Planning
Welcome to the planning page for future IndieWebCamps!
The IndieWebCamp community is planning numerous upcoming events, including future IndieWebCamps, regular Homebrew Website Club meetups, talks, and other proposals — if you'd like to help, please contribute to this page.
See each individual IndieWebCamp's home page (typically /Year/City ) for planning specific to that camp.
Want to learn what it takes to plan and organize an IndieWebCamp? See:
Contents
- 1 Planned
- 2 Save Dates
- 3 Planning
- 3.1 2021
- 3.1.1 Nearby 2021 Events
- 3.1.2 Pop-ups
- 3.1.3 Europe
- 3.1.4 West
- 3.1.5 East
- 3.1.6 Summit
- 3.1.7 Dusseldorf
- 3.1.8 Nuremberg
- 3.1.9 Los Angeles
- 3.1.10 Berlin
- 3.1.11 Munich
- 3.1.12 Utrecht
- 3.1.13 Amsterdam
- 3.1.14 Brighton
- 3.1.15 San Francisco
- 3.1.16 New Locations
- 3.1.17 Other New Locations
- 3.1.18 Reactivate Past Locations
- 3.1.19 Proposed 2021 Events
- 3.1 2021
- 4 Potential Cities
- 5 Help Out
- 6 Organize
- 7 Past Planning Notes
- 8 Past Camp Schedules
- 9 See Also
Planned
Tickets are open! Go register!
Save Dates
The following IndieWebCamps have a confirmed date and venue, start planning travel!
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One Preferred Or Workable Date
The following IndieWebCamp(s) being planned have only one preferred or workable date, as proposed. Save the dates in your calendar. We cannot confirm these dates at this time though, so wait on booking any travel!
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Planning
The following IndieWebCamps are currently being planned and need help figuring out a date - help co-organize!
Clustered first by co-organizers that are regularly active in the community (e.g. in IRC), and then ordered roughly by known date if any, then expected/likely dates (in order to see what else there may be planned nearby or elsewhere)
2021
Let's plan 2021 IndieWebCamps!
For now let’s continue planning online IndieWebCamps, perhaps focused on particular timezones.
Hopefully some areas can organize local in-person IndieWebCamps in 2021 as folks are vaccinated, regional cases are eliminated, by area / city. Keeping that in mind:
If you live in one of the cities / states / countries below and are interested, add your name!
If you know of a suitable venue for hosting, add that as a possibility.
If you have a particular month of the year to recommend, add that!
Please offer your opinion/preference with a nested list item and +1/0/-1 signed!
General planning date notes:
- December is tough due to holidays and lots of other events. Exception: a one day IWC e.g. 2015/SF.
- November first half is the likely last chance to plan an IWC for the year.
Sorted roughly by how "real" a particular potential IWC is looking for a city based on a few fuzzy criteria:
- likely/confirmed co-organizers (2+ required, at least one that is active in IRC/Slack, preferably at least 1 experienced successful organizer, preferably 3-4 total)
- likely/confirmed venue
- likely/confirmed dates
Nearby 2021 Events
To keep in mind while planning
- 2021-01-01 New Year's Day
- 2021-02-14 Valentine's Day (Sunday)
- 2021-04-04 Easter
- 2021-05-31 Memorial Day
- 2021-07-04 Fourth of July (US)
- 2021-09-06 Labor Day
- 202109-06...08 Rosh Hashanah
- 2021-09-15...16 Yom Kippur
- 2021-09-20...27 Sukkot
- 2021-10-31 (Sunday) Halloween
- 2021-11-25 Thanksgiving in USA
- 2021-11-26 Black Friday in USA
- 2021 An Event Apart events
- 2021-12-24 Christmas Eve
- 2021-12-25 Christmas Day
- 2021-12-31 New Years Eve
- ... insert others in date order
Pop-ups
IndieWebCamp Pop-ups 2021 are stand alone single topic sessions started in 2020, partly in response to the Coronavirus pandemic that has interrupted our long history of regularly occurring in-person camps in various cities.
While not designed to be the traditional two day camps of sessions and creating, they are meant to foster ongoing discussion and development of topics of interest to the IndieWeb community.
If you're interested in hosting one, feel free to go to Session Proposals/Brainstorming page and begin to flesh out your event, or ask for help in the IndieWeb chat.
