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 25th - December 2nd, 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 29th in Brighton, Baltimore, and San Francisco, with a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European time. Homebrew Website Club Berlin met the following day on November 30th. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meeting is December 13th, with Nuremberg, Brighton, and Baltimore confirmed so far. Additionally, two virtual Homebrew Website Club meetings will be held that day - one a Central European Time, and one for the Americas beginning at 7:30pm Eastern. Homebrew Website Club Berlin will meet the following day, on December 14th. 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. --- # Podcasts Manton Reece published a new episode of his microcast "Timetable" titled "Episode 83: Event countdown." In it, he discusses progress on planning the upcoming IndieWebCamp Austin. --- 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. Chris Aldrich, at boffosocko.com, shared a link to a video of a talk by Jeremy Keith titled "Building Blocks of the Indie Web". Speaking at Mozilla's View Source 2017 conference, Keith describes the rise, fall, and rise again of siloed internet experiences and presents IndieWeb building blocks like micropub, webmention, and the IndieWeb principles as a growing alternative. Khürt Williams, at islandinthenet.com, published a post titled "IndieWeb on WordPress". In it, Williams describes his introduction to the IndieWeb via the micro.blog Kickstarter campaign, the steps that he followed in setting up a new IndieWeb-friendly site on WordPress, some of the bumps encountered along the way, and his hopes for the future of his site. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. # Community and Concepts Work continues on a set of step-by-step tutorials for setting up a new site with WordPress and accompanying plugins that provide IndieWeb functionality such as webmentions, support for new kinds of posts, and more. You can check them out at indieweb.org/Tutorials. The "multi-site indieweb" page was updated with a link to a post by Jack Baty at baty.net titled "On having too many blogs". In it, Baty recounts the variety of subdomains and side-projects where he posts regularly, citing a habit of creating new blogs to try out new platforms. He writes that he is considering changing the main page of his site at baty.net into an aggregate of his other posting locations. The "2018-01-01-commitments" page was updated with commitments from three more community members. Mark Dain has committed to publishing a first version of his blog software and creating a webmention endpoint before the new year. Marty McGuire has committed to migrating his site from Jekyll and Hugo before the new year, and to host an IndieWebCamp in Baltimore in 2018. And Jonathan Prozzi has committed to set up his WordPress development environment and to write three articles for his blog before 2018. Now is a great time to add your own commitments, which can include anything from technical implementation plans or personal pledges of behavior change. # Services and Organizations The "site-deaths" page has been updated with references to the shutdown of the sites at atomenabled.org, portablecontacts.net, oauth.net, and oauth.org. Unlike typical service shutdowns, these sites served as the canonical references for various data formats and protocols. Their shutdown makes it difficult for future maintainers and developers to share information about these technologies. The "social media" page was updated with a link to a post by Nick Bilton at vanityfair.com titled "The End of the Social Era Can't Come Soon Enough". In it, Bilton compares the obsessive, and often depressive, overuse of social media apps and websites with similarly unhealthy and now-forgotten fads of the past like the cocaine-based cure-all drugs of the late 1800s. He notes the growing number of journalists reporting on the benefits of their own personal exits from social media, as well as statements of regret by former Facebook executives and investors in the role that Facebook has played in manipulating its users. # IndieWeb Development The "Getting Started on WordPress" page was updated with expanded details about "h-cards". Typically thought of as a web version of a business card or name card, an h-card is a chunk of HTML with microformats markup that typically contains a person or organizations name, photo, URLs and more. The page was updated with a link to an "h-card creator tool" at microformats.org which can be used to generate an h-card with proper markup. The "granary" page has been updated to note a change in domain for the hosted feed conversion service, which consumes social network APIs and converts them into formats like microformats2, activity streams, JSON feed, and more. Users of the service should migrate to the new URL, at granary.io. The "commonplace book" page was updated with a link to a session from WordCamp US 2017, which took place December first through third in Nashville, Tennessee. In it, speaker Brianna Privett delivered a talk entitled "The Story of Your Life: Using WordPress as your Memory Warehouse", in which she discussed her 20 years using the web to archive memories, and covered topics such as using WordPress to build a long-lasting keepsake repository that friends and family can contribute to while maintaining privacy. --- 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.