Planning
Welcome to the planning page for future IndieWebCamps!
The IndieWebCamp community is planning numerous upcoming events, including future IndieWebCamps, regular Homebrew Website Club meetups, talks, and other proposals — if you'd like to help, please contribute to this page.
See each individual IndieWebCamp's home page (typically /Year/City ) for planning specific to that camp.
Want to learn what it takes to plan and organize an IndieWebCamp? See:
Contents
- 1 Planned
- 2 Save Dates
- 3 Planning
- 4 Potential Cities
- 5 Help Out
- 6 Organize
- 7 Past Planning Notes
- 8 See Also
Planned
The following IndieWebCamps are planned! Go sign up!
- September 28: IndieWebCamp Oxford 2019
Save Dates
The following IndieWebCamps have a confirmed date and venue, start planning travel!
- September 28-29: #Amsterdam
- organized by
Ton Zijlstra and likely
Frank Meeuwsen
- organized by
- October 19-20: #Brighton at Clearleft
- organized by
Jeremy Keith,
Tantek Çelik
- organized by
- ...
The following IndieWebCamps have a particular proposed date, save the dates in your calendar and start looking into travel plans:
- Nov 9-10: #Berlin2 likely at Mozilla Berlin,
- organized by
Tantek Çelik, Yulia Startsev - add your preferences to #Berlin2 for which date(s) work(s) (better) for you!
- organized by
- ...
Planning
The following IndieWebCamps are currently being planned and need help figuring out a date - help co-organize!
Clustered first by co-organizers that are regularly active in the community (e.g. in IRC), and then ordered roughly by known date if any, then expected/likely dates (in order to see what else there may be planned nearby or elsewhere)
2019
Let's plan more 2019 IndieWebCamps!
If you live in one of the cities / states / countries below and are interested, add your name!
If you know of a suitable venue for hosting, add that as a possibility.
If you have a particular month of the year to recommend, add that!
Please offer your opinion/preference with a nested list item and +1/0/-1 signed!
General planning date notes:
- December is tough due to holidays and lots of other events. Exception: a one day IWC e.g. 2015/SF.
- November first half is the likely last chance to plan an IWC for the year.
Sorted roughly by how "real" a particular potential IWC is looking for a city based on a few fuzzy criteria:
- likely/confirmed co-organizers (2+ required, preferably at least 1 experienced successful organizer, preferably 3-4 total)
- likely/confirmed venue
- likely/confirmed dates
Nearby 2019 Events
To keep in mind while planning
- 2019-11-28 Thanksgiving in USA
- 2019-11-29 Black Friday in USA
- 2019-12-09…11 An Event Apart San Francisco
- 2019-12-25 Christmas Day
- ...
Oxford
Is planned and open for sign-ups! See:
Brighton
Is planned! See:
Amsterdam
Organizers:
-
Ton Zijlstra -
Tantek Çelik can help with wiki pages, facilitating overall organizing needs - would like 1-2 more
Confirmed Dates:
- 2019-09-28…29 Saturday & Sunday
Venue:
- Likely at CODAM, on the Navy Yard near Central station. Venue is available and reserved, but will inspect it for suitability end of July.
- currently looking for potential venues, please reach out to your AMS contacts if you can
- fall back option is
Ton Zijlstra's office in Utrecht (30 mins from Amsterdam Central Station) (3 rooms reserved for the weekend as option), or
Frank Meeuwsen's office also in Utrecht
Interested in Organizing:
-
Peter Molnar (though it probably needs an actual local to organise as well) -
Ton Zijlstra (but we'll do IWC Utrecht in May first, see how that goes, then AMS as potential next installment) -
Frank Meeuwsen (Same feeling about IWC Utrecht. Let's see how that goes) -
Jeremy Keith (I'll be in town for View Source—happy to help any way I can) -
Tantek Çelik (can help with wiki and some outreach)
Interested in Attending:
-
Tantek Çelik -
Peter Molnar -
Rosemary Orchard -
Jeremy Cherfas -
Hans Gerwitz -
Sebastiaan Andeweg -
Johan Bové - ...
