2019/SF/simplest

New Survey of Simplest Way to Have an Indie Site was a session at IndieWebCamp SF 2019.

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

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IndieWebCamp SF 2019
Session: New Survey of Simplest Way to Have an Indie Site
When: 2019-12-07 14:30

Participants

• Dietrich Ayala
• Eril
• Johnny (tw:@generativist)
• Andi Galpern
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Notes

• How do we setup and build a site with ease?
• There are many academics who want to host and hack their own stuff. We need to target them and make it easier for them upload content.
  • In a portion of academia there is the A Domain of One's Own aka DoOO which is broadly run by Reclaim Hosting, who tested it out of University of Mary Washington
• What is considered an indie web site?
  • depends on your use-case
  • Starts with a domain and ownership/control of one's URLs

Solutions

• Webflow
• Wordpress
• Known
• Micro blog
• Gitlab
• https://i.haza.website/

Steps to setup a site

Minimum set of requirements so you can connect with others in the indie web community.

• Register domain
• Hosting
• Authentication
  • Twitter
  • Github
• Add Content

Persuasive reasons to setup your own site

• Own your own content independently of third party silos
• Aggregate content from multiple sites to draw traffic to personal site
• Keep all of your content in one location

Two ways to use the indie web

• Post on your site and then publish on third party sites
• Publish somewhere else first, then use third party APIs to pull into your own personal site

• Negatives
  • If you're not on their site they will shut down
  • There is GDPR

• Microblogging

Wants something as simple as Github pages to sign up and create content

Is Indie Web at scale a thing? Do we want to grow the indie web?

• The core of the indie web community is building things for themselves, but how do we create a user-friendly experience for a big audience
• The number of people who have indie web sites who are non-technical is small
• Interested to see how we can grow the indie web beyond technical people
  • Greg Greg McVerry will be using Known sites and Glitch with middle school and high school students
  • Teach the non technical to be technical

http://buildyourfirstwebsitelessonplans.glitch.me/]

• Come up with a simple way to set people up without reading the instructions, create a guided tutorial
  • Ben tried to do this with KNOWN

Ideas

• Host photographs on your own personal site, take a small slice of the indie web, post your pics in a way that you have a full record in everything you ever took
  • people at the lego league challenge were blown away by ability to post videos and pics... Good idea
• Connect with local art organizations. Many artists sick of Etsy/Instagram...Teach them to build their own

See Also

• 2019/SF/Schedule