2020/East/imn

Independent Media Network was a session at IndieWebCamp East 2020.

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Notes archived from etherpad: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/imn on 2020-11-16 at 11:32 PM Pacific

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IndieWebCamp East 2020
Session: Independent Media Network
When: 2020-11-14 14:50 PM Eastern

Proposal

• Hamish Campbell (facilitator)
• In this session, we'll look at a project am working on https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia a reboot of a radical grassroots project turn of the century useing modern protocals like activertypub - A video https://visionon.tv/videos/watch/1e221fdf-1e98-4802-a239-c24399dc3411
  • We'll also discuss openweb tech and journalism issues and go over our live test site and what we are aiming for https://indymediadev.openworlds.info/test-css/
  • Some questions we might address: indymedia
    • updateing a historical UX
    • Learn from the past to build the future
    • why did it fail,
    • why did it work,
    • what can we learn.

How the fediverse works from a social/tech perspective.

• https://indymedia.openworlds.info
  • soon to be the first rollout of a "hyper-local" indymedia site
  • currently finalising a simplified page template
  • instance of epicyon (https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/epicyon)

• https://unite.openworlds.info/
  • organisational space
  • openmedianetwork repo for overarching organisation; discussion of tools, etc
  • indymedia repo for testing functioning instances of existing tools (e.g. epicyon)
  • ^ Join us here to get involved

• Interested:
  • +1 Kevin Marks

Notes

background blog http://hamishcampbell.com

https://unite.openworlds.info/explore/organizations

https://indymediadev.openworlds.info/test-css/

https://indymedia.openworlds.info/

http://visionon.tv

https://campaign.openworlds.info

https://activism.openworlds.info

http://openworlds.info

See Also

• 2020/East/Schedule