2018/Berlin/Intros

 Attendee Introductions  at IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018 took place 2018-11-03.


 * Chat logs, 10:48 CET

Tantek Çelik

 * undefined, http://tantek.com
 * Been posting since 2010, mostly text, occasionally photos
 * Many replies to places outside: Twitter, GitHub
 * Trying to post more and more things to his own site
 * Lots he could do better: e.g. there is no pagination
 * To go back in time, go to the last post on the homepage, and then press the back button to go one by one

Jeremy Keith

 * , https://adactio.com
 * Used to use delicious, magnolia, etc, but now has his own link section after learning his lesson
 * Notes get copied to his Twitter
 * Got a lot of small things added at IndieWebCamps
 * Shows his recent blogpost
 * https://adactio.com/journal/14452
 * It has the whole response from Peter (ruk.ca) under the article, made available by Webmentions
 * First name-drop of Bridgy, which gives him webmentions from Twitter to display
 * He still does replies on Twitter and other places, and would like to also start doing those from his own site

Aaron Parecki

 * , https://aaronparecki.com
 * Posts all sort of things
 * Shows the litted “LED Display” on top of the site
 * aaronpk, shows the blue dot on his latest checkin, which shows that he is still at the location he has checked in to

Martijn van der Ven

 * , https://vanderven.se/martijn/
 * shows his homepage
 * with all the information
 * shows how it also can be parsed with microformats
 * describes his approach of adding data: everything he has put or would put on other sites should also be on his own

Tiara Miller

 * restarted HWC in NYC
 * after attending the IWC there
 * Shows some posts on rootedfromnature.com
 * Wants to work on a more personal site to have next to that more formal business site
 * Wants to work on a more personal site to have next to that more formal business site

Marty McGuire

 * Does a weekly podcast about the IndieWeb, TWIIW
 * Trying to make audio more accessible when publishing his podcasts on the web
 * Shows an MP3 file with subtitles attached on his site
 * https://martymcgui.re/2017/10/17/205701/
 * Odd bug: Chrome does not hide the audio controls and actually covers the subtitles
 * Shows the indiewebring
 * Shows the indiewebring

Joschi Kuphal

 * , http://jkphl.is
 * Started 2014-01-01 for writing blog posts, got 6 of them
 * Shows webmentions creating comments on his articles
 * Are also pulled from other places: G+, or just a comment form on his site
 * Few weeks ago at IWC Nürnberg he built RSVP acceptance

Julie

 * http://julieannenoying.com
 * Displays a lot of photos, and puts a portfolio on top
 * Shows how Instagram likes are pulled into her websites copy of the galleries

David Shanske

 * , https://david.shanske.com
 * Was using Swarm randomly yesterday to make sure it would work well with WordPress, as he is one of the big WP plugin developers
 * If you are already on WordPress, expect an update today
 * Shows a lot of interactions that can show up on WordPress posts
 * Syndication links. And recently: locations with maps

Ayden Férdeline

 * http://ferdeline.com
 * Ayden Férdeline, is here for policies. Intrigued by how much information some people are sharing on their pages

Jan Deppisch

 * http://netzartist.de
 * His impressum page is the most content he has on his website
 * Found he did not have the time for blogging
 * runs frontend-rheinmain.de
 * Wants to bring front-enders together on a bimonthly meeting

Yulia

 * http://hag.codes
 * Started because she thought she should have a web presence
 * Not sure she wants to have the site as the blog it is right now, so will look at having something “different”

Jan Dinter

 * http://jandinter.net
 * His page does not have a lot of links, he took them away when he noticed he really didn’t keep using those external services
 * Wants to change away from the minimal content this weekend

Dylan Harris

 * http://dylanharris.org
 * Has an “old-school website”
 * petermolnar: points out it isn’t old-school as it does not have an under construction sign

Sebastian Dümcke

 * http://sam-d.com
 * re-designed his website 2 days ago, inspired by this event
 * Also noted that blogging is hard to keep up

Aleksandr

 * Aleksandr, no own website but wants to show a project he is working on
 * https://my.cloudron-dev.syn.im
 * It is a service that will help you run your server and install “apps”
 * But apps here are things like WordPress, Ghost, Wallabag, etc. Web platforms
 * Showing a test install that is Mastodon, which is now packaged for the Cloudron platform
 * And will hopefully soon be on the app store

