Virtual HWC

 Virtual HWC  is an online Homebrew Website Club for IndieWebbers who either can’t make a regular meeting or don’t yet have critical mass to host one in their area.

The first virtual meet-up was organised by and  on December 14, 2016 on Pacific Time. On May 31, 2017, another virtual meet-up was organised by, , and for people on Central European Time.

The virtual meet-up on Central European Time is a regular event every two weeks, currently hosted on ’s Mumble server.

software
Below are some services/software that have been used (or are considered) for virtual meet-ups. Please contribute if you have positive or negative experiences with any of these!

Zoom
As of early 2020, most IndieWeb events are using Zoom. The community maintains a shared paid account that can easily add additional accounts for multiple simultaneous meetings or camps as necessary.

appear.in
appear.in has been used for vHWC Europe.

Looks extremely similar to Talky in both features and technology.

Google Hangouts
Hangouts was used for the virtual meet-ups on Pacific Time.

Talky
Talky was used for the virtual meet-ups on Central European Time.

Mumble
Mumble is being used for virtual meet-ups.

Discord
Discord is being looked into as a viable platform for future virtual meet-ups.

Self-Hosted
Tested on Eddie’s server on AWS using a t3.small server from EC2 for vHWC Americas on 2019-02-20.

Hosted Service
https://meet.jit.si/ - tested at vHWC EU 2019-02-06. open source, appears fairly easy to setup own server if so desired (untested!)

Microsoft Teams

 * Microsoft Teams

Google Meet

 * Google Meet is a successor to Hangouts that was released in Spring 2020.