Europe
Planning for a Europe timezone IndieWebCamp EU in (maybe) early 2021.
Venue: Online
Who is interested in helping co-organize and or facilitate?
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Jamie Tanna
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David Shanske - Always up for helping out.
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Who is interested in helping (wiki, getting the word out etc.)
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Tantek Çelik
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Chris Aldrich
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David Shanske
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details) (you can be on both lists :)
Interested in attending/participating:
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible dates:
- 2021-??-??
- +1/0/-1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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- 2021-??-??
- +1/0/-1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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West
IndieWebCamp West (Online)
Venue: Online
Who is interested in helping co-organize and or facilitate?
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Chris Aldrich
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David Shanske
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Who is interested in helping (wiki, getting the word out etc.)
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Tantek Çelik
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details) (you can be on both lists :)
Possible dates:
- 2021-??-??
- +1/0/-1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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- 2021-??-??
- +1/0/-1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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East
IndieWebCamp East (Online)
Venue: Online
Who is interested in helping co-organize and or facilitate?
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David Shanske
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Who is interested in helping (wiki, getting the word out etc.)
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Tantek Çelik
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details) (you can be on both lists :)
Possible dates:
- 2021-??-??
- +1/0/-1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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- 2021-??-??
- +1/0/-1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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Summit
Planning dates and venue for IndieWebSummit 2021 in Portland!
11th IndieWebSummit! Venue possibilities
- Mozilla PDX
Dates — dependent on city re-opening and travel restriction lifting! Opinions:
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Tantek Çelik — I’m up flexible scheduling (delaying a few months, like possibly as late as October if that means we can do it in-person)
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David Shanske - Concur with
Tantek Çelik that postponing to later is superior to losing another in-person event. It would be good if the Summit is the kick-off event to resume in-person get togethers.
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Previous (2019 era) discussed dates (2021 June), (F)SaSu, (parens) for Organizers / pre-party / social
- 2021-06-19…20 Saturday & Sunday
- +1
Tantek Çelik can also make it to an Organizers Summit on 2021-06-18 Friday or 2021-06-21 Monday. Requires finalizing lots of details by 2021-06-04 Friday before Mozilla All Hands in Vancouver and would likely travel direct from Vancouver to Portland sometimes 2021-06-12…15.
- +1
fluffy Presumably this works for me, as far as I know
- +1
gRegor Morrill Presumably this works for me, as far as I know
- +1
Rosemary Orchard I'm not yet otherwise booked!
- +1
David Shanske
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
- +1
- 2021-06-26…27 Saturday & Sunday
- +0
Tantek Çelik can also make it to an Organizers Summit on 2021-06-25 Friday or 2021-06-28 Monday. Would prefer earlier date if we can do so to avoid conflicting with Pride this year.
- -1
fluffy Seems likely to clash with Trans Pride, which is normally the last weekend of June (but as of 2019-11-06 it has not yet been scheduled that far in advance)
- -1
gRegor Morrill ditto
- -1
Rosemary Orchard see above
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
- +0
Adjacent events (avoid conflicts)
- 2021-06-07…12 Mozilla All Hands in Vancouver Cited page says this is now cancelled.
- 2021-06-21…23 Identiverse.com (Denver, check their event page
- 2021-06-26…27 Pride weekend in several cities "last weekend of June to cap off the month and to coincide with the anniversary of the Stonewall riots" per fluffy. Likely Seattle and San Francisco (extrapolating from past years)
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Dusseldorf
- placeholder for IWC Düsseldorf 2021!
Organizers:
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Possible Dates:
- Re-evaluate when Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf new date is confirmed. See: https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog
- 2021-11-03…05
- 2021-11-06…07 Saturday & Sunday after Beyond Tellerrand
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Nuremberg
IndieWebCamp Nuremberg
Venue: likely same as before
Who is interested in helping co-organize?
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Joschi Kuphal
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Interested in participating:
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Tantek Çelik - happy to also volunteer to help out organizers
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Rosemary Orchard - also happy to volunteer (especially remote participation)
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Martijn van der Ven - planning to visit Germany this summer, if the dates align, count me in; also volunteering for any odd jobs either when attending, or otherwise online.
