events/2020-05-27-hwc-west-coast

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HWC West Coast Online 2020-05-27

• Session: 6pm - 8pm, May 27th, 2020
• Held on Zoom

Notes archived on 2020-05-28 from Etherpad at https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2020-05-27-hwc-west-coast

Participants

• Chris Aldrich (Host)
• David Shanske
• George Kelly
• Daniel Zivetz
• Kartik Prabhu
• Angelo Gladding
• soniaparechanian
• Tantek Çelik

Notes

Introductions

• George Kelly burned down my WP site, heavy teacup/quill use, torn between POSSE/PESOS silo approach

• Chris Aldrich quick demo of bi-directional links on TiddlyWiki

• Kartik Prabhu hasn't been updating very often
  • Chris Aldrich pings request to archive.org to cache his own post and pages linked to in post
  • WordPress plugin: Broken Link Checker does a lot of the heavy lifting for finding and helping to potentially fix broken links

• David Shanske demo of Simple Location in WordPress
  • now displays a choice of location icons for the activity happening and autosets it if it can
  • can look up Compass data for backposting but was never in Turkey

• Sonia demoed a site where her mouse icon changes into a paw.
  • Grant Richmond does something like this but the icon is his head/face

• Tantek Çelik
  • https://indieweb.org/2019/Berlin2/whyphotos More Tantek and his photo posting workflow...with video.

Topics

• Silo Quits https://github.com/dshanske/syndication-links/issues/97

• Will your website be there long after you are not there?
  • longevity
  • On the Media interview (WNYC): Janice Hume, author of Obituaries in American Culture, on the how obituaries will help historians make sense of our pandemic. listen
  • Selenium server-side screenshot caches of pages that angelo is replying to.
  • Firefox has ability to do screenshots
  • NY Times article Why You Should Start a Coronavirus Diary

• Planning for 2020/West https://indieweb.org/2020/West
  • GWG to post to events.indieweb.org for the event
  • Gardens and Streams: https://indieweb.org/2020/Pop-ups/GardenAndStream
  • Conversation about the EdTech space and online education as a possible pre-arranged session

Other suggested topics

• code media fragments & marginalia (as documentation)
• Retro/throwback posts