Stephen Downes

I may as well just quote Laurens Hof: "The Bonfire project allows for various types of fediverse platforms to be build. Bonfire can be used to build social platforms, this is called the Bonfire Social part. But Bonfire is also working towards an Open Science version of the platform, called Open Science Network. The platform connects to various scientific integrations, such as persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID), archival repositories and DOIs, and federated open-science infrastructure so discussion can become formalised, creditable and preserved. A demo video of what that looks like can be seen here. Bonfire says they expect to have a 1.0 release candidate ready before the end of the year. In other science-to-fediverse connections: Encyclia is a bridge that connects ORCID records to the fediverse, and they started bridging the first few researchers ORCID's accounts to the fediverse." How natural it would be to connect this to online learning platforms.