At the heart of the IndieWeb is an attempt to unify the ideas behind personal websites, blogs and social networks, but in a manner consistent with how the world wide web operates.
Your website acts much like your wall on Facebook or your timeline on Twitter – it’s your personal soapbox, your castle on the web.
[…]one recreates, in a decentralized manner, the kinds of online interactions one has come to expect from private social networks.
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"html": "Read <a href=\"https://desmondrivet.com/2020/01/05/website-castle\">Your Website Is Your Castle</a> by <a href=\"https://desmondrivet.com/\"><img src=\"https://desmondrivet.com/me02.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Rivet\" />Desmond Rivet</a>\n<blockquote>In which I zoom in slightly on the #indieweb</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Some nice quotes on what the <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/indieweb.html\">IndieWeb</a> is about, from Desmond\u2019s article <a href=\"https://desmondrivet.com/2020/01/05/website-castle\">Your Website Is Your Castle</a>.</p>\n<p>In a nutshell:</p>\n<blockquote><p>At the heart of the IndieWeb is an attempt to unify the ideas behind personal websites, blogs and social networks, but in a manner consistent with how the world wide web operates.</p></blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Your website acts much like your wall on Facebook or your timeline on Twitter \u2013 it\u2019s your personal soapbox, your castle on the web.</p></blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[\u2026]one recreates, in a decentralized manner, the kinds of online interactions one has come to expect from private social networks.</p></blockquote>",
"text": "Read Your Website Is Your Castle by Desmond Rivet\nIn which I zoom in slightly on the #indieweb\n\n\n\nSome nice quotes on what the IndieWeb is about, from Desmond\u2019s article Your Website Is Your Castle.\nIn a nutshell:\nAt the heart of the IndieWeb is an attempt to unify the ideas behind personal websites, blogs and social networks, but in a manner consistent with how the world wide web operates.\nYour website acts much like your wall on Facebook or your timeline on Twitter \u2013 it\u2019s your personal soapbox, your castle on the web.\n[\u2026]one recreates, in a decentralized manner, the kinds of online interactions one has come to expect from private social networks."
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"html": "Read <a href=\"https://desmondrivet.com/2020/02/12/website-identity\">Your Website Is Your Passport</a> by <a href=\"https://desmondrivet.com/\"><img src=\"https://desmondrivet.com/me02.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Rivet\" />Desmond Rivet</a>\n<blockquote>Your personal website as a form of identification #indieweb</blockquote>\n\nI found this a very helpful discussion of <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200405152652-web_sign_in.html\">IndieAuth</a> from Desmond, touching on web sign-in, RelMeAuth, OAuth and OIDC along the way. It\u2019s one of those things that I know exists, and just works for me (e.g. everytime I use a Micropub client), but it\u2019s nice to get a bit of a handle on how it works.\n<p>In a nutshell the purpose is this:</p>\n<blockquote><p>your domain should function as a kind of universal online passport, allowing you to sign in to various services and applications simply by entering your personal URL</p></blockquote>\n<p>Desmond does a great job of explaining the nitty-gritty of how it works, too. The two bits I bolded below jumped out at me \u2013 a decentralised authentication mechanism leveraging DNS as a user registration system. It\u2019s very elegant.</p>\n<blockquote><p>The process of using your domain to log in to sites and services is called web sign-in and is implemented via a protocol called IndieAuth, an extension of OAuth used for decentralized authentication.</p></blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If your goal is to make a social network out of the world wide web, there is a certain elegance to the idea of leveraging DNS as a user registration system.</p></blockquote>",
"text": "Read Your Website Is Your Passport by Desmond Rivet\nYour personal website as a form of identification #indieweb\n\nI found this a very helpful discussion of IndieAuth from Desmond, touching on web sign-in, RelMeAuth, OAuth and OIDC along the way. It\u2019s one of those things that I know exists, and just works for me (e.g. everytime I use a Micropub client), but it\u2019s nice to get a bit of a handle on how it works.\nIn a nutshell the purpose is this:\nyour domain should function as a kind of universal online passport, allowing you to sign in to various services and applications simply by entering your personal URL\nDesmond does a great job of explaining the nitty-gritty of how it works, too. The two bits I bolded below jumped out at me \u2013 a decentralised authentication mechanism leveraging DNS as a user registration system. It\u2019s very elegant.\nThe process of using your domain to log in to sites and services is called web sign-in and is implemented via a protocol called IndieAuth, an extension of OAuth used for decentralized authentication.\nIf your goal is to make a social network out of the world wide web, there is a certain elegance to the idea of leveraging DNS as a user registration system."
