2025/SD
🎪 IndieWebCamp San Diego 2025 will be the third IndieWebCamp in San Diego (AKA IWC SD), the weekend of December 13-14th, 2025. Questions may be directed to Joe Crawford in indieweb chat.
- When: 2025-12-13 and 2025-12-14, 10:00-18:00
- Where: The Promenade at Rio Vista Apartments, “Mingle” Room, 2185 Station Village Way, San Diego, CA 92108
- Wiki: https://indieweb.org/2025/SD
- Cost: tickets complimentary
Participating
Please read through and agree to:
If you have any questions or problems regarding these, please contact one or more of the #Organizers.
RSVP
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Then RSVP to the event here:
And show up!
No ticketing cost.
Links
- Event Page: https://events.indieweb.org/2025/12/indiewebcamp-san-diego-2025-jhCO6w8CyVHg (including Zoom link during the event)
- Chat: https://chat.indieweb.org/ (or find details at discuss)
- If you are blogging, link to the entry on IndieWeb Events.
- Schedule Grid
- Demos
Health and Safety
😷 Everyone attending IndieWebCamp San Diego is required to agree to the following policy.
This is a living policy and may receive clarifying edits between now and the event. However, we will not remove or downgrade any aspect of the policy between the announcement and the event.
Masks
All attendees are required to wear a high-quality mask while inside the event venue, with the exception of those who can't mask for medical reasons.
Masks should be N95, KN95, or KF94 (or equivalent standard), cover the nose and mouth completely, and worn properly while inside the venue. Disposable “paper” surgical masks, masks with exhalation valves, and cloth masks are not permitted. Sip masks are permitted. Some masks will be made available in case you do not have one.
You may briefly remove your mask in between sips of a beverage, but otherwise it should remain on. We recommend stepping outside if you need a longer drink break.
If you need to unmask for eating or any other reason, please step outdoors.
Testing
Attendees are asked to monitor their health leading up to the event and are encouraged to test with an at-home antigen or rapid test before traveling to San Diego. While in San Diego, we recommend taking a COVID test before coming to the venue each day.
We encourage you to inform close contacts, should you test positive during or after the event, so that they can take appropriate precautions.
Illness
Under no circumstances should you attend if you test positive for COVID, experience respiratory symptoms (like flu, cold, RSV, COVID), or have any other reason to believe you may be ill or contagious. Remote attendance will be available via Zoom.
Ventilation
Our main venue is a large open community room at an apartment complex with one front door and windows that do not open. It is currently TBD if we will have exclusive access to the space. A CO2 monitor will be used as a proxy for the ventilation levels in the venue.
Before and After the Event
In at least the 5 days before IndieWebCamp (December 8-12th), we encourage attendees to wear a high-quality mask (as described above) in public indoor settings in order to avoid exposure to contagious diseases. This includes healthcare settings, stores, airports, airplanes, and public transit.
We encourage attendees to test 5 days after the event.
About this policy
This policy was created from a mix of other policies: North Bay Python, XOXO, E&W, a local San Diego Covid Conscious board game group, and gRegor's Health and Safety Guidelines. See health-and-safety for other examples.
Session ideas
Ideas for potential breakout sessions
Tantek Çelik: personal library card catalogs, both virtual (on your personal site) and physical like the libraries we (some of us) grew up with.
- maybe co-facilitate with
Chris Aldrich? - what would a plain text format / layout for a physical card catalog card look like? QR codes on the physical cards that link to the virtual cards?
- any prior art like a card catalog HyperCard stack?
- if someone brings a typewriter and fitting card stock, could we make a few in the session?
- Chris Aldrich has created an etherpad as a place to collect some ideas and examples in anticipation of this session https://etherpad.indieweb.org/p/card_catalogs
- maybe co-facilitate with
- Tantek Çelik: photos — would be interested in another discussion session on photos after the great one in Berlin.
- maybe co-facilitate with
Al Abut?
- maybe co-facilitate with
Anthony Ciccarello +1 definitely interested- ...
Organizers
Joe Crawford - venue, local outreach
gRegor Morrill - wiki editing
Volunteers
- Tantek Çelik — happy to help out beforehand virtually, and onsite when I get into town
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Places
Some places collected through chat and the collective consciousness. Please add more!
Hotels
- San Diego Marriott Mission Valley — very close to the venue
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Coffee
This section is a stub. You can help the IndieWeb wiki by expanding it.
Cafes, coffeehouses, and espresso stands near the venue or hotels, or worth a separate trip for a coffee:
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Food
- El Zarape Restaurant, 3201 Adams Ave (cross-street 32nd st.), San Diego, CA.
- went there for an informal after-camp dinner on Sunday night
- Tantek Çelik: superb tacos, several vegan options, plentiful outdoors seating, even a huge TV outdoors suitable for demos
- Tacotarian, 43332 30th st., San Diego, CA. https://eattacotarian.com/menu/
- Tantek Çelik: excellent plant-based Mexican food, tacos, burritos, sides. went there for lunch the day after camp.
- In-N-Out, the California classic, is nearby: 2005 Camino Del Este, San Diego, CA
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Drinks
- Lestat’s on Adams https://www.lestats.com/lestats-on-adams
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Desserts
- An’s Dry Cleaning https://adcgelato.com/
- The Incredible Cheesecake Company https://www.theincrediblecheesecakeco.com/
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Adjacent Events and Activities
- 2025-12-11 🎟 19:00 (18:00 doors) Standup comedy at Mic Drop Comedy: Stef Dag (see her IG for samples of material). Requires paid tickets.
- 2025-12-12 afternoon/evening — see Friday warmup below!
- 2025-12-13 17:30: Mission Bay Parade of Lights
- 2025-12-14 and 2025-12-21, both at 17:30: San Diego Bay Parade of Lights
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Possible field trips
- Verbatim Books
- High end theaters
- Museums at Balboa Park
- There’s lots of small museums that are more like large galleries.
- Classy ones like Museum of Photographic Arts: https://balboapark.org/arts-culture/museum-of-photographic-arts-at-the-san-diego-museum-of-art/
- Quirky ones like the one for model railroads: https://www.sdmrm.org/
- And many more, too many to list.
Meetups beforehand
Friday warmup
Want to join an informal Friday meetup for snacks and/or drinks? Note your availability below!
- Tantek Çelik arrives on Thursday afternoon, happy to help sponsor a "warmup" hang for IndieWebCamp SD at a place suggested by Al Abut (preferably that includes non-alcoholic and veggie/vegan options!)
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
TODO
- Notes on venue