IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results.

Without IndexNow, it can take days to weeks for search engines to discover that the content has changed, as search engines don’t crawl every URL often. With IndexNow, search engines know immediately the "URLs that have changed, helping them prioritize crawl for these URLs and thereby limiting organic crawling to discover new content."

IndexNow is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has support from Microsoft Bing, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yandex, Yep.

IndexNow-enabled search engines shares immediately all URLs submitted to all other IndexNow-enabled search engines, so you just need to notify one endpoint.

A curated list of awesome open source healthcare software, libraries, tools and resources. Each link has been vetted to ensure the project is active and provides value to healthcare facilities, providers, developers, policy experts, and/or research scientists.

A theoretically open standard for transit companies to make scheduling and operational schedules available to the public.

FindYourNews.org is a place for you to discover and connect with nonprofit newsrooms that are producing fact-based, public service journalism.

Whether you are a resident looking to find a newsroom in your neighborhood or a funder exploring opportunities to support the field, this site is designed to help you learn about quality news sources across North America.

From local news to in-depth reporting on pressing global issues, members of the INN Network tell stories that otherwise would go untold – connecting communities, holding the powerful accountable, and strengthening democracy.

All newsrooms listed on the site are required to be members of the Institute of Nonprofit News (INN). To become a member of INN, a news organization must be organized as a 501(c)(3) corporation, or be fiscally sponsored by one, and uphold standards for editorial independence, excellence in news coverage, and ethical behavior – including transparency about their funding.

We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.

⁂ is a typographical character, not an icon that needs to be inserted as an image. Unique-looking, but standardised. This means it’s very easy to copy-paste around! Its design style also automatically adapts to the font used where you insert it.

⁂ is called an asterism. In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations. We suggest that it’s a very fitting symbol for the fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected spaces which is decentralised and has an astronomically-themed name. It represents several stars coming together, connecting but each their own, without a centre.

⁂ is standardised as Unicode U+2042, making it ready to copy and insert anywhere.

There is also a downloadable graphics pack.

This site is holding a number of web pages for groups producing open standards. Character sets, formal specs for a number of languages, and user interface design.

Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.

This repository serves as a historical archive containing specifications for the fictional hardware of the game 0x10c. The game was to be a multiplayer sandbox game set in space, with a fully programmable CPU controlling a ship. The game was cancelled in 2013 to much dismay of fans. A number of fan projects appeared aiming at continuing development, but they also appear to be abandoned.

There are a large number of fan works on GitHub, mainly implementations of the DCPU-16 hardware or code to run on it. GitHub still has a list of DCPU-16 ASM trending repositories. These usually included links to the official specifications which were either hosted on Pastebin or 0x10c.com. The later has been been offline since February 2014 (weirdly the domain was renewed for another year in April 2014), so this is my attempt to archive them for future reference.

This is my fork of the repo for later reference.

An open standard for a common interconnect between headsets and radios.

Functional specs of M-foo hardware (M3, M4, etc). Includes thread pitch, nominal diameter, core diameter, effective diameter, and so forth.

The NeoFloppy is an non-mechanical / solid-state media format optimized for handling, transport, storage, archive and subsequent use. It is only using the mechanical specification of the 3,5" FDD to a specific extent. Namely: Drive mechanisms (except the head since the drive only needs to vertically contact pins behind the shutter) and the media dimensions.

TMTP is a new Internet protocol combining elements of email and the web. TMTP offers a simple, reliable, free, secure, decentralized method for messaging & correspondence & notification.

Online services lack a way to directly message their customers/members. Email (SMTP etc) is unreliable, insecure, and typically transits multiple third-party hosts between sender & recipient. (Email also has other painful problems!) Text messaging (SMS) is expensive. Some sites patch this gap by building & maintaining custom phone apps—at great cost.

The client and server are open source, subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v2.0.

A wiki devoted to explanation and analysis of FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) standards and requirements.

The github repo of work pertaining to IoT communications and protocols over XMPP instead of other methods or networks. One advantage is that, by using p2p XMPP, devices could communicate with each other.