Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of May 20th - 26th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-05-26.html 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. First up, Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club met on May 20th, with a virtual meetup at 9am US/Pacific time. Topics included diners and cafes, contacts and QR codes, and more. Homebrew Website Club also met on May 24th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time and 6pm for US/Pacific. Discussion topics included glossaries, style guides, IndieWeb history, accessibility, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on May 31st for the next Homebrew Website Club, with virtual meetups scheduled at 7pm for Europe and London time and 6pm for US/Pacific. You can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups and other IndieWeb events at events.indieweb.org. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the site with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. Micro.blog's Micro Camp was held on May 19th and 20th. The virtual conference included discussions on the micro.blog community, talks from community members, meetups, and much more. You can find videos of all the talks at micro.camp. 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. Planning is underway for an IndieWebCamp Nuremburg for 2023. Tentatively scheduled for October 28th and 29th, it will be adjacent to the border:none conference, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. --- 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. Ryan at snarfed.org posted "Mapping between decentralized social protocols". In it, he calls for comments on a draft for bridging multiple protocols and identities across the web, activitypub, bluesky's AT protocol, and Nostr. James at jamesg.blog posted "Announcing stories.js: Create web stories on your personal website". Inspired by the OpenStories format, which was described in the newsletter a few weeks ago, stories.js is a browser-native web component. Check out James' post for the source if you'd like to use it on your own site. Marty at martymcgui.re posted "Rebooting an IndieWeb webring". In it he discusses the history of the webring's source code, it's recent port from Javascript to PHP, and assures users that this is not a big deal and to feel free not to worry about it. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. 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 Are you down with OPP? That is, when you syndicate posts from your own site to other social networks, do you include an Original Post Permalink back to your site's canonical version of the post? Adding these links helps both human readers and automated systems understand where your original content really comes from. # Services and Organizations The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, has published several IndieWeb building blocks as standards, thanks in part to the work of the Social Web Working group. With growing developer and academic interest in ActivityPub, Nostr, and other social networking systems, the less-formal W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group is working to include the W3C in the future of these protocols. You can learn more at w3.org/wiki/SocialCG. # IndieWeb Development Because "web" is in the name, it may seem natural that the IndieWeb encourages a focus on designs which use portable, semantic HTML. But don't overlook the power of a good plain text design. This week the /poll page was updated with an example from Mastodon, where OpenGraph metadata, read by chat programs like Slack, produces a plain text preview with the prompt and poll choices clearly marked. As always, you can follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about and add detail to any of these concepts. --- 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.