2016/MIT/Introductions

The opening IndieWebCamp MIT 2016 session.

IndieWebCamp leaders will lead you through:

1. Announce: Welcome to IndieWebCamp MIT 2016!
2. Show Squarespace parody video
3. Tell brief history:
   • why: control your online presence, user experience and design, own your content
   • Aaron Parecki & Tantek Çelik with Amber & Crystal organized the first IndieWebCamp in 2011
   • now hosting IndieWebCamps worldwide
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. Show code-of-conduct, point out organizers to go to in case of anything
7. Thanks to our Sponsors
8. Note our public IRC channel (and livestream if available)
9. Explanation of today (discussion sessions)
10. Overview of IndieWebCamp Hack Day:
    • hack sessions, lunch, hack sessions, demos
11. Demos of what works on your site today
12. 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.indiewebcamp.com/hashtag
13. Session scheduling!
14. Camp leaders call *start your sessions* at start time

Notes

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See Also

• 2016/MIT
• 2016/MIT/Schedule