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Jeremy Cherfas If at all possible, I would like to be there
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Dates (maybe during Nürnberg Digital Festival if that happens? was/canceled July 10th-20th in 2020)
- 2021-??-??…?? (Saturday Sunday)
- +1
Joschi Kuphal
- -1
Rosemary Orchard
- +1 Sven Knebel
- +1
Jeremy Cherfas
- +1
Sebastiaan Andeweg
- +0
Tantek Çelik — looks open, assuming US/Germany intl flights are operating!
- (+1/0/-1) Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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- +1
Los Angeles
IndieWebCamp LA!
Venue
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Chris Aldrich is looking into UCLA
- Yahoo! has previously expressed interest in hosting on their campus in West LA/Culver City
- DreamHost may be interested in hosting. Ask
Jonathan LaCour.
Who is interested in helping co-organize?
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Chris Aldrich can help co-organize. Let's do this!
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Jonathan LaCour can help co-organize.
- Srikanth Bangalore (at Oath/Yahoo)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating:
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Tantek Çelik - happy to also volunteer to help out organizers
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gRegor Morrill
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Jonathan LaCour
- Scott Gruber
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David Shanske - Wouldn't mind a group trip to Disneyland/California Adventure
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🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮 - interested but would need significant lead time to plan/fund travel
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Jacky Alciné - down to volunteer
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible dates: Currently looking for a location and new dates for 2021
Nearby events:
- ???
Previously: 2016/LA
Berlin
- placeholder for IWC Berlin 2021!
Organizers:
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Possible Dates:
- 2021-??-??…?? Saturday & Sunday before Beyond Tellerrand
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- 2021-??-??…?? Saturday & Sunday after Beyond Tellerrand
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2020 info in case it helps with planning:
- 2020-08-24…27 Beyond Tellerand Berlin — Tickets: 2020-01-20 10:00+01:00
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Munich
- placeholder for IWC Munich 2021!
Organizers:
- ...
Interested in participating:
Possible Dates:
- 2021-??-??…?? Saturday & Sunday before Beyond Tellerrand
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- 2021-??-??…?? Saturday & Sunday after Beyond Tellerrand
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2020 info in case it helps with planning:
- 2020-11-02…04 Beyond Tellerand Münich — Tickets: 2020-04-01 10:00+02:00
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Utrecht
- placeholder for IWC Utrecht 2021!
previously 2019/Utrecht
Can help co-organize:
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Cherrie
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating:
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Rosemary Orchard
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Amsterdam
- placeholder for IWC Amsterdam 2021!
previously 2019/Amsterdam
Brighton
This is a placeholder for IWC Brighton 2021 planning or brainstorming:
Venue: 68 Middle st. is a good start
Can help co-organize:
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Jeremy Keith
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Tantek Çelik
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Calum Ryan
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Ana Rodrigues
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible/preferred months: October?
Possible dates:
- 2021-??-??…??-?? (usually a Saturday & Sunday)
- +1/0/-1 Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Nearby events: (or adjacent in time for planning purposes)
- 2021-?? possibly MozFest?
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Interested in participating!
Previously: 2019/Brighton
San Francisco
IndieWebCamp SF
This is a placeholder for IWC SF 2020 planning or brainstorming:
Venue: likely same as before
Who is interested in helping co-organize?
-
Rosemary Orchard (assuming I am able to attend)
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Interested in participating:
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Possible Dates
- 2021-??-??…?? (Saturday Sunday)
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Possible Adjacent events to consider:
- Apple WWDC
- AEA SF
New Locations
Sorted roughly by number and availability of co-organizers, then dates.
Denver
Possible Denver venues (aside: avoid Boulder apparently)
- Name.com offices — need to confirm with name.com folks from 2019, maybe 2021
- @thinkstudio at UC Denver (
Greg McVerry has a willing contact)
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Organizers
- maybe
Tantek Çelik (especially if I can draft
Aaron Parecki to help co-organize)
- need to confirm name.com folks from 2019 can be local co-organizers
Volunteers
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Greg McVerry
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Interested in co-organizing
- name.com folks expressed interest at Summit 2019
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Tantek Çelik is interested in helping facilitate organizing
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in Attending
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Tantek Çelik
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David Shanske - Never been to Denver
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible Dates (Saturday & Sunday)
Adjacent events/conflicts:
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San Diego
The First Ever IndieWebCamp San Diego!
