Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of June 9th - 15th, 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 June 13th in Nuremberg and Baltimore, along with a Virtual Hombrew Website Club at Central European Time. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Several IndieWeb community members in San Francisco attended a Decentralized Web Meetup at the Internet Archive, including Aaron Parecki who presented on IndieAuth, and Tantek Çelik, who presented on IndieWeb, and Ryan Barrett's IndieMap. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club is June 27th, the same day as the close of the IndieWeb Summit in Portland, Oregon. Nuremberg, London, and Baltimore have confirmed meetups 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 Join us for the 2018 IndieWeb Summit, which will take place on Tuesday June 26th and Wednesday June 27th in Portland, Oregon. The schedule for Tuesday includes keynotes from Manton Reece and Jean MacDonald of Micro.blog, Aaron Parecki and Jonathan Lacour discussing the next wave of IndieReaders, and William Hertling, author of the novel Kill Process. Learn more, and register for the Summit now, at 2018.indieweb.org. Already planning to attend the summit? Spread the word! Send an open invitation to folks on your site and syndicate it out to social media. We would love to be joined by folks of all abilities and backgrounds. Travel assistance is available. 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. In IndieWeb-related events, Calum Ryan will be speaking on "Re-decentralising the web" at this month's London Web Standards meetup on June 18th. Be on the lookout for links to slides or video in an upcoming newsletter. --- # Podcasts David Shanske and Chris Aldrich released "An IndieWeb Podcast: Episode 6 WordPress and Types of Posts". In it, they discuss how various types of post, such as bookmarks, listens, and more, are implemented in the Post Kinds plugin for WordPress. --- 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. Scott Merrill, at skippy.net, published "Silos, IndieWeb, and Me". In it, he gives the history of his site starting in 1999 and discusses the importance of making sure that content that he posts to social networks like Twitter makes its way back to his site. Roy Scholten, at yoroy.com, published "Implementing IndieWeb on your personal Drupal site, part 1". In it, the author introduces the Drupal IndieWeb module, developed by Kristof De Jaeger, and walks through setting up basic markup for displaying your identity on your personal site, and linking to your existing accounts on social media silos. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Carl Roberts joins us from carlroberts.us. According to his about page, the short story is that Carl is a writer. Of course, there is a longer story. 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 Improvements are in the works for people new to IndieWeb who would like to host their site on WordPress. Greg McVerry, at jgregorymcverry.com is conducting user surveys and writing getting started documentation aimed at beginners. And Christopher James Willcock, at cjwillcock.ca, has been documenting in detail his adventures with setting up a WordPress site with IndieWeb features, including a breakdown of which WordPress themes support microformats2 markup for interoperability with other IndieWeb sites. # Services and Organizations "Our incredible journey" is a phrase from online services which often signals that your content, relationship, and even identity data may be deleted from the internet because a silo you were trusting to host them is shutting down or being purchased by a company that will likely do the same. The phrase "incredible journey" can often be found in the final, bittersweet blog post of many online social media and technology start ups as they rosily announce their own site-death. Social networking silo Facebook recently rolled out a new "Memories" page, which shows highlighted posts from the past. It builds on their previous "On This Day" feature, which showed users sometimes upsettings posts from the current calendar day in previous years. Need a way to make sure that a Twitter thread isn't lost due to deletion, closed accounts, or banning? Tag @archive_tweet in a reply. This bot account, run by Vice publishing subsidiary Motherboard, is a quick way to make sure that a Twitter thread ends up in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. # IndieWeb Development indiebookclub is an app for posting books you are reading to your website via Micropub. Available at indiebookclub.biz, it is maintained by IndieWeb community member gRegor Morrill. Grant Richmond, at grant.codes, released a browser extension version of his Micropub app PostrChild. By detecting entries on a page with microformats2 mark-up, it allows users with sites that support edits via Micropub to update an existing post without loading a extra editor. The extension, which is available for both Chrome and Firefox, also supports an experimental bookmark sync feature. Other new pages added to indieweb.org this week include: token revocation, influencer, Gitaly, openlibrary, Kill Process, and Doodle. 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.