events/2016-11-30-homebrew-website-club
Homebrew Website Club Meetup
Join us for an evening of quiet writing, wiki editing, IndieWeb demos and discussions!
- Create or update your personal web site!
- Finish that blog post you’ve been writing, edit the wiki!
- Demos of recent IndieWeb breakthroughs, share what you've gotten working!
Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site!
Any questions? Ask in the chatroom!
Details
When
:
• - – Homebrew Website Club broadcast & peer-to-peer meetup & beforehand:
• optional 17:30-18:30 – quiet writing hour for the venues that explicitly have it.
All times are Pacific Time unless otherwise noted in venues.
Where
- Amsterdam (Schiphol) (new!)
- Starbucks, Schiphol Plaza, Schiphol
- If Starbucks is too crowded we might move somewhere else within the plaza. Reach out to
Martijn van der Ven in case you need to find us, and keep an eye out for someone wearing the IWC logo. Map of Schiphol plaza, if needed.
- Baltimore, MD (new!)
- Digital Harbor Foundation, 1045 Light St, Baltimore, MD 21230
- 18:30 - 19:30 Eastern Time – (optional) quiet writing hour for those interested
- 19:30 - 20:30 Eastern Time – meetup
- Brighton
- 68 Middle Street, Brighton 18:00 - 19:30
- Göteborg
- Steampunk Bar, Kungsgatan 7, Göteborg 17:30 - 19:30
- San Francisco
- Mozilla San Francisco, 2 Harrison St. (at Embarcadero), 1st floor open area, San Francisco, CA
What
17:30-18:30 Quiet writing hour before the meetup. Come on by to blog or do other writing quietly.
Homebrew Website Club Meetup: Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...
See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.
Topics
Topics for this week! (feel free to add)
- Add to 2017-01-01-commitments! What can you improve on your personal site over the holidays that you can start using live on the web by 2017-01-01? See 2017-01-01-commitments for examples so far!
- Related: IndieMark: How is your site's IndieMark? What improvements have you made recently? What are your next challenges?
- Demos!
- SF: Demos expected by: Aza Raskin
- Posting about news: How do you post about real news, with citations, towards helping overcome the proliferation of fake-news?
- ...
RSVP
Optional RSVP - just show up! You're encouraged to RSVP by any or all of:
- adding your name below (and indicate parenthetically if you're in for writing hour)
- sending an indie RSVP to the respective indie event listed for your location,
- RSVPing on its POSSE copy on Facebook (also linked)
Or just come by and say hi! We're a friendly bunch. You may also RSVP after attending.
Amsterdam (Schiphol)
RSVP by adding yourself below.
- Martijn van der Ven
Sebastiaan Andeweg- ... add yourself!
Baltimore MD
RSVP on the indie event, Facebook POSSE copy, add yourself below, or all three!
Marty McGuire
Jonathan Prozzi- ... add yourself!
Brighton UK
RSVP by adding yourself below.
- ... add yourself!
Jeremy Keith- Alice
- Amber Wilson
Göteborg Sweden
RSVP by adding yourself to the Göteborg indie event, Facebook POSSE copy Meetup POSSE copy, add yourself below, or all three!
Jeena Paradies- ... add yourself!
San Francisco
RSVP to the: indie event , Facebook POSSE copy, add yourself below, or all three!
- ... add yourself!
Regrets
Too far from any HWC to make it!
- ...
Notes
Blog posts
Posts about the meeting:
Photos
SF
Brighton
Baltimore
Amsterdam (Schiphol)
- ...