2014/Berlin/Day-1

IndieWebCamp 2014 Berlin

Introductions

 * BN: Hi, I am Brennan Novak you can find me at https://brennannovak.com and https://twitter.com/brennannovak :)
 * JB: Hey, I’m Jan-Christoph Borchardt and use http://jancborchardt.net, https://twitter.com/jancborchardt & https://github.com/jancborchardt
 * EV: Hi, I'm Ed Verillo (IRC: Rev_Illo) - Freelance web developer / designer - http://twitter.com/edverillo
 * AS: I'm Anna Saulwick - I'm a campaigner and writer, currently working on an EU democracy project. https://twitter.com/AnnaSaulwick
 * DR: Diego Ramiírez - Web developer - part of Somos Más http://lowfill.org https://twitter.com/lowfill - https://www.somosmas.org
 * CH: Christian Hildebrand - CFO at Agora, CoFounder Jolocom, Investor - History: Project Manager, Media Producer - Contact: christian@hildebrand.me
 * LK: Liam Kavanagh a Cognitive Scientist visiting Berlin on a DAAD grant.
 * NB: Nicolas Bermond - Entrepreneur - Paris @nicolas2fr
 * JL: Joachim Lohkamp - Founder at Jolocom - Tech-Events at Agora - IoTPeople - Gatesense - OuishareLabs https://twitter.com/JockelLohkamp - www.jolocom.com
 * JR : Jon Richter : http://almereyda.de
 * GA: Garret Alfert: (IRC: galfert) - Developer, Co-founder https://5apps.com (http://garretalfert.com, https://twitter.com/galfert, https://github.com/galfert )
 * ET: Ed Tewiah @africajam - web developer

Overview & history of the Indie Web movement – Why an Indie Web?

 * Why We Need the #IndieWeb by Tantek Celik
 * Video http://tantek.com/2014/175/t1/pdf14-why-need-indieweb-video-slides
 * Slides http://tantek.com/presentations/2014/06/indieweb/

approach, dogfooding

 * Proof of work
 * http://indiewebcamp.com/ownCloud, https://owncloud.org
 * http://indiewebcamp.com/Mailpile, https://mailpile.is
 * Eat your own Dogfood
 * https://brennannovak.com is powered by http://social-igniter.com for IndieAuth, POSSE, PESOS and WebMention
 * http://jancborchardt.net uses IndieAuth, and ownCloud on a different domain
 * IRC, for discussions
 * #indiewebcamp on freenode
 * Etherpad (like this for collaborative documentation)

Current apps & projects

 * Microformats
 * http://microformats.org
 * Indie Auth
 * http://indieauth.com
 * POSSE
 * Post Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere
 * http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE
 * PESOS
 * Post Elsewhere Syndicate Own Site
 * http://indiewebcamp.com/PESOS
 * Webmentions
 * A simple protocol based on Microformats and modeled after pingbacks for sending valid indie data between sites
 * http://indiewebcamp.com/webmention
 * Brigdy
 * Automatic PESOS for large silos like Twitter & Facebook using the "Webmention" protocol
 * https://www.brid.gy
 * WebMention.io
 * Makes an easy to implement endpoint to receive Webmentions
 * http://webmention.io
 * https://brennannovak.com/essays/dear-facebook-goodbye
 * IndieWebifyMe
 * A tool for developers to easily debug their sites IndieWeb Compatibility
 * http://indiewebify.me

What you currently use / pain points

 * Brennan: Social Igniter posting to Twitter, App.net, Facebook, IRC, email
 * Jan: mostly Email, Github, IRC, ownCloud. Some Textsecure/SMS, Twitter, Meetup.com
 * Malte: mainly Email, IRC, Diaspora
 * Joe: Medium
 * Garret: mostly Github, IRC. Facebook with friends, some Foursquare
 * Diego: mostly Facebook and Twitter, email, Github
 * Joachim: problem that most networks are very quantitative than qualitative. Working on Jolocom
 * Christian: removed entries from every social network 2 years ago. Problem: getting judged by others on posts and superficial aspects. Their inability to present diversity in a character. Inability to - at least easily - push only relevant info to the relevant people (groups are not sufficient) Also working on Jolocom
 * Jon : all of them. federation and transclusion missing everywhere

Of the current "silos" what do you use?


 * Facebook DR, BN, GA, JL, JR
 * Twitter DR, JC, BN, GA, JL, JR
 * Github: JC, BN, GA, DR, JR
 * Tumblr
 * Instagram

What you would want (ideally)
What is your ideal publishing platform for a more open, decentralized, free, and IndieWeb in one sentence


 * bnvk: a way to collaboratively organize events & calendars using IW protocols
 * jancborchardt: a simple unified cross-platform messaging tool
 * almereyda: flow charts of POSSE and PESOS and Bridgy and Webmention
 * and IndieAuth / omniauth / WebID integration for four-point-five linkedopendata stars : https://github.com/aaronpk/IndieAuth/issues/61
 * DR: Promote POSSE and give people tools to became owners of their own identity.
 * AS: a tool that properly reads my mind
 * Joachim: More qualitative networks. Everyone could have their own mini-platform. Try to prevent overflow of information
 * Christian: Less noise, not cluttering people’s attention. Something which is personally tailored

What can you do?

 * Start publishing from it
 * Purchase a domain name
 * Purchase hosting
 * Use your own hardware + something like PageKite (http://pagekite.net)
 * alternative : https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok
 * http://readwrite.com/2014/06/27/raspberry-pi-web-server-website-hosting#awesm=~oItCpp8SXyZb76
 * Engage / encourage your community (software) provider Diaspora, Discourse, etc... to implement IW support
 * (Jon) From my experiences, it is very hard to convince regular users to use interfaces they don't know yet, are not used to. A handbook, helpful advice or arguments would be highly appreciated.

=== Ideas for platforms & tools**


 * Self hosted "box" solutions
 * Indie Box http://indieboxproject.org/blog/
 * ArkOS https://arkos.io
 * Cozy https://www.cozycloud.cc
 * ownCloud https://owncloud.org
 * Indie App Store** **http://indiewebcamp.com/store
 * Better authentication with PGP keys
 * Kirby Auth App http://indiewebcamp.com/kirby-login-app
 * Indie Auth PGP signin
 * Integration with "other" tech tools & apps
 * Mailpile - leveraging IndieWeb contacts and exposing email threads for public discourse
 * +1 for exposing email threads, which would basically render e-mail the original decentralized network
 * "The Poster"
 * Posting to multiple platforms while retaining the metadata they belong together.
 * "The Reader"
 * Postings from different platforms that conform to the same posting action are grouped together.

Funding models

 * Crowdfunding
 * Mailpile raised $170,000 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-back
 * Company supporting the project
 * ownCloud has a company providing support and additional business features https://owncloud.com
 * support and added company features is a classic open source business model, see Red Hat, Canonical, …
 * Getting a grant
 * NLnet (Unhosted & remoteStorage was funded by them)
 * Pagekite got a grant from the Icelandic government https://pagekite.net
 * Knight Foundation
 * Gittip, Flattr