- Aaron Parecki will also be in town, like
Jeremy Keith for View Source
NYC
Possible Dates: please add yourself with a +1 -1 or 0
- September
- 14-15th
- +1
Eddie Hinkle - -1
Tantek Çelik - conflicts with W3C TPAC - +1
Marty McGuire - +1
David Shanske - +1
Nicole Shadowen - +1
Dmitri Shuralyov
- +1
- 21-22nd
- +1
Eddie Hinkle - +0
Tantek Çelik - likely too close to W3C TPAC to make it, may be remotely possible - +0
Greg McVerry - +1
Marty McGuire - +1
David Shanske - +1
Dmitri Shuralyov
- +1
- 14-15th
- October
- 5-6th
- +1
Tantek Çelik - +1
Marty McGuire - +0
Eddie Hinkle - +0
David Shanske Neutral on this one but likely available - +1
Dmitri Shuralyov - +0
Nicole Shadowen will be in NYC but unavailable Saturday afternoon Oct 5-6.
- +1
- 5-6th
- November
- 2nd-3rd
- +1
Tantek Çelik - +0
Marty McGuire possibly will be in Pittsburgh - -1
Eddie Hinkle family conflicts - +1
Dmitri Shuralyov
- +1
- 9-10th
- +0
Tantek Çelik trying to organize #Berlin2 this weekend, but could defer to NYC if it's the only date that works. - -1
Marty McGuire (conflict w/ AcadeCon in Dayton, OH) - -1
Eddie Hinkle family conflicts - +1
Nicole Shadowen - +1
Dmitri Shuralyov
- +0
- 2nd-3rd
(Co-)organizers:
-
Marty McGuire -
David Shanske- Volunteering to be one - ...
- Previously:
David Shanske,
Marty McGuire,
Greg McVerry,
Tantek Çelik
Interested in participating!
-
Rosemary Orchard -
Dmitri Shuralyov -
Tantek Çelik -
Marty McGuire -
gRegor Morrill (maybe!) - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Venue Planning
- Had made contact at Parson School of Design
- No response from event coordinator
- Pace University
- Reaching out again
Proposed Month: (late) August? (early to mid) September?
Nearby events:
- 2019-09-05…08 XOXO Festival 2019 in Portland, OR
- 2019-09-16…20 W3C TPAC 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan
- 2019-09-28…29 tentative IWC #Amsterdam
- 2019-09-30 View Source conference in Amsterdam
- 2019-10-03…04 Fronteers conference in Amsterdam
- ...
Berlin2
Venue: likely Mozilla Berlin
Organizers:
-
Tantek Çelik - likely - Yulia Startsev
- ...
Best date so far:
- 2019-11-09…10
Adjacent:
- 2019-11-08 ffconf in Brighton
- likely EasyJet flights from LGW (30 min train from Brighton) to Berlin afterwards
- 2019-11-13…15 Beyond Tellerand Berlin 2019
Possible dates:
- 2019-11-02…03 Saturday & Sunday way before btBerlin
- +1
Rosemary Orchard (1st is a holiday in most of Europe) - -1
Tantek Çelik no longer doable - +1
Martin Hartl - +1
Frank Meeuwsen - +0
Ton Zijlstra may have to speak at DojoCon NL then, which is tentatively planned for one of the same 2 weekends - ... add your opinion
- +1
- 2019-11-09…10 Saturday & Sunday before btBerlin
- +0
Rosemary Orchard (also fine, just can't come as early on the Friday) - +1
Tantek Çelik also doable, right before Beyond Tellerand, makes more sense - +1
Frank Meeuwsen - +0
Ton Zijlstra may have to speak at DojoCon NL then, which is tentatively planned for one of the same 2 weekends - ... add your opinion
- +0
- 2019-11-16…17 Saturday & Sunday after btBerlin
- -1
Tantek Çelik Can't make it, racing The North Face Endurance Challenge California 50k on the 16th! - ... add your opinion
- -1
Denver
Venue:
- @thinkstudio at UC Denver (who is proposing this?)
