2011/Introductions

Introductions

First session of the 2011 Schedule.

Started with first minute of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4 (The Social Network trailer)

Last year we had the Federated Social Web Summit.

http://status.net/sites/default/files/FSWS-logo.svg

It was:

• invite only , focused on implementers
• had some design, mostly talk, no actual coding
• since absorbed into W3C Federated Social Web Incubator Group, now mostly talking (e.g. nothing was built out of the 2011 June Berlin W3C Federated Social Web Summit).
• a bunch of us decided we needed something more practical, personal, actionable
  • ==> http://indiewebcamp.com/

What is Indie Web Camp

• Indie - why
  • shared sites go away (Pownce, Vox, Geocities, Etherpad, Google Wave, ...)
  • get overloaded (Twitter, ...)
  • go down for maintenance (Flickr, Twitter BB client, ...)
  • go down unexpectedly (Tumblr)
• Builders - scratching your own itches
• Share (e.g. culture of open source, Open Source Bridge)
  • together we can build, iterate, faster than alone. that's why you're here this weekend

Plan for two days: Get Inspired And Make Things (Jeremy Keith's t-shirt as prop)

• today: talks/discussions
• tomorrow: building sessions, design, code, collaborate

Introductions:

• name
• URL
• 3 things you've built/broken/shared or want to build break share

Any questions?