2023-12-indieweb-gift-calendar

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Welcome to the IndieWeb Gift Calendar! The 2023 IndieWeb Gift Calendar is the 7th annual group effort to gift (ship) one or more IndieWeb-related thing(s) each day of December that others can use to improve their IndieWeb experience.

This can be anything from IndieWeb friendly services & apps (like social readers, Micropub clients), CMSs, plugins, major documentation contributions, or community libraries.

Anyone can participate. See the Inspiration section below for ideas.

Please keep Considerations in mind, and if you’re not sure, make a commitment for yourself to ship something you’ll use yourself, which may reveal ways to improve things for the community.

Once you've finished something, write a short blog post and link to it in the calendar below!

December 2023

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
    
1

πŸ›  Bridgy Fed: profiles for all web sites Ryan Barrett


πŸ“« This Week in the IndieWeb
πŸ“œ IndieWeb Carnival Dec. jo

2

✳️ indiebookclub Year in Review gRegor Morrill

3

🧩 WordPress IndieAuth 4.4.0 David Shanske

4

πŸ“œ Ideas for improving metaformats parsing
Anthony Ciccarello

5

πŸ“„ Craft.do JL Gatewood


🧩 WordPress ActivityPub 1.3.0  Matthias Pfefferle

6

πŸ“… HWC EU/London capjamesg


πŸ“… HWC Pacific David Shanske

7

πŸ›  mf2py 2.0 Angelo Gladding & capjamesg

8

πŸ“« This Week in the IndieWeb

9

πŸ“„ Data Dialogues Tantek Γ‡elik

10

πŸ“œ How to write about blogs Frank Meeuwsen


πŸ“„ Meta Platforms πŸ“„ location tag Tantek Γ‡elik
πŸ›  lexrpc 0.5 Ryan Barrett

11

πŸ“œ IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023 Joe Crawford


🧩 IndieWeb for Elgg v1.1.0 πŸ‘€ Nikolai Shcherbin

12

πŸ“„ IWC SD planning
πŸ“‘ IWC SD 2023 Category gRegor Morrill


πŸ“„πŸ“„πŸ“„ word of the day, long word, web component capjamesg

13

πŸ›  <recommend-firefox> capjamesg


πŸ“… HWC Nuremberg BjΓΆrn Stierand
πŸ“… HWC EU/London capjamesg
πŸ“„πŸ“„ Accra goifnetwork.org Tantek Γ‡elik

14

✳️ Threads federate out ActivityPub Meta Platforms


πŸ›  Bridgy Fed supports following Threads confirmed Ryan Barrett

15

πŸ›  AutoWrite personal text engine capjamesg


πŸ“« This Week in the IndieWeb

16

πŸ“… IndieWebCamp San Diego

17

πŸ“… IndieWebCamp San Diego


πŸ“„ Slim gRegor Morrill
πŸ“„πŸ“„πŸ“„ December, joy, what to make at IndieWebCampβ€Žβ€Ž Tantek Γ‡elik
πŸ“„ swiftbot capjamesg
πŸ“„ iNaturalist Barnaby Walters
πŸ“„ typecast Chris Aldrich
πŸ“„ Bandcrash fluffy
πŸ“œ IndieWebCamp San Diego Day 2 Joe Crawford

18

πŸ“œ Choosing between ideas for blog posts Tracy Durnell

19

πŸ“„ Monogram gRegor Morrill

20

πŸ“… HWC EU/London Mark Sutherland


πŸ“… HWC Pacific David Shanske

21

🧩 WordPress IndieAuth 4.4.1 David Shanske

22

πŸ“« This Week in the IndieWeb

23

πŸ“„ communication-preferences Tantek Γ‡elik

24

πŸ“„ static web hosting Tantek Γ‡elik

25

πŸ“… IndieWeb Createfest David Shanske
❇️ IndieWeb Movie Watching Overview Sara JakΕ‘a