- ...
Organizers
Interested in co-organizing
- name.com folks expressed interest at Summit 2019
-
Tantek Çelik is interested in helping facilitate organizing - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in Attending
-
Tantek Çelik - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible Dates
- Add a + or -
- Template:insert date
San Francisco
Venue: Maybe Mozilla SF, would consider other venues, especially for size
IndieWebCamp SF!
Can help co-organize:
-
Tantek Çelik - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
-
David Shanske - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Then add possible months/dates and your +1/0/-1 and name to the possible dates:
Possible months:
- ...
Possible dates:
- 2019-08-24…25 Saturday & Sunday
- +1
Rosemary Orchard - -1
Tantek Çelik - currently planning to run a 50k on 2019-08-24
- +1
- other dates?
Nearby events:
- ...
Accra
Venue:
- Madina Institute of Science and Technology
Organizers:
- Sadik
Greg McVerry- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested:
Neil Mather- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible Date
- November
- 2-3
- 9-10
- 16-17
December
- 7-8
- +1
Neil Mather
- +1
- 14-15
- +1
Neil Mather
- +1
- 7-8
- If these dates do not work we will look at 2020
- +1
Neil Mather
- +1
Los Angeles
IndieWebCamp LA!
Venue
-
Chris Aldrich is looking into UCLA - Yahoo! has previously expressed interest in hosting on their campus in West LA/Culver City
- DreamHost may be interested in hosting. Ask
Jonathan LaCour.
Who is interested in helping co-organize?
-
Chris Aldrich can help co-organize. Let's do this! -
Jonathan LaCour can help co-organize. - Srikanth Bangalore (at Oath/Yahoo)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating:
-
Tantek Çelik - happy to also volunteer to help out organizers -
gRegor Morrill -
Jonathan LaCour - Scott Gruber
-
David Shanske - Would like to go to Disneyland/California Adventure for a day as have never been. -
🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮 - interested but would need significant lead time to plan/fund travel -
Jacky Alciné - down to volunteer - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible dates:
- 2019-MM-DD..DD+1
- -1/0/+1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Nearby events:
- ???
Previously: 2016/LA
MIT
Venue: likely can get W3C to host at MIT
Can help co-organize:
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
-
Tantek Çelik -
Ben Roberts -
Chris Aldrich -
David Shanske -
Patrick M. Niedzielski - cwebber (via #social IRC 2017-09-26)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible/preferred months: September?
Possible dates?
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Previously: 2016/MIT
New Locations
Sorted roughly by number and availability of co-organizers, then dates.
San Diego
The First Ever IndieWebCamp San Diego!
Venue: ???
Organized by:
-
gRegor Morrill - this is a big maybe.
Tantek Çelik voluntold this :) - ...
Can help co-organize:
-
Tantek Çelik - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
-
Tantek Çelik - ...
Possible dates:
- ...
Other events:
- ...
Seattle
IWC:Sea
Venue: ???
Co-organized by:
Can help co-organize:
-
dougbeal - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
-
gRegor Morrill -
Tantek Çelik -
dougbeal -
Chris Aldrich - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible dates:
- Adjacent to SeaGL maybe? When are the dates this year?
- ...
Other events:
- ...
Washington DC
IndieWebCamp DC (would be the first!)
Dates: TBD
Venue: TBD
Can help co-organize:
-
Eddie Hinkle - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Previous people that offered to co-organize:
-
Jeremy Zilar (has co-organized IWC 2014/NYC and IWC 2014 in NYC)
-
Jason Garber can help co-organize this.
