2014/Introductions

The opening IndieWebCamp 2014 session.

IndieWebCamp leaders will lead you through:


 * 1) Announce: Welcome to the 4th annual IndieWebCamp!
 * 2) Show Squarespace parody video
 * 3) Tell brief history:
 * 4) * frustration with silos/site-deaths (unreliability, loss of content, UX changes, lack of features etc.)
 * 5) * 2010 frustrated social web summit
 * 6) * too much talk/email, not enough action, so...
 * 7) * attendees &  decided to focus on an "IndieWeb" instead, and
 * 8) * with Amber & Crystal organized the first IndieWebCamp in 2011
 * 9) Show http://indiewebcamp.com/ home page and principles
 * 10) Note explicit decision to focus on
 * 11) * personal site "scratch your own itch" doers, doing, selfdogfooding, demoing
 * 12) Overview of IndieWebCamp Two Days:
 * 13) * day 1: intro/demos, lunch, brainstorming sessions, dinner
 * 14) * day 2: day two hack sessions, lunch, hack sessions, demos
 * 15) 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?)
 * 16) Explanation of today (brainstorming sessions) vs tomorrow (hack sessions)
 * 17) 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 )
 * 18) Session scheduling!
 * 19) Camp leaders call *start your sesssions* at start time