2016/MIT2/Introductions

Opening session for IndieWebCamp MIT2 2016.

IndieWebCamp leaders will lead you through:

1. Announce: Welcome to the fifth IndieWebCamp MIT/Cambridge!
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. Overview of IndieWebCamp Hack Day:
   • hack sessions, lunch, hack sessions, demos
7. Show code-of-conduct, point out organizers to go to in case of anything
8. Tools: IRC/Slack, this wiki, http://etherpad.indieweb.org
9. Demos of what works on your site today
10. 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.indieweb.org/hashtag
11. Session scheduling!
12. Camp leaders call *start your sesssions* at start time

Notes

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Previously

• 2016/MIT
• 2015/Cambridge
• 2015/MIT
• 2014/Cambridge

See Also

• 2016/MIT2
• 2016/MIT2/Schedule