Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of March 3rd - 9th, 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 March 7th, with meetups in Nürnberg, Brighton, Baltimore, and San Francisco. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in this week's newsletter. If you're in Portland this week, drop in for the Homebrew Microblog Meetup on March 14th, a joining of the IndieWeb and micro.blog communities hosted by Aaron Parecki and Jean MacDonald. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meetup is March 21st, with Nürnberg 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 Dates have been announced for IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, scheduled to take place May 5th and 6th at sipgate in Düsseldorf, Germany, just before the beyond tellerand event. Learn more and register now at indieweb.org/2018/Düsseldorf. 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 "Re-thinking the Homepage". In it, Hinkle details the evolution of the sections on his homepage, which currently include tickers of recently viewed media and recently posted photos, posts from today, an "On This Day" section highlighting posts from previous years, and a "Featured" section of articles and events. Chris Aldrich published a post at boffosocko.com titled "Enabling two way communication with WordPress and GitHub for Issues". In it, Aldrich details the plugins and configuration with Bridgy to allow posts from your WordPress site to appear as GitHub issues and issue comments, and to have follow-up discussion syndicate back to your site. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Mark Everitt joins us from qubyte.codes. Mark is a server side and game software developer and one time Quantum Information Scientist. 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 "want" is a type of post indicating an acquisition or experience that the author would like to have, such as a book they'd like to read, a dish they'd like try, or a place they'd like to visit. When displaying a reply post, it's important to provide context about the original post to which yours is a reply. This can include details about the post's author, its name and summary, publish date, and more. The "reply-context" and "reply-context-examples" pages have been updated with screenshots and markup samples from around the IndieWeb and some silos. A "review" post typically refers to rating a product or service, but that vocabulary is changing a bit as some in the IndieWeb community are syndicating posts between their own sites and GitHub. In this context, a "review" post refers to feedback and commentary on a set of proposed code changes. Work is in progress regarding how to best represent this kind of review on personal sites. # Services and Organizations Team communication silo Slack announed this week that they will be sunsetting their IRC and XMPP gateways, which currently allow users to connect directly to Slack via third party clients over open protocols. Scheduled to shut down in May of this year, the change will *not* affect the various IndieWeb chat channels, which are kept in sync between IRC and Slack via a bridge that uses Slack's own APIs. Alexis C. Madrigal published a post on theatlantic.com this week titled "Retweets Are Trash". In it, the author asks "What if viral content isn't the best content?", describing a marked improvement in the content they saw on Twitter after using a script to hide retweet posts from all the people they follow. According to a post by Josh Constine on techcrunch.com last week, Facebook is trying a new kind of audio-based status update called Voice Clips. The feature is currently receiving a trial with a small percentage of users in India. # IndieWeb Development Web developers may or not be aware of the sometimes-ironically named ".well-known". Literally referring to the path "/.well-known/" under a domain, it's used as a standardized location for discovering domain-wide metadata. Example uses include domain ownership proofs for LetsEncrypt, mapping a domain to an address on the Dat network, user data in WebFinger used by social networks like Mastodon, and more. Other new terms on indieweb.org this week: "GitHub notifications", "Gitter", "Yoast SEO", "GitHawk", "HPKP", "Home Assistant", and "Plurk". Check the links in the newsletter to learn more about and to add more details to the pages for these 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. 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