Planning

Welcome to the planning page for future IndieWebCamps!

The IndieWebCamp community is planning numerous upcoming events, including future IndieWebCamps, regular Homebrew Website Club meetups, talks, and other proposals — if you'd like to help, please contribute to this page!.

See each individual IndieWebCamp's home page (typically /Year/City ) for planning specific to that camp.

Contents 1 Planned 2 Planning 2.1 2017 2.1.1 Brighton 2.1.2 NYC 2.1.3 MIT 2.1.4 San Francisco 2.1.5 Los Angeles 2.1.6 New Locations 2.1.6.1 Seattle 2.1.6.2 Washington DC 2.1.6.3 Florida 2.1.7 More Locations 2.1.7.1 Edinburgh 2.2 2018 2.2.1 Providence 2.2.2 Malmö 3 Potential Cities 4 Help Out 5 Organize 5.1 Homebrew Website Club 5.2 FAQ 5.2.1 Creator camp not a hackathon 6 Past Planning Notes 6.1 Summit 6.2 Los Angeles 2016 6.3 HWC 2016 6.4 Berlin 2016 6.5 MIT2 2016 7 See Also

Planned

The following IndieWebCamps are planned! Go sign up!

2017-09-08..09 IndieWeb at “CAMPFIRE”

• organized by Sebastian Lasse, looking for additional co-organizers

2017-11-04..05 Berlin

• organized by Joschi Kuphal and Stefan Judis, looking for additional co-organizers

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Planning

The following IndieWebCamps are currently being planned and need help figuring out a date - help co-organize!

Clustered first by co-organizers that are regularly active in the community (e.g. in IRC), and then ordered roughly by expected date (in order to see what else there may be planned nearby or elsewhere)

2017

Let's start planning 2017 IndieWebCamps!

If you live in one of the cities / states / countries below and are interested, add your name!

If you know of a suitable venue for hosting, add that as a possibility.

If you have a particular month of the year to recommend, add that!

Please offer your opinion/preference with a nested list item and +1/0/-1 signed!

General planning date notes:

• December is tough due to holidays and lots of other events. Exception: a one day IWC e.g. 2015/SF.
• November first half is the likely last chance to plan an IWC for the year.

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Brighton

Venue: Likely 68 Middle st. like in previous IWC Brighton

Can help co-organize:

• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• Tantek Çelik
• Calum Ryan
• sknebel
• Barry Frost
• andrea rota
• Jeremy Cherfas
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Possible/preferred months: August? September?

Possible dates?

• 2017-09-16 to 2017-09-17
  • Barry Frost
  • Calum Ryan (At State of the Browser 6 conference on day 1)
  • Tantek Çelik
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-09-23 to 2017-09-24
  • Calum Ryan (Day 1 only - going to Ireland)
  • Jeremy Cherfas
  • Tantek Çelik
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-09-30 to 2017-10-01
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-10-07 to 2017-10-08
  • Barry Frost
  • Calum Ryan
  • Jeremy Cherfas
  • Tantek Çelik
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-??-?? ...
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Previously: 2016/Brighton

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NYC

Venue? (Manhattan? Brooklyn?) Local host?

Can help co-organize (in particular an IndieWebCamp Brooklyn in 2017)

• Tantek Çelik
• David Shanske
• Jeremy Zilar
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• Kartik Prabhu
• Marty McGuire
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Possible/preferred months: September?

Possible dates?

• 2017-??-?? ...
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Previously: 2016/NYC, 2016/NYC2

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MIT

Venue: likely can get W3C to host at MIT

Can help co-organize:

• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• Tantek Çelik
• Ben Roberts
• Chris Aldrich
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Possible/preferred months: September?

Possible dates?

• 2017-??-?? ...
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Previously: 2016/MIT

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San Francisco

IndieWebCamp SF!

Venue: Likely Mozilla SF, would consider other venues, especially for size

IndieWebCamp SF!

Can help co-organize:

• Tantek Çelik
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Then add possible months/dates and your +1/0/-1 and name to the possible dates:

Possible months:

• October - before Halloween
• November - adjacent to W3C TPAC

Possible dates:

• 2017-10-28…29 weekend before Halloween
  • +1 Tantek Çelik - would be a good date to avoid colliding with IWC Berlin
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-11-04…05 weekend after Halloween, right before TPAC
  • +1 Tantek Çelik - collaborate with IWC Berlin! Would work well, to get demos working before TPAC, and get TPAC folks to show up early
  • +1 Chris Aldrich
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-11-11…12 weekend after TPAC
  • +1 Tantek Çelik - maybe get TPAC folks to stay for the weekend
  • 0 Chris Aldrich
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• other dates?

Nearby events:

• 2017-10-31 Halloween
• 2017-11-06…10 W3C TPAC in Burlingame (near SFO)
• 2017-11-15…16 Dodging the Memory Hole conference at The Internet Archive cf Indieweb for Journalism
• ...

