Events

📆 Welcome to upcoming IndieWeb events!

• For indie event posts, see: event
• For indie event listings pages, see: events list

Upcoming

Upcoming indie web related events. Feel free to add any indieweb-related events, free or paid, whole camps/conferences, or even individual indieweb related talks at conferences.

2016

Feel free to add tentative, month-level granularity, or potentially IndieWeb related (e.g. open source related) 2016 events here - helps with planning of IndieWebCamps to avoid conflicts.

Contents 1 Upcoming 1.1 2016 1.1.1 September 1.1.2 October 1.1.3 November 1.1.4 December 1.2 2017 1.2.1 April 1.2.2 May 1.2.3 June 1.3 How To Add An Event 2 Add events to your calendar 3 Recent 3.1 September 3.2 August 3.3 July 3.4 June 3.5 May 3.6 April 3.7 March 4 IndieWebCamps 5 Homebrew Website Club meetups 6 Past Years 7 Why 8 Issues 8.1 Mediawiki awkward for events 8.2 Multiple places to update 8.3 Creating new HWC pages is tedious 8.4 Wiki pages require manual RSVP 8.5 Event pages need better presentation 9 Brainstorming 9.1 Separate Events Site 10 See Also

September

• 2016-09-24...25: IndieWebCamp Brighton at Brighton, UK. https://indieweb.org/2016/Brighton

October

• 2016-10-05 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Birmingham (England), Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA, Los Angeles CA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-10-19 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA, Los Angeles CA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-10-24..26 Leading Design Conference at London, England
• 2016-10-25..27 IIW
• 2016-10-28..30 MozFest 2016 at Ravensbourne, London

November

• 2016-11-04...06: IndieWebCamp LA on the West side of Los Angeles (Santa Monica), California. https://indieweb.org/2016/LA
• 2016-11-11..12 SeaGL: the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

December

• 2016-12-05…09 Mozilla All Hands

2017

April

• 2017-04-04 Idea: a "404" party/wake on 4/04 per [1]

May

• 2017-05-13...14 beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany (likely IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2017 the weekend beforehand!)
• 2017-05-20..21: IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2017, part of the Nuremberg Web Week 2017. Second IndieWebCamp in Nuremberg! https://indiewebcamp.com/2017/Nuremberg
• 2017-05-24…26 UXLondon by Clearleft in London, England

June

• IndieWebSummit 2017!

How To Add An Event

To add an event to the IndieWeb Events Listing, just edit this page and copy paste one of the event templates in the source into the right most-recent-first spot in the Upcoming list above!

In addition, for Homebrew Website Club (HWC) events:

• Add it to Template:Homebrew Website Club
• Create the event permalink page for it (copy paste from a previous HWC permalink page) if necessary
• Add yourself to the RSVP on that page for the city you’re (co-)organizing
• Update next-hwc, Main_Page, Events, and IRC /topic (or ask an admin) to link to that next HWC (assuming that is the next one)

And ideally:

• Create an indie event on your own site for the HWC for your city, ideally with invitations to people that have previously participated.
• POSSE that indie event to one or more applicable event silos/commons of your choice (e.g. Calagator, Facebook)
• Add both those URLs to the section for your city
• Be sure to have Bridgy or some other backfeed setup to receive RSVPs from the silo copy to your indie event.
• Invite folks on the silo/silos you POSSEd to, to the POSSE copy/copies.

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Don't see an IndieWeb event near you? Plan one and add it here!
Jump on IRC, find folks near you, and plan an IndieWeb event/drinkup/dinner/meetup/hackathon/camp together.

More IndieWebCamp events are also being planned!

Want to help out with one of those? Say something in IRC and add yourself to the event page.

Add events to your calendar

Subscribe to current and future indie web related events, e.g. in Apple iCal, or Evolution:

• »subscribe to indie web events
• set it to update ("[x] Refresh" or "Auto-refresh: Every day")

See also:

• Zimbra instructions
• download iCalendar file.

