Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of May 26th - June 1st, 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 May 29th in Baltimore, and on May 30th in Nuremberg, Brighton, and San Francisco, along with two virtual Homebrew Website Clubs: one at Central European Time and one at US Eastern Time. Capo D'orlando in Sicily also held a pop-up Homebrew Website Club. You can find photos and links to notes from the events in the newsletter. Join us again on June 13th for Homebrew Website Club, with meetings scheduled in Nuremberg and Baltimore. San Francisco will be forgoing their usual HWC in favor of meeting at the Decentralized Web Meetup at the Internet Archive. 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 Registration is open for the 2018 IndieWeb Summit, which will take place on Tuesday June 26th and Wednesday June 27th in Portland, Oregon. The two-day summit will take place before Open Source Bridge, which is celebrating its 10th and final year on Friday June 29th. Learn more, and register for the Summit now, at 2018.indieweb.org. The schedule of keynotes for Tuesday is taking shape, and includes talks by Manton Reece, creator of Micro.blog, Aaron Parecki and Jonathan Lacour discussing the next wave of IndieReaders, and William Hertling, author of the novel Kill Process. Already planning to attend the summit? Spread the word! Send an open invitation to folks on your site and syndicate it out to social media. We would love to be joined by folks of all abilities and backgrounds, and travel assistance is available. 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. --- 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. Aaron Parecki, at aaronparecki.com, published "Dropping Twitter Support on IndieAuth.com". In it, he details the way that IndieAuth previously verified two way links between a user's personal site and their Twitter profile. Due to recent changes by Twitter, this method is no longer functional. He also gives a preview for replacement functionality on his beta site at IndieLogin.com, but points out that the feature is not yet generally available. Chris Aldrich, at boffosocko.com, shared a link to a talk by Jeremy Keith at Webstock '18 titled "Taking Back the Web". Recorded in February of this year, the talk discusses ways that the convenience of social silos like Facebook have allowed them to succeed despite the decentralized nature of the design of the web itself. He holds up the IndieWeb as a way to bridge between the convenience of silos and the control of owning everything you publish online, and introduces IndieWeb building blocks such as RelMeAuth, Micropub, and Webmention, along with concepts such as posting on your own site and syndicating elsewhere, and backfeeding responses to your site. Matthias Pfefferle, at notiz.blog, published a German-language post titled "An IndieWeb Podcast". In it, he gives a shout out to the podcast by that name, along with its hosts Chris Aldrich and David Shanske, and links to their first 6 episodes. He adds that he himself would like to podcast again. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Jay Funabashi joins us from jay.funabashi.co.uk. Jay has been in the IndieWeb community for a couple of years, but is rebuilding his site on custom software called inari, which he wants to be a life journal and archive. Taylor Jadin joins us from jadin.me. Taylor is a Learning Technologies Specialist at St. Norbert College. He uses his site to collect the work he does in the open, including podcasting and the occasional blog post. 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 As more folks in the IndieWeb community leave silos like Facebook, they often look for ways to help friends and family stay in touch without having to build out their own IndieWeb-friendly sites. One method that is becoming popular is sending newsletters. You can check the "newsletter" on indieweb.org page for some examples from the community using the Mailchimp RSS-to-Email service to send daily or weekly emails drawing from a selection of post topics. # Services and Organizations Chris Aldrich wrote this week about his work helping ColoradoBoulevard.net, a local newspaper for Pasadena, California, add support for sending and receiving webmentions, as well as backfeeding responses from Facebook and Twitter. This may be the first publishing organization to embrace Webmention and backfeeding on their site. More writing about the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation has popped up around the web this week. Doc Searls published a piece on his prediction that GDPR will break tracking-based advertising models, leading to a return to ad models which no longer resemble direct marketing. Marcel Freinbichler noted on Twitter this week that the USA Today website was serving a version of their site without tracking scripts or advertisements to EU visitors. The result is a much faster site that loads about ten times less data than the site as seen by visitors outside the EU. # IndieWeb Development Folks who develop in Perl may be interested in two releases from Jason McIntosh. Web::Microformats2 and Web::Mention are two Perl libraries which allow the parsing of Microformats 2 data from HTML pages, as well as the sending and receiving of Webmentions. McIntosh wrote these libraries as part of his work on Plerd, a static-site generator written in Perl that is designed for single-user blogs. Sebastian Greger, at sebastiangreger.net, published "Self-hosting maps: taking control over UX and users' privacy". In it, he details several options for hosting map images, as well as interactive embedded maps, that do not rely on third party services like Google Maps or OpenStreetMap. Other new pages added to indieweb.org this week include: Futurepub, Micropub proxy, rubber duck, scheduled token, expiring token, recommendation request, federated emoji, and OpenMapTiles. 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.