2014/Introductions

The opening IndieWebCamp 2014 session.

IndieWebCamp leaders will lead you through:

Announce: Welcome to the 4th annual IndieWebCamp!
Show Squarespace parody video
Tell brief history:
- frustration with silos/site-deaths (unreliability, loss of content, UX changes, lack of features etc.)
- 2010 frustrated social web summit
- too much talk/email, not enough action, so...
- attendees Aaron Parecki & Tantek Çelik decided to focus on an "IndieWeb" instead, and
- with Amber & Crystal organized the first IndieWebCamp in 2011
Show http://indiewebcamp.com/ home page and principles
Note explicit decision to focus on
- personal site "scratch your own itch" doers, doing, selfdogfooding, demoing
Overview of IndieWebCamp Two Days:
- day 1: intro/demos, lunch, brainstorming sessions, dinner
- day 2: day two hack sessions, lunch, hack sessions, demos
Demos of what works on your site today - note: must be a demo on your primary personal website (NOT: a secondary site, demo deployment, other corp/school/org site, random github library - this is a challenge to get your stuff working on your public personal site - if you won't put it on yours, why should anyone else on theirs?)
Explanation of today (brainstorming sessions) vs tomorrow (hack sessions)
Intro to how Barcamp sessions are scheduled (write THREE THINGS on a notecard: 1. session name, 2. your name, 3. session #hashtag - used for tagging and etherpad.mozilla.org/indieweb-hashtag)
Session scheduling!
Camp leaders call *start your sesssions* at start time

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