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"html": "<p>I fixed a small issue in my <a href=\"https://gitlab.com/ngm/doublescores\">theme</a> that I\u2019d noticed, where other people\u2019s sites weren\u2019t picking up my author details. The problem? My author info wasn\u2019t included in the entries. I had a site-wide h-card but I hadn\u2019t got it in the entries themselves.</p>\n<p>The process for figuring out who has written a post is referred to as authorship, and the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/authorship\">IndieWeb wiki page on it</a> is very helpful. Also thanks to <a href=\"https://www.svenknebel.de/\">Sven</a> for the help.</p>",
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Join us... on The Internet!
Join the Zoom call: tbc 20 minutes before start
We will provide a Zoom video conference link 20 minutes before the meetup here and in the IndieWeb chat.
Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you?...
I’ve ended up with an online meeting schedule clash this week, unfortunately.
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"html": "RSVPed: Unable to Attend <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-europe-london-uMUI2gAyCQpR\">ONLINE: Homebrew Website Club Europe/London</a>\n<blockquote>Join us... on <img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/2728.png\" alt=\"\u2728\" />The Internet!<img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/2728.png\" alt=\"\u2728\" />\nJoin the Zoom call: tbc 20 minutes before start\nWe will provide a Zoom video conference link 20 minutes before the meetup here and in the IndieWeb chat.\nHomebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you?...</blockquote>\n\nI\u2019ve ended up with an online meeting schedule clash this week, unfortunately.",
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New blog post: Introducing Indigenous for Desktop - https://realize.be/blog/indigenous-desktop - I also recorded a short video demonstrating the current features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7egdRBg70XA #indieweb
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"html": "Liked <a href=\"https://realize.be/blog/indigenous-desktop\">Indigenous for Desktop</a> by an author\n<blockquote>New blog post: Introducing Indigenous for Desktop - https://realize.be/blog/indigenous-desktop - I also recorded a short video demonstrating the current features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7egdRBg70XA #indieweb</blockquote>",
"text": "Liked Indigenous for Desktop by an author\nNew blog post: Introducing Indigenous for Desktop - https://realize.be/blog/indigenous-desktop - I also recorded a short video demonstrating the current features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7egdRBg70XA #indieweb"
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"html": "Replied to <a href=\"https://desmondrivet.com/2020/04/04/indieweb-conversation\">How to Have a Conversation on the IndieWeb</a> by <a href=\"https://desmondrivet.com/\"><img src=\"https://desmondrivet.com/me02.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Rivet\" />Desmond Rivet</a>\n<blockquote>In which I describe how to avoid solipsism on the #indieweb</blockquote>\n\nGreat writeup!",
"text": "Replied to How to Have a Conversation on the IndieWeb by Desmond Rivet\nIn which I describe how to avoid solipsism on the #indieweb\n\nGreat writeup!"
