While at IndieWebCamp New York City, I sat down with some of the participants to ask "Why did you involved with the IndieWeb?" My name is Tantek Çelik and my website is tantek.com I got involved in the IndieWeb after the Federated Social Web Summit. That was 2010 in Portland, when I hung out with Aaron Parecki there and we decided that we had a set of common interests in developing all this independent, distributed, decentralized web stuff using our own websites. We found that a lot of our principles overlapped and we decided we wanted to form a community of folks that wanted to grow the web with their own websites and focus on building tools that they would at least get to work for themselves and show the results of that, rather than trying to build tools for everyone right off the bat. What's the most recent update you've made to your website? On the IndieWeb wiki we have indieweb.org/payment, and that's a page that talks about how you can add links to various different payment services. So people can, from your website, find ways to pay you. So I have a page, tantek.com/pay, that has links to Venmo and Paypal, directly to being able to pay me. So if I'm in a situation where a friend needs to borrow some money, or something, we don't have to go through the whole dialog of "Are you on Venmo? Let me see if I can find that." They can just go to tantek.com/pay and click on whichever one of those works for them. Very nice. Well thank you so much! Thank you. --- Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of October 21st - 27th, 2017. This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities of the IndieWeb community at indieweb.org. It contains recent and upcoming events, posts from IndieNews, and a summary of wiki edits. This Week in the IndieWeb is sent out Fridays at 2pm Pacific time, with this audio edition appearing the following day. 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. The next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club meetup is November 1st, with Nuremberg, Brighton, Baltimore, and San Francisco confirmed so far, as well as a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. 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 Registration is open for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will take place November 4th and 5th at Contentful GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Learn more and register now at indieweb.org/2017/Berlin. Planning is in progress for IndieWebCamp Austin, scheduled to take place December 9th and 10th. Learn more and help out at indieweb.org/2017/Austin. 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. A couple of IndieWeb-related events have happened this week. IndieWeb community member Jeremy Keith of adactio.com gave a talk on the "Building Blocks of the IndieWeb" at the View Source Conference in London on October 27th. And IndieWeb community member Calum Ryan, of calumryan.com gave a talk titled "Introducing the IndieWeb Movement" at MozFest London on October 28th. We'll announce here when slides or videos of these talks become available. --- Here is a brief summary of posts collected this week by IndieNews, a XXX community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb. You can XXX read more, or submit posts of your own, at news.indieweb.org. Ryan Barrett, at snarfed.org, published a post titled "Bridgy Fed". In it, he announces the launch of the new Bridgy Fed service, which allows IndieWeb sites to federate with social networks like Mastodon. Users of Mastodon and other so-called fediverse services can follow IndieWeb personal sites through Bridgy Fed, and Bridgy Fed will send responses back using webmentions. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. # New Community Members A new user page was created for José Taveras, at tangerinelaboratories.com. José is, quote, "a computer engineer who is learning how to live in the analog world, and relearning almost every day the power of networks." 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 A new page was created for "headless CMS", a content management system that handles tasks such as editing and managing content, leaving the display of content for visitors to a different system. For example, the Netlify CMS edits content stored in GitHub, which is rendered by a static site generator. A new page was created for "2018-01-01-commitments". These are commitments from members of the IndieWeb community to create content or add new features to their site, by the first day of 2018. For example, Chris Aldrich has committed to writing a sixty-thousand word draft of an "IndieWeb for Everyone" book. Be sure to check out the list, and add your own. # Services and Organizations The "site-deaths" page has been updated with a notice that "Opinion", an app and silo for recording, editing, and publishing short audio podcasts, will be terminating their hosting service on November 1st. They have provided instructions for users to migrate their data to third-party hosting services such as Dropbox or iCloud, which the Opinion app will support in the future. A new page was created for "Facebook Master Algorithm", the name given to Facebook's algorithm for determining what content to show in a user's News Feed on their home page. Links were added to the page to a piece by the Wall Street Journal that describes this system, as well as to Twitter threads discussing why users should find the system concerning. # IndieWeb Development The "top-level-domain" page was updated with information about the ".dev" top-level domain. After registering this domain in 2015, Google recently made a change to its Chrome browser that prevents the browser from loading content from any .dev domain over unencrypted HTTP connections. The page was updated with a link to a How-To for macOS devices that developers can use to create their own HTTPS certficates, bypassing the issue. --- 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 included the tracks Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11 of 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.