2017/Austin/Intros

 Attendee Introductions  at IndieWebCamp Austin 2017.


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 * Chat logs, 10:10 CST

Manton Reece

 * His website is manton.org
 * It is running on WordPress
 * He has a service called micro.blog
 * He is really interested in getting people to have their own website
 * Blogging for 15 years on manton.org; He is hoping to move to micro.blog hosting
 * He hasn't done a lot on his site in the last few years....
 * He hasn't done a lot on his site in the last few years....

Tantek Çelik

 * His site is tantek.com
 * He's been hosting notes on his own site since 2010 exclusively...on his own site first....No content to Twitter as an origin since '09
 * Been posting pictures, events, RSVP
 * Shows RSVP
 * tantek demonstrates how his RSVP went to the Indieweb 2017 Austin page
 * Been documenting his 'shame' at not iterating fast enough on the wiki
 * Has a long list
 * See Falcon in Wiki
 * Something he got working recently was a payment page so people could pay him
 * tantek.com/pay
 * wonders if it has been used extensively
 * tantek.com/request is the reverse option...asking for money
 * tantek is really interested in hearing about new and interesting ways to use your website instead of other sites
 * tantek is really interested in hearing about new and interesting ways to use your website instead of other sites

Marty McGuire

 * https://martymcgui.re/
 * schmarty, aka Marty McGuire on deck
 * schmarty tries to post everything to his site first
 * He uses OwnYourSwarm to do checkins. Hosts events, duck faces, etc
 * Host of the This Week in the Indieweb audio edition
 * Uses a tool he created to post audio via Micropub
 * Working now on making tools to make it easier, as he uses a static site generator
 * Static sites make dynamic things harder to do
 * Static sites make dynamic things harder to do

Aaron Parecki

 * https://aaronpk.com
 * Posts all sorts of stuff to his website, like tantek. Point of no new content on other sites
 * Last thing he did was adding icons to the bottom of his site to show other sites he is linked to. Uses an icon font
 * He has two Twitter accounts, so there are two Twitter icons
 * Builds a lot of tools for helping other people
 * Created Own Your Swarm and Own Your Gram to pull back content from these services to your site over Micropub
 * Created Quill to post notes and other content
 * Created Quill to post notes and other content

Jon Lebkowsky

 * http://weblogsky.com/
 * Got interested due tantek in 2014, didn't get serious except wanting an IWC in Austin
 * Added outward facing h-card so far. Has quite a few WordPress plugins noted
 * Needs to configure said plugins, doesn't write code

David Shanske

 * https://david.shanske.com/
 * has a WordPress site, does a lot of WP development
 * recent multi-day odyssey to have the right Swarm icon
 * has checkins via OwnYourSwarm
 * has photos via OwnYourGram
 * here is his RSVP
 * the format for most of his posts are: header, icon, possibly summary, small content at the bottom
 * happy to talk about WordPress
 * this weekend, here to help with anyone that wants to get WordPress setup, also has a list of projects to work on
 * working on a lot of icons icons icons, theme for the week
 * working on a lot of icons icons icons, theme for the week

Tom Brown

 * http://herestomwiththeweather.com
 * interested in WordPress today
 * latest thing: at IndieWeb Summit learned to do Micropub with Jekyll. documented it recently.
 * He's hoping to learn about WordPress this weekend.

Johannes Kuhn

 * http://kopfzeiler.org
 * He's from Germany.
 * Is interested in the infrastructure for online publishing.

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 * need name for this participant
 * doesn't have a website currently

Chris Grayson

 * http://blog.storycards.net/
 * New to Indieweb stuff, heard about micro.blog and used that a bit
 * Dipped toe into Indieweb
 * Also works on simple WordPress network for Indivisible sites
 * Free WordPress sites.
 * Offers WordPress help for people who just want to have a website
 * All the information created were Facebook events...wants to get that out of there

Randall Deweerd

 * http://deweerd.org but just uses it for email
 * wants to start building a site there

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 * Alphaea (sp?) has a micro.blog (need to confirm name for this participant)
 * Currently has no website, but has used WordPress. interested in learning more and getting a site going.
 * Heard about indieweb as a concept, here to learn

Sunil

 * Sunil also doesn't have a website, here to learn
 * has a domain: asurasunil.com