IndieWebCamps

IndieWebCamps are brainstorming and building events where IndieWeb creators gather semi-regularly to meet in person, share ideas, and collaborate on IndieWeb design, UX, & code for their own sites.

Upcoming IndieWebCamps!

• 2016-06-03..05 IndieWeb Summit (Portland, Oregon)
• 2016-08-27..28 IndieWebCamp NYC2 (New York City, New York)
• 2016-11-04..06 IndieWebCamp LA (Santa Monica, CA)

See events for more upcoming IndieWeb related events (IndieWebCamps, Homebrew Website Club, IndieWeb talks at conferences etc.)

Photos from previous IndieWebCamps!

• Flickr indiewebcamp OR indieweb - please feel free to link/embed photos from sessions on their respective pages!
• Instagr.am:
  • #indieweb, #indieweb
  • #indiewebcamp, #indiewebcamp
  • #indiewebcampuk, #indiewebcampuk

IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2016

IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2016 by @iwontsignuphere

Main article: 2016/Nuremberg

• When: 2016-04-16 to 2016-04-17
• Where: Nuremberg, Germany
• URL: http://indiewebcamp.com/2016/Nuremberg

IndieWebCamp Edinburgh 2015

IndieWebCamp Edinburgh 2015 by http://rhiaro.co.uk

Main article: 2015/Edinburgh

The first IndieWebCamp in Edinburgh, but just one of many IndieWebCamps!

The importance of owning your data is getting more awareness. To grow it and help people gettings started, we're meeting for a bar-camp like collaboration in Edinburgh for two days of brainstorming, working, teaching, helping.

Join us in Edinburgh and learn how to use open web technologies to empower and – maybe more importantly – encourage users to own their own content and identities.

• When: 2015-07-25 10:00 to 2015-07-26 at 17:30
• Where: NCR, 1pj, 10 Kittle Yards, Edinburgh, Scotland . http://ncredinburgh.com/
• URL: http://indiewebcamp.com/2015/Edinburgh
• Cost: Free
• 2015 Edinburgh Schedule for session notes.
• 2015 Edinburgh Guest List
• 2015 Edinburgh Demos
• IRC Logs 2015-07-25, 2015-07-26

IndieWebCamp Portland 2015

IndieWebCamp 2015 by Aaron Parecki

Main article: 2015

IndieWebCamp Portland 2015 was the 5th annual main IndieWebCamp!

• When: 2015-07-11 10:00 to 2015-07-12 at 18:00
• Where: ESRI PDX, Portland, Oregon.
• URL: http://indiewebcamp.com/2015
• Cost: Free
• 2015 Schedule for session notes.
• 2015 Guest List
• 2015 Demos
• IRC Logs 2015-07-11, 2015-07-12

Major milestone: We achieved full SWAT0 interoperability across three different implementations running on three different personal sites, by people using them in three different cities!

IndieWebCamp Brighton 2015

IndieWebCamp Brighton 2015 by http://adactio.com

Main article: 2015/Brighton

IndieWebCamp Brighton 2015 is one of many IndieWeb events.

The importance of owning your data is getting more awareness. To grow it and help people get started, we're meeting for a bar-camp like collaboration in Brighton for two days of brainstorming, working, teaching, and helping.

Join us in Brighton and learn how to use open web technologies to empower and – maybe more importantly – encourage users to own their own content and identities.

• When: 2015-07-11 10:00 to 2015-07-12 at 18:00
• Where: 68 Middle Street, Brighton, England.
• URL: http://indiewebcamp.com/2015/Brighton
• Cost: Free
• 2015 Brighton Schedule for session notes.
• 2015 Brighton Guest List
• 2015 Brighton Demos
• IRC Logs 2015-07-11, 2015-07-12

IndieWebCamp Germany 2015

IndieWebCamp Germany 2015 by http://marcthiele.com

Main article: 2015/Germany

IndieWebCamp Germany 2015 is 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 sipgate 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: 2015-05-09 10:00 through 2015-05-10 at 18:00
• Where: sipgate,
  Gladbacher Str. 74 ,
  40219 Düsseldorf, Germany.
• URL: http://indiewebcamp.com/2015/Germany
• Cost: Free
• 2015 Germany Schedule for session notes.
• 2015 Germany Guest List
• 2015 Germany Demos
• IRC Logs 2015-05-09, 2015-05-10

IndieWebCamp Cambridge 2015

IndieWebCamp Cambridge 2015 by Tim Owens

Main article: 2015/Cambridge

IndieWebCamp Cambridge 2015, the second IndieWebCamp held at MIT, Cambridge, MA. See the Guest List for who participated.

• When: 2015-03-19 09:00 through 2015-03-20 at 18:00
• Where: MIT Stata Center, room 32-D463, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA, US, 02139. http://www.csail.mit.edu/news/stata
• URL: http://indiewebcamp.com/2015/Cambridge
• 2015 Cambridge Schedule for session notes.
• 2015 Cambridge Guest List
• 2015 Cambridge Demos
• IRC Logs 2015-03-19, 2015-03-20

IndieWebCamp Online 2014

IndieWebCamp Cambridge 2014

Indie Web Camp Cambridge 2014 by Aaron Parecki

IndieWebCamp UK 2014

Indie Web Camp UK 2014 by Tom Morris

IndieWebCamp 2014

Indie Web Camp 2014 West by aaronpk

Indie Web Camp 2014 East by Jeremy Zillar

Indie Web Camp 2014 Farther East by @brennannovak

IndieWebCamp NYC 2014

Indie Web Camp NYC 2014 day 1

Indie Web Camp NYC 2014 day 2

Indie Web Camp NYC 2014 remote participants

IndieWebCamp SF 2014

Indie Web Camp SF 2014 by @aaronpk

IndieWebCamp Hollywood 2013

IndieWebCamp UK 2013

Indie Web Camp UK 2013 by @aaronpk

IndieWebCamp 2013

Indie Web Camp 2013 by @aaronpk

IndieWebCamp UK 2012

IndieWebCamp 2012

Indie Web Camp 2012 by @aaronpk

IndieWebCamp 2011

Indie Web Camp 2011 by @aaronpk

How to organize

How to organize an IndieWebCamp.