Venue: ???
Organized by:
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gRegor Morrill - this is a big maybe.
Tantek Çelik voluntold this :)
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Can help co-organize:
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Tantek Çelik
- artlung - interested
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
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Tantek Çelik
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David Shanske Loved my recent trip to San Diego and would not mind a repeat visit
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Possible dates:
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Other events:
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Malmö
Venue: ???
Can help co-organize:
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Pelle Wessman: can help settings things up with local venues and help from local conference/meetup organizers
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Martijn van der Ven: currently Sweden-based and would love to assist
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating:
- Sven Knebel is interested in attending
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Rosemary Orchard is interested in attending too
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Aaron Parecki would love to attend, tho probably can only if it's adjacent to a conference i'm speaking at
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Maybe align with a different event? Malmöfestivalen / The Conference / Øredev?
Needs interested participants and possible dates! Would also be helpful with some additional core contributors attending, to ensure enough content at event.
Would be great to set a date 4-6 months in advance, to ensure time to plan a proper event.
Toronto
Venue:
- Possibly Mozilla Toronto — ask
Tantek Çelik about this
Organized by: ???
Interested in participating:
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David Shanske (per mention in IRC 2018-07-03)
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Tantek Çelik - Mozilla Toronto is a possible venue
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Myles Braithwaite
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Rosemary Orchard
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Manchester UK
IndieWebCamp Manchester
Venue: The Shed? (Part of MMU) Can help co-organize:
- Ian Forrester - can help with location/on the ground
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Rosemary Orchard
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
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Neil Mather
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Jamie Tanna
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Cherrie
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David Shanske
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Other New Locations
More new possibilities:
- Chicago
- +1
Tantek Çelik
- +1
zaksharp
- +1
David Shanske
- +1
gRegor Morrill
- +1
- Sweden
- Australia
- Central/South America
- Spain/France
Reactivate Past Locations
Cambridge MA
Venue:
- anyone have a connection to Microsoft NERD research campus?
- other options?
- let's try to avoid re-using MIT, plus W3C has moved out of MIT so we no longer have that connection
Can help co-organize:
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
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Tantek Çelik
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Ben Roberts
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Chris Aldrich
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David Shanske
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Patrick M. Niedzielski
- cwebber (via #social IRC 2017-09-26)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Possible/preferred months: ???
Possible dates?
- 2020-??-??…??
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
- 2020-??-??…??
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Previously: 2016/MIT
Edinburgh
IndieWebCamp Edinburgh
Venue: ???
Can help co-organize:
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Harry Reeder,
James Baster, and
kongaloosh (volunteered by
Amy Guy)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
-
Tantek Çelik
- Sven Knebel
- Template:mapkyca
- ⋉Fran
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Rosemary Orchard
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Jamie Tanna
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Cherrie
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jamesgoca
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Previously: 2015/Edinburgh
London
IndieWebCamp London, UK
Date: 14th &15th March 2020
Venue: Microsoft Reactor
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indiewebcamp-london-2020-tickets-85763160923
Catering sponsored by TerminusDB
- Pastries and fruits in the morning; and vegetarian lunch (with some dishes vegan-friendly) on the 2nd day
Keynote: Something about JSON-LD and micro formatting (TBC)
Social evening (14th) ideas (pay your own):
- Gong bath + tea: http://www.londongong.co.uk/ - £250 for 12 - too expansive in my opinion
- another similar gong bath + tea: https://www.soundmysterium.com/ - not available 14-15th
- Games: https://www.plonkgolf.co.uk/venue/hoxton - event starts form £15 pp - wheelchair accessible - ask again about details after the new year
- <add other suggestions>
Tasks/ things to figure out:
- AV system at the venue for remote participants - onsite Live screaming and recording provided
- Ticketing system (most probably using Eventbrite), types of tickets - free tickets on sale now (done)
- Stickers, pronoun batches, stickies and stationaries - do we get them from IndieWeb org? (done)
- Stationary for the day: markers, labels, additional informative stickers;
- List of lunch recommendations for first day;
- Find a place for the social bit in the evening (ideally a place that does food too);
Can help co-organize:
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Cherrie
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Calum Ryan
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Ana Rodrigues
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Interested in participating!
