The very first IndieWebCamp in New York City - one of many IndieWeb events.
Own your data.
Rather than posting content on third-party silos of content, we should all own the content we're creating. Publish on your own domain, and syndicate out to silos.
Join us at The New York Times building in New York City for two days of a BarCamp-style gathering of web creators building and sharing open web technologies to empower users to own their own identities & content, and advance the state of the indie web.
When: through at
Where: The New York Times, 620 8th Ave (corner of 40th Street & 8th Ave), New York City, NY, US, .
Directions: Just about every MTA subway train goes to Times Square. The Times Building is at the corner of 8th Ave & 40th St. When you get to the Times Building:
Ring a doorbell at the outside, security should let you into the lobby
Go to the security desk near the atrium (look for the trees).
The security guards have the list of people who have RSVP'd.
RSVP
Guest List - click and add yourself (and optionally an apprentice)
09:00 Organizer setup
09:30 Doors open - badges
10:00 Introductions and demos
11:00 Sessions
13:00 Lunch out
14:00 Sessions
17:00 Group photo
17:15 Last session
18:00 End of sessions for day 1
09:00 Organizer setup
09:30 Doors open - badges
10:00 Day 2 kick-off
11:00 Hack sessions
13:00 Lunch out
14:00 Hack sessions continue
16:30 Demos
17:30 Clean-up
18:00 Camp closed!
Day 1 is about discussing in a BarCamp-like environment. Bring a topic you'd like to discuss or join in on topics as they are added to the board.
Day 2 is about implementing what we discussed. Work with others or on your own. We'll have demos at the end of the day to see what everyone worked on!
Paul Ford demonstrated setting up rel-me on an android, then editing the wiki on same android to add himself to the Guest_List!
Bear showed the work he has done to get his webmention post daemon to insert incoming mentions into the generated html files
Tantek demoed his home-page contact buttons that allow anyone to reach him using only the html on his own site. (needs to be expanded, this is from memory)
Jeremy Zilar showed that his website is now handling inbound webmentions, that his short form posts are being POSSE'd to twitter.
Chloe Weil demoed a project she has been working on to extract all the personal metadata out of iTunes and into a database that she can manipulate.
When this seems pretty comprehensive, move it to Demos.
Sponsors
Our thanks to these sponsors for supporting the event.
New York Times sponsored the venue meeting space, and morning coffee, bagels, and fruit.
Check the #To-do list below to see if there's something you can help out with.
Notes
New York Times is hosting in a large conference room with
a divider wall
two long tables with ~20 chairs around each
two projectors, one for each table
Access:
9:00-19:00 access to facilities each day
Food tasks:
Breakfast/coffee (fruit, energy bars, bagels/shmear): NYT / Jeremy Zilar
Plan: delivery lunches, and going out for Saturday dinner
Saturday lunch: sponsor? order sandwiches? or downstairs Schnippers (sp?) burgers, fries, veggie burgers, milkshakes. can place an order online and have them bring it up, names on bags.
Saturday dinner - Beer Authority (beer menu, bar food) 8th Ave & 40th Street
Now that we have "Bloggers" as another category of participant, we should reach out to those that have shown an interest in things IndieWeb or indieweb-like and send them personal invitations, even publicly so (e.g. @-mention on Twitter), e.g.