Interested in participating!
-
David Shanske - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Related nearby conferences:
- ...
Possible venues?
- School of Advanced International Studies (suggested in the past by
Chris Aldrich, will need to determine if this is still an option. -
Greg McVerry has some connections with potential venues
Possible dates:
- Sept 7-8
- Sept 14-15
- Sept 21-22
- Sept 28-29
- Oct 5-6
- Oct 12-13
Florida
IndieWebCamp Florida!
Venue: ???
Can help co-organize:
- Michael Bishop Tampa resident, willing to help plan a Central FL IWC if someone in Orlando area could help secure location.
- Daniel Moch Orlando resident, can start scouting locations as soon as there's consensus on a date.
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
- Hector Iribarne
- southeast Florida[1]
- David Shanske
- Miami - {gwg} would be interested in attending as interest was expressed.
-
Tantek Çelik definitely interested in returning to Orlando -
Tyler Gillies I go annually to Orlando [January], would be cool to have one there. - David G. Johnson I live in Southwest Florida (Sarasota) but Tampa, Orlando or Miami are within easy driving distance. Planning to be in Miami in late Feb for WordCamp.
-
Shane Becker I'm interested in a Florida IWC, especially one where I can swim in the ocean or gulf easily. - ...
Possible dates:
- Adjacent to Orlando WordCamp maybe? https://orlando.wordcamp.org/
- ... suggest more dates! (Possibly in conjunction with Orlando WordCamp )
Providence
Venue: ??? I have connections at URI
Can help co-organize:
-
Ben Roberts -
Greg McVerry - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
-
Tantek Çelik - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
IndieWeb meetup Interested
-
Jason McIntosh
Greg McVerry- Dave Quin @eduquinn
Malmö
Venue: ???
Can help co-organize:
-
Pelle Wessman: can help settings things up with local venues and help from local conference/meetup organizers -
Martijn van der Ven: currently Sweden-based and would love to assist - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating:
- Sven Knebel is interested in attending
-
Rosemary Orchard is interested in attending too - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Maybe align with a different event? Malmöfestivalen / The Conference?
Needs interested participants and possible dates! Would also be helpful with some additional core contributors attending, to ensure enough content at event.
Would be great to set a date 4-6 months in advance, to ensure time to plan a proper event.
Barcelona
Venue: Makers of Barcelona
Organized by:
Mark Hendrickson
Interested in participating:
-
Sebastiaan Andeweg: would be nice! -
Neil Mather -
Rosemary Orchard - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible dates: ?
Toronto
Venue: ???
Organized by: ???
Interested in participating:
-
David Shanske (per mention in IRC 2018-07-03) -
Tantek Çelik - Mozilla Toronto is a possible venue -
Myles Braithwaite - ...
Vienna
Venue: Possibly TU Wien
Organized by:
Rosemary Orchard
Interested in participating:
-
Jeremy Cherfas -
Ton Zijlstra - Sven Knebel
-
Marty McGuire - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible dates: August 16/17 2019 (Fr-Sa)
More Locations
More new possibilities:
- Chicago
- +1
Tantek Çelik - +1
zaksharp - +1
David Shanske
- +1
- Sweden
- Australia
- Central/South America
- Spain/France
Past locations:
Edinburgh
IndieWebCamp Edinburgh
Venue: ???
Can help co-organize:
-
Harry Reeder,
James Baster, and
kongaloosh (volunteered by Amy Guy)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
-
Tantek Çelik - Sven Knebel
- Template:mapkyca
- ⋉Fran
-
Rosemary Orchard -
Jamie Tanna - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Previously: 2015/Edinburgh
Manchester, UK
IndieWebCamp Manchester
Venue: The Shed? (Part of MMU) Can help co-organize:
- Ian Forrester - can help with location/on the ground
-
Rosemary Orchard - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
-
Neil Mather -
Jamie Tanna - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
2020
Summit
Planning dates and venue for IndieWebSummit 2020 in Portland!