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"html": "<p>I just wrote a big ol\u2019 blog post about <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/2020/04/03/indiewebifying-events-and-rsvps/\">indiewebifying my event discovery and RSVPs</a>. Thinking about it just now, however, it\u2019s a bit of a mish-mash between why I wanted to do it, and how I did it.</p>\n<p>For someone coming to the post who is new to the IndieWeb, it\u2019s probably bit off-putting (and maybe fuel for the fire of \u2018IndieWeb is too complicated\u2019). And for someone who already knows about the IndieWeb, but isn\u2019t using WordPress, they might skip over the hows and in the process miss some of the whys.</p>\n<p>So in future I might try and split these kinds of articles into two \u2013 a \u2018why\u2019 post, and a \u2018how I did it\u2019 post. The \u2018why\u2019 post will kind of be my <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200404134015-behaviour_driven_development.html\">behaviour-driven development</a> specs, so to speak, and probably mostly links to various pattern pages on the IndieWeb wiki. And the \u2018how\u2019 post will get into the weeds of one very specific implementation, liberally referring back to the \u2018why\u2019 post.</p>\n<p>I think that would work well and make the articles a bit more reusable and less niche.</p>",
"text": "I just wrote a big ol\u2019 blog post about indiewebifying my event discovery and RSVPs. Thinking about it just now, however, it\u2019s a bit of a mish-mash between why I wanted to do it, and how I did it.\nFor someone coming to the post who is new to the IndieWeb, it\u2019s probably bit off-putting (and maybe fuel for the fire of \u2018IndieWeb is too complicated\u2019). And for someone who already knows about the IndieWeb, but isn\u2019t using WordPress, they might skip over the hows and in the process miss some of the whys.\nSo in future I might try and split these kinds of articles into two \u2013 a \u2018why\u2019 post, and a \u2018how I did it\u2019 post. The \u2018why\u2019 post will kind of be my behaviour-driven development specs, so to speak, and probably mostly links to various pattern pages on the IndieWeb wiki. And the \u2018how\u2019 post will get into the weeds of one very specific implementation, liberally referring back to the \u2018why\u2019 post.\nI think that would work well and make the articles a bit more reusable and less niche."
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"text": "Messaged you my friend code in the IndieWeb Slack!\n\n\u2026 wishing I had a private posts story for my site right about now. \ud83d\ude05",
"html": "<p>Messaged you my friend code in the IndieWeb Slack!</p>\n\n<p>\u2026 wishing I had a private posts story for my site right about now. \ud83d\ude05</p>"
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Brilliant write up Neil, great stuff on getting it working! Nice to see that it was a case of connecting up various IndieWeb tools for a somewhat out-of-the-box feel
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"text": "Brilliant write up Neil, great stuff on getting it working! Nice to see that it was a case of connecting up various IndieWeb tools for a somewhat out-of-the-box feel",
"html": "<p>Brilliant write up Neil, great stuff on getting it working! Nice to see that it was a case of connecting up various IndieWeb tools for a somewhat out-of-the-box feel</p>"
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"html": "Getting events out of the silos seems like a hot topic this year, with plenty of <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/indieweb.html\">IndieWeb</a> and <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200321115911-fediverse.html\">Fediverse</a> activity around it. The COVID-19 pandemic might be changing the nature of events for the foreseeable, but there\u2019s still plenty happening online.\n<p>A couple of weeks ago at IndieWebCamp London, Jamie led a session about owning your RSVPs: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2020/London/OwnYourRSVPs\">indieweb.org/2020/London/OwnYourRSVPs</a></p>\n<p>Inspired by the session, my day 2 hacking revolved around <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Events\">events</a> and <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/rsvp\">RSVPs</a>. The plan was to try indie-fy my event discovery a bit, and also try and decouple myself from Meetup a little for events there. I want to get a feed of upcoming events that I might be interested in in my social reader, and RSVP to them on my own site.</p>\n<p>I\u2019d also quite like to have an \u2018agenda\u2019 page, where I publish the events that I\u2019m going to. If people want to, they can follow my events agenda, and it could be a helpful way to discover events that are going on. Other IndieWeb peeps such as Calum, Jamie and Seb are already doing this. (Not everyone might want to do this \u2013 there are obviously privacy implications).</p>\n<p>I\u2019d also like to have the events that I\u2019ve decided to go to show up in my calendar.