Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of February 17th - 23rd, 2018. 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 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 February 20th in Baltimore, and on the 21st in Nuremberg, San Francisco, and Pasadena. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in this week's newsletter. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meetup is March 7th, with Nuremberg and San Francisco 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 Save the dates for the 2018 IndieWeb Summit, which will take place on Tuesday June 26th and Wednesday June 27th in Portland, Oregon. The two-day summit will be a part of the larger week-long Open Source Bridge conference. Organizers and volunteers are invited to contribute at indieweb.org/2018. 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. --- 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. Eddie Hinkle published a post at eddiehinkle.com titled "Free speech and it's limits". In it, Hinkle expands on a recent post by Nick Heer taking to task companies like Twitter that have, quote "packaged and exported the First Amendment". Comparing the platform to a restaurant with disruptive customers, Hinkle adds that Twitter has, quote "both the right and the responsibility to take care of the majority of it’s customers." Ben Werdmuller published a post at the GoDaddy Garage blog titled "Indie websites can set you free from the constraints of social media". In it, Werdmuller invites businesses who publish on social media to turn their focus to the web where, quote "you can create a space that is uniquely yours — something that represents you or your business completely". For those that worry about losing the conversations and engagement from their followers on social networks, IndieWeb build blocks help bring those conversations back to your own site. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # Community and Concepts Some new terms were added to the website this week: "skew", the accumulating differences that arise when attempting to keep duplicate sets of data in sync. "Acquisition" is a post indicating receipt of an item, optionally accompanied by information such as price paid, a photo of the item. Acquisition posts can be useful for self-accountability, tracking expenses, or collectible items such as books. "Donation" is a post, usually a note, indicating the act of giving items or money to a person or organization. These public displays of support can encourage others to act. A "Wish" is a post indicating an acquisition or purchase that you wish to make or which you hope someone might make on your behalf. On the subject of "watch" posts, which are used to publish the fact that you have watched a video such as a film or TV show episode, several real-world examples were added from IndieWeb community members and have been codified into commonly used text and emoji. The "Open Source Bridge" page has been updated with links to some IndieWeb-related talks from past conference years. The first IndieWebCamp in 2011 happened immediately following Open Source Bridge, and this year's IndieWebSummit will be an official part of the annual open source conference. # Services and Organizations Sarah Perez published a piece for TechCrunch titled "Anchor’s new app offers everything you need to podcast", giving a review of the venture-backed podcast creation and hosting silo, now in their third iteration as "Anchor 3.0". IndieWeb community member Chris Aldrich shared this post, along with his thoughts on how Anchor could attract new members by making it easier for users to self-host the audio files that they create with the platform. A new page was created for "Periscope", a live streaming video silo owned by Twitter, including links to tools and howtos for downloading archived videos from the service. In "Facebook" news, there has been some buzz in the IndieWeb community around a project by danburzo called fb-export. Available on GitHub, this NodeJS project allows to export your Facebook data via the Graph API, including some posts that would not be included in the official Facebook data export. Jillian C. York published a post on the Electronic Frontier Foundation blog at eff.org entitled "Companies Must Be Accountable to All Users: The Story of Egyptian Activist Wael Abbas". In it, the author takes silos such as YouTube, Facebook, and even Yahoo Mail to task for censoring Abbas' posts exposing police brutality in Egypt. # IndieWeb Development Regarding the GitHub API, some tips were added for developers who want the OAuth authorization UI to show something other than their personal GitHub account information. Developers who use the Twitter APIs might be interested to learn that Twitter offers a public Trello board detailing their API development roadmap. You can find a link to the board on the "Twitter-API" page. Folks looking forward to wildcard certificate support from the free SSL certificate issuer Let's Encrypt will need to keep waiting. Originally scheduled to launch on February 27th, the Let's Encrypt team has made a post on their community forums announcing a delay for quality assurance purposes. They plan to update the post weekly with progress updates. Other new topics on the website this week: "container", "kubernetes", "Helm", "Lua", "yarn", "Alfred", "Hammerspoon", and "Unicode". Check out indieweb.org for more information on these or to add to these new pages. --- 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.