Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of December 30th 2017 - January 5th, 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 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 will meet on January 9th in Baltimore. Then the next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meeting will take place on January 10th, with Nuremberg, Brighton, London, San Francisco, and a virtual HWC at Central European Time confirmed so far. On Thursday, January 11th, Homebrew Website Club will meet in Amsterdam. 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 the first IndieWebCamp Baltimore, scheduled to take place January 20th and 21st at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Learn more and register now at 2018.indieweb.org/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. --- 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. Mark Matienzo, at matienzo.org, published a post to his site on January 5th noting that he felt his first earthquake. He used the opportunity to add microformats support for h-event to mark the occasion, as well as bookmark support, to link the the US Geological Survey's report on the quake. Ryan Barret, at snarfed.org, published a post titled "Bridgy stats update". The post gives the latest statistics from the popular IndieWeb cross-posting and back-feeding service. Since its launch in December 2013, brid.gy has successfully sent 940,000 webmentions to over 1500 unique domains, handled 9.5 million responses, and published 26,000 syndicated posts. Aaron Parecki, at aaronpk.com, published a post detailing some updates to the IndieNews service, including better handling of short notes without titles, and a calendar view for posts. Aaron also published a post titled "New Tiny IndieWeb Badge!", which introduces a handful of 80x15 pixel badges that you can use on your personal site to show your support for the IndieWeb, Webmentions, Microformats, HTML5, and the Creative Commons Tom Sparks, at tomasparks.github.io published two posts. The first, titled "RHYTHMBOX SCROBBLING NOTES SYSTEM", details some code for converting playback history from the Rhythmbox music player into "scrobble" posts on his static site. The second, titled "CUSTOM INDIEWEB NOTE SYSTEM", describes a work-in-progress note-taking system that allows the creation of posts with a text-editor, with an offline PDA, and with plans to add Micropub in the future. Eddie Hinkle, at eddiehinkle.com, published a post titled "Adding weather to my site", which describes using a combination of personal location tracking with Compass and the weather API at darksky.net to add weather information to new posts as they are created. AJ Jordan, at strugee.net, published a post titled "Announcing lazymention: elegant outbound Webmention for static sites". In it, Jordan introduces lazymention, a service which can send webmentions on behalf of static sites with supported microformats markup, keeping track of sent mentions to reduce unnecessary requests. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. # New Community Members A new user page was created for Camron Bickford, at odat.xyz. Camron is a decentralized networking enthusiast who believes that "free and open source technology makes the world a better place for everyone". 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 A new page was created for "best nine", a type of summary post which showcases a users' most-liked photos for a given year or month. Popularized on Instagram, this feature is supported by third-party websites such as 2017bestnine.com. The page includes a link to a similar service by IndieWeb community memmber Greg Tangey which can crawl IndieWeb-friendly sites and identify the most popular photo posts. A new page was created for "photography policy", an event policy to make it clear when photographing or recording is acceptable, and how attendees can communicate their preferences. IndieWebCamps are often livestreamed, and have photographers or organizers who take both informal session photos and group photos that are often published publicly. The "IRC" page was updated with details about recent intrusions by IRC spambots, which have been plaguing our IRC host Freenode. The page now contains detailed instructions on how to remove spam from our permanent chat log archives on GitHub. # Services and Organizations A new page was created for "ACM Hypertext Conference", an annual academic conference on the subject of hypertext and, typically, the web. Notable past poster presentations at the conference include HTML in 1991, and XFN (also known as the XHTML Friends Network) in 2000. The ACM Hypertext 2018 will take place in Baltimore, MD on July 9th-12th and the call for submissions is open now. The "site-deaths" page was updated with a link to a notice that Mapzen, which provides several geo-location and mapping service APIs will be shutting down at the end of January 2018. The post includes a breakdown of Mapzen's services, and offers alternatives, where available. # IndieWeb Development A new page was created for "Sink", an experimental site by community member Martijn van der Ven that allows anyone with an IndieAuth enabled URL to post to it using any Micropub client. Available at sink.zegnat.net, Micropub client authors are invited to try it out. The "The Open Graph Protocol" page was updated with some evidence-based tips for developers that want their posts to have nice link previews on silos like Facebook and Twitter with minimal duplicated information in proprietary metadata tags for each platform. The "Miniflux" page was updated with a notice about the deprecation of the minimalist feed reader, written in PHP, as the author prepares a rewrite in Go. Along with the main project, the author also deprecated the PHP picoFeed parsing library, which has been used in some IndieWeb projects. The "static site" page was updated with a link to a post by David Wynn at ftwynn.com titled "CREATING A POST API FOR HUGO". In it are technical details and code for creating a simple Micropub endpoint that runs on the Google Cloud Platform, using the Cloud Functions feature to process Micropub posts and recompile a static Hugo site. --- 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.