Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of July 28th - August 3rd, 2018. This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities in the IndieWeb community at indieweb.org. It contains recent and upcoming events, posts from IndieNews, and a summary of website updates. This Week in the IndieWeb is sent out Fridays at 2pm Pacific time, with this audio edition appearing over the weekend. You can find the web edition of This Week in the IndieWeb, including all links and an archive of all past editions at indieweb.org/this-week --- # Events Homebrew Website Club is a bi-weekly meetup of people passionate about or interested in creating, improving, building, and designing their own website. Most meetings take place every other Wednesday, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Homebrew Website Club met on August 1st in Austin, Texas and Norman, Oklahoma. Congratulations to Austin on restarting their regular meetings. Join us again next week on August 8th for another Homebrew Website Club. Meetings are confirmed in Nürnberg, Baltimore, and Seattle, along with a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the wiki with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. And remember you can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups at indieweb.org/next-hwc Interested in starting a Homebrew Website Club in your city? It can be as simple as grabbing a friend and heading to your favorite coffee shop, bar, living room, or any other meeting place. You can find plenty of information about Homebrew Website Club, including tips for how to organize your own, at indieweb.org/hwc A one-day IndieWebCamp SF was held at the offices of Mozilla in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 31st. Discussion topics included archiving, ethical futures, free sofware, and more. You can find links to notes and videos from the camp at indieweb.org/2018/SF. IndieWebCamp NYC will be held at Pace University in Manhattan on September 28th and 29th. Registration is open now, and volunteers are needed. Find out more at indieweb.org/2018/NYC. The third IndieWebCamp Nuremberg will take place on October 20th and 21st, 2018, as part of Nuremberg Web Week. Volunteers can help with organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Nuremberg. And save the date for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will be held on November 3rd and 4th. You can learn more and lend a hand organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Berlin. All IndieWeb events follow the IndieWeb Code of Conduct, which can be found at indieweb.org/coc. And, all IndieWeb events are volunteer-run, so if you are interested in helping organize, getting the word out, finding sponsors, and more let us know in the chat at chat.indieweb.org. In IndieWeb related events, the 2018 Decentralized Web Summit was held last week from July 31st through August 3rd at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. The multi-track event featured talks and discussions on decentralizing technologies, governance, art, and more. Livestreams of many sessions are already available, and archival video will be posted at decentralizedweb.net. --- Here is a brief summary of posts collected this week by IndieNews, a community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb. You can read more, or submit posts of your own, at news.indieweb.org. Chris Aldrich, at boffosocko.com, published a microcast titled "The IndieWeb and Academic Research and Publishing". In it, he discusses the multi-billion dollar academic research publishing industry, and ways that IndieWeb technologies could empower authors to reach wider audiences and more collaborators by publishing on their own websites. Chris Aldrich also shared a link to a lightning talk by Tantek Çelik, of tantek.com, titled "IndieWeb: Taking back your content with practical decentralization steps". Delivered at the Decentralized Web Summit, the talk discusses why to publish on your own site, building blocks like webmention and microformats, and more. You can find a link to the video, as well as notes from the talk, at indieweb.org/dweb2018. Ryan Barrett, at snarfed.org, published "RIP Facebook for Bridgy". In it, Barrett laments the shutdown of Facebook support for Bridgy, due to recent Facebook API changes. He reminds readers that, while they may be under attack in the media at the moment, social networks have improved our lives in many ways. Kicks Condor, at kickscondor.com, published about the problem of finding new and interesting blogs. Condor has hopes that the IndieWeb community will find new ways to enable discovery of good blogs to read. In the meantime, the author notes that building your own blog directories encourages you, and the people you link to, to more deeply explore what's out there, and create ties between one another's websites. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Dora joins us from indiewebcat.com. Dora is Aaron Parecki's cat. She likes naps, boxes, and sparkly balls. Charles E. Lehner joins us from celehner.com. Charles is a Free Software developer and cooperativist. Robert van Bregt joins us from robertvanbregt.nl. Robert publishes text, photos, and video on a self-hosted WordPress site. noffle joins us from eight45.net. That's e-i-g-h-t-4-5 dot net. noffle is slowly exploring the world while writing open source software, studying their body and mind and the natural world. If you haven't already, now is a good time to create your own user page. It's a great way to introduce yourself to the IndieWeb community, and to collect the things that you are working on, or want to work on, for your personal website. For more details, visit indieweb.org/wikifying. # Community and Concepts The Freenode IRC network, which is a primary host for the various IndieWeb chat channels, has recently come under heavy attack by spammers. To mitigate the impact of spam messages in IndieWeb channels, Aaron Parecki has implemented some new anti-spam measures. Learn more about them at indieweb.org/IRC. # Services and Organizations Recent Facebook API changes have made it impossible for any third-party apps to post directly to user's profiles. This has led to several IndieWeb community members to minimize their use of Facebook, or to abandon it outright. Ben Werdmüller, at werd.io, announced in "Stepping back from POSSE" that he would be no longer be syndicating posts to social networks. Jonathan Lacour, at cleverdevil.io, created a tool called "ditchbook" to import data from a Facebook data export into one's Micropub-enabled site. Jeremy Keith shared a link to the Facebook Developers blog post about the change, saying, quote "If you're reading this on Facebook: so long, it's been good to know ya." Services often disappear from the web when their domain registration expires. But what if a whole top-level domain expired? This past week, ICANN removed the documentation for the ".xperia" TLD, which was owned by Sony for their smartphone brand. You can read more about it in Ben Cox's post "The death of a TLD" at blog.benjojo.co.uk. # IndieWeb Development Jonathan Lacour, at cleverdevil.io, created Micromemories - a JavaScript snippet that enables an "On This Day" feature, which surfaces posts from this calendar day in previous years. Originally designed for sites hosted on Micro.blog, it should be useable on any site with a Microformats2 or JSONFeed archive page. Other new terms on indieweb.org this week include: MeWe, ditchbook, medical, Camel, and "Oh snap". You can follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about, or add detail to, these new terms. --- That's going to do it for this week. Thank you for listening! This English version of This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition was read and produced by Marty McGuire. If you have suggestions for improving this audio edition of the newsletter, please feel free to contact Marty in the IndieWeb chat This Week in the IndieWeb and the IndieNews services are provided by Aaron Parecki. Music for this episode comes from Aaron Parecki's 100 Days of Music project. Find out more at 100.aaronparecki.com. Learn more about the IndieWeb at indieweb.org, and join the discussion via Slack, IRC, or the web at chat.indieweb.org.