2022/Pop-ups/Sessions

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If you're interested in hosting a pop-up session, feel free to use this page to brainstorm or flesh out your event(s), or ask for help in the IndieWeb chat.

If you instead want to see a session happen or want someone else to host a session on a topic, please bring it up in IndieWeb chat and see if you can find someone interested to host (and have them add it to the wiki instead of you).

The session planning/development progresses on this page, by trying to get a core group of individuals who advise availability and interest, with sufficient time for others to join as well.

Once you confirm a date, please create an event on events.indieweb.org with the tag "popup", and create a page for session notes on the wiki, for example 2020/Pop-ups/GettingStartedWithWordPress. See our guidance for organizing pop-ups.

There is also a list of potential sessions that were held over in 2020 which may make interesting sessions for the future.

An incomplete list of holidays and other nearby events can be found on the planning page to help prevent scheduling conflicts.


h-events in WordPress Plugins

Details

  • Greg McVerry and David Shanske
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Can we do a hacking challenge and add proper microformats for events to popular Wordpress calendar plug-ins?
  • #wordpressevents
  • Google Meet
  • Hack day? Maybe
  • Demos? Hopefully

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Microformats Roundtable

Let's work through and discuss some of the open Microformats issue trackers. The proposal is to schedule 60, 90, or 120 minutes at a regular interval, either every month, every other month, or every 3 months, so we can finally address some of the long-standing microformats issues we have in the community. If we choose an alternating schedule, we can have different people from our various timezones each time.

Proposed:

  • Name: Microformats Popup: Microformats2 Issues Resolution Session
  • Description: (draft, feel free to edit/improve)

    Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.

    Let's discuss how we can close out some outstanding microformats2 issues.

    This is an intermediate session, with a prerequisite of basic knowledge of HTML and microformats. Experience with publishing and/or parsing is a plus. All are welcome.

    More details will be posted over time

Prerequisites

At the 2020/Pop-ups/Microformats session, there were several takeaways that would be good to resolve before trying another session. Specifically,

  • perhaps a flow diagram of how a property can advance from proposed > draft > core
  • what are the requirements / is the process to iterate on a Proposed property?
  • what are the requirements / is the process to iterate on a Draft property?
  • explicit lists of steps to follow to add a proposed property (with example "what specific real world use-cases they are solving, preferably with a link to a step-by-step user scenario, e.g. demonstratable using existing non-standard / single-site / single-implementation tools"), and transition a property from proposed to draft to core
  • GitHub project labels to indicate the current state, and next-action(s) for individual proposals
  • perhaps a flow diagram of the process for how a whole new microformat is developed and can be advance into a draft proposal and further

If we do not at least have a detailed proposal on this to discuss, then any discussion of stabilization will not be successful.

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Details

  • organizer(s) / facilitators
    • David Shanske - Organizer but not necessarily facilitator
    • Jacky Alciné is open to facilitate to get learning experience on how to
  • Date
  • Time
  • Short description of the session
  • #hashtag (used to create an Etherpad for the session
  • Streaming video/audio platform
  • Hack day?
  • Demos?

Dates

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  • Tantek Çelik would cannot really do Saturdays (or Sundays for that matter), would prefer Fridays
  • capjamesg would prefer Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, but is open to other times. No times later than 12 noon PT.
  • Barnaby Walters is usually not free Sunday evenings (CET), flexible otherwise
  • David Shanske has a preference for weekends because he thinks people are more likely off work, but is available on weekdays on December 2, 9 and 15, 16, 19-21, 26, 27 as well as January 2nd
  • Aaron Parecki unavailable on Sundays, flexible otherwise, Pacific timezone
  • ...

Pipes

There are a number of common pieces of functionality that are shared across IndieWeb services, such as a means to provide /reply-context. This is used to facilitate bridging in some cases.

We can do this using i.e. a shared Python library, but it leads to be language-specific, and can't be used for folks in different tech stacks.

Instead, we can provide common HTTP-based services - perhaps backed by these shared libraries - to provide language-agnostic tools.

These services are pipes, and during this pop-up, let's discuss some of the existing services, as well as brainstorm some alternatives that we as a community want to go after.

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Details

  • organizer(s) / facilitators
  • Date
  • Time
  • Short description of the session
  • #hashtag (used to create an Etherpad for the session - #pipes
  • Streaming video/audio platform
  • Hack day? - maybe as a follow-up? or as part of it?
  • Demos?


Dates

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2022-05-07:

2022-05-14: note There is a tentative weekend HWC on the 15th, for 2 hours though

2022-05-21:

2022-05-28:

2022-06-04:

InDWeb

Using DWeb tech on the IndieWeb. How can one leverage Tor/IPFS/Hypercore/Braid(OT/CRDT) on their website today? Also, a crash course of IW building blocks for people coming from the DWeb and an appeal to cross-pollinate by prototyping from your own site.

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Details

Personal Site Search

How can personal websites leverage search to provide a better experience to their users? What are the benefits and tradeoffs of deferring site search to an external provider like Google or DuckDuckGo versus building one's own personal search engine? What features should a personal search engine have? These are questions we would like to discuss in the Personal Site Search Pop Up.

This session is a place for anyone who owns a personal site, or who is interested in personal sites, to come and discuss web search in the context of their site.