</p>\n\n<h2>Getting events into my reader</h2>\n\n<p>I don\u2019t really have a good way of finding out about events at the moment. When I moved to a new town last year I sadly found that the silos of Meetup and Facebook were the best places to find out about events and what was going on.</p>\n<p>Though it might take a while for the world to move away from listing their events in these platforms, in the <a href=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/20200401214906-build_the_new_world_in_the_shell_of_the_old.html\">interim</a> I would like a way of finding out about interesting events without having to visit lots of disparate sites around the Internet to find them. So a good place to try and get this would be in my <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/social_reader\">social reader</a>.</p>\n\n\n<h3>Meetup</h3>\n\n<p>One big source of events is <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/meetup.com\">Meetup</a>. The service is going down a slippery slope of sales to corporates (first to WeWork, <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-divestment-meetup/wework-sells-social-network-meetup-to-alleycorp-private-investors-idUSKBN21H2K6\">recently to some private investors</a>), so what better time to avoid as much as possible.</p>\n<p>As Jamie discussed in the London session, <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/08/31/microformats-meetup/\">he has built a service</a> that wraps Meetup\u2019s API and can give you any Meetup groups\u2019 list of events, or any particular individual event, in Microformats.</p>\n<p>To do that, very handily, you can just take any event or event list from Meetup and change the domain to his service at: <a href=\"https://meetup-mf2.jvt.me/\">meetup-mf2.jvt.me</a></p>\n<p>So, say, I am interested in finding out about events from <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/\">www.meetup.com/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/</a>, so I just need to go to <a href=\"https://meetup-mf2.jvt.me/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/\">meetup-mf2.jvt.me/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/</a> and I get a feed of the events in MF2. Nice!</p>\n<p>Now I have the mf2 I can a feed into my reader. I created a new Events channel in <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Aperture\">Aperture</a> and subscribed to the link in this channel.</p>\n<p>Now they show up in my reader!</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>IndieWeb events</h3>\n\n<p>I can also subscribe to events from other feeds of events (e.g. <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/\">events.indieweb.org</a>). I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a way to subscribe to a Facebook event feed. That would be rad though, to get that feed into my reader.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Better display of event posts in readers</h3>\n\n<p>The social readers don\u2019t seem completely aware of the event type at present. (Indigenous does allow you to RSVP to them).</p>\n<p>One wrinkle at present is that the Meetup I am following, all of the events were created to be recurring about 3 years ago. So their published/updated date is 3 years ago, even though the event\u2019s start date might be next week. The readers seem to mostly work off of published date at the moment.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/pulling_the_events_into_my_social_reader/2020-03-15_10-52-14_3tfH9i4.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_10-52-14_3tfH9i4.png\" /><img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/pulling_the_events_into_my_social_reader/2020-03-15_10-50-35_ylXBC2o.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_10-50-35_ylXBC2o.png\" /><p>It could be good if readers might have a calendar view for events, like they have special Gallery or Map views. Or maybe just a simple \u2018sort by start date\u2019 would do it.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/pulling_the_events_into_my_social_reader/2020-03-15_10-59-53_e2jVr0c.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_10-59-53_e2jVr0c.png\" /><h2>Own your RSVPs: RSVPing and POSSEing</h2>\n\n<p>So when I find out about an interesting event, I want to RSVP to it.</p>\n<p>RSVPing to IndieWeb events already works fine for me, thanks to the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Post_Kinds_Plugin\">Post Kinds</a> and <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Wordpress_Webmention_Plugin\">Webmention</a> plugins for WordPress. I can create an RSVP on my own site, linking to the page where the event is listed, and the RSVP gets sent over and recorded on the event page.</p>\n<p>For something like Meetup, which doesn\u2019t accept webmentions for RSVPs natively, we have to do some work there ourselves.</p>\n<p>But thanks to <a href=\"https://brid.gy/\">Bridgy</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/02/17/meetup-bridgy-support/\">recent Meetup integration that Jamie added to it</a>, we can do it!</p>\n\n\n<h3>Setting up the Bridgy connection</h3>\n\n<p>First up you\u2019ll want to go to <a href=\"https://brid.gy/\">brid.gy</a> and connect it to your Meetup account:</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_11-54-45_n2fyxL8.