Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of February 3rd - 9th, 2018. 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. Homebrew Website Club met in Baltimore on February 6th, and in San Francisco on February 7th. You can find photos and links to notes from the events in the newsletter. Homebrew Website Club will next meet on February 14th in Amsterdam, February 20th in Baltimore, and the next regularly schedule Homebrew Website Club meeting will take place on February 21st, with San Francisco and Pasadena confirmed 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 Tentative dates and location have been chosen for the 2018 IndieWeb Summit, currently scheduled to take place on June 26th and 27th in Portland, Oregon. The two-day summit is slated to be a part of the larger Open Source Bridge conference, happening that week. It is likely there will also be a pre-summit "Leaders" meetup for organizers of IndieWebCamps and Homebrew Website Clubs on the day before the summit. Organizers and volunteers are invited to contribute via the wiki at indieweb.org/2018. 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, FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, took place on February 3rd and 4th in Brussels, Belgium and some members of the IndieWeb were in attendance. If you were there, please add your experiences to the wiki at indieweb.org/2018/FOSDEM. --- 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. Jack Jamieson, at jackjamieson.net, published a post titled "Yarns Indie Reader". In it, Jamieson announces the launch of a new project that brings Indie Reader support to WordPress-enabled sites. Initial features allow users to follow their favorite RSS- or h-feed-enabled websites, and to directly create replies and likes. Dries Buytaert, at dri.es, published a post titled "To PESOS or to POSSE?". In it, the author gives a detailed breakdown of the differences between the common IndieWeb patterns of PESOS (or Post Elsewhere, Syndicate to your Own Site) and POSSE (Posting on your Own Site, Syndicating Elsewhere). The comments following the article contain user stories and suggestions for implementing these patterns across many different silos and content management systems, including the Open Source Drupal development platform of which Buytaert is the lead developer. --- 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 Stephen Pieper, at stephenpieper.net. Stephen identifies as a Scottish music lover, reader, tea drinker, film watcher, and failed blogger. 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 "POOSNOW", an acronym for Post On One Silo, No Others on the Web. This is the worst known practice for posting content online, leaving the content of your posts in the hands of a single silo, without even a personal backup. A new page was created for "tips_for_photographing_conference_speakers", a collection of suggestions from Igal Koshevoy, originally published on the Open Source Bridge wiki, to help conference photographers produce high quality images of event speakers. The "Woodwind" page was updated to note that the primary instance of the Open Source Indie Reader, usually available at woodwind.xyz, appears to be entirely offline, as of February 6th. Popular for its ability to parse h-feed, Woodwind was popular for demos of following IndieWeb sites. # Services and Organizations The "Movescount" and "Suunto" pages were updated to reflect recent user complaints about downtime and a lack of an export feature. Movescount, an exercise tracking silo run by fitness watch manufacturer Suunto, is the only way for users to extract data from their devices. When the service was recently down for over 24 hours, were unable to access their fitness data. The "site-deaths" page was updated with a link to an announcement by blogging silo Medium that they will be shutting down two services: Bumpers and Captioned. Aimed at growing larger bases of podcast producers and listeners, Medium is shutting down the services after 3 years citing "lack of growth and funding". The "Squarespace" page has been updated with a link to the company's recent video advertisement, which first aired during Superbowl 52. Starring actor Keanu Reeves as himself, the video features a dark faux-cowboy vibe which seems to make fun of itself, while educating viewers on how to create their own websites, starting with choosing a domain. # IndieWeb Development A new page was created for "Aperture", an open source microsub server developed by Aaron Parecki. Briefly known as Monocle, the project is in heavy development and not yet recommended for wide use. However, developers of microsub clients are encouraged to ask Aaron for an account to test their implementations. The "p3k" (pronounced "peek") page was updated with a link to a new library from Aaron Parecki, called p3k-micropub. Available on GitHub, p3k-micropub is a set of utilities for developing micropub clients and servers in PHP. The "silo.pub" page was updated with instructions on how to run this Micropub server for hosted blogs and silos on Ubuntu 16.04. Folks interested in posting to their accounts on sites like Tumblr, WordPress.com, and Twitter via Micropub should give them a look. --- 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.