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Details


Organizers

To discuss how we will decide to restart in-person events, reflect on how the online only model has worked for us, and other outstanding organizers issues.

Not sure if this is for you? See Organizers for a brief description of who is an IndieWeb organizer (changes every year!)

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Details

  • Date
  • Time
  • Short description of the session
  • #hashtag (used to create an Etherpad for the session
  • Streaming video/audio platform


Positive Arguments

Many reasons we share to join the IndieWeb are negative, focused on why the corporate web is bad. In 2021, a lot of people are aware of the problems with corporate sites, but may see no other option, so could a perspective shift to focus on the positive attributes of the IndieWeb encourage more to join?

The goal of the session would be to discuss which parts of a 2012 discussion about positive arguments for the IndieWeb are still relevant, which might have gone stale, and if there's anything missing, add it, while making the page into a bit nicer to read. Additionally I'd like to add the topic of "self expression" is essentially missing from the wiki. We're in 2022, and communities like Yesterweb are gaining a lot of traction, because they focus on the same aspects as what made the web a hobby in the 90s and the early 2000s: freedom of (artistic) expression, having a home on the net, a custom representation of one's self. The epitome of this was probably Flash, the most popular of it was MySpace profiles, and I'm starting to believe that we're losing this from the web, and it was never a strong point in IndieWeb.

Details

Interest

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  • Tracy Durnell - interested in this from a marketing perspective, and maybe talking about whether / how self-expression and the "weird web" connect with a DIY / handmade ethos (webpunk?) and aesthetic
  • David Shanske
  • Binyamin Green - It's entirely possible to shift perspective, within the current set of arguments. Similar to Tracy, I'd like to see about improving PR for the IndieWeb.
  • Jacky Alciné
    • I'm interested to see how we can do a more-pro versus "ugh, the cons" and even weave that into our sites
  • Chris Lott
  • Chris Aldrich
  • Template:hollie
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Meta Gardening / Collective Community Science Online

Looking at the big picture of the personal website / blog ecosystem: what is made possible with our websites en masse? What could our websites contribute? There are community science apps and websites people can contribute to, is there an IndieWeb way to participate? It can be hard to find useful gardening information and learn from others' experience and wisdom.

  • ways to collate observational data from many websites for scientific use?
  • using microformats to mark up observational data and gardening info (e.g. companion planting)
  • collecting microclimate data corresponding to natural phenomena (phenology) - is this useful if collected in a standardized format by many bloggers in many places? is this useful to track for climate change?
  • how can we track our own gardening info in a way that's useful for ourselves, and others? (e.g. varieties, timing, companion planting, style of gardening, etc. to make planting decisions easier next year)
  • ways to exchange gardening advice on our websites

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Personal websites as productivity tools

How can, and do, people use their websites as productivity tools or to increase their effectiveness? What systems and processes do people use to get the most out of their site?

Types of productivity and personal growth people probably use their websites for:

  • Tracking - quantified self
  • Task management - replacement for apps?
  • Learning / knowledge management - digital gardens
  • Accountability - personal reviews

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IndieWeb and Activism

How does IndieWeb fit into political activism, resistance, and counterculture? On social media, it's become common to share messages about social justice and participate in 'events' like changing your profile picture to showcase support for a movement. How are people using their websites now to write about or support causes? What benefits could a distributed communication model offer organizers? What challenges and risks does website-based activism face?

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Related Wiki Pages

Sending the Golden Ticket: TicketAuth Delivery

The needed extension to IndieAuth to allow people to get per-user access to resources on our site is here. The extension doesn't explicit say how one could go about this and how one could build up such a system for their own use (or for the use of others). This popup is an attempt to collect ideas from the community on how implementors and users of TicketAuth could go about making it work. Current and previous idea include the following:


Hat tip to David Shanske for the golden ticket term during HWC 2022-07-06.

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Related Wiki Pages

Completed

Analog Meets Online

This session was held on January 22, 2022. Event page: https://events.indieweb.org/2022/01/indiewebcamp-popup-analog-meets-online-b8c2zEb33yBS


Personal Libraries

This session was held on Saturday, February 19, 2022. Event page at https://events.indieweb.org/2022/02/personal-libraries-pop-up-session-Wax8N17zQuY0


Displaying Responses and Features

This session was held on Saturday, August 6, 2022. Event page at https://events.indieweb.org/2022/08/indiewebcamp-popup-displaying-responses-Zy6oOwt29sxD


How to Make the IndieWeb More Approachable

This session was held on Sunday, November 27, 2022. Event page at https://events.indieweb.org/2022/11/indiewebcamp-popup-how-to-make-the-indieweb-more-approachable-cj3LAW8IE9p5


Previously

IndieWebCamps

IndieWebCamps
2025 Düsseldorf • Berlin • Create Day July (O) • Planning More Camps & Popups
2024 Brighton • Düsseldorf • Portland • Berlin • San Diego
Build a Website in an Hour March (P) • Create Day November (O)
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)


See Also

IWC Pop-ups 2022 Sessions
2022/Pop-ups/Analog Meets Online
2022/Pop-ups/Displaying Responses
2022/Pop-ups/how-to-make-the-indieweb-more-approachable
2022/Pop-ups/Microformats
2022/Pop-ups/Personal Libraries
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