Scurvy-free zone.
Scurvy-free zone.
Discuss progress; meet up; make new friends.
Location: Mozilla SF, 1st floor, 2 Harrison st. (at Embarcadero), San Francisco, CA
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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 like-minded 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.
Originally posted on indiewebcamp.com. There's also a companion event at Mozilla Portland.
I'm a heavy user of the @Firefox Social API but my buttons vanished in the latest version. Wish it was easier to stay on top of changes.
Walking to get food, a couple deftly balancing boards on their heads, a spare board in hand. "Would you like to join our club?" Berkeley.
The leaked New York Times digital report, as analyzed by the Nieman Lab: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-docum...
@kevinmarks Ginger ale. I know, I know, but it kind of works.
@irishstu @coreyford Lots of talk about how they've changed the space. Were you on stools or something?
People talk about the east bay like it's super far away, but it takes me 30 mins to get to downtown SF, I'm not time-limited, & it's easy.
@saronyitbarek I was pretty happy with the arrangement :)
My gut wants sausages.
Hearing horrendous things from my Australian friends about their new #budget2014. The cuts aren't over.
The Orange Box is an interesting attempt at an all-in-one Ubuntu box for enterprise: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/05/the-orange-box-cloud-for-free-man.html
Back in the habit of taking the 7:51 bus into San Francisco; it's 7:53, and the Swiss part of me is getting worried.
The 2014 report is due this month; it'll be interesting to see how it changed. Audio? More video? More privacy?
A startup domain name generator after my own heart: http://dumb.domains
The more I think about Indie Box, the more important (& useful!) I think it is. Get one: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/indie-box-let-s-bring-our-data-home
London cabbies aren't happy with Uber. (How do Uber drivers compete with The Knowledge?) http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/08/london-black-taxis-to-cause-chaos-in-protest-of-uber/
Have now entered the interpretive dance stage in proceedings. #iiw
A device that lets you to cloud-enable your home or business - on your own terms. Get an Indie Box: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/indie-box-let-s-bring-our-data-home #iiw #indieweb
In his excellent newsletter Things That Have Caught My Attention, Dan Hon writes:
So my thing is this: not an indie web, but a sustainable one. One that is kind of adjacent to the indie web, but that builds long-lasting, reliable services, not ones that disappear. This adjacency comes from the answers to the question of: what kind of attributes are required for a sustainable web? Do you need easily exportable data? Sure. Do you need some element of user control? Sure. Are those the *defining* characteristics? Not really. But I think we might be verging on a sort of turning point where applications and services can, at the outset, say: "you know what, here's our plan for being around for a while so you can *trust* us and invest time in us". [...] A web where we build for the long-term, and perhaps pulling back from explosive, burn bright and short products and services.
You should read the whole newsletter here, and subscribe over here.
I buy into this completely.
I also believe, strongly, that sustainability is a kind of independence, and therefore something that should go hand-in-hand with the #indieweb. If you're going to own your site and your own presence, you should be able to do so in a way that you're going to keep up: if you're writing your own platform or handcoding your own site (as a small minority will), you've got to make sure you'll keep writing your own platform or site, because otherwise what's the point? If you're building a startup that aims to solve a problem for real people, shouldn't you ensure that the product or service you're building can continue to exist? Otherwise the point is simply to make a lot of money. I'm not knocking that as a goal in itself - I am very interested in making my project a financial success - but if you're not continuing to solve the problem for your users, or if you're simply taking away a tool they have come to depend on, you're treating them as collateral damage. I don't believe that's an ethical way to build software.
If you're not building in sustainability, you're naturally going to be beholden to outside entities: either to acquire what you've built (if you're building a startup), which may result in your project shutting down, or to use someone else's service. As in life, you lose independence by not planning for the future.
All of this came about because Andy Baio is resurrecting Upcoming.org, which I'm delighted by - at least until there's a viable, mass-market indieweb event tool.
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So @erinjo is painting a dystopian future where the wombles gather genetic material on Wimbledon Common and profile its visitors. #iiw
Reminder: the Indie Box is an open, secure personal cloud you run in your home. Get one: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/indie-box-let-s-bring-our-data-home #iiw
Broad worries for the world if we don't make better tech: inequality, oppression, homogenous culture, lack of autonomy. #iiw
"We are the last generation of free people." Terrifying starting point for an important discussion. #iiw
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