Dynamic OGs to Automating Socials - the story of ograph-gen

Ograph-gen was a small scale application i wrote in 3 hours on my 2nd day as an intern at FOSS United,

The talk goes through a story of how a small program like this, was able to become the backbone of 2 of the latest and pretty important features of FOSS United platform:

• Opengraph images for events

• Crossposting and Design generation for events

I also hope this talk serves as a reminder for people on how extensibility still matters in modern software, rather than writing everything to be extremely specific to one task.

• Audience learns about what opengraph is, and why it is so useful to event management platforms like FOSS United

• Audience learns about the benefits of making simple and extensible software

  • how one software built for something laser focused, like dynamic OG images, can be easily (ab)used with little changes to the code for a whole different usecase (like generating social media posts)

  • its what K.I.S.S and Hacker Culture is all about!

• Demonstration of FOSSU platform's new features

  • Opengraph Images on popular routes like event, cfp submission, chapter pages and foss profile pages

  • Crossposter and social media post generation (this is a early WIP, but I hope for it to be ready for use by the time IF5 rolls around)