IndieWebCamp Austin 2020

Front doors of Capital Factory venue

IndieWebCamp Austin 2020 was February 22-23, 2020 in Austin, Texas; the third IndieWebCamp in Austin.

Registrations: https://2020.indieweb.org/austin#registrations-rsvps
More event details: https://events.indieweb.org/2020/02/indiewebcamp-austin-u3dbwLzWR2pV
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/789905824861855/

Schedule

Main article: 2020/Austin/Schedule

Doors open at 9am for breakfast and coffee. Sessions run from 10am - 5pm. See the full schedule on the main IndieWebCamp Austin 2020 page: https://2020.indieweb.org/austin

Adjacent Events

2/21 5-7pm Micro Meetup at Easy Tiger, 709 E 6th St, Austin, Texas
2/21 3-5pm Organizers Meetup at Halcyon, 218 W 4th St, Austin, Texas

Participating

Please read through our Code of Conduct
Session Proposals
Schedule Grid - hyperlinked to actual session pages
2020/Austin/Demos
Discussion
Etherpad index: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2020-Austin

Remote Participation

IndieWebCamp has a strong tradition of remote participation, typically using chat, Zoom and Etherpad during as well as after the event. More details and links for remote participation will be posted here on the days of the event. Also feel free to join us on chat to get realtime updates and conversation before, during, and after the camp. (Direct web chat link here.)

📺 Livestream: Saturday Twitch live stream

💬 Join the chat: discuss

Travel and Lodging

Airport

✈️ AUS Airport. Austin–Bergstrom International Airport is located on the old site of Bergstrom Air Force Base and opened in 1999. [1]

Public Transit

🚈 From the AUS airport, the MetroBus will drop you off downtown a few blocks from the venue. It costs $2.50 for a ticket. Public Transit directions.

Lyft

🚙 They operate in Austin

Taxi

🚕 Cabs

Scooters

🛴 They exist, and you might even trip over one if you're unlucky.

Hotels

🏫 Here are a few nearby hotels:

Omni Austin Hotel Downtown - The venue is actually in this building.

Hyatt Place Austin Downtown - easy 5 block walk from the venue, tons of nice stuff (coffee, acai bowls, yoga) within a block

La Quinta Inn Austin Capitol / Downtown - The budget choice within a few blocks.

Hotel Indigo Austin Downtown - University - Several attendees stayed here in 2017.

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Austin Downtown - Actually the other side of the Hotel Indigo Austin Downtown. A couple attendees stayed here in 2019.

Firehouse Hostel - Don't mind sharing a room? This is the most affordable option.

There are many other hotels in the area.

Roomsharing

Put your roomsharing offers here.

Organizers

Manton Reece
Tom Brown
Jean MacDonald

Blog posts and articles

Austin Chronicle: IndieWebCamp - Community Calendar (archived)
2020-02-23 Manton Reece: Replies on your blog with Conversation.js (archived)
2020-02-23 gRegor Morrill: My IndieWebCamp Austin 2020 Projects (archived)
2020-02-23 Greg McVerry: Meeting My Goals for @IndieWebCamp Austin Project Day (archived)
2020-02023 Chris Aldrich: My IndieWebCamp Austin 2020 Project: The Who, What, Why, How, When, Where of IndieWeb (archived)
2020-02-23 Jean MacDonald: Getting Started With The IndieWeb (archived)

Previously

IndieWebCamps
2024	Brighton • Düsseldorf • Portland • Berlin • San Diego • Planning More Camps & Popups • … Build a Website in an Hour March (P)
2023	Nuremberg • San Diego Create Day November (O) • CreateFest December (O) Multi-Lingual Personal Websites (P) • Build a Website in an Hour July (P) • Build a Website in an Hour September (P)
2022	Düsseldorf • Berlin Create Day March (O) • July (O) • September (O) • December (O) Analog Meets Online (P) • Personal Libraries (P) • How to Make the IndieWeb More Approachable (P)
2021	Düsseldorf Create Day July (O) • October (O) • December (O) Respectful Responses (P) • Webmentions Beyond Webmention.io (P) • Very Sensitive Data (P) • Microsub (P) • IndieAuth (P) • Gardens and Streams II (P) • IndieAuth 2 (P)
2020	Austin Online • London (O) • West (O) • East (O) • Create Day (O) Garden & Stream (P) • Micropub (P) • IndieAuth (P) • Get Started with WP (P) • microformats2 (P) • Friendly WP Themes (P)
2019	Austin • New Haven • Berlin • Düsseldorf • Utrecht • 9th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • Amsterdam • Oxford • NYC • Brighton • Berlin2 • SF Online
2018	Baltimore • Düsseldorf • 8th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • SF • Oxford • NYC • Nürnberg • Berlin
2017	Bellingham • Düsseldorf • Nürnberg • 7th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • Istanbul • NYC • Berlin • Austin
2016	NYC • MIT • Nürnberg • Düsseldorf • 6th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • NYC2 • Brighton • LA (Santa Monica) • Berlin • MIT2
2015	Cambridge MA • Germany (Düsseldorf) • Portland & Brighton (5th Summit) • Edinburgh • MIT • SF
2014	SF • NYC • Portland/NYC/Berlin (4th Summit) • UK (Brighton) • Cambridge MA • Online
2013	Portland (3rd Summit) • UK (Brighton) • Hollywood
2012	Portland (2nd Summit) • UK (Brighton)
2011	Portland (Summit)

2020/Austin