While at the 2017 IndieWeb Summit, I sat down with some of the participants to ask: "Why did you involved with IndieWeb?" My name is rabble and my website is affinity.works. I got involved with the IndieWeb because I think that there's something wrong with corporations controlling how we communicate and the nature of our social lives. What is the next thing you're hoping to do with your website? I'm hoping to find a way to share contact information between groups, and how to federate a privacy-preserving CRM. What's the most recent update you've done to your website? The most recent update I've done to the website was implement the Open Supporter standard, a JSON API for advocacy groups. How many other groups are using that? About two dozen. But, it turns out that even though it's an open standard, there's no open source implementation of it, for now. How about that? Yes. Very cool. Alright, well thank you so much. Yeah. --- Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of August 26th - September 1st, 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. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meeting will be September 6th, with Brighton, London, Baltimore, and San Francisco, as well as a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time, 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 A reminder that there will be an IndieWebCamp tent and events at the upcoming Campfire Journalism Festival in Dortmund, Germand on September 8th and 9th. Check the newsletter for details on how to attend. On September 22nd, at the Connect Tech conference in Atlanta, GA, IndieWeb community member Keith J. Grant will be giving a talk on The Decentralized Social Web. Find out more about the event at connect.tech. And finally, this week saw the announcement of this year's IndieWebCamp NYC! The two-day camp 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. 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. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. New Community Members Two new user pages were added to the IndieWeb wiki this week. First up is Glenn Rice, at glennrice.net. Glenn is a systems and network administrator and sometimes software developer who lives in Cairns, Queensland. A new page was created for long-time IndieWeb contributor Dan Gillmor, at dangillmor.com. Dan is a technology journalist, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. 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 Thanks to Gregor Morrill, at gregorlove.com, for archiving the notes from the 2014 IndieWebCamp UK in the wiki. You can find the links to notes from all of the sessions on the 2014/UK/Schedule page. A new page was created for "fundraiser" - a type of post similar to an event that encourages readers to donate in response to it. While any note post can contain a call-to-action, some silos such as Facebook allow donations directly from a fundraiser post and show the amount of money raised so far. Services and Organizations A new page was created for "follow search", a feature that shows new posts in a user's feed reader when they match a search result, regardless of whether the user is following that author. This feature was recently added to Twitter, and has stirred some discussion about an IndieWeb equivalent. The "site-deaths" page was updated with an entry about "SquirrelSave", an encrypted cloud backup service that shut down on August 9th of this year, after giving customers less that one month's notice of the impending shutdown. The "Facebook" and "Instagram" pages were both updated with info about outages that hit both sites on August 26th. The info includes a link to an article from the CNN money blog, which received confirmation of the outage from Facebook, and which notes that many users went to Twitter to vent their frustrations. A new page was created for "People You May Know", a Facebook feature that suggests people you may want to add as a friend. The page contains a link to a piece by Kashmir Hill on gizmodo.com describing her experience with the feature. After Facebook recommended she friend a seeming stranger living in another state, she found that they were distantly related through an estranged family member. Facebook refused to comment on how the system decided to suggest the connection. IndieWeb Development The "feed" page was updated with a link to a post by Joshua Tilton on getstream.io titled "The Ultimate Guide to Activity Feed Design & News Streams". The piece collects examples of this type of user interface design from several apps and websites, and concludes with their recommendations for how to apply them. The "feed file" page was updated with a brief list of feed file formats, such as RSS, ActivityStreams version one and two, and JSONFeed, and information on how to contribute to their development, where possible. And finally, the antipatterns page was updated with a link to a Twitter thread by Twitter use Shuja Haider. The thread begins with the Tweet. Quote: "I want an app for each website I visit. And I want all of them to have loud videos that play automatically. This is my ideal user experience." The thread goes on to list real-world examples of user experience designs that users find most frustrating. --- 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.