Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of September 1st - 7th, 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 September 5th in Austin and Portland, along with a virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on September 19th for another Homebrew Website Club. Meetings have been confirmed so far for Nürnberg and San Francisco. 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 IndieWebCamp Oxford will be held at White October on September 22nd and 23rd in Oxford, UK. Registration is open now, so head on over to indieweb.org/2018/Oxford for details. IndieWebCamp NYC will be held at Pace University in Manhattan on September 28th and 29th. Registration is open now, and volunteers are needed. Find out more at indieweb.org/2018/NYC. The third IndieWebCamp Nuremberg will take place on October 20th and 21st, 2018, as part of Nuremberg Web Week. Volunteers can help with organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Nuremberg. And save the date for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will be held on November 3rd and 4th. You can learn more and lend a hand organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Berlin. 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 sixth XOXO Festival returns to Portland, Oregon this weekend on September 6th through 9th. Several IndieWeb community members are in attendance. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Serena joins us from serenawho.com. Serena is the co-host of the Trigger Point Podcast, a cat's human, and a collector of hobbies. Nikhil Jha joins us from nikhiljha.com. Nikhil wants to write about neural networks, analysis, maker projects, and culture. 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 Do you remember the earliest days of the web? Would you like to? webdesignmuseum.org exhibits over 900 sites showing web design trends from 1995 to 2005. # Services and Organizations In silo quits this week, Gigaom founder Om Malik left Facebook on September 12th, letting go of three hundred thousand followers, twelve hundred friends, and the blue seal of authenticity in favor of his own website, smaller groups on Telegram, and a new photo blog. You can read more about it on his site at om.co. Charlie Owen, at sonniesedge.co.uk, writes "It's time to say goodbye to Twitter". Citing rampant harrassment, both on Twitter and so-called replacements like Mastodon, she has deleted the apps from her phone and will be taking a long break. Quitter.no, a federated microblog running on GNU Social, has shut down after 4 years online. The site's admin announced they would not be handing it over to anyone else, and encouraged users to migrate to a new federated home. Speaking of the fediverse, a post at anna.flourishing.stream asserts that, quote, "Open Code is not equal to Working Open". In it, the author takes lead Mastodon developer Eugen Rochko to task for repeatedly railing against the community that uses Mastodon around features that involve accessibility and harrassment. ORCID is a nonprofit organization and web service that aims to allow researchers to consolidate their identity, work, and affiliations under a unique, non-proprietary, 16-digit numerical ID number. # IndieWeb Development Ekster Reader is an in-development Microsub reader which runs directly in your browser, though that does come with some technical restrictions. You can find it online at reader.p83.nl. Microsub notifier is another Microsub client, this one to send notifications of new content in any of your Microsub channels. You can find it online at microsub-notifier.tpxl.io. --- 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.