ONLINE: Homebrew Website Club West Coast

Name: ONLINE: Homebrew Website Club West Coast
Start: 2020-03-25T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2020-03-25T20:00:00-07:00

March 25, 2020

Wed

washington.zoom.us/j/670543349

Now Online Only

Join the Zoom call: https://washington.zoom.us/j/670543349

Out of an abundance of caution regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus), we have decided to switch the March 25th meetup to an online-only meetup.

We will provide a Zoom video conference link 20 minutes before the meetup here and in the IndieWeb chat.

Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you’re a blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, this meetup is for you.

6:00pm–7:00pm Quiet writing hour * Finish that blog post you’ve been working on!

7:00pm–8:00pm IndieWeb Meetup * Demos of personal website breakthroughs * Discussion around the independent web * Create or update your personal web site!

Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site, or are interested in a healthy, independent web!

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by Maxwell Joslyn on Mar 25, 2020

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Tantek Çelik tantek.com/2020/085/t2/ went to tonight’s ONLINE: Homebrew Website Club West Coast where we discussed how we could improve https://indiewebify.me/ including helping people who just want to Get Started: https://indieweb.org/start using a service or CMS without worrying about code. Mar 26, 2020
gregorlove.com gregorlove.com/2020/03/we-talked-about-some-improvements/
We talked about some improvements to indiewebify.me during tonight’s IndieWeb meetup. I think we landed on the idea that it is primarily a tool for developers, since it involves instructing people to change HTML. We discussed possibly changing it from a numbered list (or levels) to more of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” format.

“indiewebify.me is still very 2015 indieweb” — Tantek

As a first small step, I wanted to propose that we change the messaging so it’s clear it’s intended for developers and add some prominent links (perhaps in a top bar?) to other indieweb resources if you’re not a developer, like the getting started page. Since indiewebify.me can be some people’s first exposure to the indieweb, I think it is important that we don’t give the impression that indieweb = you have to be a developer. We should provide clear, inviting calls to action for non-developers.

Since it is largely a set of validators, I wonder if that should be part of the messaging, too. Something like “IndieWebify.me: indieweb validators for developers”?

What are your thoughts?
Mar 26, 2020
that's it. I give up twitter.com/jackyalcine Currently discussing how to position getting in the IndieWeb during the online Homebrew Website Meetup (we do this online now for the entire West Coast!) events.indieweb.org/2020/03/online… (v2.jacky.wtf/post/850d47e0-…) Mar 26, 2020
gregorlove.com gregorlove.com/2020/03/im-attending-online-homebrew-website/
I’m attending ONLINE: Homebrew Website Club West Coast.
Mar 25, 2020