10th IndieWebSummit!
Venue confirmed:
- Mozilla PDX (booked for 2020-06-27…28, and small room for 2020-06-26 Friday Organizers Summit)
- ...
Dates (2020 June), considered (Th)FSa and (F)SaSu variants, (parens) for Organizers / pre-party / social
- 2020-06-27…28 Saturday & Sunday confirmed & announced 2019-06-30 at IndieWeb Summit closing session.
- +1
Tantek Çelik can also make it to Organizers Summit on 2020-06-26 Friday or 2020-06-29 Monday. - +1
Aaron Parecki - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
- +1
- ...
Adjacent events (avoid conflicts)
- 2020-06-08…12 Identiverse.com in Denver, Colorado
- 2020-06-15…20 Mozilla All Hands in Toronto
- 2020-06-27…28 The current dates for IWS 2020 conflict with Pride in Seattle, and San Francisco
- ...
11th IndieWebSummit! Venue possibilities
- Mozilla PDX
Dates (2021 June), (F)SaSu, (parens) for Organizers / pre-party / social
- 2021-06-19…20 Saturday & Sunday
- +1
Tantek Çelik can also make it to an Organizers Summit on 2021-06-18 Friday or 2021-06-21 Monday. Requires finalizing lots of details by 2021-06-04 Friday before Mozilla All Hands in Vancouver and would likely travel direct from Vancouver to Portland sometimes 2021-06-12…15. - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
- +1
- 2021-06-26…27 Saturday & Sunday
- +0
Tantek Çelik can also make it to an Organizers Summit on 2021-06-25 Friday or 2021-06-28 Monday. Would prefer earlier date if we can do so to avoid conflicting with Pride this year. - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
- +0
Adjacent events (avoid conflicts)
- 2021-06-07…12 Mozilla All Hands in Vancouver
- 2021-06-14…18 Identiverse.com (unknown city, check their FAQ When is the next…)
- 2021-06-26…27 Pride weekend in several cities "last weekend of June to cap off the month and to coincide with the anniversary of the Stonewall riots" per fluffy. Likely Seattle and San Francisco (extrapolating from past years)
- ...
Berlin
- placeholder for IWC Berlin 2020!
Dusseldorf
- placeholder for IWC Düsseldorf 2020!
Utrecht
- placeholder for IWC Utrecht 2020!
Brighton
- 2019/Brighton is planned! Please help expand it like 2019/Berlin!
This is a placeholder for IWC Brighton 2020 planning or brainstorming:
Venue: 68 Middle st. is a good start
Can help co-organize:
-
Jeremy Keith -
Tantek Çelik -
Calum Ryan - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible/preferred months: October?
Possible dates:
- 2020-??-??…??-?? (usually a Saturday & Sunday)
- +1/0/-1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Nearby events: (or adjacent in time for planning purposes)
- 2020-?? possibly MozFest?
- ...
Interested in participating!
-
Tantek Çelik - ...
Previously: 2019/Brighton
Potential Cities
The following are twinkles in co-organizer's eyes - help find a venue and/or narrow to a date range!
- Seattle - would be great to host something like this in 2019, maybe co-sponsor with co-working space/venue
-
gRegor Morrill +1 interested [was interested in 2017] - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
-
- ...
Other possible cities - no specific plans or dates - just expressions of interest (which is fine too!). Feel free to add your city and sign it, indicating how you can help make it happen.
- Amsterdam (possible Schiphol Airport?)
-
Sebastiaan Andeweg likes this -
Martijn van der Ven interested in attending, but no longer permanently in NL - Sven Knebel is interested in attending
-
Rosemary Orchard could probably get there just as easily as anywhere else in NL - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
-
- London (Ontario, Canada)
-
James Shelley is interested (and looking for collaborators)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
-
- Vienna
-
Rosemary Orchard - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
-
- Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Large urban metroplex, tons of potential venues
-
🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮 (Fort Worth, can do some facilitating locally) - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
- ...
