Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of June 23rd-29th, 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 June 27th in Nürnberg, London, and Baltimore. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us for the next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meetup on July 11th. Nürnberg, Baltimore, and San Francisco have confirmed meetings 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 The 8th annual IndieWeb Summit was held on June 26th and 27th at the Eliot Center in Porland, Oregon. Check the newsletter for photos and links to video and notes from the sessions and demos, some of which will be discussed in a moment. Thanks to organizers Aaron Parecki and Tantek Çelik, as well as all the volunteers that worked to make this year's Summit a great event. Special thanks to Anika for hosting a special remote viewing event for folks in Berlin, Germany. Speaking of Berlin, save the date for IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018, scheduled to take place at the offices of Mozilla on November 3rd and 4th, just before Beyond Tellerrand. Organizers and interested volunteers can contribute at indieweb.org/Planning. 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 IndieWeb-related events, the 10th and final Open Source Bridge was held on Friday June 29th in Portland, Oregon, for a one-day "unconference" style event. Open Source Bridge was a partner for the earliest IndieWebCamp events, and theirs serve as great examples for how to build a radically inclusive and safe community. --- 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. In a test post at tiny.n9n.us, Indieweb developer David Shanske announced that he is testing a new feature to POSSE to Indienews from his Syndication Links plugin. The new feature would add support for Micropub and for WordPress post editor syndication to Indienews. Several community members shared posts about their experiences during the IndieWeb Summit, including Jacky Alciné at jacky.wtf, Jason McIntosh at jmac.org, and Aaron Parecki at aaronparecki.com. Expect similar posts over the next few weeks. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Nate Angell joins us from xolotl.org. Nate is an evangelist who connects people, ideas, and technologies to make things better. Jean MacDonald joins us from macgenie.micro.blog. Jean is the community manager at Micro.blog. She hosts a number of podcasts including Micro Monday, SestraCast, and The Weekly Review. Dori Smith joins us from dori.com. Dori is an author, programmer, and speaker who is trying to figure out what's next. Jamey Sharp joins us from jamey.thesharps.us. Jamey created comic-rocket.com to meet his needs as a webcomic reader and is interested in enabling creators of webcomics and other serially-published work to use IndieWeb principles in their own publishing. Ton Zijlstra joins us from zylstra.org/blog. Ton has been writing on his blog since November 2002 about his professional interests, knowledge work, dealing with complexity, and the ways we develop tools and strategies to navigate a fully digitised and networked world. Anthony Cast joins us from zhmp.net. Anthony studied a mix of literature, psychology, math, and history at Miami University and the University of Illinois. He is an INTJ and an ovo-lacto vegetarian who makes occasional lapses largely for sushi. 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 Notes are now available for the 2018 IndieWeb Leaders Summit, which was held the day before the main summit. Topics of discussion included code of conduct changes, wording improvements for the IndieWeb principles, diversity and inclusion, managing community code, and more. You can find the full notes at indieweb.org/2018/Leaders. Notes and links to videos are now available for the 2018 IndieWeb Summit keynotes. Aaron Parecki spoke about the new wave of Social Readers. Tantek Çelik gave a state-of-the-IndieWeb focusing on changes since last year's summit. Manton Reece and Jean MacDonald spoke about new developments in the micro.blog community. And author William Hertling spoke about the future world of his upcoming novel Kill Switch, emphasizing the importance of communities like the IndieWeb in helping free people from the corporate web. Notes and videos are also available for IndieWeb Summit discussion sessions, with topics proposed and selected by attendees. There were several great community-related sessions, including diversity and inclusion, taking design inspiration from existing silos, understanding the distribute web, and more. Want to show off your support of the IndieWeb community? Pre-orders are now open for IndieWebCamp t-shirts from Tee Spring. Grab yours at indieweb.org/shirts before end of day on July 3rd. # Services and Organizations Two exciting IndieWeb developer projects have recently become available to the public. Eddie Hinkle's Indigenous is an app for iOS that supports a handful of powerful IndieWeb building blocks. As a Microsub client, it allows users to read feeds from their favorite sites and, as a MicroPUB client, create response posts directly to their personal site from within the app. Indigenous is available now in the iOS App Store. Aperture is a service and open source project from Aaron Parecki. As a Microsub server, it allows users to subscribe to feeds from all over the web in formats ranging from the older RSS, to JSONFeed and rich microformats feeds. Aperture manages subscriptions and keeping feeds up to date while leaving the viewing experience to Microsub clients like Indigenous and web-based readers like Together, or Monocle. Aperture is now open to the public at aperture.p3k.io. # IndieWeb Development Videos and notes are now available for the discussion sessions from IndieWeb Summit, many of which may be of interest developers. Session topics include building microsub servers, expanding microformats2 and improving parsers, a survey of existing software libraries for various IndieWeb building blocks led by Jacky Alciné, and more. Chris Aldrich, at boffosocko.com, announced two new types of post to his site which may be of interest to developers. Chris can now share highlights - snippets of text from posts from around the web - with annotations directly on his site. Additionally, Chris created a new "itch" post, to keep track of features he is itching to add to his website. Other new pages added to indieweb.org this week include: Open Scholar, authorship testing tool, IndieSilo, William Hertling, Liberapay, Ruby on Rails, Indiepaper, Scalar, PLN, indiewebring, Flask IndieAuth, Plug, and syndication targets. 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.