2016/MIT/birthday

 Birthday events  (birthdays) was a session during IndieWebCamp MIT 2016.

Archive of notes taken in http://etherpad.indiewebcamp.com/events

MIT 2016

2016-03-14 13:00 EDT Indie Events, RSVPs, Invitations, UI - We ended up talking about birthdays


 * Tantek.com: I post RSVPs on my own site, want to post events and eventually invitations as well
 * Ben.thamtustbe.me: I am in the exact same spot as tantek.
 * Satra: I use google spreadsheets!
 * mlncn: Uses Known which can post events but this is the first one ever: https://mlncn.withknown.com/2016/indiewebcamp-mit-2016 (date and time are not given a provided format)

References: mlncn:
 * http://indiewebcamp.com/event
 * http://indiewebcamp.com/rsvp
 * http://indiewebcamp.com/invitation
 * Use-case: your own birthday, and people that know you on the IndieWeb, being notified of your birthday, wishing you Happy Birthday on your own website.
 * tantek uses facebook.com/events as a his facebook homepage, as it's a better UI than any calander system
 * one can separate private and public components on indieweb using logins
 * Tantek prefers to message people rather than write on their Timeline (formerly wall) so as to be sending a personal message rather than performing for the recipient's publics
 * Aside: Translate feature of everything people write to you is really cool, people are probably more comfortable writing in their own language.

Reference: Events Reader: e.g. https://facebook.com/events - shows a box in the top-right of today's birthdays and upcoming birthdays this week, and birthdays of the past two days, links to: shows:
 * https://indiewebcamp.com/birthday
 * https://www.facebook.com/events/birthdays
 * Today's Birthdays
 * photo/name, age (sometimes), text input box to "Write a birthday wish on his Timeline...", and View Friendship
 * Upcoming Birthdays (for the week)
 * each person in a small box (hover-card enabled on their name & photo)

Questions: Issue of public and private information: Do you know who is invited
 * How would I IndieWeb publish my birthday?
 * See: https://indiewebcamp.com/birthday#IndieWeb_Examples
 * How would you find out about someone's birthday on the IndieWeb?
 * We need an IndieWeb equivalent "events reader" similar to fb.com/events
 * benthatmustbe.me would want to see all their birthdays in his calendar, whether gained from their site or entered himself
 * Or find out about it from your own site and calendar where you have added them at some point (ok to copy because birthdays don't change)
 * How would you wish someone a happy birthday on the IndieWeb?
 * I would go to their contact page and message them from there - Tantek
 * Feed of birthdays from which can send message in any way, text on phone for a close friend, facebook for someone who uses facebook, their web site for indieweb
 * ics/ical (standard format viewable in Thunderbird Lightning, Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, etc). Problem with that is not extensible, hard to implement.