2019/Amsterdam/indiewebforall
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IndieWeb For All, Making it easier was a session at IndieWebCamp Amsterdam 2019.
Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/indiewebforall
IndieWebCamp Amsterdam 2019
Session: IndieWeb For All, Making it easier
When: 2019-09-28 14:50
Participants
- Val - facilitator
- Katrin - facilitator
Tantek Çelik- Emily
Frank Meeuwsen
Marty McGuire
Sebastiaan Andeweg
David Bryant- Anna
- Template:sonniesedge
David Shanske remote/lurking
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Notes
Reference: Getting Started
1. Domain name
- Difficult or confusing to someone who is not technical.
- Could use sub domain names (like tumbler or square space) to use only some indie web auths
- If you go down the sub domain names space, then you will be stuck, it is very difficult to migrate to your own domain name. End in cul-du-sac
- GIVE DOMAINS TO YOUR FRIENDS
- Maybe eaisest is to go to a services that host and register domain name, all in one, one check, they do the magic to connect, then throw an index.html. Easy to go from here.
2. Service that supports Indie Web There is one! micro.blog
What is the goal of this discussion?
There is a difference between getting people to understand what IndieWeb is, and building your own websites, and hosting your content somewhere other than a silo.
Answers:
- Even for a online person who has made their own websites and have some understanding of code, very difficult for me to get my website working in certain ways.
Documentation:
- There is a slack - signup at https://chat.indieweb.org/slack (bridged with IRC)
- it's a lifestyle, not a service.
- Indieweb is still geeky. It is not ready for the masses. We shouldn't start with the assumption that it's ready for all.
- The indieweb is still experimental art.
- Indieweb is like learning math. The hard way.
I'm a software engineer and have my own website, so I went to webmentions.io and register and ???
I have Hugo.
IndieWeb Readers / Social readers: readers
Jacky Alcine (jacky.wtf) is building Koype
Why would anyone want to take this step?
- See why
A lot of people in Brazil understand internet as what is on your phone
Focusing the conversation on how to get already bought-in people easily in onto the indie web.
I saw people doing stuff on the internet, seeing success stories
Anna: I agree someone sees what someone is doing and says I want that
There are different audiences - "Micro.blog" turnkey/plug and play services - I know my CMS and want to indiewebify, how and what? - I want to code and tinker
New home page project for paths for each: 2019/homepage
If you use a CMS, there's likely a wiki page on it
In Berlin we do something called CSS Classes, there's an equivalent of that needed for Homebrew Website Clubs
Do you like making your own bread, well you can make your own website?
Some people like brewing their own beer or kombucha, the crafting experience