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What is the IndieWeb?

The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the ‘corporate web’.

	Your content is yours When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.
	You are better connected Your articles and status messages can go to all services, not just one, allowing you to engage with everyone. Even replies and likes on other services can come back to your site so they’re all in one place.
	You are in control You can post anything you want, in any format you want, with no one monitoring you. In addition, you share simple readable links such as example.com/ideas. These links are permanent and will always work.

Join the IndieWeb

• Interested? Get Started Now!
• View current discussions and recent changes to this site to see what we've been working on lately
• Check out projects we're building and join the discussion

Beyond Blogging and Decentralization

The IndieWeb effort is different from previous efforts/communities:

• Principles over project-centrism. Others assume a monoculture of one project for all. We are developing a plurality of projects.
• Selfdogfood instead of email. Show before tell. Prioritize by scratching your own itches, creating, iterating on your own site.
• Design first, protocols & formats second. Focus on good UX & selfdogfood prototypes to create minimum necessary formats & protocols.

Perhaps most importantly, we are people-focused instead of project-focused, and have regular meetups where everyone is welcome:

Homebrew Website Club

Homebrew Website Club is a (bi)weekly meetup of creatives passionate about designing, improving, building, and actively using their own websites, sharing their successes and challenges with a like-minded and supportive community. We have adopted a similar structure as the classic Homebrew Computer Club meetings. [1]

We typically meet every other Wednesday* right after work, 18:30-19:30, across cities and online. Some locations also have a 17:30-18:30 Quiet Writing Hour beforehand. Edinburgh is meeting every week, and some cities meet on Tuesdays!

The next Homebrew Website Club meetups are:

IndieWebCamp

Indie Web Camp 2015 SF by Aaron Parecki

IndieWebCamp is a gathering of web creators building & sharing open web technologies to advance the state of the indie web. We get together for a weekend to discuss how we can empower people to own their identities and data, then spend a day hacking & creating.

See Previous IndieWebCamps, most recently IndieWebCamp SF, IndieWebCamp Edinburgh, the 2015 Annual IndieWebCamp in Portland and Brighton, Düsseldorf Germany, and Cambridge MA.

IndieWebCamp has a code-of-conduct.

Upcoming IndieWebCamps

The next IndieWebCamps are:

More IndieWebCamps

• 2016-08-27..28 IndieWebCamp NYC2 (New York City, New York)
• 2016-11-04..06 IndieWebCamp Los Angeles

We are planning many IndieWebCamps in 2016!

Jump on in and help organize and/or suggest dates & locations for more!

• IndieWebCamp Planning!

More Events

• More upcoming IndieWeb events

Past Events

Indie Web Camp UK 2014 by Tom Morris	Indie Web Camp 2014 West by aaronpk	Indie Web Camp 2014 East by Jeremy Zillar
Indie Web Camp 2014 Farther East by @brennannovak	Indie Web Camp SF 2014 by @aaronpk	Indie Web Camp UK 2013 by aaronpk
Indie Web Camp 2013 by aaronpk	Indie Web Camp 2012 by aaronpk	Indie Web Camp 2011 by @aaronpk

How can I join the IndieWeb?

• Join the IRC Channel and say hello! We're friendly. :)
• Get Started: set up your own domain and personal site.
• Come to events! Homebrew Website Club & IndieWebCamps
• What next? See how your site does on:
  • http://indiewebify.me/
  • IndieMark - see what level you can get your site up to

How to support the IndieWeb:

• Add buttons and badges to show your support on your website
• Help with to-do next steps for IndieWebCamps and this wiki
• Sponsor an IndieWebCamp with a venue, food, or donation.

Translations

You may read and edit IndieWebCamp articles in other languages:

• Català (Catalan)
• Deutsch (German) (so far only principles-de)
• Español (Spanish)
• Français (French)
• 한국어 (Korean)
• See also other-languages, and how-to-start-a-new-translation.

More Information

• Read posts about the IndieWeb
• Watch videos about the IndieWeb
• Follow news about the IndieWeb
• Check out Live Videos of Previous IndieWebCamps through the Google+ silo