Events

📆 Welcome to upcoming IndieWeb events!

• For indie event posts, see: event
• For indie event listings pages, see: events list

Upcoming

Upcoming indie web related events. Feel free to add any indieweb-related events, free or paid, whole camps/conferences, or even individual indieweb related talks at conferences.

2017

Feel free to add tentative, month-level granularity, or potentially IndieWeb related (e.g. open source related) 2016 events here - helps with planning of IndieWebCamps to avoid conflicts.

Contents 1 Upcoming 1.1 2017 1.1.1 January 1.1.2 February 1.1.3 March 1.1.4 April 1.1.5 May 1.1.6 June 1.2 How To Add An Event 2 Add events to your calendar 3 Recent 3.1 2016 3.1.1 December 3.1.2 November 3.1.3 October 3.1.4 September 3.1.5 August 3.2 Earlier 4 IndieWebCamps 5 Homebrew Website Club meetups 6 Past Years 7 Why 8 Issues 8.1 Mediawiki awkward for events 8.2 Multiple places to update 8.3 Creating new HWC pages is tedious 8.4 Wiki pages require manual RSVP 8.5 Event pages need better presentation 9 Brainstorming 9.1 Problem Statements 9.2 Non-goals 9.3 Replacement Requirements 9.4 Separate Events Site 10 See Also

January

• 2017-01-11 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Los Angeles, Nürnberg, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2017-01-18 18:00–21:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2017-01-25 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Los Angeles, Nürnberg, Portland, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

February

March

April

• 2017-04-04 Idea: a "404" party/wake on 4/04 per [1]

May

• 2017-05-13...14 beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany (likely IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2017 the weekend beforehand!)
• 2017-05-20..21: IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2017, part of the Nuremberg Web Week 2017. Second IndieWebCamp in Nuremberg! https://indieweb.org/2017/Nuremberg
• 2017-05-24…26 UXLondon by Clearleft in London, England

June

• IndieWebSummit 2017!

How To Add An Event

To add an event to the IndieWeb Events Listing, just edit this page and copy paste one of the event templates in the source into the right most-recent-first spot in the Upcoming list above!

In addition, for Homebrew Website Club (HWC) events:

• Add it to Template:Homebrew Website Club
• Create the event permalink page for it (copy paste from a previous HWC permalink page) if necessary
• Add yourself to the RSVP on that page for the city you’re (co-)organizing
• Update next-hwc, Main_Page, Events, and IRC /topic (or ask an admin) to link to that next HWC (assuming that is the next one)

And ideally:

• Create an indie event on your own site for the HWC for your city, ideally with invitations to people that have previously participated.
• POSSE that indie event to one or more applicable event silos/commons of your choice (e.g. Calagator, Facebook)
• Add both those URLs to the section for your city
• Be sure to have Bridgy or some other backfeed setup to receive RSVPs from the silo copy to your indie event.
• Invite folks on the silo/silos you POSSEd to, to the POSSE copy/copies.

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Don't see an IndieWeb event near you? Plan one and add it here!
Jump on IRC, find folks near you, and plan an IndieWeb event/drinkup/dinner/meetup/hackathon/camp together.

More IndieWebCamp events are also being planned!

Want to help out with one of those? Say something in IRC and add yourself to the event page.

Add events to your calendar

Subscribe to current and future indie web related events, e.g. in Apple iCal, or Evolution:

• »subscribe to indie web events
• set it to update ("[x] Refresh" or "Auto-refresh: Every day")

See also:

• Zimbra instructions
• download iCalendar file.

Recent

Past indie web related events and related photos, blog posts, etc.