🧩 WordPress Webmention 5.2.0  Matthias Pfefferle

26

πŸ“„ personal feed Tantek Γ‡elik

27

πŸ›  web-calendar web component capjamesg


πŸ“„πŸ“„πŸ“„πŸ“„πŸ“„πŸ“„πŸ“„ new pages per year 2017-created
2018-created
2019-created
2020-created
2021-created
2022-created
Aaron Parecki
🧩 WordPress Webmention 5.2.1  Matthias Pfefferle

28

πŸ“„ developer FAQ Tantek Γ‡elik

29

πŸ“« This Week in the IndieWeb

30

πŸ›  Bridgy Fed front page redesign, docs rewrite for multi-protocol Ryan Barrett

31

πŸ“„ large language model
πŸ“œ capture first, edit publish later
πŸ“œ adding a
No LLMs used… disclaimer
Tantek Γ‡elik

Considerations

Gifts can be anything from major wiki documentation contributions / improvements to shipping updates on any of the IndieWeb applications (like social readers), services, CMSs, plugins, community libraries, or any other projects in use by multiple folks.

Please keep in mind the following considerations when adding something to a day:

  • Please keep the description to three lines or less. If you need help or ideas to copyedit your description down to fit, see other entries, or ask in chat for help copyediting.
  • It must be shipping / usable, not just a blog post announcing / saying you plan to do it.
  • Is it clear what your thing does?
  • Is it clear how someone is supposed to use it or otherwise benefit from it?
  • What use-case does it solve for others (besides yourself)? Ask yourself, how would/could someone else in the community use the thing I'm posting?
  • If it's a markup / styling example, is it clear what its purpose is, and how someone could/should copy the markup/styling and customize it for their own site?
  • If it's a programming example, is it clear how an indieweb site could use the code, using what language(s)? Does it require any frameworks?
  • If it's a code example or project, is it clearly open sourced, with a clear link to its GitHub or other code repo that has at least a README explaining how it can be used for either direct user benefit or to enhance existing indieweb sites?

Emoji gift kinds

We use emoji to indicate different kinds of IndieWeb related gifts. E.g. (and every one of these must be IndieWeb related, assume that literally as a prefix of the description) Used so far:

  • 🎁 gift planned β€” wait for the day for it to be unwrapped! Have something you’re making for the community for a particular day? Put the 🎁 emoji on that day, and optionally wrap it in span giftwrap like
    • <span title="from: yourname">🎁</span>
  • ❇️ new user service (none yet in 2023!)
  • ✳️ updated or friendly user service (or improved building blocks support)
  • πŸ“„ new wiki page
  • πŸ“‘ new category wiki page
  • πŸ›  tools, libraries, web components, command line utilities etc. for developers
  • πŸ“« newsletter published, e.g. This Week In The IndieWeb
  • 🧩 user-installable plugin or add-on e.g. WordPress/Drupal plugin, browser add-on/extension
  • πŸ’¬ chat related improvements (bots, chat bridges, moderation, archives, chat web UI)
  • πŸ“… event, e.g. IndieWebCamp, Pop-up, Homebrew Website Club
  • 🎧 podcast, e.g. TWITIWAE
  • πŸ“ƒ for external documentation updates for any of the above (e.g. improved docs for tools)
  • πŸ– graphics posting/creating user client (presumably with Micropub support)
  • πŸ“œ blog post about the IndieWeb β€” only use this if the blog itself is the gift, i.e. if it’s a blog post about one of the above, use the icon related to the thing itself, not the blog post about the thing.

More ideas (inspired by kinds of gifts from 2021)

  • πŸ“ writing client (presumably with Micropub support)
  • ...

More sources of ideas:

Inspiration

Looking for something to do to benefit the community?

In general (feel free to add things here that you find inspiring in general, or hope someone else is inspired to do :)

Specific inspirations:

  • ...

In progress

Got something you're working on for the IndieWeb Gift Calendar but it's not quite complete or ready for community re-use? Feel free to link to it here while you're working on it, especially if you'd like others to review it, provide feedback etc.

Brainstorming

Past Gift Calendars

See Also