Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of July 22nd - 28th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-07-28.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 July 26th with virtual meetups at 6pm for Europe and London time and 7pm for US/Pacific. Discussion topics included PHP, copyright, Twitter's rebranding, smart-homes, subway typography, AI in creative software, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on August 2nd for the next Homebrew Website Club, with virtual meetups scheduled at 7pm for Europe and London, and 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. 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. Mark your calendars for 9am US/Pacific on July 29th as James hosts Build a Website in an Hour. Bring an idea to this virtual co-working session and share the results of an hour of work! On July 30th, Send a Friend a Webmention! Coincidentally the same day as International Friendship Day, this non-traditional IndieWeb activity encourages you to use your personal site as your social hub on the web for comments, likes, emoji and gif replies, and more. Planning is underway for an IndieWebCamp Nuremburg for 2023. Tentatively scheduled for October 28th and 29th, it will be adjacent to the border:none conference, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members 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. # Services and Organizations In June, it was announced that Google had entered into an agreement to sell it's domain name registration service, Google Domains, to web hosting provider Squarespace. The sale now awaits regulatory approvals before any customer accounts or domains can be transfered. Meanwhile, there was discussion in the IndieWeb chat this week about whether customers should extend existing registrations at Google Domains, or transfer to another registrar before the sale completes. # IndieWeb Development Unmung, a feed translation service and web-based development multitool operated by community member Kevin Marks, has been impacted by a Google domain name management issue of a different variety. Until it can be resolved, users can find Unmung at unmung2.appspot.com. Overture Maps Foundation has released their first geographic data sets, including place names, buildings, administrative boundaries, and transit info. Overture has some major corporate funders, including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Tomtom. Nevertheless, the data is released under open licenses, and might make a good data source for IndieWeb sites that want to support check-ins and other location tagging features. You can learn more about using these data sets at overturemaps.org. As always, you can follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about and add detail to any of these concepts. --- 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.