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_11-54-45_n2fyxL8.png\" /><img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_11-55-54_W6qM8OO.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_11-55-54_W6qM8OO.png\" /><p>Once it\u2019s connected, if you create an RSVP post, you can send a webmention to Bridgy about it, and Bridgy will send that RSVP to Meetup. Let\u2019s give it a go.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>2.2 Creating an RSVP post</h3>\n\n<p>For me in WordPress creating an RSVP post is all already taken care of by Post Kinds.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_12-01-58_VvzVnIC.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_12-01-58_VvzVnIC.png\" /><p>One really nice feature of Post Kinds is it uses <a href=\"https://github.com/dshanske/parse-this\">Parse This</a> behind the scenes to pull in contextual information about the event you\u2019re RSVPing to. Just chuck the URL in the URL box and it\u2019ll pull the data back.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_12-05-00_P2xWG7u.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_12-05-00_P2xWG7u.png\" /><p>Save the post and you have your RSVP \u2013 all owned on your own site for your safekeeping and historical pleasure.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Sending your RSVP to Bridgy</h3>\n\n<p>We usually want to tell the event host that we\u2019re going to their event. We want to send our RSVP to them. For Meetup, our RSVP goes via Bridgy.</p>\n<p>You can manually tell Bridgy about a post you\u2019ve made that you want it to do something with. This is a handy way of testing it out, and that\u2019s what I did with my first RSVP:</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_12-11-47_MDOuZPS.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_12-11-47_MDOuZPS.png\" /><p>I hit Send there, got a success message, and\u2026 lo and behold\u2026</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/RSVPing_and_POSSEing_to_Meetup/2020-03-15_12-14-05_fJmF3IQ.png\" alt=\"2020-03-15_12-14-05_fJmF3IQ.png\" /><p>I\u2019ve found out about an event on Meetup, and RSVPed, without actually visiting!</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Smoother POSSEing</h3>\n\n<p>I would like to have the option to push my RSVP to Meetup without having to go to Bridgy and put the URL in manually each time. And you can do that of course. The magic happens via the Webmention and Syndication Links plugins. You can turn it on in your IndieWeb settings in the WordPress dashboard.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/Own_your_RSVPs:_RSVPing_and_POSSEing/2020-04-03_18-53-51_IklUOEZ.png\" alt=\"2020-04-03_18-53-51_IklUOEZ.png\" /><p>Now when you create a new RSVP, you can have it sent to Bridgy automatically:</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/Own_your_RSVPs:_RSVPing_and_POSSEing/2020-04-03_18-56-15_3WBfJ1q.png\" alt=\"2020-04-03_18-56-15_3WBfJ1q.png\" /><p>Boom!</p>\n<p>Some social readers (e.g. Indigenous) also support RSVPing from within the reader themselves.</p>\n<img src=\"https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/Screenshot_2020-04-03-19-00-17.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2020-04-03-19-00-17.png\" /><p>So you can just hit RSVP in your reader and create the RSVP there and then.</p>\n\n\n\n\n<h2>Bonus features</h2>\n\n<p>A couple of nice-to-haves around events and RSVPs.</p>\n\n\n<h3>Agenda page</h3>\n\n<p>Seb has an <a href=\"https://seblog.nl/agenda\">agenda page</a> \u2013 a page with a list of his RSVPs. I think this is a nice way of helping with event discoverability. You could follow the agendas of people you know, and see when they RSVP to interesting events.</p>\n<p>This comes out-of-the-box with <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Post_Kinds_Plugin\">Post Kinds</a> again. Each post kind gets it\u2019s own archive page \u2013 so for example, <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/kind/rsvp/\">doubleloop.net/kind/rsvp/</a> is a list of my RSVPs. I added a simple redirect from <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/agenda\">doubleloop.net/agenda</a> to that page.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>iCal feed</h3>\n\n<p>Jamie has written about how he created an <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/07/27/rsvp-calendar/\">iCal feed of his RSVPs</a>. I\u2019d like to do this too, to pull the events I\u2019ve RSVPed to into my calendar. I haven\u2019t done it yet, but it should be fairly simple \u2013 just parse through my \u2018yes\u2019 RSVPs, pull out the dates from the associated event, and turn it into iCal markup.</p>",
