Over the past few months, I've featured brief interviews from 16 community members recorded at IndieWeb Summit in Portland and at IndieWebCamp NYC. I'm currently out of interviews, but I'd love to know your IndieWeb story! I'll be conducting remote interviews over Mumble, Appear.in, Discord, or the audio/video system of your choice. If you'd like to appear in a brief, one-minute interview on this podcast, let me know in the #indieweb-meta channel on IRC or Slack, just ask for "schmarty". Alternatively, you can make a post on your site stating your interest. Including a link to my site at martymcgui.re, and send a webmention to let me know about it. I look forward to hearing from you! --- Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of November 11th - 17th, 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 November 15th in Brighton, Baltimore, and San Francisco, along with a virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. Homebrew Website Club Berlin met on November 16th. You can find notes and photos from the events in the newsletter. Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg meets next on November 22nd, and the next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club will meet on November 29th, with Brighton, Baltimore, and San Francisco confirmed so far, as well as a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. Homebrew Website Club Berlin will meet the following day, on November 30th. 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 now open for IndieWebCamp Austin, scheduled to take place December 9th and 10th at Capital Factory in Austin, Texas. Learn more and register now at 2017.indieweb.org/austin Planning is underway for IndieWebCamp Baltimore, which will take place at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center in downtown Baltimore, Maryland in 2018. You can help choose a date at indieweb.org/2018/Baltimore 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 related events, the Auckland Wordpress Users meetup will be hosting an event titled "WordPress and Indieweb: Take control of your online presence" on November 30th in Auckland, New Zealand. --- # Podcasts Episode 79 of Manton Reece's microcast "Timetable" came out this week announcing the venue for the first ever IndieWebCamp Austin, which will take place December 9th and 10th at Capital Factory in Austin, Texas. --- 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, released a new version of XRay, his PHP-based library and API for parsing HTML pages into usable objects or JSON data. The new release, version 1.4.0, is available on Github and has added support for parsing feeds in microformats, JSONFeed, Atom, and RSS formats. The release also includes support for parsing public Facebook event pages. Chris Aldrich at boffosocko.com published a post titled "A Following Page (aka some significant updates to my Blogroll)". In it, Aldrich details the creation of a new "Following" page on his Wordpress-based site. The new page contains the curated list of blogs and other sources that Aldrich reads regularly, often with the PressForward feature on his site. The page is also available in OPML format, which allows others to use feed reader apps to follow the list as he updates it. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. # New Community Members Several new user pages were created this week. James Shelley, at jamesshelley.com, hopes to plan an IndieWebCamp in London, Ontario, Canada. Aaron Davis, at readwriterespond.com is a K through 12 technology coach from Melbourne, Australia. Lars Peters, at lars-peters.net is a software architect and co-founder and CEO of Touchpoint One. Amanda Rush, at arush.io, is helping to build an open and inclusive web with WordPress. Asbjørn Ulsberg, at asbjor.nu, is a web developer and systems architect from Oslo, Norway. and Mark Dain, at markdain.net, is a web developer in the United Kingdom. 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 A new series of How-To pages is under construction, starting with a new "Tutorials" page. These work-in-progress tutorials will walk through the process of setting up an IndieWeb-friendly personal site using Wordpress or Known and include detailed step-by-step instructions on registering a domain, configuring DNS and HTTPS, setting up a server and installing the software, and receiving webmentions from brid.gy. A new page was created for "Holiday theme", a temporary change in a website's styling or content typically meant to indicate the celebration of a holiday or special occasion. The page needs examples, so if this is a feature of your personal site, be sure to add it. Notes for the sessions at the recent IndieWebCamp Berlin have been collected on the wiki. Some of the topics covered include indie readers, POSSE and PESOS, IndieAuth with nodejs, bookmarks, software testing, web standards, and more. You can find links to these notes at indieweb.org/2017/Berlin A new page was created for "Wordpress Troubleshooting", which aims to be a list of things to try when asking for help from the IndieWeb WordPress Outreach Club. A new page was created for "people", which are the root reason for the existence of the IndieWeb. The page includes several ways to find and reach out to people in the IndieWeb community both online and in person. # Services and Organizations A new page was created for "Cineville", a network of Dutch arthouse cinemas which provides a website for customers to track movies they have seen with ratings as well as tracking movies they want to see, displaying notifications when the movies are showing in participating theaters. The site seems to offer no API or export capability, making it a film-tracking silo. The "archival copy" page was updated with two links. First up, LOCKSS, available at lockss.org is an open-source, library-led digital preservation system built on the principle that "lots of copies keep stuff safe." Also added was "Save My News", available at savemy.news, which helps journalists archive their work with the help of services like the Internet Archive. # IndieWeb Development The "static site generator" page was updated with a link to "lazymention", a project by IndieWeb community member AJ Jordan, whose personal site is strugee.net. lazymention is a self-hosted service that allows static sites to send websub notifications and webmentions whenever new content is added. --- 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.