Previously: 2015/SF

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Los Angeles

IndieWebCamp LA!

Venue:

• Yahoo has previously expressed interest in hosting on their campus in West LA/Culver City

Who is interested in helping co-organize?

• Chris Aldrich can help co-organize. Let's do this!
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating:

• Tantek Çelik - happy to also volunteer to help out organizers
• gRegor Morrill
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Possible months:

• October
• November
• January 2018 (It's warm in LA!)
• February 2018 (watch out for Oscars/Golden Globes)

Possible dates:

• 2017-10-07…08
  • +1 Tantek Çelik
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-10-14…15
  • -1 Tantek Çelik (conflict on 14th)
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-10-21…22
  • -1 Tantek Çelik (have another event)
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-10-28…29 (Halloween on 31st)
  • +0 Tantek Çelik (may have adjacent travel on 10/30 or 10/29)
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-11-4…5 2017/Berlin is happening this weekend
  • +1 Tantek Çelik can make 11-03…05 if we want to do a half day leaders summit day before. Also this is easier for me to make it to than IWC Berlin, W3C TPAC starts 11/6
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-11-11…12 (Veterans Day on Friday 10th)
  • +1 Tantek Çelik could *maybe* make it for afternoon of 10th for a half day leaders summit day before
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-11-18…19
  • -1 Tantek Çelik have a conflict (The North Face ECSCA)
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• 2017-12-2…3
  • +1 Tantek Çelik can make 12-01…03 if we want to do a half day leaders summit day before.
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Nearby dates and/or conflicts:

• DrupalCamp LA is 8/5-6/2017
• WordCamp LA 9/29-10/1/2017
• 2017-10-31 Halloween
• Watch the San Franscisco schedule so as not to conflict
• 2017-11-4…5 2017/Berlin is happening this weekend
• 2017-11-06…10 W3C TPAC in Burlingame (near SF)
• 2017-11-15…16 Dodging the Memory Hole conference at The Internet Archive cf Indieweb for Journalism
• ...

Previously: 2016/LA

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New Locations

Sorted roughly by number and availability of co-organizers, then dates.

Seattle

IWC:Sea

Venue: ???

Co-organized by:

• Wm Salt Hale
• AJ Jordan

Can help co-organize:

• dougbeal
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• gRegor Morrill
• Tantek Çelik
• dougbeal
• Chris Aldrich
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Possible dates:

• November something. Per conversation on 2017-02-15, shooting for around SeaGL 2017
  • SeaGL dates are now set: 2017-10-06..2017-10-07
• ...

Other events:

• ...

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Washington DC

IndieWebCamp DC (would be the first!)

Venue: ???

Can help co-organize:

• Jeremy Zilar (has co-organized IWC 2014/NYC and IWC 2014 in NYC)
• Jason Garber can help co-organize this.
• Eddie Hinkle has never been to an IWC, but is interested in helping out however he can.
• Marty McGuire also interested in a Baltimore IWC, which should be accessible to folks in the DC area
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• David Shanske can try to come down to DC due proximity to NYC
• Tantek Çelik
• Chris Aldrich - may have access to large, suitable venue at the School of Advanced International Studies; ping me as planning proceeds; I can also help with possible institutional space with wifi at the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in Baltimore
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Related nearby conferences:

• AEA is July 10-12 I know there was some discussion about trying to sync a couple of IWC and AEA in 2017
• ...

Possible dates: (organizers please add some!)

• 2017-??
• ... Fall in DC tends to be pretty nice!

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Florida

IndieWebCamp Florida!

Venue: ???

Can help co-organize:

• Michael Bishop Tampa resident, willing to help plan a Central FL IWC if someone in Orlando area could help secure location.
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• Hector Iribarne
  • southeast Florida[1]
• David Shanske
  • Miami - {gwg} would be interested in attending as interest was expressed.
• Tantek Çelik definitely interested in returning to Orlando
• Tyler Gillies I go annually to Orlando [January], would be cool to have one there.
• David G. Johnson I live in Southwest Florida (Sarasota) but Tampa, Orlando or Miami are within easy driving distance. Planning to be in Miami in late Feb for WordCamp.
• Shane Becker I'm interested in a Florida IWC, especially one where I can swim in the ocean or gulf easily.
• ...

Possible dates:

• 2017-??-??
• Orlando WordCamp is 2017-11-11..12 https://2017.orlando.wordcamp.org/
• ... suggest more dates! (Possibly in conjunction with Orlando WordCamp if there's a 2017 date?)

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More Locations

More new possibilities:

• Chicago
  • +1 Tantek Çelik
• Sweden
• Australia
• Central/South America
• Spain/France

Past locations:

Edinburgh

IndieWebCamp Edinburgh

Venue: ???

