IndieWeb Secret Santa

IndieWeb Secret Santa is a potential, online, async, future event, where the people exchange the gifts between each other based on the random assignment.

Early 2025 Edition - online gifts

Organiser: Sara Jakša

In the first part of the year 2025, there is going to be IndieWeb Secet Santa run. For this one any requests and offers are open.

The tentative dates

The two weeks between 6th - 19th of January: Sign ups (including the information about what you are requesting and offering - I will link to the form at the time)
The week between 20th - 26th of January: Matchups
Start or middle of March: Deadline for gifts

Ideas for requests

If you don't know what to request or offer, here are some possible ideas:

Blog post on the certain topic
Writing a tutorial on a certain topic
Making an infographic on a certain topic
Making a video on a certain topic
Editing a blog post (copying the idea from
Editing a photo
Cowritting a blog post or some other page
Coediting session for a blog post or some other page
Help with personal website CSS
Creating an mascot for the blog
Helping design a part of the website
Make an editing suggestions for the website
Make an accessibility suggestions for the website
Creating an icon
Helping implementing some feature in the other person website
Writing a code for a script/wordpress addon/service for automating some task
Correcting the bug in the codebase of the service they are using
Editing a wiki page in the IndieWeb wiki to make it more readable
Adding information to the wiki page about a certain topic
Starting a wiki page on a topic
Helping brainstorm ideas for writing/design/code/...
Make a person host an event
Debugging a problem on the website
User testing of part of the website
... add other ideas

How to

After picking the time we want to do it, we open the call for the participants. After the deadlines for the call for participants, the matching is done and each person get their match that they need to create something for. This person can indicate what they want to receive and what they don't want to receive and the person is asked to try to adhere to this if possible. This needs to be done by the deadline and dedicated to the gift participant.

This event needs somebody to run it and that person is responsible for the matching of people and telling them how they are matched.

Open Questions?

If you have an opinion on any of this questions or you have some other you want us to discuss, please put it below.

Is December the best time for this?

Considering we are already running Gift Calendar in December, some other month might be a better fit for an event like that. Are there any other significant events, that are connected to the IndieWeb?

What kind of submission is welcome?

Considering the breath of the people in the IndieWeb, maybe it makes sense to either restrict it to the blog posts or to have separate events for wiki, blog post, design and code submissions. Or maybe some others as well.

Better name?

The Secret Santa was taken from the already existing fanfiction events, that served as inspiration. If anybody has a better name, please recommend it.

New Names Recommendations

... (add your suggestion here)

Alternative ideas

The Secret Santa could also be done by sending physical gifts/letters/postcards between members of the IndieWeb community.

Interest check

If you are interested in an event like that, put you name on the list.