Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of September 8th - 14th, 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. Join us on September 18th for another Homebrew Website Club Baltimore, and San Francisco and Seattle will be meeting on Wednesday the 19th, 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 IndieWebCamp Oxford will be held at White October on September 22nd and 23rd in Oxford, UK. Registration is open now, so head on over to indieweb.org/2018/Oxford for details. 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. --- # Podcasts In a Micro Monday Extra episode on September 9th, micro.blog Community Manager Jean MacDonald interviewed Aaron Parecki at XOXO Fest. Among the topics discussed are IndieWeb, micro.blog, and the importance of having your own domain. --- 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. Eddie Hinkle, at eddiehinkle.com, shared some features of the way he manages his reading list. Using a combination of tools and services compatible with Micropub and Microsub, he collects articles that he wants to read, without services like Instapaper and Pocket, and they even get pushed to his Kindle e-reader. A 2014 parody advertisement video for the IndieWeb has been making the rounds once again. Based on an ad for web hosting company SquareSpace, it features charicatures of common undesirable website trends like popups and clickbait advertising. It notes that the web is scary, but doesn't have to be, if you have your own website. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # Community and Concepts A new set of pronoun buttons has been proposed to help participants of IndieWeb events indicate the pronouns by which they are to be addressed. The designs are based on examples used in several other inclusive communities. You can find a preview at indieweb.org/pronoun. Materials are now available for EDU522, a course by Greg McVerry which combines Glitch.com and WordPress blogs to teach students about managing their identity and content online. You can find more info about the course at indieweb.org/IndieWeb_for_Education # Services and Organizations Charlie Owen, at sonniesedge.co.uk, writes about "The mysterious case of missing URLs and Google's AMP". In it, she draws connections between recent speculation that Google plans to hide URLs from users, and recent trends in Google's "Accelerated Mobile Pages" caching and SEO system. The result? If Google can convince publishers to make AMP pages feature complete with their own sites, and Google begins hiding URLs, they will have gone a long way to taking over the open web. Jerod Santo writing at changelog.com posted "An open letter to all podcast apps except Overcast". In it, Santo encourages podcast apps that fetch feeds on behalf of their users to include a subscriber count in the requests, as a way to help podcasters keep track of how many subscribers they have overall. Inspired by this feature in the Overcast app's feed fetcher, services such as Player.fm, Feedbin, Pocket Casts, and others have added the feature or put it on their development roadmap. Rachel Nabors, writing at css-tricks.com, published "The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity". In it, she deconstructs a common developer complaint that web browsers should share a common codebase in order for website developers to create consistent-looking and functioning sites. She makes the case that without browser diversity, there would be no growth in new features for the web. # IndieWeb Development Static sites often lack a feature to send webmentions notifying other sites about new posts that link to them. Keith J Grant recently published a new work-in-progress project called github-to-webmention which may help. Available on GitHub, it is a self-hosted webhook which receives notifications from GitHub about new pages and searches those new pages for webmentions to send. Other new terms on indieweb.org this week include: Nürnberg Digital Festival, Hubpages, Exist, and not-it emoji. 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.