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IndieWeb Summit 2019 was the 9th IndieWeb Summit, held 2019-06-29…30 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
IndieWeb Summit 2019 was June 29-30, 2019 (Saturday & Sunday), in Portland, Oregon; the ninth annual gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, graphic artists, designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, create & improve their personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
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- Mozilla, 1120 NW Couch St #320, Portland, Oregon, 97209, USA
- Tickets: https://2019.indieweb.org/summit
- Pre-Summit Social - Friday 5:30-7:30pm at Pine Street Market
Participating
All participants must agree to:
Contacts:
- Please reach out to an organizer during the event for any reason, especially if you feel unsafe or unwelcome or feel members are not living up to the standards we set out for ourselves in the above code and guidelines:
Questions about attending and participating?
- Learn more: Attending IndieWeb Summit
- Join our online chat! (also available via IRC or Slack) and introduce yourself!
- Remote Participation
See also:
- List of participants
- Add yourself to the Project Goals page to indicate your interest in participating and what project(s) new or existing you want to work on!
- Twitter List of Participants
RSVP
Register and RSVP on
Additional listings:
- Calagator: https://calagator.org/events/1250475216
- Upcoming: https://upcoming.org/event/indieweb-summit-ycr156v0us
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/424050631707396/
- Mozilla: https://events.mozilla.org/indiewebsummit2019
Schedule
- Friday June 28th
- morning: 2019/Organizers
- evening: pre-party open to all (friends and guests welcome!)
- Saturday June 29th - Sunday June 30th
- See: session grid
Day 1 Discussing | Day 2 Making |
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Day 1 is about discussing in a BarCamp-like environment. Bring a topic you'd like to discuss or join in on topics as they are added to the board. | Day 2 is about making things on and for your personal site! Work with others or on your own. |
Keynotes |
Participating
- Please read through our Code of Conduct
- Session Grid - session proposals and session grid
- 2019/Demos - day 2 demos
- Discuss
- Project Goals - add yourself and your project goals for the event
- 2019/Session proposals - place for ideation for sessions pre-Summit
Nearby Events
June 25-30 will be an exciting IndieWeb Week! Check out these events while you’re in town!
Most are either organized by others or informal or both and a chance to get to know the local community beyond IndieWeb. Events associated with the IndieWeb Summit have a yellow background.
- 2019-06-25 Tuesday
- 6-9pm: DonutJS
- 2019-06-26 Wednesday
- 6:00am November Project Portland (#NP_PDX)
- Just show up Wednesdays, 6:00am sharp at MODA Center - free outdoor workout!
- Evening: Homebrew Website Club! <-- go RSVP there
- 6:00am November Project Portland (#NP_PDX)
- 2019-06-27 Thursday
- Hack the Dot at Alchemy Code Lab
- 2019-06-28 Friday evening: IndieWeb pre-summit social meetup
- 2019-06-29 Saturday
- 6:00pm Dat night
- 2019-06-30 Sunday night karaoke after the Summit!
IndieWeb Organizers!
- Friday June 28th morning-afternoon: Organizers Summit
Travel and Lodging
Airport
✈️ PDX Airport. If you are flying to Portland, Oregon, PDX is the airport you want.
Public Transit
🚈 From the PDX airport, the MAX will drop you off downtown a few blocks from the venue. It costs $2.50 for a ticket. You can pay via ApplePay, Android Pay, or by buying a ticket at a machine. Public Transit directions
Lyft or Uber
🚙 You can also take Lyft or Uber from the airport, they will pick you up in the lower level, in a section named "Transportation Network Companies." The cost will be about $18-22 for UberX. More info on the Uber blog.
Taxi
🚕 If you want to take a local cab, Aaron Parecki recommends calling Radio Cab (503-227-1212) when you are just outside security, and they will meet you in the lower level for pickup. Alternately, there is usually a line of cabs ready to take people in the lower level.
Hotels
🏫 Here are a few nearby recommended hotels:
- The Nines - website yelp
- Ace Hotel - website (Influencer Media Stay Request), yelp
- Mariott City Center - website yelp
- The Society Hotel - website yelp
- Hotel Monaco
- University Place Hotel is a bit farther away, but multiple attendees have stayed at it due its inexpensive cost and free breakfast. website
Roomsharing
- add yourself here if you are interested in sharing a room with others!
AirBnB or Couchsurfing
🏡 Some alternatives to hotels are
Attractions and other activities
If you have favorite things in Portland to recommend, please add them!
Food and drink
- 🍩 Blue Star Donuts has SIX Portland locations now (including apparently one at the airport).
- 🍜 Prasad makes excellent vegan bowls (and is connected with a yoga studio)
- 🍜 The Whole Bowl also makes excellent vegan bowls
Exercise
- 🏃🏻 November Project PDX (also on Instagram) meets Wednesday mornings for a good run + body weight exercises circuit workout (free)
Games
- 👾 Ground Kontrol has a good set of video games and pinball machines
Remote Participation
Here is how you can participate in IndieWeb Summit remotely!
- Live Stream — for the current live stream
- Discuss — Join the chat room via IRC, Slack or Matrix
- This is the primary communications channel during the two day event. This is the best way to talk with other participants and see what's going on.
