Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of June 24th - 30th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-06-30.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 June 28th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time and 6pm for US/Pacific. Discussion topics included blog carnivals, internet radio, how to check if your content was used to train an LLM, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again July 12th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with a virtual meetup scheduled at 6pm for US/Pacific time. If you're listening just as this podcast goes up, there's a Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club on Saturday, July 1st, beginning at 9am US/Pacific. 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. 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. --- 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. Ryan at snarfed.org posted "Bridgy Fed status update". In it he gives the first of potentially weekly updates on his efforts to make Bridgy Fed a general-purpose decentralized social bridge. Tim Chambers, posting as @tchambers@indieweb.social, shared a link to the 3rd quarterly update studying the migration of users away from Twitter (and now Reddit) towards systems like Mastodon, Bluesky, and more. James, at jamesg.blog, posted "Maintaining mf2.py". In it, he details recent efforts of the IndieWeb community to resume development on mf2py, the official Python-language microformats parser. Updates include publishing the final version that supports Python 2, modernization and test improvements, and a new documentation website. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Bouncepaw joins us from bouncepaw.com. They're known for developing a wiki engine named Mycorrhiza, and a bookmarking tool named Betula. 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 Thanks to community members Tantek and gRegor for some quality wiki gardening this week. First up, Pop-ups are one-time IndieWeb events covering a specific topic. You can now find information about pop-ups as they are proposed and planned at indieweb.org/pop-ups. Next up, the IndieWeb community has an intentional bias towards documenting existing working practices and systems. That said, we recognize that consensus for these has to be reached, somehow! In the context of the IndieWeb wiki, brainstorming is a common section or dedicate page on the wiki for documenting and discussing specific ideas, working towards consensus and sometimes implementation. A new /brainstorming page seeks to organize links to these pages in one place. # Services and Organizations David Pierce, at theverge.com, published "Who killed Google Reader?". In it, the author shares interviews with the folks who built the social feed reading service in their spare time at the company, their struggles to keep it alive in the face of management pressures, and the dismantling of the Reader team as the company went all-in on Google Plus, resulting in the shutdown of Reader in 2013. # IndieWeb Development Whether it's tweets or TikToks, instagrams or issues, your personal site can be the canonical home for things you post elsewhere on the web. But this concept of Posting on your Own Site and Syndicating Elsewhere can go further. Check the /email page for ideas on syndicating to email, including real-world examples like letters to political officials and standards discussion lists. 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.