I’m planning on setting up up a regularly recurring Domain of One’s Own focused online meetup in the mold of Homebrew Website Clubs or WordPress meetups. People can ask questions, get help, collaborate, demo technology and ways they’re using their domains.
I’m thinking monthly to start, but I’m curious what days of the week and times might work best for people, especially across time zones?
Let me know if you’re interested in helping to organize or would like to join us to participate.
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@c that’s a wonderful idea!
Keep me posted, please. Sounds intriguing.
If you want an early look there are some upcoming online Homebrew Website Club meetings which are relatively similar, but which have a more diverse background of attendees, while I imagine the DoOO-based versions will be more educator/student focused.
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I love this idea and would definitely participate. Timezones can certainly be difficult. I would expect something middle of the day EST may fit the large majority of folks. Or we could alternative through a few different times. Either way I am definitely down and look forward to seeing this develop! Reclaim Cloud has given me a much broader canvas to experiment with and it would be fun to compare notes on personal infrastructure (I have too many experiments and little in the way of personal structure to my stuff).
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How about I suggest 1:30 PM on Thursday, July 23 to get things rolling? I’ll set up some details and send out an official invitation if that works. We can alternate times for timezone convenience as we go forward and see what works best.
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Sounds good to me! I’ll do my best to push it out to others as well.
Hey #DoOO peeps, proposal for a monthly meetup in the style of the Homebrew Club by @ChrisAldrich. Thinking it could be a lot of fun to do something like this. If it peaks your interest hit up the thread at community.reclaimhosting.com/t/recurring-do… or post at boffosocko.com/2020/07/03/557….
Thanks to a post by Chris Aldrich a couple of days ago I stumbled upon the term “Domain of One’s Own” (or DoOO for short) which I hadn’t heard of before. It’s a service offering for university/college students where the institution provides a “normal” domain name + some basic webspace in order for them to build their own online identity without falling into yet another silo (
university.yourcity/~yournamehereanyone?).The idea originates at the University of Mary Washington which is located in Fredericksburg, Virginia and so further away from Washington DC than Baltimore 🤪 Anyway, I digress…
So what does the UMW offer here for students?
Your own domain name which you can pick from a pre-defined list of TLDs (.com, .org, .net, .info)
A LAMP environment that can be administrated using cPanel
When you leave the UMW you can take the domain and the content with you. There is a 90 day period after graduating in order to get your stuff transferred.
That project also lead to the foundation of the reclaimhosting program which provides a managed solution for this offering to institutions.
I really, really like this idea! And while I absolutely think that this should not only be offered for students in higher education it’s a good first step! And even for this audience there’s still lots of work to be done:
Looking around, I sadly only found many universities and colleges in the US offering this. None of the better known institutions in Austria has something similar. Yes, for instance back when I studied in Klagenfurt we were provided with some webspace but only within the university’s domain, same for the student email address. Because of that it was yet another silo that most of the students used only for university-related exchanges. For everything else we had something else (back then Gmail was just getting started). I checked service pages for a few larger universities and couldn’t find anything that went really beyond what we’ve had back then.
Let’s run a little mind example: Imagine you attended a college or university. It’s now 10 years later but you’ve stayed in touch with some of your friends from back then and through networking got to know lots of others. How many of your e-mail conversation with them (let’s ignore messengers etc. here) somehow goes through a Gmail or Outlook account?
Now imagine all these folks would have been able to have their own proper domain back when they were students. With the right kind of service offering around configuration and management I’m pretty sure that a large part of those folks would have been able to use the same e-mail address from back with their own domain name until today!
Can we please have something like this also in Europe? EDUroam is great but if you want to offer something beyond the experience and title that your students can take with them from their time with you, this would be a good addition to your current offering. You already offer email and webspace, I’m pretty sure companies like Gandi or OVH would be able to make you an attractive deal on the domain part 😅
Hey, I and pressEd would be happy for this. That time.migjt not work but most of DoOO seems states based so ignore us :slight_smile:
Let me know what promo we can help with
I’ll be hosting a Domain of One’s Own meetup on Thursday, July 23, 2020 at at 10:30 AM Pacific / 1:30 PM Eastern / 7:30 PM CEST. Everyone who is interested in the topic is welcome to attend. We expect there will be students, teachers, designers, web developers, technologists, and people of all ages and ranges of ability from those just starting out with a domain to those running DoOO programs at colleges or even people running their own hosting companies.
We’ll use Zoom for this online meetup and a link to the room will be available 15 minutes before we start . We’re planning on using an Etherpad for real-time chat and note taking for the event.
Attendees will be expected to have read and agree to the IndieWeb Code of Conduct which will apply to the meetup.
We will
Have discussions about A Domain of One’s Own and the independent web;
Get to know other colleagues in the space;
Ask colleagues for help/advice on problems or issues you’re having with your domain;
Find potential collaborators for domains-related projects you’re working on;
Explore new and interesting ideas about what one can do or accomplish with a personal domain;
Create or update your domain
Agenda
Welcome
Introductions: short 2 minute introductions of attendees with an optional brief demonstration of something you’ve done on your domain or purpose for which you’re using your domain.
Group photo for those who wish to participate
Main meetup: Ideally everyone should bring a topic, demonstration, question, or problem to discuss with the group. Depending on time and interest, we can try to spend 5-10 minutes discussing and providing feedback on each of these. If questions go over this time limitation, we can extend the conversation in smaller groups as necessary after the meetup.
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Future meetups
While the time frame for this inaugural meetup may work best for some in the Americas, everyone with interest is most welcome. If there are others in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, or other locales who are interested, do let us know what dates/times might work for you in the future and we can try to organize a time to maximize some attendance there. I’m happy to help anyone who’d like to take the leadership of other time zones or locales to leverage some of the resources of the IndieWeb community to assist in starting future meetings to cover other areas of the world.
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