Can help co-organize:

• Harry Reeder, James Baster, and kongaloosh (volunteered by Amy Guy)
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• Tantek Çelik
• sknebel
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Previously: 2015/Edinburgh

2018

Providence

Venue: ???

Can help co-organize:

• Ben Roberts
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Interested in participating!

• Tantek Çelik
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Malmö

Venue: ???

Can help co-organize:

• Pelle Wessman: can help settings things up with local venues and help from local conference/meetup organizers
• Martijn van der Ven: currently Sweden-based and would love to assist

Interested in participating:

• sknebel is interested in attending

Maybe align with a different event? Malmöfestivalen / The Conference?

Needs interested participants and possible dates!

Potential Cities

The following are twinkles in co-organizer's eyes - help find a venue and/or narrow to a date range!

• Seattle - would be great to host something like this in 2017, maybe co-sponsor with co-working space/venue
  • gRegor Morrill +1 interested
• ...

Other possible cities - no specific plans or dates - just expressions of interest (which is fine too!). Feel free to add your city and sign it, indicating how you can help make it happen.

• Amsterdam (possible Schiphol Airport?)
  • Sebastiaan Andeweg likes this
  • Martijn van der Ven interested in attending, but no longer permanently in NL
  • sknebel is interested in attending
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
• ...

Help Out

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

David Shanske is willing to help out with an Indiewebcamp, providing support and planning to the extent possible. This would include some volunteering. Depends on what is needed and when and is willing to try to work with anyone who needs help in the Northeastern United States, and possibly farther afield if sufficient notice.

Organize

Want to organize a 2017 IndieWebCamp in your town and don't see it above?

Start with:

1. Find at least one committed co-organizer. This is the most important step.
2. Add a link above to [[2017/YourCity]]
3. Click it and create the new page, and continue with the steps listed in:
   • How to organize an IndieWebCamp

Homebrew Website Club

Having trouble finding a co-organizer for your city or unsure how to organize an IndieWebCamp by yourself?

Start a Homebrew Website Club chapter in your city to gather interested individuals and gauge interest in a full weekend IndieWebCamp!

FAQ

Creator camp not a hackathon

Q: Is IndieWebCamp a hackathon?

A: IndieWebCamps are creator camps focused on helping everyone develop, grow, and advance their personal indieweb presence.

The term "hackathon" has become to mean some sort of short term event where a group of people come up with a typically new project to develop just for the sake of the hackathon, often in a competitive environment, and often for prizes donated by one or more sponsors.

IndieWebCamp resembles that only in the aspect of group collaboration.

• IndieWebCamp encourages you to work on and improve your existing personal site, not just a new site (unless you need a new site!)
• IndieWebCamp encourages you to work on your personal site in a way that encourages longevity and your personal use beyond the camp itself.
• IndieWebCamp focuses on collaboration instead of competition. There are all sorts of different experts at IndieWebCamp and we do our best to both ask questions of each other and help each other!
• The prize(s) you win at IndieWebCamp are your own improved personal website, hopefully with new features you can then use day-to-day after the camp has completed!

As we do "hack" on stuff (our own websites), IndieWebCamps do have a "hack day" component of it, but certainly not "hackathon" in the commonly understood "corporate hackathon" sense.

Past Planning Notes

(lets figure out a way to archive past year's planning discussions, because the considerations/possibilities therein may help with future planning)

gRegor Morrill: My current steps for archiving:

1. Add the event to IndieWebCamps if it isn't there already
2. Add the event sub-page "Planning" if it doesn't exist yet, e.g. 2017/Planning
3. Add a section == Initial Planning == to the event's Planning page
4. Add a note in the new section "This is an archive of the initial planning for [event name], originally found here."
5. Link the text "originally found here" to the latest, specific revision of this page where the notes last appeared.
6. Copy/paste the latest planning notes from this page
7. Remove the now-archived planning notes from this page.

Summit

Los Angeles 2016

HWC 2016

2016 Homebrew Website Club start date! Should we start the 2016 HWC meetups on:

• 2016-01-06 only one week after 2015-12-30,
  • but avoids having a meetup land the day before US Thanksgiving
  • 0 Tantek Çelik ok with this. no longer any preference.
  • 0 gRegor Morrill OK with this. Not attending an HWC currently so does not impact me.
• 2016-01-13 two weeks after 2015-12-30,
  • but collides with Wednesday before US Thanksgiving thus unlikely to have much (any) participation at US venues.
  • 0 Tantek Çelik ok with this.

Based on lack of strong input on this, we are going with the default continuing every two weeks from 2015-12-30 and starting 2016 HWC with 2016-01-13. - Tantek 14:56, 23 December 2015 (PST) (updated, no objections, going with this plan. Tantek 07:51, 31 December 2015 (PST))

Berlin 2016

MIT2 2016

See Also

• Homebrew Website Club
• IndieWebCamps: How to organize