Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of September 22nd - 28th, 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. Join us this week on October 3rd for another Homebrew Website Club. Meetups have been confirmed in Baltimore and San Francisco so far, along with 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 IndieWebCamp Oxford was held at White October on September 22nd and 23rd in Oxford, UK. You can find photos and links to blog posts and notes about the event, including topics like WebVR, bookmarking, and the Known CMS, at indieweb.org/2018/Oxford. IndieWebCamp NYC is happening at Pace University in Manhattan on Friday September 28th and Saturday the 29th. Look for photos and links to livestreams and notes from the keynotes, discussion sessions and demos, including topics like design for participation, data portability, and notifications at indieweb.org/2018/NYC. The third IndieWebCamp Nuremberg will take place on October 20th and 21st, 2018, as part of Nuremberg Web Week. Volunteers can help with organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Nuremberg. And save the date for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will be held on November 3rd and 4th. You can learn more and lend a hand organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Berlin. 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. --- # Podcasts In episode 18 of his microcast "30 and Counting", Eddie Hinkle announced a new bi-weekly podcast called "My URL Is". Available at myurlis.com, it features interviews with IndieWeb community members about their sites, their hopes for the future of the IndieWeb, and more. --- 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. Jacky AlcineĢ, at jacky.wtf, posted "Where Will the Current State of Blogging and Social Media Take Us?" In it, he reflects on a desire to centralize all the content he creates in one place, on his domain, rather than splintering it around the web. To do so requires finding community, securing and storing all that content, and possibly building new tools to make it all easier. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Rosemary Orchard joins us from rosemaryorchard.com. Rosemary says, quote, "I'm a nerd all over the internet, and I beta test nearly every app I can!" 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 The /style-guide page has been updated with some brainstorming on how to choose domain names for services related to the IndieWeb community, whether directly or tangentially. Quote: "As a community we strive to use IndieWeb and IndieWebCamp for events and organizational sites such as the indieweb.org wiki. We welcome you to use the term indie web in a top level domain if you set up a website for a community event. It is best to name a service by the problem is solves rather than using IndieWeb in your top level domain. If you build a service to support the community we welcome the use of the word indie." Some examples include indiepay.me, a ledger for tracking payments between website owners, and Telegraph, a service for sending webmentions. A piece for China Daily at ecns.cn describes a new phenomenon of archiving aging internet meme images. In a piece titled "Collecting and the age of memeing", the author interviews collectors of so-called "antique" memes, where degradation from repeated screenshots and noise from watermarks add value to viral images as they are reposted over time. # Services and Organizations "Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds", according to a piece by Nick Statt writing at theverge.com. In the meantime, they link to some terms that users can mute today which, in theory, reduce the number of so-called viral tweets that users see in their Twitter feed. # IndieWeb Development The topics of portable contacts and calendar syncing have been making the rounds in the IndieWeb chat. Among many initiatives that have come and gone, two standards appear to have survived the test of time: CalDAV and CardDAV. Avaialble at calendarserver.org, Apple offers an open source calendar and contacts server, including a test suite for dealing with data in CardDAV and iCalendar formats. Are you building new open source network software? Considering building it on ActivityPub? A piece titled "ActivityPub hot take" at beesbuzz.biz encourages you think twice before jumping on the bandwagon, and consider whether its requirements and features meet your project's needs. The author claims that, in many cases, providing feed files in formats like Atom or RSS would do the job just as well, adding WebSub if you really need immediacy. Other new terms on indieweb.org this week include: prose.io, Operator, Baffle, historical building blocks, NPR, and Zoom. You can 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.