2016

December

• 2016-12-28 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Los Angeles, Nürnberg, Portland, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-12-21 18:00–21:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-12-14 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Baltimore, London, Portland, San Francisco, Nijmegen (NL)
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-12-05…09 Mozilla All Hands

• 2016-12-07 18:00–21:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

November

• 2016-11-30 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Amsterdam (Schiphol), Baltimore, Brighton, Göteborg, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-11-23 18:00–21:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Nürnberg, Birmingham
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-11-16: IndieWebCamp MIT2 — Hack Day at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://indieweb.org/2016/MIT2

• 2016-11-16 18:30–20:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton, London
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-11-11..12: Seattle GNU/Linux Conference (SeaGL) at Seattle Central College 1701 Broadway Seattle, WA
  • 2016-11-11 10:45-11:45: IndieWeb 101: owning your content and identity presented by Salt at SeaGL

• 2016-11-09 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Portland
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-11-04...06: IndieWebCamp LA on the West side of Los Angeles (Santa Monica), California. https://indieweb.org/2016/LA

• 2016-11-04...06: IndieWebCamp BERLIN at Mozilla Berlin, Haus 10, Treppe 6, Voltastr. 5, 13355 Berlin, Germany. https://indieweb.org/2016/Berlin

• 2016-11-02 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Göteborg, London, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

October

• 2016-10-28..30 MozFest 2016 at Ravensbourne, London
• 2016-10-25..27 IIW
• 2016-10-26 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: San Francisco, Portland
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...
• 2016-10-24..26 Leading Design Conference at London, England

• 2016-10-19 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, Bellingham WA, Los Angeles CA, London (England)
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-10-06 18:00+0100–20:00+0100 (+0100 UTC):
  PHP Göteborg Meetup 5
  Where: Göteborg (Sweden)
  Jeena Paradies is giving a talk about the IndieWeb

• 2016-10-05 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Birmingham (England), Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA, Los Angeles CA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

September

• 2016-09-24...25: IndieWebCamp Brighton at Brighton, UK. https://indieweb.org/2016/Brighton

• 2016-09-22...23: Social Web Working Group F2F7 at Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-09-22

• 2016-09-21 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA, Los Angeles CA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-09-19..23 W3C TPAC in Lisbon, Portugal

• 2016-09-14 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Nürnberg, Silicon Valley
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-09-12..14 View Source Berlin presented by Mozilla

• 2016-09-09 14:00-0700–16:00-0700 (-0700 UTC):
  XOXO #indieweb meetup
  Where: Portland, Oregon
  

• 2016-09-08..11 XOXO Festival 2016 in Portland, Oregon

• 2016-09-07 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA, Los Angeles CA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

August

• 2016-08-27...28: IndieWebCamp NYC2 at Dalberg New York City, NY. https://indieweb.org/2016/NYC2

• 2016-08-24 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Los Angeles CA, Bellingham WA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-08-17 18:00–20:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-08-10 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-08-06 10:00–18:00 (local time):
  Summer Homebrew Website Club Sprint
  Where: Brighton (England)
  Full day Homebrew Website Club meetup. Code/writing sprint. No talks. Come and work on your IndieWeb project, be it your personal website, IndieWeb tool, or anything else. Or write a blog post, or two.

Earlier

For more events, see IndieWeb 2016 events.

IndieWebCamps

Homebrew Website Club meetups

Past Years

Why

Why do we use this page for events?

Some of the benefits of using the wiki for events include:

• There is no fixed template for events, so we are able to add new sections to the event page as needed
• The layout of event pages has evolved over time as our needs have changed

Issues

Mediawiki awkward for events

One of our more awkward uses of MediaWiki is using it as an events calendar.

Multiple places to update

• Adding an event like an IndieWebCamp or Homebrew Website Club involves updating several locations
  • Home page list of events needs to be updated manually
  • Events on events are updated manually
  • IWC or HWC templates are updated manually
  • /next-iwc and /next-hwc redirects are updated manually

Creating new HWC pages is tedious

• Copy+pasting to create new HWC pages is tedious, and is typically only done by Gregor and Tantek
• Entering all the HTML required to format the page as an h-event is error prone

Wiki pages require manual RSVP

• Not easily able to add new features like accepting RSVPs to the wiki pages themselves

