2023-12-indieweb-gift-calendar

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Stay tuned! Want gifts now? See the 2022 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 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.

Welcome to the 7th annual IndieWeb Gift Calendar! Anyone can participate, and if you’re looking for ideas, see the Inspiration section below.

See previous years for examples: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

Please keep in mind the Considerations and if you’re not sure, you may want to first make a commitment for yourself (and follow through) to ship something you’ll use on your own site, as it will likely help reveal ways to improve things for the community as a whole that others can also use.

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

December 2023
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
				1 🎁	2	3
4	5	6 🎁	7	8 🎁	9	10
11	12	13 🎁	14	15 🎁	16	17
18	19	20 🎁	21	22 🎁	23	24
25	26	27 🎁	28	29 🎁	30	31

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:

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 gifts. E.g. Used so far:

🎁 gift planned — wait for the day for it to be unwrapped! (you may put the from: in a comment)
📄 new wiki page
📑 new category wiki page
🛠 IndieWeb tools, libraries, command line utilities etc. for developers
📫 IndieWeb related newsletter published, e.g. This Week In The IndieWeb
🧩 IndieWeb related plugin or add-on e.g. WordPress/Drupal plugin, Browser add-on/extension
💬 IndieWeb chat related improvements (bots, chat bridges, moderation, archives)
📅 IndieWeb related event
🎧 IndieWeb related podcast
📃 for external documentation updates for any of the above (e.g. improved docs for tools)
🖍 graphics posting/creating user client (presumably with Micropub support)
📜 blog post about the IndieWeb — 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)

❇️ new IndieWeb related user service
✳️ updated IndieWeb related user service
📝 writing client (presumably with Micropub support)
...

More sources of ideas:

See posts#Types_of_Posts

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 :)

Updates to / new versions of things shipped in last year’s calendar or prior gift calendars.
to-do and look for something you can do in a day!
IndieWebify issues to fix, fix one, and get an update deployed
New release of microformats2 parser(s)
- php-mf2
- ...
Work on 2023-review and previous years that weren't completed
Organize and host a virtual IndieWeb event
...

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.