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Previously: ???
Proposed 2021 Events
- 2021-04-04 Proposal: a "404" day to recognize missing pages/sites on 4/4. Previously: 2018-04-04 HWC, and 2013 proposal
- 2021-04-10 Proposal: a "410" day to recognize deleted pages/sites on 4/10. Previously: 2018-04-10 HWC
- 2021-04-18 Proposal: a "418" day to have tea & scones. Previously: 2018-04-18 HWC
Potential Cities
The following are twinkles in co-organizer's eyes - help find a venue and/or narrow to a date range!
- Seattle - would be great to host something like this in 2019, maybe co-sponsor with co-working space/venue
-
gRegor Morrill +1 interested [was interested in 2017]
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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Other possible cities - no specific plans or dates - just expressions of interest (which is fine too!). Feel free to add your city and sign it, indicating how you can help make it happen.
- Amsterdam (possible Schiphol Airport?)
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Sebastiaan Andeweg likes this
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Martijn van der Ven interested in attending, but no longer permanently in NL
- Sven Knebel is interested in attending
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Rosemary Orchard could probably get there just as easily as anywhere else in NL
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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- London (Ontario, Canada)
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James Shelley is interested (and looking for collaborators)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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- Vienna
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Rosemary Orchard
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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- Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Large urban metroplex, tons of potential venues
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🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮 (Fort Worth, can do some facilitating locally)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
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Help Out
Want to help out with one of those? Say something in IRC and add yourself to the page.
David Shanske is willing to help out with an Indiewebcamp, providing support and planning to the extent possible. This would include some volunteering. Depends on what is needed and when and is willing to try to work with anyone who needs help in the Northeastern United States, and possibly farther afield if sufficient notice.
Organize
Want to organize a 2019 IndieWebCamp in your town and don't see it above?
Start with:
- Find at least one committed co-organizer. This is the most important step.
- Add a link above to [[2019/YourCity]]
- Click it and create the new page, and continue with the steps listed in:
Homebrew Website Club
Having trouble finding a co-organizer for your city or unsure how to organize an IndieWebCamp by yourself?
Start a Homebrew Website Club chapter in your city to gather interested individuals and gauge interest in a full weekend IndieWebCamp!
FAQ
Creator camp not a hackathon
Q: Is IndieWebCamp a hackathon?
A: IndieWebCamps are creator camps focused on helping everyone develop, grow, and advance their personal indieweb presence.
The term "hackathon" has become to mean some sort of short term event where a group of people come up with a typically new project to develop just for the sake of the hackathon, often in a competitive environment, and often for prizes donated by one or more sponsors.
IndieWebCamp resembles that only in the aspect of group collaboration.
- IndieWebCamp encourages you to work on and improve your existing personal site, not just a new site (unless you need a new site!)
- IndieWebCamp encourages you to work on your personal site in a way that encourages longevity and your personal use beyond the camp itself.
- IndieWebCamp focuses on collaboration instead of competition. There are all sorts of different experts at IndieWebCamp and we do our best to both ask questions of each other and help each other!
- The prize(s) you win at IndieWebCamp are your own improved personal website, hopefully with new features you can then use day-to-day after the camp has completed!
As we do "hack" on stuff (our own websites), IndieWebCamps do have a "hack day" component of it, but certainly not "hackathon" in the commonly understood "corporate hackathon" sense.
Past Planning Notes
Past planning notes can be found on each event's planning page, e.g.
To archive planning notes from this page:
- Add the event to IndieWebCamps if it isn't there already
- Add the event sub-page "Planning" if it doesn't exist yet, e.g. 2017/Planning
- Add a section
== Initial Planning ==
to the event's Planning page - Add a note in the new section "This is an archive of the initial planning for [event name], originally found here."
- Link the text "originally found here" to the latest, specific revision of this page where the notes last appeared.
- Copy/paste the latest planning notes from this page
- Remove the now-archived planning notes from this page.
North America East (Online)
IndieWebCamp East 2020 has been set for November 14-15 and planning details for IndieWebCamp East have been moved to 2020/East/Planning.
Past Camp Schedules
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See Also
- Homebrew Website Club
- IndieWebCamps: How to organize
- 2020 London IndieWebCamp maybe in March, ask [cheukting_ho] in Slack to help co-organize