Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of May 5th - 11th, 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. Join us this week for another Homebrew Website Club! There are confirmed meetings on Tuesday, May 15th, in Baltimore and on Wednesday, May 16th, in Nürnberg. 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 IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf was held last weekend at sipgate in Düsseldorf, Germany. You can find notes from the sessions at indieweb.org/2018/Düsseldorf, and you can find photos from the event in the newsletter. Registration is open 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 take place before Open Source Bridge, which is celebrating its 10th and final year on Friday June 29th. Learn more, and register for the Summit now, at 2018.indieweb.org. 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. --- # Podcasts In episode 4 of "An Indieweb Podcast", hosts David Shanske and Chris Aldrich talk "Webmentions and Privacy". They cover what webmentions are and how they can be used to backfeed responses such as likes and comments from silos like Twitter to your own website. They also discuss some of the privacy implications of storing and displaying webmentions in the context of Europe's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation. --- 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. Jacky Alciné, at jacky.wtf, shared several about posts his IndieWeb journey. Topics include running his own server infrastructure with Dokku, self-hosting comments with Isso and webmentions, building a library to interoperate with ActivityStreams-based services like Mastodon, and more. Jacky also announced that he will be attending the 2018 IndieWeb Summit this June. gRegor Morrill, at gregorlove.com, published an announcement about version 2.0 of his Webmention plugin for the ProcessWire CMS. In addition to some bug fixes and library updates, the plugin now supports ProcessWire 3.0, while maintaining support for sites on ProcessWire 2.0. Jason McIntosh, at fogknife.com, published two posts that generated lots of discussion this week. In "I believe in the IndieWeb. It needs to believe in itself.", McIntosh calls for the IndieWeb to get organized as one or more non-profit organizations that could attract and distribute funding for related projects and pull more people into the IndieWeb. In a follow up post titled "A bit of IndieWeb pushback", he summarizes the main counterpoints from discussions of his first piece which have, quote, "already inspired me [to] start dreaming up new ways that I might contribute further to IndieWeb on its own apparent terms." As an aside, I would like to personally thank Jason McIntosh for including, on his home page, an audio file with the preferred pronunciation of his name. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members David Prater joins us from daveydreamnation.com. Davey is an Australasian-born writer, editor, and researcher who now lives in the third person. His website has been online since 2001. Frank Meeuwsen joins us from diggingthedigital.com. Frank is a blogger hailing from Utrecht, the Netherlands who has been online and publishing on the web since 1994. 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 Some questions were raised and answered this week on Twitter and on indieweb.org as newcomers to the IndieWeb learned about Webmentions. In a Dutch-language post titled "The Magic of Webmentions", Sebastiaan Andeweg at seblog.nl explains Webmention partly as an invisible protocol for sites to notify one another about links, but also as the visible likes, replies, and cat photo responses that appear on Webmention-capable sites, as well as the requirements outside of Webmention that make them possible. # Services and Organizations Google announced in March that their goo.gl URL shortener service will be shutting down in March of 2019. Existing users can create new short links until then, but new accounts and anonymous usage of the site have already been shut down. Google has promised that existing links will continue to work after the shutdown, but recommends that users migrate to Firebase Dynamic Links. iPhone owners who want to take advantage of the iPhone Upgrade Program should make sure to back up any two-factor authentication keys before making an upgrade. IndieWeb community member Ben Werdmüller wrote this week that Apple's upgrade process did not give him time to move keys from the current device to the new one. # IndieWeb Development Users of WordPress may be interested in a new plugin by Alex Kirk called Friends for WordPress. Available on GitHub, the plugin allows users to establish two-way links with other WordPress sites. Sites with a friend relationship will collect posts in a reader, much like following an RSS feed, but the plugin also allows the creation of friends-only posts which are not visible to the public. Sites that support photo posts via Micropub can more easily post reaction GIFs thanks to a new micropub client named Kapowski. Available at kapowski.schmarty.net, the open-source JavaScript app is hosted on the Glitch community platform and uses search APIs provided by GIPHY. Developers who want to make special display of "reacji" posts, which are posts where the content consists of Unicode emoji characters, need a way to detect those posts. Tantek Çelik added an experimental "is_one_emoji" function to his open source CASSIS library which seeks to determine whether a string contains a single emoji character, indicating that it might be an emoji response. Other new pages added to indieweb.org this week include: live video, gopost, IndieMark Scanner, Gutenberg, Mintoken, Klout, Magnolia, indiepay.me, weebly, geocaching.com, and "uncanny valley". 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.