Recent

Past indie web related events and related photos, blog posts, etc.

September

• 2016-09-07 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA, Los Angeles CA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-09-08..11 XOXO Festival 2016 in Portland, Oregon

• 2016-09-09 14:00-0700–16:00-0700 (-0700 UTC):
  XOXO #indieweb meetup
  Where: Portland, Oregon
  

• 2016-09-12..14 View Source Berlin presented by Mozilla

• 2016-09-14 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Nürnberg, Silicon Valley
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-09-19..23 W3C TPAC in Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2016-09-22..23 Social Web Working Group F2F7 during W3C TPAC

• 2016-09-21 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA, Los Angeles CA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

August

• 2016-08-27...28: IndieWebCamp NYC2 at Dalberg New York City, NY. https://indieweb.org/2016/NYC2

• 2016-08-24 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Los Angeles CA, Bellingham WA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-08-17 18:00–20:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-08-10 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton (England), Göteborg (Sweden), Portland OR, San Francisco, Bellingham WA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-08-06 10:00–18:00 (local time):
  Summer Homebrew Website Club Sprint
  Where: Brighton (England)
  Full day Homebrew Website Club meetup. Code/writing sprint. No talks. Come and work on your IndieWeb project, be it your personal website, IndieWeb tool, or anything else. Or write a blog post, or two.

July

• 2016-07-27 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: London, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-07-20 18:00–21:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-07-06 18:00–21:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-07-13 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton, Portland, San Francisco, Bellingham WA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

June

• 2016-06-01 17:30–21:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton, Göteborg, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-06-03...05: IndieWeb Summit in Portland, Oregon! Details at https://indiewebcamp.com/2016

• 2016-06-06...07: W3C Social Web Working Group f2f meeting in Portland, Oregon! Details at https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-06-06

• 2016-06-08...09 Decentralized Web Summit, at the Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA, with a few IndieWeb community members speaking. https://indiewebcamp.com/events/2016-06-08-decentralized-web-summit
  • 2016-06-08 11:15-12:00 Kevin Marks moderating Lightning Talks & Panel – Peer to Peer Networks
  • 2016-06-08 14:30-15:15 Amber Case moderating Panel: Defining our Values, Evaluating the Risks of the Decentralized Web
  • 2016-06-09 11:00-12:30 Ryan Barrett Lightning Talk: IndieWeb
  • 2016-06-09 13:30-15:00 Dan Gillmor Lightning Talk
  • http://www.decentralizedweb.net/schedule/

• 2016-06-08 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-06-15 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton, Göteborg, Portland, San Francisco, Bellingham
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-06-13..17 Mozilla All Hands in London, UK

• 2016-06-21..24 Open Source Bridge 2016 in Portland, Oregon
  • 2016-06-22 11:00-11:45 Aaron Parecki on Standardizing the Social Web - W3C #socialweb specs

• 2016-06-22: IndieWeb Hack Day Nuremberg 2016 in Germany during and as part of openSUSE conference 2016. Details at https://indiewebcamp.com/2016/Nuremberg/IndieWeb-Hack-Day

• 2016-06-29 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton, Göteborg, Portland, San Francisco, Bellingham WA
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

May

• 2016-05-04 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton, Göteborg, Portland, San Francisco, Washington DC, Los Angeles
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-05-07...08: Second IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf in Germany during and as part of beyond tellerrand 2016. Details at https://indiewebcamp.com/2016/Düsseldorf

• 2016-05-11 18:30–21:00 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Los Angeles
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-05-18 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Göteborg, Portland, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-05-25 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Nürnberg
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

April

• 2016-04-05 Taking Part in the IndieWeb http://www.meetup.com/Sevenoaks-Web-Scene/events/229282753/ Talk by Calum Ryan

• 2016-04-06 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Brighton, Portland, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-04-16..17: IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2016, part of the Nuremberg Web Week 2016. First IndieWebCamp in Nuremberg! https://indiewebcamp.com/2016/Nuremberg

• 2016-04-20 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Portland, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-04-26..28: Internet Identity Workshop XXII #22 - 2016A at Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-identity-workshop-xxii-22-2016a-tickets-19430016703

• 2016-04-27 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Santa Monica, Los Angeles
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

March

• 2016-03-09 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Portland, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-03-14…15 IndieWebCamp MIT at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://indiewebcamp.com/2016/MIT

• 2016-03-16...17: W3C Social Web Working Group face-to-face meeting at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-03-16 (requires Working Group membership, or permission from chairs to attend as an observer).