Peter Molnar

 * , http://petermolnar.net
 * 2 years ago his site was WordPress, and it is now semi-static
 * Wrote about bringing things out of his website again, countering bloat: https://petermolnar.net/making-things-private/
 * Then wrote https://petermolnar.net/running-a-static-indieweb-site/ about how he uses outside systems to keep everything together without having
 * his site is open source
 * PASTA
 * https://github.com/petermolnar/silo.pasta
 * A project for saving images and content from external places
 * Showing brid.gy, that he also uses
 * Does track his location but doesn’t do checkins, probably wants to do something in that area this weekend
 * Shows the build process of his website

Calum Ryan

 * , http://calumryan.com
 * Coming up to its 10 year anniversary
 * Recently upgraded the CSS
 * Was trying to pull in content from other places, but tries to get away from that so it goes the other way: from his website to other places
 * Recently updated checkin display because everyone keeps checking him in during events
 * Shows the different sections of his website for content creation, outside his homepage

Sven Knebel

 * , http://svenknebel.de
 * Also been building the website mostly during IndieWebCamp events
 * 7th IWC, still some things he needs to work on
 * Using Micropub to his site, showing quill as a posting interface
 * Uses GitHub to login through IndieAuth.com
 * Fills in Quill, creates a demo post
 * This is how you can use external pieces without building everything yourself

Toni Mattis

 * http://toni.mattis.berlin
 * currently hosts his photos on Flickr, would like to start hosting that himself
 * Automatically deploys the website from git
 * Tries to do some URL hacking to show the markdown files behind the pages, but the Chromebook does not want to cooperate

Sebastian Greger

 * , http://sebastiangreger.net
 * Had the domain for 15 years
 * Site runs on WordPress
 * Thanks to GWG and pfefferle for the plugins
 * Focusing on workflow: want to encourage himself to collect things on his site
 * Shows his privacy challenge post which has many replies
 * Shows the reply-to-the-reply

Joel Purra

 * http://joelpurra.com
 * Several years ago he started pulling in data, wanted his site to be a “professional portal”
 * Pulls in all his programming projects from GitHub onto his site, with the number of stars they have, the programming language it uses, etc
 * Currently renders just the project README. But would like a way to have content around these projects
 * Turned away from blogging to code, but might be returning to blogging to give context to the code he is writing

David Rosson

 * http://rosson.com.au
 * There are really well-hidden links around there, not sure he remembers what exactly is on his page!
 * Ended up here by saying yes to things! :D

Ana

 * http://ohhelloana.blog
 * Been trying to blog more
 * Also does not have pagination (because does not have enough posts) but that could change!
 * Technical dificulties she wants to address this weekend

Charlie

 * https://sonniesedge.co.uk
 * Was relying on many external services but wanted to bring them inhouse.
 * Changed from a static site generator that used those things to a Craft CMS based website
 * Used to have webmentions and likes on the page, but it is gone now that she deployed CraftCMS 3. The plugins aren’t there
 * Would be very happy with a PHP programmer that could help port over from the old version
 * Trying to post photos
 * Bringing her talks pages to Craft was a challenge, MarkDown didn’t do it for those long pages

Mike Riethmuller

 * http://madebymike.com.au
 * Been trying many SSGs, but not all his content feels like “pages” and all the SSGs seem to want a page per content thing

Amber Wilson

 * http://amberwilson.co.uk
 * Likes blogging, interested in pagination
 * Got IndieAuth going at her first IWC, and would now like to look at some other building blocks

seb

 * , http://seblog.nl
 * Posted more new content between last IWC and now
 * Shows checkins up top
 * Has an issue with caching on his profile picture

BJ

 * http://bjvicks.com
 * Project he wants to show: independent-collectors.com
 * Another project: stilinberlin.de
 * He worked on the stilinberlin.de/map
 * Gets a newsletter popup: “I didn’t do that”

Axel

 * http://axel.nennker.de -> redirect to ignisvulpis.blogspot.com
 * Community member on OpenID
 * Did Firefox addons for OpenID
 * And wonders about IndieAuth and why the community here decided to go with something new like that
 * New Firefox WebExtensions framework makes it hard to do some of the identity stuff he would like to do
 * Looking at DID Auth
 * From the “Rebooting the Web of Trust”
 * Also looking at WebAuthn for authentication, as it is build into browsers with an API

Bruna

 * No website
 * Shows http://fuzzify.me
 * Browser addon for tracking trackers/ads
 * https://radarlegislativo.org/
 * Tracking governments through APIs and rating them with sad/neutral/happy faces

Dietrich Ayala

 * https://metafluff.com
 * Did a really nice letter effect, considers writing a blog post about how it works
 * https://metafluff.com/author/ for posts
 * Showing https://metafluff.com/2017/12/13/2017-summary/ ; living in Asia fulltime for a while made him realise how much the governments there affect the web