisconsin.
Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard
On June 14, 2015, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard was murdered in the bedroom of her house in Greene County, Missouri. Her body was lying on the bed covered in blood from stab wounds which were caused days earlier.
Dee Dee's daughter Gypsy Rose, who, according to Blanchard suffered from leukemia, asthma, muscular dystrophy, and brain damage was not in the house at the time the body's discovery.
The following day, police found Gypsy Rose in Wisconsin, where she had traveled with her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn. Dee Dee faked all the illness that Gypsy had and many people were mad at Dee Dee because of it.
Godejohn and Gypsy planned and killed Dee Dee while she was sleeping. Many believed Gypsy killing her mother was justified because the mother was mentally abusing her.
Gypsy Rose was found guilty to second-degree murder and is serving a 10-year sentence. After a brief trial in November 2018 Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Arbutus
Arbutus is a genus of flowering plants in the Ericaceae family. There are 12 species, which mostly grow around the Mediterranean, and in Central America. The type species is Arbutus unedo, which is known as strawberry tree in English. All species are either trees or shrubs.
Certain Lepidoptera species use Arbutus as food. Some species are cultivated as ornamental plants outside their range.
2021 Atlantic hurricane season
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is an ongoing Atlantic hurricane season, which is part of the annual tropical cyclone season in the Northern Hemisphere. It officially began on June 1, 2021, and will end on November 30, 2021. These dates, adopted by convention, historically describe the period in each year when most Atlantic tropical cyclones form. However, tropical cyclogenesis is possible at any time of the year, as demonstrated by the early formation of Subtropical Storm Ana on May 22, making 2021 the seventh consecutive year that a storm formed before the official start of the season.
Starting this season, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began to issue regular Tropical Weather Outlooks on May 15, two weeks earlier than it did in the past. This change was implemented in light of the fact that named systems had formed in the Atlantic Ocean prior to the official start of the season in each of the preceding six seasons.