• 2016-03-23 17:30–19:30 (local time):
  Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  Where: Portland, San Francisco
  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

• 2016-03-23 17:30–20:00 (local time):
  Beyond Twitter: An IndieWeb future for social media?
  Where: Foo Café, Malmö, Sweden
  AW Seminar where the future of social media beyond silos like Twitter is explored with a focus on the IndieWeb vision of what lies ahead. Talk by Pelle Wessman.

IndieWebCamps

Homebrew Website Club meetups

Past Years

Why

Why do we use this page for events?

Some of the benefits of using the wiki for events include:

• There is no fixed template for events, so we are able to add new sections to the event page as needed
• The layout of event pages has evolved over time as our needs have changed

Issues

Mediawiki awkward for events

One of our more awkward uses of MediaWiki is using it as an events calendar.

Multiple places to update

• Adding an event like an IndieWebCamp or Homebrew Website Club involves updating several locations
  • Home page list of events needs to be updated manually
  • Events on events are updated manually
  • IWC or HWC templates are updated manually
  • /next-iwc and /next-hwc redirects are updated manually

Creating new HWC pages is tedious

• Copy+pasting to create new HWC pages is tedious, and is typically only done by Gregor and Tantek
• Entering all the HTML required to format the page as an h-event is error prone

Wiki pages require manual RSVP

• Not easily able to add new features like accepting RSVPs to the wiki pages themselves

Event pages need better presentation

• The event pages look like wiki pages, with little visual hierarchy, and are not immediately recognizable as an event you can RSVP to to the general public

Brainstorming

Separate Events Site

We used 2016.indieweb.org for the 2016 IndieWeb Summit. The IndieWeb Summit 2016 event page was an initial attempt at creating a more friendly format for our events.

We have also set up 2016.indieweb.org/nyc2 for IndieWebCamp NYC2.

Possibilities for expanding use of a separate site for events.

• Continue with YYYY.indieweb.org
• New subdomain events.indieweb.org

Some options to consider:

• keep using YYYY.indieweb.org for annual summits, and YYYY.indieweb.org/CITYABBR for specific IndieWebCamps
• build our own minimal event interface
• adopt an existing running project such as Calagator
• wait for an in-progress project such as Dark Matter Eventer

Requirements: (not comprehensive)

• Some level of unstructured content on event pages, so that we can allow our use of it to continue to evolve over time.
• Be able to quickly duplicate an event rather than set up recurring events (like Calagator's "clone" function)
• Events must support multiple locations and varying start times and timezones per location (our HWC events do this currently)

Ideas:

• Quickly add links to posts (notes, photos, articles) about an event
• Highlight photos from events
  • Upload photos directly to the wiki or event page
  • By retrieving linked photos in indieweb photo posts / tweets / instagram posts
• RSVP via Webmention like http://2016.indieweb.org
• RSVP directly on the page (an "I'm Going" button after you're logged in)

Other community examples:

• WordCamps, which have many properties in common with Indiewebcamps
  • Uses wordcamp.org (likely derived from barcamp.org), a TLD different from the community: wordpress.org
    • Philosophy: a main landing page and using subdomains for the individual events, with year/location.
    • Making wordcamp.org itself the page for upcoming events
    • Use subdomains on wordcamp.org for specific events
    • Issues: they had an issue with URL structure last year.

See Also

• event - event posts
• events list - pages of upcoming or past events
• Planning - planning for more IndieWebCamps!