Event pages need better presentation

• The event pages look like wiki pages, with little visual hierarchy, and are not immediately recognizable as an event you can RSVP to to the general public

Brainstorming

Problem Statements

• Lots of manual work to create / update events on indieweb.org (most often for Homebrew Website Club, updating Events, Main_Page, and Sidebar.
• Group event sites are hard, especially ones that take into account any particular community's needs

Non-goals

• Just changing the plumbing. Just changing the plumbing has pretty much no positive (likely more negative) effect on usability. E.g. (just "let's use jekyll for that")
• Just replace the editing UI / wiki mark-up/down syntax. E.g. the "simple web interface" benefit of jekyll is actually more complicated than the current wiki which is also a web interface. I.e. if all you're doing is replacing wiki markup with markdown, it's not a benefit. mediawiki: wiki syntax + mediawiki templates. jekyll: markdown + yaml blocks and includes. they're not actually that different.
• "learning one more system" = worse overall UX.
• Aspirational new system proposed by non-users of current system. The "I won't use the existing system because I hate wikis" argument is not a good argument, as absence of use of a current system provides no evidence that any new system would gain any use at all.

Replacement Requirements

Capturing here from IRC, some thoughts on possible requirements for any proposals to improve / replace entirety of how we create / update events on the IndieWeb.org site itself.

• Maintenance commitment up front. Volunteers to build a new system should also consider volunteering to maintain it, otherwise it's just trading one (known) maintenance tax (updating multiple places in the wiki, annoying, but simple/easy that anyone can do it), for another (unknown) maintenance tax (updating/fixing software, likely much harder, means it doesn't get done).
• Try and learn current system first. Volunteers to design/build/replace events should at least *try* actively updating / creating events on indieweb.org so that they have some direct first-person understanding of the needs of the community. Without that first-hand knowledge, any such proposal is likely ignorant of the community's actual needs.
• Start with UI/UX sketches. Anything any of us want to build to replace the wiki events should start out with UI/UX sketches, no code at all.
• Support your own indie events first. Group events software is so much harder / more complex than indie event / RSVP posting support (likely a superset of), that that would make a good prerequisite for any proposals/proposers.

Separate Events Site

We used 2016.indieweb.org for the 2016 IndieWeb Summit. The IndieWeb Summit 2016 event page was an initial attempt at creating a more friendly format for our events.

We have also set up 2016.indieweb.org/nyc2 for IndieWebCamp NYC2.

Possibilities for expanding use of a separate site for events.

• Continue with YYYY.indieweb.org
• New subdomain events.indieweb.org

Some options to consider:

• keep using YYYY.indieweb.org for annual summits, and YYYY.indieweb.org/CITYABBR for specific IndieWebCamps
• build our own minimal event interface
• adopt an existing running project such as Calagator
• wait for an in-progress project such as Dark Matter Eventer

Requirements: (not comprehensive)

• Some level of unstructured content on event pages, so that we can allow our use of it to continue to evolve over time.
• Be able to quickly duplicate an event rather than set up recurring events (like Calagator's "clone" function)
• Events must support multiple locations and varying start times and timezones per location (our HWC events do this currently)

Ideas:

• Quickly add links to posts (notes, photos, articles) about an event
• Highlight photos from events
  • Upload photos directly to the wiki or event page
  • By retrieving linked photos in indieweb photo posts / tweets / instagram posts
• RSVP via Webmention like http://2016.indieweb.org
• RSVP directly on the page (an "I'm Going" button after you're logged in)

Other community examples:

• WordCamps, which have many properties in common with Indiewebcamps
  • Uses wordcamp.org (likely derived from barcamp.org), a TLD different from the community: wordpress.org
    • Philosophy: a main landing page and using subdomains for the individual events, with year/location.
    • Making wordcamp.org itself the page for upcoming events
    • Use subdomains on wordcamp.org for specific events
    • Issues: they had an issue with URL structure last year.

See Also

• event - event posts
• events list - pages of upcoming or past events
• Planning - planning for more IndieWebCamps!