Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of January 14th - 20th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-01-20.html 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. Homebrew Website Club met on January 18th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London, and 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included collaborative wikis, IndieWeb events, onion routing, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on January 25th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with a virtual meetup scheduled at 6pm for US/Pacific time. You can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups and other IndieWeb events at events.indieweb.org. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the site with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. On Sunday, January 15th, community member James presented "Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention" at codementor.io. James' talk covered what webmention is, how to send and receive them on your own site, and creative uses between personal sites. Check the /videos page for a link to the recorded livestream on the Internet Archive. 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. Tentative planning has begun for a possible IndieWeb Summit in 2023. Discussions are just starting and include locating a venue in Portland, establishing COVID precautions, and more. Want to help? Visit the /Planning page, where plans are also beginning to take shape for IndieWebCamps in cities like Dusseldorf, Berlin, and Brighton. --- 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. Tracy Durnell at tracydurnell.com published "Understanding blogs". In it, the author opens up a discussion about blogs beyond their technical description and asks "what is blogness?" --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Herbi joins us from HerbiMarquez.com. He uses his site to post status updates and to blog about favorite subjects such as technology, privacy, security, and health. A second Herbi joins us from h3rb1.com. He posts status updates and blogs on his own site, and streams gaming sessions on Twitch. Chaim joins us from chaimburstein.com. Chaim is a human on the internet posting about the four "F"s: fast cars, funky guitars, food, and fun. Tiago joins us from tiagorangel.com. He hosts his site on glitch.com, along with handy web tools and experiments that he maintains. Phil joins us from rubyquartzglasses.me.uk. Phil is rebuilding his long-time WordPress site with a new theme that plays well with the IndieWeb plugins for WordPress. 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 Looking for an image for the header section of your next IndieWeb-related blog post? Check the /banner_image page for a series of Creative Commons licensed images with IndieWeb-related quotes, created by community member Chris Aldrich. We may take for granted the ability to "@-mention" users on social networks, but the familiar "@" syntax didn't always exist, and it continues to evolve. Check out the /person_mention page to learn more. # Services and Organizations Want a more chat-like feel to your federated posting? Whalebird is a desktop client for Mastodon and similar ActivityPub-powered sites designed to look and feel like Slack. # IndieWeb Development The IndieWeb embraces "plurality" of software - a diversity of approaches and implementations that aim to interoperate. If you're working on your own IndieWeb-friendly software - even, or especially, if you're the only user - you may want to see how it stacks up with others. The /indieweb_network page is an overview of IndieWeb friendly applications, silos, CMSes, and platforms and which specifications they support. And finally, do you have suggestions for how to improve this podcast, or the newsletter that it's based on? Add your ideas to the Brainstorming section of the /this-week-in-the-indieweb page! --- 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.