"text": "Getting events out of the silos seems like a hot topic this year, with plenty of IndieWeb and Fediverse activity around it. The COVID-19 pandemic might be changing the nature of events for the foreseeable, but there\u2019s still plenty happening online.\nA couple of weeks ago at IndieWebCamp London, Jamie led a session about owning your RSVPs: indieweb.org/2020/London/OwnYourRSVPs\nInspired by the session, my day 2 hacking revolved around events and RSVPs. The plan was to try indie-fy my event discovery a bit, and also try and decouple myself from Meetup a little for events there. I want to get a feed of upcoming events that I might be interested in in my social reader, and RSVP to them on my own site.\nI\u2019d also quite like to have an \u2018agenda\u2019 page, where I publish the events that I\u2019m going to. If people want to, they can follow my events agenda, and it could be a helpful way to discover events that are going on. Other IndieWeb peeps such as Calum, Jamie and Seb are already doing this. (Not everyone might want to do this \u2013 there are obviously privacy implications).\nI\u2019d also like to have the events that I\u2019ve decided to go to show up in my calendar.\n\nGetting events into my reader\n\nI don\u2019t really have a good way of finding out about events at the moment. When I moved to a new town last year I sadly found that the silos of Meetup and Facebook were the best places to find out about events and what was going on.\nThough it might take a while for the world to move away from listing their events in these platforms, in the interim I would like a way of finding out about interesting events without having to visit lots of disparate sites around the Internet to find them. So a good place to try and get this would be in my social reader.\n\n\nMeetup\n\nOne big source of events is Meetup. The service is going down a slippery slope of sales to corporates (first to WeWork, recently to some private investors), so what better time to avoid as much as possible.\nAs Jamie discussed in the London session, he has built a service that wraps Meetup\u2019s API and can give you any Meetup groups\u2019 list of events, or any particular individual event, in Microformats.\nTo do that, very handily, you can just take any event or event list from Meetup and change the domain to his service at: meetup-mf2.jvt.me\nSo, say, I am interested in finding out about events from www.meetup.com/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/, so I just need to go to meetup-mf2.jvt.me/Lancaster-Digital-Friday-Coffee/events/ and I get a feed of the events in MF2. Nice!\nNow I have the mf2 I can a feed into my reader. I created a new Events channel in Aperture and subscribed to the link in this channel.\nNow they show up in my reader!\n\n\n\nIndieWeb events\n\nI can also subscribe to events from other feeds of events (e.g. events.indieweb.org). I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a way to subscribe to a Facebook event feed. That would be rad though, to get that feed into my reader.\n\n\n\nBetter display of event posts in readers\n\nThe social readers don\u2019t seem completely aware of the event type at present. (Indigenous does allow you to RSVP to them).\nOne wrinkle at present is that the Meetup I am following, all of the events were created to be recurring about 3 years ago. So their published/updated date is 3 years ago, even though the event\u2019s start date might be next week. The readers seem to mostly work off of published date at the moment.\nIt could be good if readers might have a calendar view for events, like they have special Gallery or Map views. Or maybe just a simple \u2018sort by start date\u2019 would do it.\nOwn your RSVPs: RSVPing and POSSEing\n\nSo when I find out about an interesting event, I want to RSVP to it.\nRSVPing to IndieWeb events already works fine for me, thanks to the Post Kinds and Webmention plugins for WordPress. I can create an RSVP on my own site, linking to the page where the event is listed, and the RSVP gets sent over and recorded on the event page.\nFor something like Meetup, which doesn\u2019t accept webmentions for RSVPs natively, we have to do some work there ourselves.\nBut thanks to Bridgy and the recent Meetup integration that Jamie added to it, we can do it!\n\n\nSetting up the Bridgy connection\n\nFirst up you\u2019ll want to go to brid.gy and connect it to your Meetup account:\nOnce it\u2019s connected, if you create an RSVP post, you can send a webmention to Bridgy about it, and Bridgy will send that RSVP to Meetup. Let\u2019s give it a go.\n\n\n\n2.2 Creating an RSVP post\n\nFor me in WordPress creating an RSVP post is all already taken care of by Post Kinds.\nOne really nice feature of Post Kinds is it uses Parse This behind the scenes to pull in contextual information about the event you\u2019re RSVPing to. Just chuck the URL in the URL box and it\u2019ll pull the data back.\nSave the post and you have your RSVP \u2013 all owned on your own site for your safekeeping and historical pleasure.\n\n\n\nSending your RSVP to Bridgy\n\nWe usually want to tell the event host that we\u2019re going to their event. We want to send our RSVP to them. For Meetup, our RSVP goes via Bridgy.\nYou can manually tell Bridgy about a post you\u2019ve made that you want it to do something with. This is a handy way of testing it out, and that\u2019s what I did with my first RSVP:\nI hit Send there, got a success message, and\u2026 lo and behold\u2026\nI\u2019ve found out about an event on Meetup, and RSVPed, without actually visiting!