2020/East/imn

 Independent Media Network  was a session at IndieWebCamp East 2020.

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Notes archived from etherpad: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/imn on 2020-11-16 at 11:32 PM Pacific

IndieWebCamp East 2020 Session: Independent Media Network When: 2020-11-14 14:50 PM Eastern

Proposal
How the fediverse works from a social/tech perspective.
 * Hamish Campbell (facilitator)
 * In this session, we'll look at a project am working on https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia a reboot of a radical grassroots project turn of the century useing modern protocals like activertypub - A video https://visionon.tv/videos/watch/1e221fdf-1e98-4802-a239-c24399dc3411
 * We'll also discuss openweb tech and journalism issues and go over our live test site and what we are aiming for https://indymediadev.openworlds.info/test-css/
 * Some questions we might address: indymedia
 * updateing a historical UX
 * Learn from the past to build the future
 * why did it fail,
 * why did it work,
 * what can we learn.


 * https://indymedia.openworlds.info
 * soon to be the first rollout of a "hyper-local" indymedia site
 * currently finalising a simplified page template
 * instance of epicyon (https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/epicyon)


 * https://unite.openworlds.info/
 * organisational space
 * openmedianetwork repo for overarching organisation; discussion of tools, etc
 * indymedia repo for testing functioning instances of existing tools (e.g. epicyon)
 * ^ Join us here to get involved
 * Interested:
 * +1