2020/East

IndieWebCamp East Coast  was an online IndieWebCamp November 14 -15, 2020 ; the second 100% online IndieWebCamp. It is based on Eastern Time Zone hours in the Americas.

Camp will feature two days meeting up online to share ideas, create & improve personal websites, and build upon each other's creations. Whether you’re a blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, there is something for you here.

All skill, ability, and experience levels welcome.

Own your data. We should all own the content we're creating, rather than just posting to third-party content silos.

Publish on your own domain, and syndicate to social media.

Be a part of advancing & growing the open independent web.


 * 2020/East


 * Schedule
 * Includes links to session pages with notes from each
 * Videos
 * Lightning Introductions and Site Demos
 * Demos from 2020 East


 * Planning Notes and Brainstorming
 * Session Proposals
 * Organizers' Meetup

Tickets / RSVP

 * Primary camp landing page with a link to the ticketing system: https://2020.indieweb.org/east
 * Or to RSVP and claim your FREE tickets, register here using the camp landing page above or visit: https://ti.to/indiewebcamp/iwc-east-2020
 * Optionally, if your website supports it, you may post an indie RSVP on your own website and send a Webmention to: https://2020.indieweb.org/east

Pre-camp introduction

 * has planned for a pre-camp walk through of Zoom, chat, wiki, and Etherpad functionality for people who've never set these up or used them previously.
 * Join this pre-session on Tuesday, November 10th from 8-9 pm Eastern at https://events.indieweb.org/2020/11/indiewebcamp-east-2020-pre-camp-preparation-r3EbFzvmkAhv
 * If you can't make it at that time email me or ping me in chat and we can arrange a convenient time to answer your questions.

Friday Pre-Party

 * See information at Pre-party details

Participating

 * Please read through our Code of Conduct
 * Code of conduct violations or problems can be reported to east@indieweb.org and will be treated confidentially.
 * Never attended a camp before? See Attending IndieWebCamp for what to expect and maybe do some pre-camp set up to make your real time attendance less stressful. (See the Pre-Event section above for a possible online walk through to familiarize yourself with our tools, ask questions and get ready before the day of camp.)
 * IndieWebCamp has a strong tradition of remote participation, typically using chat, Zoom and Etherpad during as well as after the event. More details and links for remote participation will be posted here on the days of the event. Also feel free to join us on chat to get realtime updates and conversation before, during, and after the camp. (Direct web chat link here.)

Remote Participation

 * Zoom We used Zoom as the video platform for sessions, intros, and demos.
 * wiki All session grids and schedules will be listed here
 * Etherpad - All sessions will have an etherpad for organization, live note taking, and brainstorming on the day of the event. These will eventually be archived to the wiki
 * IndieWeb chat - there are a variety of methods/ways to access the various chat channels on the wiki.
 * Audio/Video - recordings of all sessions will be placed on archive.org for individuals who did not participate to watch after-the-fact.

Session Proposals
Much like in-person IndieWebCamps, we are following a Bar Camp style format. To facilitate the process and because the camp is entirely online, we're already beginning to accept session ideas and proposals ahead of camp.

Camps are interesting because of what participants bring to them, so all attendees are encouraged (but not required) to present or facilitate a session or otherwise contribute to the event. This doesn't mean you need to be an expert on the topic you're interested in--far from it! Sessions on concepts that have never been done before are frequently proposed and this is how we break new ground.

Time for session brainstorming and scheduling will be set aside on the day of the event so that people can think about what they'd like to share, learn, and discuss for the balance of the day. However, if you have time before camp feel free to sketch out your ideas in the Etherpad for session proposals.

Etherpad for Session Proposals: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2020-East-Sessions

Organizers

 * (GWG in chat)
 * (chrisaldrich in chat)

Day 1
Late afternoon group photo of some of the day's attendees in 5x4 Zoom grid layout

Day 2
Group photo of 14 of the many attendees on Zoom at the Demos session at the end of Camp

Posts
Posts about IndieWebCamp 2020 East:















Pre-Camp

 * https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1327569959959093250
 * "Getting excited for #IndieWeb 2020 East this weekend. Gonna be talking poetry and personal websites: https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?oldid=73278&rcid=73160 Join us. Always full of special characters." @jgmac1106 November 14, 2020
 * https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1327579486439829505
 * "Not sure what I will build for #IndieWebCamp maybe finally rebuild a jukebox and get all my music back online. I think #OwnYourMedia as important as #OwnYourData asit helps to feed artists." @jgmac1106 November 14, 2020

Day 1

 * https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/1327630273534701569
 * "David Dylan Thomas about to give the keynote at #IndieWeb Camp on Designing for Cognitive Bias…." @jgmac1106 November 14, 2020
 * https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1327633257869889539
 * "I'm at IndieWebCamp East today, planning to host a session about personal data warehouses https://indieweb.org/2020/East" @simonw November 14, 2020
 * https://twitter.com/0uter0uterSpace/status/1327683032824770560
 * "Earlier this morning I presented an intro to variable fonts at #IndieWeb Camp East 2020! I built a web page that summarizes my talk, check it out at http://outer-outer.space/intro-to-variable-fonts/" @0uter0uterSpace November 14, 2020
 * https://twitter.com/carolak/status/1327738492466704384
 * "I am attending the IndieWebCamp. Lots of fun learning with this wonderful group of people, so much generosity and so much knowledge and insights! #OpenWeb https://2020.indieweb.org/east" @carolak November 14, 2020
 * https://twitter.com/_/status/1327792198981623809
 * "Wow, some really fascinating discussions at my first #indieweb camp today - plus two great keynotes that were worth dragging myself out of bed at 7am on Saturday for 😂 Wasn't expecting to facilitate a session when I got up today 😳😆 Looking forward to what tomorrow holds!" @TracyDurnell November 15, 2020

Post-Camp

 * https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1329223093311574017
 * "Implementing IndieAuth for Datasette - inspired by a weekend spent at IndieWebCamp East Coast #indieweb https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/18/indieauth/" @simonw November 19, 2020


 * https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1329232167851814912
 * "IndieAuth is essentially the spiritual successor to OpenID - it lets you use your own domain name to sign-in to services in a decentralized fashion Since Datasette actively encourages deploying brand new web applications to new URLs on a whim, it's a great fir for authentication" @simonw November 19, 2020


 * https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1329232393794797570
 * "And the joy of having a plugin architecture is that I can try out this kind of thing almost risk-free without needing to make any changes to Datasette itself" @simonw November 19, 2020

Sponsors
We welcome individuals, organizations, and companies that would like to help sponsor our volunteer-driven camps. For more details, see: How to sponsor IndieWebCamp

Previously

 * 2020/West
 * 2020/Online
 * 2019/Online
 * 2014/Online