Also, here’s the standard interview questions we talk over:
General Section
- Introduce yourself
- How did you discover the IndieWeb?
- What does being part of the IndieWeb mean to you?
- What (if any?) IndieWebCamp events have you attended, and were there any that stuck out to you in a special way?
- Is there anything new or any changes you hope to see in the IndieWeb community over the next year?
Tech Section
- What service or software powers your website?
- What is something you’ve added or built on your website recently that you are particularly happy with?
- Have you run into any challenges or problems recently that you’d like help with from the IndieWeb community?
- What is the next thing you’d like to do with your website?
For example, Boston is possibly starting an IndieWeb Meetup (https://twitter.com/Dries/status/1049071136791826437) and some virtual IndieWeb meetups (https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1049785385482641409)
Currently, existing meetups will continue to be called HWC as to not confuse previous attendees. New meetups have the option to call themselves IndieWeb meetup or HWC. Either way it gets included in the events calendar (https://indieweb.org/events/2018-10-10-homebrew-website-club#Vancouver) Notice the only reason Vancouver is linked to another page here is because it’s meeting on a Tuesday rather than Wednesday which is the usual. Both IndieWeb meetups and HWC will be included in the weekly newsletter, and the routine podcasts (This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition and My Url Is). I don’t foresee any visitors being confused by it being called an IndieWeb meetup, in fact, I think you might have more visitors because people who are familiar with IndieWeb but NOT the HWC name will still be interested in attending.
Sounds like a great time! Glad you all had fun! Also, don’t feel pressure to rename it to Homebrew Website Club. At the last Organizers Meetup, IndieWeb Meetup was actually discussed as a likely possible rebranding of HWC, so you all might just be ahead of the curve! When I relaunch my local meetup, I’ll be calling it IndieWeb Meetup as well!
I learned a lot helping organize IndieWebCamp Austin last year. We’re doing it again in early 2019. Planning is underway now with possible dates on the wiki.
“IndieWeb Meetup” is a fine name!
Took the liberty of making a wiki page based on your tweet:
https://indieweb.org/events/2018-10-09-indieweb-meetup
Feel free to edit, or reply with updates!
Also made it into this week’s newsletter:
https://indieweb.org/this-week/2018-10-05.html
Super excited!! 🎉🎉 This is something I’ve actually been thinking about since July and it just took some time to plan, get the equipment and the tech workflows and decide to actually do it! And this first episode with @aaronpk was actually recorded almost two months ago as a test episode. It’s just been sitting around waiting to be released once I had a great list of guests to go after him
Thanks! I’m pretty excited about it. Huge props to @macgenie and [@manton](undefined) for Micro Monday which is the inspiration for this podcast. My hope and goal is to be able to provide another perspective on the IndieWeb people you’ve heard of and be able to highlight those you haven’t 🙂
Thanks! I definitely am excited about having more IndieWeb podcasts. The component that I thought was important was to make sure we had a variety of “types” of IndieWeb podcasts. There’s already a microcast @aaronpk, newscast @schmarty, long tech podcast @dshanske and @c so hopefully a guest podcast will help add to the variety and help create more opportunity for new voices in the IndieWeb community 🙂
Hey, internets! We’re having an #indieweb Virtual Homebrew Website Club (video hangout) October 17 at 6:30pm Pacific. Build your personal site, take control of your online identity, data, and friendships! More details:
https://gregorlove.com/2018/10/virtual-homebrew-website-club/
Infovore » Pouring one out for the Boxmakers
This is a rather beautiful piece of writing by Tom (especially the William Gibson bit at the end). This got me right in the feels:
Web 2.0 really, truly, is over. The public APIs, feeds to be consumed in a platform of your choice, services that had value beyond their own walls, mashups that merged content and services into new things… have all been replaced with heavyweight websites to ensure a consistent, single experience, no out-of-context content, and maximising the views of advertising. That’s it: back to single-serving websites for single-serving use cases.
A shame. A thing I had always loved about the internet was its juxtapositions, the way it supported so many use-cases all at once. At its heart, a fundamental one: it was a medium which you could both read and write to. From that flow others: it’s not only work and play that coexisted on it, but the real and the fictional; the useful and the useless; the human and the machine.
Let’s see if it works (with this post).
