2019-12-indieweb-gift-calendar

The IndieWeb Gift Calendar 2019 (previously IndieWeb Challenge) was a group effort to ship one or more IndieWeb-related thing(s) each day of December 2019 that others can use to improve their IndieWeb experience.

See the current IndieWeb Gift Calendar

This can be anything from major wiki documentation contributions / improvements to shipping updates on any of the IndieWeb applications (like social readers), services, CMSs, plugins, community libraries, or any other projects in use by multiple folks.

See last year’s gift calendar (where we shipped something every day!) for specific examples.

Please keep in mind the Considerations and if you’re not sure, you may want to first make a commitment for yourself (and follow through) to ship something you’ll use on your own site, as it will likely help reveal ways to improve things for the community as a whole that others can also use:

2020-01-01-commitments

Once you've finished something, write a short blog post and link to it in the calendar below!

December 2019
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
						1 Pushl v0.2.13; Lwa in Alpha
2 IndieWebify.Me Updates; webmention.js updated	3 Pushl v0.2.14, Authl v0.3.4	4 Drupal module with contacts! HWC Austin & Nürnberg!	5	6	7 IWC SF day 1!	8 IWC SF day 2!
9 Russian translation of IndieNews	10	11 IWC SF session videos posted! HWC Karlsruhe, LDN, N‘ham, SF, (new!)San Diego, and Seattle!	12	13	14 Publ v0.5.11, Authl v0.3.5	15 New Drupal IndieWeb release Indigenous for Android update. Syndication Links 4.2.0 Released!
16 I Haza Website domain registration	17	18	19 h-feed support for Meetup.com XRay: Add support for parsing MF2 JSON	20	21 Launched events.indieweb.org	22 First HWC in Russia
23 Updates to Syndication Links and Simple Location	24	25 WordPress Indieweb Plugin Update	26 Added Meetup.com integration for oauth-dropins	27	28 🕸💍 IndieWeb Webring adds FAQ	29 Improving WordPress wiki documentation Add RSVP library support for Meetup.com to Granary
30 Add RSVP syndication for Meetup.com to Brid.gy	31 IndieAuth and Micropub libraries for JavaScript

Considerations

Please keep in mind the following considerations when adding something to a day:

It must be shipping / usable, not just a blog post announcing / saying you plan to do it.
Is it clear what your thing does?
Is it clear how someone is supposed to use it or otherwise benefit from it?
What use-case does it solve for others (besides yourself)? Ask yourself, how would/could someone else in the community use the thing I'm posting?
If it's a markup / styling example, is it clear what its purpose is, and how someone could/should copy the markup/styling and customize it for their own site?
If it's a programming example, is it clear how an indieweb site could use the code, using what language(s)? Does it require any frameworks?
If it's a code example or project, is it clearly open sourced, with a clear link to its GitHub or other code repo that has at least a README explaining how it can be used for either direct user benefit or to enhance existing indieweb sites?

History

Renaming

Previously called the "IndieWeb Challenge", it was renamed 2019-12-07 due to confusion about who was it for (yourself, others). Renaming discussion follows:

Note: planning to rename 2019-12-04 morning PST to best consensus choice, absent objections. - Tantek Çelik

Current top candidate: IndieWeb Challenge -> IndieWeb Gift Calendar

There have been multiple new community members that have (mis)interpreted "IndieWeb Challenge" as something they’re supposed to make/post/ship *on their own site* for the month of December, instead of the intent of making something *for others* to be able to use. The notion/framing of a "challenge" does imply personal accomplishment so this is an understandable mistake.

Thus it is worth considering renaming "The IndieWeb Challenge" to something which more directly communicates the intended meaning of "ship something IndieWeb-related that benefits the community, people in addition to yourself, every day of December".

Candidates (feel free to add more)

IndieWeb Challenge
- -1 Tantek Çelik current name has shown to be problematic, also may want to re-use for something like Brad Frost's ”Making Things in December”
- -1 fluffy Agree that the name makes it feel like a personal challenge to improve one's site/self rather than helping the community
- -1 Aaron Parecki agree that it's been confusing for people
IndieWeb Gifting
- +0 Tantek Çelik could live with this
- -0 Aaron Parecki not a big fan of the connotations associated with "gifting"
- -1/0/+1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
IndieWeb Giving
- -1 Tantek Çelik this sounds too much like an actual $ funding campaign
- -1 Aaron Parecki too much like fundraising
- -1/0/+1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
IndieWeb Gift Calendar
- +1 Tantek Çelik my preferred choice currently, directly communicates the gift (to the community) intent / similarity to an Advent Calendar
- +1 Jeremy Cherfas gave a 👍🏼 reaction in Slack to this statement
- +1 Aaron Parecki "That does make it more clear what it is" - probably the least bad option
- +1 fluffy More of a 0.5 (rounded up) in that I think it's less-bad than the current name but "calendar" implies advance planning to me
- -1/0/+1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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