2017/Nuremberg/HWC

HWC was a session at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2017.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/hwc

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IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2017.

Session: #HWC Homebrew Website Club organizing and stuff

Participants

• Jeremy Keith
• Sven Knebel
• Sebastian Greger
• Cweiske
• Calum Ryan
• Sebastiaan Andeweg
• Walter ebert
• Leo

Notes

• length: London 6-8pm
• Berlin 18.30 – 22.somethingÂ
• US: 1-1.5hours

Promotion & Discovery

• meetup.com - facebook of events
  • 50 max members cheap. after that you have to pay more
    • berlin paid for half a year, but want to move off
    • you pay per event
    • 50 people that are interested, not 50 actual members or people that come to an event
  • new groups/events published on meetup.com because many people get notfied about that
  • years ago xing was used for that
• eventbrite.com
  • for discovery
• upcoming.org

why meetup?

• useful to find new events one might be interested in
• RSVP functionality

idea

• idea: use meetup to get people to your website
• still pay for more that 50 interested people

twitter

• get retweeted by events-in-your-city account if there is one

Recruiting

How to get people interested into HWC outside of indiewebcamps?

• jeremy tweets events, mentions people
  • do not use the wiki. it will put people off
  • london has own website, uses webmention RSVP

RSVP

• London: https://calumryan.com/event/hwc-20170503/
  • shows RSVPs
• NL: no own site, but sometimes events on organiser's site
  • https://seblog.nl/2017/01/11/1/homebrew-website-club
• Berlin: URL with RSVP?
  • http://svenknebel.de/temp/hwc

RSVP for non-techies without homepage

• https://commentpara.de is an anonymous silo for comments (future) RSVP, could be used to micropub-publish by everyoe
• or just in local comments
• Quill https://quill.p3k.io supports RSVP when it detects an event
  • URL parameter to reply to > https://quill.p3k.io/new?reply=https://indieweb.org/events/2017-03-22-homebrew-website-club
  • URL parameter to login at
  • -> automatically sign in for non-techies

Do RSVP matter?

is an attendee list helping?

• no
  • people showing up is important
  • if only few people are on the list, people are less likely to come
  • jeremy is doing it even if he is alone
• yes
  • see that people are coming
  • social proof that people are coming
  • cancel event if nobody is coming

setup

• jeremy: meeting room
• london: tech-focused hotel/user space/cafe
• san francisco: mozilla office
• berlin: cafe/bar
• php usergroup leipzig: coworking space meeting room, fixed date time each month

• eventbrite also for discovery
• upcoming.org
• webring
• homebrew overview site