Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of September 15th - 21st, 2018. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2018-09-21.html == RE-USE == 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 ==/RE-USE == --- # Events == REUSE THIS == 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. ==/REUSE THIS == Homebrew Website Club met in Baltimore on September 19th, and on September 20th in London, San Francisco, and Seattle, 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 October 3rd for another Homebrew Website Club. Meetups have been confirmed in Baltimore and San Francisco so far, along with a virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. == REUSE THIS == 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 ==/REUSE THIS == == REUSE THIS == 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 ==/REUSE THIS == 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. == REUSE THIS == 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. ==/ REUSE THIS == In IndieWeb related events, Material 2018 will meet on November 16th at Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland. Material is a conference exploring the concept of the Web as a material. You can learn more and register for the event at material.is/2018. --- # Podcasts In a Micro Monday Extra episode on September 15th, micro.blog Community Manager Jean MacDonald interviewed Doug Beal at XOXO Fest. Among the topics discussed are IndieWeb Summit, web rings, and the Foolscap Literary Convention. --- XXX == REUSE THIS == XXX 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. XXX ==/REUSE THIS == XXX ??? --- == RE-RECORD! == And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. ==/RE-RECORD! == # New Community Members Charlie Park joins us from charliepark.org. According to their website, Charlie Park thinks you're swell. Arne Fismen joins us from arnefismen.com. Arne got involved with IndieWeb after a micro.blog meetup at XOXO 2018. == FIND AND REUSE == 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. ==/ FIND AND REUSE == # Community and Concepts indieweb.me is a French-language Mastodon instance intended to educate users about the IndieWeb and encourage them to host content on their own domain. Site administrator Christophe Ducamp also hopes to add IndieWeb building blocks that are missing from the core Mastodon software, such as Webmention. Academic researchers are required to make disclosures about conflicts of interest in articles that they publish. Why not post them to their personal websites as well? Chris Aldrich has collected some resources about disclosure - and the perils of doing it wrong, at indieweb.org/disclosure. # Services and Organizations Fall has returned in the northern hemisphere and, as the leaves begin to turn and the air begins to chill, it's the season for thinkpieces on the RSS format wars and the future of RSS. Sinclair Target at twobithistory.org published "The Rise and Demise of RSS", a deep dive into the technical and personal evolution of the RSS format and the people that created it, chaged it, and seemingly abandoned it. Brent Simmons, at inessential.com posted a response titled "Oh God Not This Again", reminding us that RSS is plumbing, that Twitter and other popular services we rely on today are evolutions of RSS, and that it is okay for RSS readers not to be mainstream technology. Small-audience content sharing silo Path announced that they will be shuttering the service on October 18th of this year, with customer support available until November 15th. Users are encouraged to retrieve their data from the service before the October 18th shutdown. You can find instructions on how to export your data at indieweb.org/Path. # IndieWeb Development Dan Q, at danq.me, posted a how-to on "Importing Geocaching Logs into WordPress". In it, he explores the kinds of geocaching data that he collects, the design of a tool that will bring all that data into one place on his website, and details about his new WordPress plugin, which does just that. Users of the Mastodon federated microblogging software now have a new way to verify their identity on various social web services, by creating two-way links between each profile that they control. Mastodon lead developer Eugen Rochko has updated Mastodon profile pages to support "rel=me" links, an identity verification building block that is common among the IndieWeb. Other new terms on indieweb.org this week include: Unladen Follow, TK, gRSShopper, and PixelFed. You can follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about, or add detail to, these new terms. --- 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.