\n\n\n\nSmoother POSSEing\n\nI would like to have the option to push my RSVP to Meetup without having to go to Bridgy and put the URL in manually each time. And you can do that of course. The magic happens via the Webmention and Syndication Links plugins. You can turn it on in your IndieWeb settings in the WordPress dashboard.\nNow when you create a new RSVP, you can have it sent to Bridgy automatically:\nBoom!\nSome social readers (e.g. Indigenous) also support RSVPing from within the reader themselves.\nSo you can just hit RSVP in your reader and create the RSVP there and then.\n\n\n\n\nBonus features\n\nA couple of nice-to-haves around events and RSVPs.\n\n\nAgenda page\n\nSeb has an agenda page \u2013 a page with a list of his RSVPs. I think this is a nice way of helping with event discoverability. You could follow the agendas of people you know, and see when they RSVP to interesting events.\nThis comes out-of-the-box with Post Kinds again. Each post kind gets it\u2019s own archive page \u2013 so for example, doubleloop.net/kind/rsvp/ is a list of my RSVPs. I added a simple redirect from doubleloop.net/agenda to that page.\n\n\n\niCal feed\n\nJamie has written about how he created an iCal feed of his RSVPs. I\u2019d like to do this too, to pull the events I\u2019ve RSVPed to into my calendar. I haven\u2019t done it yet, but it should be fairly simple \u2013 just parse through my \u2018yes\u2019 RSVPs, pull out the dates from the associated event, and turn it into iCal markup."
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Goes without saying that we won’t have an IndieWeb Meetup at Mozart’s this week. There are more online-only meetups popping up, though. Check out events.indieweb.org for upcoming events.
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"text": "I\u2019m doing alright most days; some increased anxiety and insomnia at times. How are you?\n\nWest coast organizers have been hosting indieweb meetups weekly now on Wednesdays. Drop in when you have a chance!",
"html": "<p>I\u2019m doing alright most days; some increased anxiety and insomnia at times. How are you?</p>\n\n<p>West coast organizers have been hosting indieweb meetups weekly now on Wednesdays. Drop in when you have a chance!</p>"
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"text": "Hey Amit I meant to reach out - I think for this one I'll probably keep it as just for Nottingham, but I know the London event https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-europe-london-2Kc9aetW589f is open",
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@manton I actually moved off of Day One a few years ago and migrated all of the content to my site via micropub, with private entries. I now journal in Drafts, and publish to my site via micropub. I'd love to see a micropub client purpose built for journaling, or support added to Day One! Would be awesome if it were built on standards so I could use it for my journaling again :)
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"text": "@manton I actually moved off of Day One a few years ago and migrated all of the content to my site via micropub, with private entries. I now journal in Drafts, and publish to my site via micropub. I'd love to see a micropub client purpose built for journaling, or support added to Day One! Would be awesome if it were built on standards so I could use it for my journaling again :)"
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"text": "Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow - we're online only on Zoom, and I'll share the link in the Tech Nottingham Slack for Nottingham folks https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-nottingham-UpVd9JZeVzx6",
"html": "<p>Reminder that it's <a href=\"https://www.jvt.me/tags/homebrew-website-club/\">#HomebrewWebsiteClub</a> Nottingham tomorrow - we're online only on Zoom, and I'll share the link in the Tech Nottingham Slack for Nottingham folks <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-nottingham-UpVd9JZeVzx6\">https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-nottingham-UpVd9JZeVzx6</a></p>"
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Steve Ivy
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"html": "<p>This week\u2019s guest is <a href=\"https://micro.blog/jeremycherfas\">Jeremy Cherfas</a>, a biologist and a science journalist based in Rome who is particularly interested in food and agriculture. He produces <a href=\"https://www.eatthispodcast.com/\">Eat This Podcast</a> and even did a 32-episode microcast series about bread and wheat called <a href=\"https://www.eatthispodcast.com/bread/\">Our Daily Bread</a> for a daily podcast challenge.</p>\n\n<p>We talk about the IndieWeb and share some ideas on how to get started in podcasting.</p>\n\n<p></p>",
