While at the 2017 IndieWeb Summit, I sat down with some of the participants to ask "Why did you involved with IndieWeb?" I talked with 12 IndieWeb community members, whom you've heard here over the past 12 weeks. Next weekend, on September 30th and October 1st, I'll be attending IndieWebCamp NYC, where I plan to do another series of interviews. If you're attending, I'd love to interview you! If you've enjoyed these interviews so far, I'd love your feedback! The quickest way to reach me to is to join the IndieWeb chat and mention me by my nickname, "schmarty". You can join the chat via IRC, Slack, or even the web. Instructions are available at indieweb.org/discuss. --- Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of September 16th - 22nd, 2017. This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities of the IndieWeb community at indieweb.org. It contains recent and upcoming events, posts from IndieNews, and a summary of wiki edits. This Week in the IndieWeb is sent out Fridays at 2pm Pacific time, with this audio edition appearing the following day. 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 September 20th in Baltimore, Frederick, and San Francisco, as well as a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. Homebrew Website Club met in Berlin on September 21st. You can find photos and links to notes from the events in the newsletter. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meeting is October 4th, with Brighton, Baltimore, Portland, and San Francisco confirmed so far. 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 IndieWebCamp Istanbul, which begins on September 30th at Koc Universitesi KWORKS. You can learn more and register now at indieweb.org/2017/Istanbul. Registration is open for IndieWebCamp NYC, which will take place at Dalberg Global Development Advisors in New York City on September 30th and October 1st. Learn more and register now at 2017.indieweb.org/nyc. Registration is open for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will take place November 4th and 5th at Contentful GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Learn more and register now at indieweb.org/2017/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 Aaron Parecki, at aaronparecki.com, published the first episode of his short-form podcast "Percolator", available at "percolator.today". Inspired by Manton Reece's microcast "Timetable", Percolator will focus on Aaron's IndieWeb projects and standards work with the W3C. The first episode covers Aaron's thoughts on how to handle Instagram's multi-photo posts with his OwnYourGram service, which backfeeds Instagram posts to your personal site. --- Here is a brief summary of posts collected this week by IndieNews, a XXX community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb. You can XXX read more, or submit posts of your own, at news.indieweb.org. Jonathan Prozzi, at jonathanprozzi.net, published a post titled "Homebrew Website Club: One Year In". In it, Prozzi reflects on a year of building his personal website on IndieWeb principles through time spent at Homebrew Website Club Baltimore meetups, including his initial hopes for using his personal site as a way to learn about the static site generation tool Hugo, the tension between spending time working on his site versus posting to his site, and his hopes for the future now that he has moved to WordPress, a more familiar platform. Manton Reece, at manton.org, published a post titled "Tomorrow matters". In it, Reece describes his recent re-discovery of an old blog post which contained an archive of around 100 tweets from 2008. He reflects that posting exclusively to Twitter, a silo known for ephemeral comments, was, quote "an assumption that today mattered more than tomorrow, when the opposite is often true". Manton continues, "You never know when you want that fleeting comment to actually last, and if you don’t control the post, there are few guarantees that it will." --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. # Community and Concepts A new page was created for "multi-photo vs collection". It documents the different ways that silos such as Twitter and Instagram allow a single post to contain a mix of one or more photos or videos, as well as difficulties in mapping these posts into microformats markup in ways that preserve ordering, reduce redundancy, and allow tagging of individual photos or videos. # Services and Organizations The "silo" page was updated with a link to a May 2017 post by Eric Petit at The Official Unofficial Firefox Blog on medium.com titled "Browse Against the Machine". In it, Petit encourages readers who exclusively use Google's Chrome browser to give Firefox a try. Among the reasons listed: Chrome is designed to capture behavioral tracking data for Google's advertising platforms. The "Accelerated Mobile Pages" page was updated with a link to a post by Ethan Marcotte at ethanmarcotte.com titled "AMPersand". In it, Marcotte discusses the, quote, "skewed power differential between those who advocate for Google AMP’s usage, and those who publish their work on the open web." Marcotte attributes AMP's rapid adoption to the fact that Google prioritizes AMP pages in search results, an enticement that draws in publishers despite the platform's drawbacks. # IndieWeb Development The "backups" page was updated with a link to a post by Christian Weiske at cweiske.de titled "My Backup Strategy". The post describes one clear strategy for keeping multiple personal copies of important files, organized by the type of information, such as contact info for mobile devices or documents created on a desktop. The "jekyll" page has been updated with a link to a GitHub pull request by Barry Frost which adds microformats2 support to the default Jekyll theme Minima. If accepted, the change would make all new Jekyll sites more IndieWeb-friendly. The "nanopub" page has been updated with more details about the PHP-based micropub endpoint for static site. Built for static site generators like Hugo, nanopub currently handles creating Notes, Articles, Replies, Bookmarks, and Check-ins with support for both form-encoded and JSON data. --- 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 included the tracks Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11 of 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.