2014/Cambridge/Introductions

The opening IndieWebCamp 2014 Cambridge session.

IndieWebCamp leaders will lead you through:

1. Announce: Welcome to the first IndieWebCampCambridge!
2. Show Squarespace parody video
3. Tell brief history:
   • frustration with silos/site-deaths (unreliability, loss of content, UX changes, lack of features etc.)
   • 2010 frustrated social web summit
   • too much talk/email, not enough action, so...
   • attendees Aaron Parecki & Tantek Çelik decided to focus on an "IndieWeb" instead, and
   • with Amber & Crystal organized the first IndieWebCamp in 2011
4. Show http://indiewebcamp.com/ home page and principles
5. Note explicit decision to focus on
   • personal site "scratch your own itch" doers, doing, selfdogfooding, demoing
6. Overview of IndieWebCamp Two Days:
   • day 1: intro/demos, lunch, brainstorming sessions, dinner
   • day 2: day two hack sessions, lunch, hack sessions, demos
7. Demos of what works on your site today
8. Explanation of today (brainstorming sessions) vs tomorrow (hack sessions)
9. Intro to how Barcamp sessions are scheduled: write THREE THINGS on a notecard:
   1. session name,
   2. your name,
   3. session #hashtag - used for tagging and etherpad.mozilla.org/indieweb-hashtag
10. Session scheduling!
11. Camp leaders call *start your sesssions* at start time

Notes

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioyudny4mp8 ...

See Also

• 2014/Cambridge
• 2014/Cambridge/Schedule