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"html": "<p>This second week of lock-down worked out better than the previous one I felt. Mostly because I started working earlier, 6am each day, allowing me to start with a few hours of focused time. And also because I cut down on the number and length of conference calls, as last week while everyone was finding their bearings it felt like the only thing I did was conference calls. For the coming week we\u2019ll need to work on balancing our respective working times, as well as carving out a bit of personal time.</p>\n<p>This week I</p>\n<ul><li>Spent most of three days preparing and doing two online focus groups for our study for the implementation of the revised EU PSI Directive, which will have list of mandatory datasets to publish for all EU Member States. I\u2019m leading the effort to create that list for the themes of Earth Observation / Environmental data, and Meteorological data.</li>\n<li>Had a discussion about the <a href=\"https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/key-policies/common-agricultural-policy/financing-cap/controls-and-transparency/managing-payments_en\">IACS data</a> for the EU\u2019s common agricultural policy, also w.r.t. the PSI Directive</li>\n<li>Planned next steps for the implementation of an open data platform for a province, looking at potential data sets for various policy areas</li>\n<li>Had a breakfast meeting with my partners at The Green Land, discussing /assessing the coming months</li>\n<li>Landed a new project that extends our company\u2019s horizon to nearly October</li>\n<li>Worked on monitoring / indicators and the consequences for data gathering and data driven decision making</li>\n<li>Had an informal all hands hang-out to close the working week with the company. Also with Y had video calls with my sisters, and we did a virtual coffee round with all of E\u2019s family over coffee, where all arranged for cake on their end.</li>\n</ul><p><strong>This week in\u2026..1199*</strong><br /><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England#Death\">King Richard I Lionheart</a> was wounded in France this week in 1199, leading to his death on April 6th. </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/49713545181/in/dateposted/\"><img src=\"https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49713545181_593908eac4_c.jpg\" alt=\"9200397_BibliographicResource_3000126261868\" /></a><br /><em>Miniature of Richard I. Public domain. <a href=\"https://www.europeana.eu/nl/item/9200397/BibliographicResource_3000126261868\">Original with the British Library</a>.</em></p>\n<p>(<strong>*</strong> I show an openly licensed image with (almost) each Week Notes posting, to showcase more open cultural material. See here <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/the-openly-licensed-images-of-2020s-week-notes/\">why, and how I choose the images for 2020</a>.)</p>\n<br />This is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.<br /><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/09/joining-rss-club-as-an-experiment/\">Read more about RSS Club</a>",
"text": "This second week of lock-down worked out better than the previous one I felt. Mostly because I started working earlier, 6am each day, allowing me to start with a few hours of focused time. And also because I cut down on the number and length of conference calls, as last week while everyone was finding their bearings it felt like the only thing I did was conference calls. For the coming week we\u2019ll need to work on balancing our respective working times, as well as carving out a bit of personal time.\nThis week I\nSpent most of three days preparing and doing two online focus groups for our study for the implementation of the revised EU PSI Directive, which will have list of mandatory datasets to publish for all EU Member States. I\u2019m leading the effort to create that list for the themes of Earth Observation / Environmental data, and Meteorological data.\nHad a discussion about the IACS data for the EU\u2019s common agricultural policy, also w.r.t. the PSI Directive\nPlanned next steps for the implementation of an open data platform for a province, looking at potential data sets for various policy areas\nHad a breakfast meeting with my partners at The Green Land, discussing /assessing the coming months\nLanded a new project that extends our company\u2019s horizon to nearly October\nWorked on monitoring / indicators and the consequences for data gathering and data driven decision making\nHad an informal all hands hang-out to close the working week with the company. Also with Y had video calls with my sisters, and we did a virtual coffee round with all of E\u2019s family over coffee, where all arranged for cake on their end.\nThis week in\u2026..1199*\nKing Richard I Lionheart was wounded in France this week in 1199, leading to his death on April 6th. \n\nMiniature of Richard I. Public domain. Original with the British Library.\n(* I show an openly licensed image with (almost) each Week Notes posting, to showcase more open cultural material. See here why, and how I choose the images for 2020.)\n\nThis is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.\nRead more about RSS Club"
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Desmond Rivet
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