events/2020-11-04-hwc-americas
Homebrew Website Club - The Americas was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2020-11-04.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2020-11-04-HWC-Americas
Participants
- David Shanske
- Maxwell Joslyn
- Noodles *new*
- Dave B *new*
- Sue
- hibs
- Antonio Rodrigues
- Chris Aldrich
- Tantek Γelik
CHAT: https://chat.indieweb.org/2020-11-05#bottom
Note to self - put chat link into Event Page from now on
Websites
- https://david.shanske.com
- https://davebucklin.com
- www.maxwelljoslyn.com
- https://suzspot.com
- http://sarah-hibner.com/
- https://antonio.is
- https://tantek.com/
Ideas to Discuss
- identity on the IndieIndieweb
- In the Indieweb, your identity is your website. What does that mean to you? [nice this is a concrete topic] +3
- different iterations/manifestations of the indieweb concept (e.g. internet homesteading, smallweb etc) +2
- Fediverse - compare, contrast +1
- Creative uses of RSS +4
- Monocle, Aperature, MicroSub, MicroPub
I could should you a magazine I jsut got- Logic Magazine. I am especially liking the Cobol interviews and the digital art project in it +1
- Retro Grouching and the Indieweb +2 +1
- Indiewebring and Other Things We Want to Bring Back
- David's work computer - https://techarchives.irish/irelands-first-computers-1956-69/david-kennedy/
New Member Intros
- Dave is into "own your data" and is a "retro grouch" who loves old UNIX tools - has heard about the IndieWeb before, put an h-card on his site and is ready to learn more
- Noodles
- moving completely away from using IRL name on the internet
- misses writing, wants to be online but is learning how to do that again w/o using real ame
Upcoming IWC East
https://2020.indieweb.org/east
INDIEWEBCAMP 2020 EAST is on Nov 14 and 15! Totally free to sign up and join!
2020/East --- the wiki page for the event
it's all volunteer run and you can propose a discussion session with no knowledge of a topic whatsoever
Session Proposal Etherpad - https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2020-East-Sessions
Existing proposals:
Notes
- Microformats - We Do It With Class (we're moving away from this slogan)
- Monocle https://monocle.p3k.io/
- Aperture https://aperture.p3k.io/
RIP Google Reader
Archiving micro.blog https://www.manton.org/2020/08/04/bringing-back-github.html
Blog Archive Format - https://www.manton.org/2017/11/24/blog-archive-format.html
hibs - Variable fonts experiment: https://codepen.io/universal-traveler/pen/KKMBNMa
RSS
- Chris uses it to suck data into his site
- Hibs uses RSS to pull her feeds into Slack
- she sometimes annotates or replies to them there as well, though the search functionality for re-finding them isn't great
- https://aaronparecki.com/2015/08/29/8/why-i-live-in-irc
- https://slack.com/help/articles/218688467-Add-RSS-feeds-to-Slack
- huffduffer.com
- description of how Chris uses it for a faux-cast on his own website