events/2018-05-30-homebrew-website-club
Details
Join us for an evening of IndieWeb personal site demos and discussions!
Any questions? Ask in the chatroom! More…
When
from -: IndieWeb meetup!
• optional quiet writing hour for the venues that explicitly have it.
All times are local, unless otherwise noted in venues.
Where
Earlier events (absolute timeline) listed first.
Capo d'Orlando
🏖️ Plaza Café, Piazza Matteotti, Capo d'Orlando, IT
- 13:30 - 15:30 (GMT+2)
An experiment by London HWC alumnus andrea rota, trying to set up a pop-up HWC while abroad.
Just show up, and feel free to RSVP by adding yourself below:
andrea rota
- wallflower
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Nürnberg
🏰 tollwerkstatt, Klingenhofstraße 5, Nürnberg, DE
- 18:00 - 20:00 (GMT+2)
Just show up, and feel free to RSVP by adding yourself below:
Joschi Kuphal- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Virtual European Time
🇪🇺 Virtual HWC for site builders who either can’t make a regular in-person meeting or don’t yet have critical mass to host one in their area. Everyone of all levels is welcome to participate remotely! Hosted on the Mumble server.
Virtual on CET.
The times below were set to accommodate people in BST, who often had to miss out because Virtual was happening too late. Would you like us to your timezone (or work hours) as well? Please reach out to 
Martijn van der Ven (Zegnat) in chat with your thoughts!
- 18:30–19:30 CEST (16:30–17:30 UTC, 9:30–10:30 PDT): Ask for help, write code, or just talk.
- 19:30–20:30 CEST (17:30–18:30 UTC, 10:30–11:30 PDT): Topics, IndieWeb news, demos, and/or continuation of previous discussions.
Just show up, and feel free to RSVP by adding yourself below:
- Martijn van der Ven
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Brighton
🎪 Clearleft, 68 Middle Street, BN1 1AL, Brighton, England
- 18:00 - 19:30 BST
Just show up, and feel free to RSVP by adding yourself below:
Jeremy Keith- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Virtual Americas
Virtual HWC for site builders who either can’t make a regular in-person meeting or don’t yet have critical mass to host one in their area. Everyone of all levels is welcome to participate remotely! Hosted on Google Hangouts.
Virtual on Eastern Time. We will be using Google Hangouts; a link to the hangout will be posted here closer to the date.
- Hangouts URL - https://hangouts.google.com/call/BhV4--ta9reAJ9yAC-I8AAEE
- 19:30–20:30 EDT (00:30–1:30 UTC, 16:30–17:30 PDT): Quiet Writing hours: Ask for help, write code, or just talk.
- 20:30–22:00 EDT (1:30–3:00 UTC, 17:30–19:00 PDT): Demos, followed by talking through recent IndieWeb news.
Just show up, and feel free to RSVP by adding yourself below, to the Indie event or both:
Chris Aldrich
dougbeal- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Baltimore
🦀 Baltimore meets on Tuesday this week!
San Francisco
🌁 Mozilla San Francisco, 2 Harrison St. (at Embarcadero), 1st floor open area, San Francisco, CA
- Quiet writing hour at 17:30 for those interested.
Just show up, and feel free to RSVP by adding yourself below, to the Facebook event, posting an indie RSVP reply to the indie event, or all the above!
Tantek Çelik- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
What
This week's topics:
- Drupal 8: IndieWeb Module got a lot more IndieWeb support including microsub, IndieAuth, Webmention sending, and moderation of received Webmentions!
- Mastodon 2.4.0 added support for rel-me
- IndieWeb Summit 2018 at 30+ sign-ups including new keynotes!
- What does the "decentralized web" or "distributed web" or just #dweb mean to you?
- ...
Suggest more topics for discussion at Homebrew Website Club Meetups this week. For example, difficult and/or open ended questions that come up in discussion.
In general:
Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends who want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...
- Finish that blog post you’ve been writing, contribute to the indieweb wiki!
- Demos of recent IndieWeb breakthroughs, share what you've gotten working!
See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.
Notes
vHWC
- reader developments
- why are readers interesting right now for us?
- used a lot
- increasing issues with using silos through traditional readers
- more control over bookmarks, archiving
- likes as bookmarks on Twitter, various other meanings of likes (triggered by https://jgregorymcverry.com/2954-2/, see https://petermolnar.net/making-things-private/ and https://seblog.nl/2017/10/09/9/bookmarks-and-likes too)
- why are readers interesting right now for us?
- archiving
- what to archive (reader inputs, bookmarks, ...)
- storage formats
- https://0a.fi/backups/backing-youtube-playlist/
- difficulties of owning IP space
- site structure & posting interfaces
- https://svbtle.com/about
- Facebooks mobile interface for "life-logging" like posts
- MP very blogg-y, limited by perceived need for extensions
- ikiwiki as example where blog is a secondary format, pages in general free form
- less timeline-centric means page-history becomes more important (wikis)
Blog posts
- ...
Photos
San Francisco Photos
Virtual Photos