- Schedule — Keep an eye on the schedule grid for links to the livestreams and Zoom rooms
- Keynotes will be streamed live on Twitch, you do not need an account or app to view the keynotes
- Sessions will be available using Zoom, which you can download ahead of time. This will let you participate in the sessions.
- Please register for the Remote Participation ticket on https://2019.indieweb.org/summit
Blog
Blog and post about IndieWeb Summit! See what others are posting: http://tagboard.com/indieweb
- 2019-06-27 gRegor Morrill: 🗓 IndieWeb Summit Pre-pre-party
- 2019-06-29 : IndieWeb Summit 2019, day 1 (archived)
- 2019-06-29 : IndieWeb Summit 2019 - Day 1 Livestream Companion (archived)
- 2019-06-29 : Here is the playlist I made for IndieWeb Summit 2019... (archived)
- 2019-06-30 : IndieWeb Summit day 2: Authl finally gets some love (archived)
- 2019-06-30 David Bryant: IndieWeb Summit 2019 – Hack Day Recap
- 2019-07-02 : IndieWeb Summit hack day (archived)
- 2019-07-02 : IndieWeb Summit 2019 (archived)
- 2019-07-05 : My Collection of IndieWeb Summit Posts (archived)
- 2019-07-06 : IndieWeb Summit 2019 (archived)
- 2019-08-05 Tantek Çelik: Reflecting On IndieWeb Summit: A Start
Tweets:
- https://www.instagram.com/p/BzYG8nXB2pW/
- "Heading back home after a wonderful weekend of learning, mentoring, updating my website, and making new friends at @indiewebcamp’s #IndieWebSummit. Thanks @tantek @aaronpk and Tiara for organizing!
PS: I have enough stickers for the rest of my life." @Andi Candy July 1, 2019
- "Heading back home after a wonderful weekend of learning, mentoring, updating my website, and making new friends at @indiewebcamp’s #IndieWebSummit. Thanks @tantek @aaronpk and Tiara for organizing!
- https://www.instagram.com/p/BzZFAo3n4Oi/
- "Thank you to the #IndieWeb community for a thoughtful, collaborative, nerdy, inspiring weekend, for letting me explore #indiewebfutures with you, and for the value you see and care you put in to making the independent, decentralized, distributed, owned-by-us web open to everyone (even those with zip experience like me!). 📸 @andipandicandy" @Ariana ™L. ☼ July 1, 2019
- https://twitter.com/superorganism__/status/1145016777421643776
- ". @atmlutter here, tweeting from @IndieWebSummit in Portland, OR this weekend, hoping to bring some foresight and design to the table and learn a lot from this passionate #indieweb community" @superorganism__ June 29, 2019
- https://twitter.com/superorganism__/status/1145026905428463617
- "Intro remarks from conference organizer and eternal optimist @t borrowing from @xoxo 's code of conduct: "#Indieweb prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort"" @superorganism__ June 29, 2019
- https://twitter.com/atmlutter/status/1145028580851748864
- ""It's hard to make the community better if the community won’t let you in" - @mjordancodes" @atmlutter June 29, 2019
- https://twitter.com/superorganism__/status/1145029906402705408
- "keynote from @schmarty letting us into his phone for an intimate, imperfect view of how he's working to take back his own web content through piecing together building blocks from the #indieweb" @superorganism__ June 29, 2019
- https://twitter.com/superorganism__/status/1145030399287951365
- ""less itching, more crafting" @jackyalcine on consistently propping the door to the #indieweb community open, encouraging people to take five things off their list and just go for them" @superorganism__ June 29, 2019
- https://twitter.com/superorganism__/status/1145839546463948800
- "TY @indiewebcamp for a thoughtful, collaborative, nerdy, inspiring weekend, for letting me explore futures of #indieweb with you, and for the care you put in to opening the independent, decentralized, distributed, owned-by-us web to all." @superorganism__ July 1, 2019
Photos
- More photos on Flickr!
Got photos from IndieWeb Summit (or nearby events) to share?
- Please add them to the 2019/Photos page!
This section is for a couple of group photos, Saturday and Sunday.
Projects
See the Project Goals for what people want to work on at IndieWeb Summit.
After IndieWeb Summit, see what the attendees built and demoed!
Playlist
Courtesy of DJ gRegor Morrill:
- ▶️ IndieWeb Summit 2019 soundtrack playlist (51 minutes, YouTube Music)
Organizers
Organizers:
- Aaron Parecki - lead organizer, onsite in Portland
- Tantek Çelik - venues, wiki page/subpages, outreach, assistance emails, keynotes
- Tiara Miller - travel assistance organizer
Want to help out?
- Want to help co-organize? Contact Aaron Parecki or Tantek Çelik in meta discussion channel!
- Contact an organizer or sign-up to Volunteer below!
- Check the #To-do list below to see if there's something you can help out with.
Volunteers
🤗 Participated in an IndieWebCamp and want to help out new folks? Or just passionate to help out any way you can? Add yourself here!
- Greg McVerry - Recruitment
- David Shanske - Willing to pitch in as needed and prepared for a battlefield commission if needed
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
See 2019/Planning#Volunteers for a list of volunteer tasks.
Recruitment
Moved to 2019/Planning#Invitations
To-do
Organizers: see 2019/Planning#To-do.