Help Out
Want to help out with one of those? Say something in IRC and add yourself to the page.
David Shanske is willing to help out with an Indiewebcamp, providing support and planning to the extent possible. This would include some volunteering. Depends on what is needed and when and is willing to try to work with anyone who needs help in the Northeastern United States, and possibly farther afield if sufficient notice.
Organize
Want to organize a 2019 IndieWebCamp in your town and don't see it above?
Start with:
- Find at least one committed co-organizer. This is the most important step.
- Add a link above to [[2019/YourCity]]
- Click it and create the new page, and continue with the steps listed in:
Homebrew Website Club
Having trouble finding a co-organizer for your city or unsure how to organize an IndieWebCamp by yourself?
Start a Homebrew Website Club chapter in your city to gather interested individuals and gauge interest in a full weekend IndieWebCamp!
FAQ
Creator camp not a hackathon
Q: Is IndieWebCamp a hackathon?
A: IndieWebCamps are creator camps focused on helping everyone develop, grow, and advance their personal indieweb presence.
The term "hackathon" has become to mean some sort of short term event where a group of people come up with a typically new project to develop just for the sake of the hackathon, often in a competitive environment, and often for prizes donated by one or more sponsors.
IndieWebCamp resembles that only in the aspect of group collaboration.
- IndieWebCamp encourages you to work on and improve your existing personal site, not just a new site (unless you need a new site!)
- IndieWebCamp encourages you to work on your personal site in a way that encourages longevity and your personal use beyond the camp itself.
- IndieWebCamp focuses on collaboration instead of competition. There are all sorts of different experts at IndieWebCamp and we do our best to both ask questions of each other and help each other!
- The prize(s) you win at IndieWebCamp are your own improved personal website, hopefully with new features you can then use day-to-day after the camp has completed!
As we do "hack" on stuff (our own websites), IndieWebCamps do have a "hack day" component of it, but certainly not "hackathon" in the commonly understood "corporate hackathon" sense.
Past Planning Notes
Past planning notes can be found on each event's planning page, e.g.
To archive planning notes from this page:
- Add the event to IndieWebCamps if it isn't there already
- Add the event sub-page "Planning" if it doesn't exist yet, e.g. 2017/Planning
- Add a section
== Initial Planning ==to the event's Planning page - Add a note in the new section "This is an archive of the initial planning for [event name], originally found here."
- Link the text "originally found here" to the latest, specific revision of this page where the notes last appeared.
- Copy/paste the latest planning notes from this page
- Remove the now-archived planning notes from this page.
Vlissingen
Vlissingen, The Netherlands, January 2019 (organiser Sebastian Lasse)
Interested in Attending
-
Sebastiaan Andeweg -
Robert van Bregt
-
Rosemary Orchard - Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
See Also
| IndieWebCamps | |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Austin • Online • New Haven • Berlin • Düsseldorf • Utrecht • 9th annual IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • Oxford • Brighton • More being planned! |
| 2018 | Baltimore • Düsseldorf • 8th annual IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • SF • Oxford • NYC • Nürnberg • Berlin |
| 2017 | Bellingham • Düsseldorf • Nürnberg • 7th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • Dortmund • Istanbul • NYC • Berlin • Austin |
| 2016 | NYC • MIT • Nürnberg • Düsseldorf • 6th annual IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • NYC2 • Brighton • LA • Berlin • MIT2 |
| 2015 | Cambridge MA • Germany • 5th annual in Portland & Brighton • Edinburgh • MIT • SF |
| 2014 | SF • NYC • Portland/NYC/Berlin • UK • Cambridge MA • Online |
| 2013 | Portland • UK • Hollywood |
| 2012 | Portland • UK |
| 2011 | Portland |