Consider first organizing a Homebrew Website Club meetup

Before

To organize an IndieWebCamp, you need:

1. 2-4 organizers - in practice that's worked best.
   • only 1 organizer means more chance things get dropped on the floor
   • having co-organizers helps keep mutual motivation going, everyone encourages everyone else
   • 2 is the minimum viable: 1 for physical venue stuffs, 1 for virtual stuffs is a good split to start
   • 4 is what 2011 had
   • More than 4 hasn't happened in practice.
2. Add to Planning even if you just want to start the idea, add it to Planning
3. Simple wiki page with the year and city. Start with just minimal notes and questions, e.g. see the first version of 2014/NYC.
   1. If your event is multiple days, have notations for what portion people will attend for.
4. Divide up key organizing responsibilities (venue, sponsors, food, tables/chairs, volunteers)
5. Venue with network access (donated / sponsored)
6. Sponsors for food (see recent IndieWebCamps for an explicit list)
7. Update wiki page as more is known, including creating subpages
8. Track venue capacity, waitlist if necessary
9. Remind Attendees, send out some sort of notification/email/text to all attendees and remind them of the event a few days in advance.

Packing

1. Surge Protectors/Power Strips/Extension Cords - We all need power, and best to make it easy to secure.
2. Displayport Adapter
3. Nametags
4. Stickers
5. Markers (for nametags)
6. Large Postit notes/papers for scheduling
7. Video streaming kit and microphones.

During

When actually doing the IndieWebCamp, you need to at least do:

• venue tables/chairs/projectors/whiteboards/session grid setup
• food/snack/coffee delivery (or bring in)
• do the Introductions session
• organize sync-up for lunches/dinners/coffee
• take photos
• run the demo session
• organize collaborative cleanup and return venue to a cleaner state than when you showed up

After

After (or during if you can keep up)

• upload & post photos on the wiki
• make sure session Etherpads are captured into session notes archives pages on the wiki
• apply information learned from sessions to topical pages on the wiki

FAQ

Why is there a high bar for registering

Q: Why is there a high bar for registering for an IndieWebCamp event? (signing in using IndieAuth and adding yourself to the wiki)

A: In short, because we have very high respect for IndieWeb creators and especially for their time.

IndieWeb creators that participate in IndieWebCamp create (code/UX/design/style/graphics) and openly share & contribute at least some of their creations.

Longer: to see if IndieWebCamp is right for you. See also: Who is the audience for IndieWebCamp.

Every aspect of signing up for IndieWebCamp has been deliberately designed for you and other creators to be maximally productive during your scarce and valuable time at IndieWebCamp.

1. Personal site passion. IndieWebCamp is focused on the IndieWeb and those that are passionate about it firsthand.
   • Are you passionate about having & using your own website for your identity and your content?
   • Then IndieWebCamp may be for you!
2. Having a personal site. Having a personal site shows that you're willing to invest the few minutes it takes to buy a domain and set it up. Want to but don't know how? Check out Getting Started. Which brings us to:
3. Interested in learning. IndieWebCamp is for folks hungry to learn about how to make themselves even more independent on the web.
   • One measure of a desire to learn is, do you have the time and patience to read? Check out the Getting Started page as an example.
   • Beyond reading, another measure of the desire to learn is to practice what you've learned. Did you try following the steps in Getting Started? Which brings us to:
4. Ok asking for help. IndieWebCamp is a community which partly means we help each other out, which definitely means that asking for help is strongly encouraged!
   • Are you ok with asking for help?
   • Did you get stuck with any part of Getting Started?
   • Did you ask in our Chat Forum?
   • If you're in one of the cities they happen, did you come to Homebrew Website Club to get started?
   • We are building a community of people who are comfortable with admitting they don't know everything, and thus actively ask questions. Which is also another indicator of interested in learning.
5. Setting up IndieAuth. This takes mere minutes, with the help of Getting Started, and if you get stuck, our chat forum. By spending just a few minutes setting up your site with IndieAuth, you demonstrate that there's a much better chance you will be productive for several hours at IndieWebCamp, both with working on your own site, and hopefully with collaborating with other such creators as well!
6. Adding yourself to the wiki. This also takes mere minutes, and very importantly demonstrates that you are willing to make at least small edits to the wiki.
   • IndieWebCamp as a community thrives and depends on community contributions of time:
     • to setup and run IndieWebCamps
     • to lead and participate in sessions
     • to take collaborative notes in Etherpad
     • but most importantly, to contribute to our community wiki.
   • By wikifying, yourself, session notes, and helping improve subject matter pages, you demonstrate that you're not only interested in the IndieWeb, but in IndieWebCamp as a community, and that commitment to community is important to us.
   • If that's not your thing, that's ok too, you may use all of the resources on the IndieWebCamp wiki for free, CC0, because that's how strongly we believe in this community.
   • We do want you to benefit from the wiki, regardless of whether you contribute to the wiki or not.
   • IndieWebCamps events themselves are specifically for this community, for those that believe in contributing to and helping to grow an intentional positive community, and enjoy doing so.

See Also

• Homebrew Website Club
• Events