While at the 2017 IndieWeb Summit, I sat down with some of the participants to ask "Why did you involved with the IndieWeb?" I talked with 12 IndieWeb community members, whom you've heard here over the past 12 weeks. This weekend, on September 30th and October 1st, I'll be attending IndieWebCamp NYC, where I plan to do another series of interviews. If you're attending, I'd love to interview you! If you've enjoyed these interviews so far, I'd love your feedback! The quickest way to reach me to is to join the IndieWeb chat and mention me by my nickname, "schmarty". You can join the chat via IRC, Slack, or even the web. Instructions are available at indieweb.org/discuss. --- Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of September 23rd - 29th, 2017. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-09-29.html 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 is October 4th, with Nurnberg, Brighton, London, Baltimore, Frederick, San Francisco, Portland confirmed so far, as well as a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. 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 This weekend there are two IndieWebCamps taking place. IndieWebCamp Istanbul is happening on September 30th at KoƧ University's KWORKS. You can find notes, photos, and videos from the event at indieweb.org/2017/Istanbul. IndieWebCamp NYC is happening on September 30th and October 1st at Dalberg Global Development Advisors in New York City. You can find notes, photos, and videos, as well as join the livestream at indieweb.org/2017/NYC Registration is open for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will take place November 4th and 5th at Contentful GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Learn more and register now at indieweb.org/2017/Berlin. And finally, dates have been announced for IndieWebCamp Austin, scheduled to take place December 9th and 10th. Planning is in progress, including finding a venue. Learn more and help out at indieweb.org/2017/Austin. 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 XXX community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb. You can XXX read more, or submit posts of your own, at news.indieweb.org. Keith J. Grant posted two new release announcements at Omnibear.com. Omnibear is a browser extension for creating posts on your site with micropub. It allows you to create reposts, likes, or replies to any page. The latest release has been confirmed working in Chrome, Firefox, and Vivaldi. You can find it on the Chrome Web Store and the Firefox Add-on store. Aaron Parecki, at aaronparecki.com, published a post titled Multi-Photo Support in OwnYourGram. In it, he announces that the OwnYourGram service now allows you to correctly import Instagram posts containing multiple photos to your own site via micropub. Parecki noted some issues with modeling Instagram posts with a mix of photos and videos in a way that existing Micropub servers are likely to support. --- 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 Xavier Roy, at xavierroy.com. Roy lives in Chennai, India, and writes technical documentation for Genesys Telecom Labs. 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 "site-homepage", an ongoing project to improve the indieweb.org landing page to make it more responsive, accessible, and useful to more generations. Interested community members should give it a look and add their suggestions. The "SMS" page was updated with info, screenshots, and links to several articles about the risks of using SMS messages as an account recovery method. While SMS can be useful as a two-factor authentication method, many services group these features together, making accounts vulnerable to hijacking. The "like" page was updated with a link to a post by Esther Kustanowitz on groknation.com titled "Be Kind, Connect and Create Miracles: Make Your Social Media 'Likes' Matter". In it, Kustanowitz encourages readers to think of social media reactions such as likes and reposts as more than shallow interactions, but as a way of spreading kindness and lettings others know that someone is aware of them. The "webactions" page was updated with an example of how to create a "follow" button that works across sites. The page was also updated with discussion about some of the drawbacks of "webaction" implemenations, including the potential to leak personal information. # Services and Organizations The "on this day" page was updated with an example from Wikipedia, which lists articles for historical events that happened on or around the current day. This contrasts with services like Timehop, which resurface personal social media posts for individuals. The "tweetstorm" page was updated with a link to a post by Chris Coyier on Twitter which asks, "Are typeset blog posts too hard for you to read? Here's a script to turn them into a tweetstorm." The script can be run on long-form posts to re-arrange the content as though it were sent as a series of tweets. The "YouTube" page was updated with a link to a post on The Verge titled "Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show". The "Echo Show" is the current generation of Amazon's always-on voice assistant device and includes a screen for visual content. Google is currently preventing these devices from accessing videos on YouTube, claiming that it violates their terms of service. # IndieWeb Development The "collection" page was updated with a link from Grant Richmond at grant.codes to a post on his site containing a collection of photos. Grant has been working on a micropub client to create multiphoto posts, and this example post shows it working on his site. The "Lambda" page was updated with a link to a project on GitHub called "iam-indieauth". The code is intended to be installed on Amazon's Lambda compute service and configured as an authorization endpoint for use with IndieAuth. --- 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.