Call for Interest: IndieWebCamp pop up session on Goodreads replacements and decentralized book projects

Based on some recent discussions with a variety of people I’m helping to organize an IndieWebCamp pop-up session on personal libraries online. If you’ve ever considered how to own all your own Goodreads-like reading data and still interact with others or you’ve got an website, product, or application that attempts to do this, this is sure to be your cup of tea (or maybe we should say “favorite genre”).

If you’re interested, comment or reply to this post, or add your interest and preferred dates to the IndieWeb wiki.

  • Date: Sometime in February 2022
  • Time: TBD (approximately 3 hours in duration)
  • Streaming video/audio platform: Zoom
  • Hashtag for the session:

We’ll focus discussion on personal libraries on one’s site(s) and how they can interact with each other. How can we pool data and resources for the common good? How can we provide Goodreads like functionality in a decentralized manner? What pieces are we missing? How can we add them? Are there any easy ways we can standardize the pieces for better site-to-site interoperability? How can we interoperate with other projects like Mastodon and BookWyrm or data sources like Open Library?

Organizationally, depending on attendees and needs we may break our time up into two or three facilitated sub-sessions to focus on and cover specific topics of interest. If you have an idea for a sub-session topic (we’ll operate Bar-Camp style the day of the event) you’d like to see or facilitate please indicate it below.

If you’d like to help facilitate the session or volunteer in running it, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Want to start discussing the topic prior to the session? Feel free to meet up online in the IndieWeb chat.

We’ll try to announce a date around mid-January to provide time for people to reserve the time.

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

25 thoughts on “Call for Interest: IndieWebCamp pop up session on Goodreads replacements and decentralized book projects”

    2. This looks awesome! I don’t have a domain name, so can’t edit the wiki, but flexible on timing 🙂

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    1. Kev, I’m worried that if I set up a doodle that with this crowd and given the philosophical purpose behind this, your response would be the only one there . Feel free to use any platform you like and send me a notification. Twitter is fine too. If you prefer, pop it onto your own website and send us a notification. Email us. In the end it’s looking like it’ll come down to the day with the most interest.

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  22. We’ve scheduled a date and time for the previously announced Personal Libraries pop up session. Everyone with an interest in the topic is invited to join and participate.

    Date: Saturday, February 19, 2022
    Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm (America/Los_Angeles)

    Code of Conduct: indieweb.org/code-of-conduct

    We’ll focus discussion on personal libraries on one’s site and how they can interact with each other. How can we pool data and resources for the common good? How can we provide Goodreads-like functionality in a decentralized manner? What pieces are we missing? How can we add them? Are there any easy ways we can standardize the pieces for better site to site interoperability? How can we interoperate with other projects like Mastodon and BookWyrm or data sources like Open Library?
    Organizationally, depending on attendees and needs we may break our time up into two or three facilitated sub sessions to focus on and cover specific topics of interest.

    Format: We’ll try to do something between a traditional all day IndieWebCamp and a single session pop-up over the span of several hours so that we can accommodate a brief introduction and three BarCamp topic related sessions. Feel free to brainstorm session ideas in advance of the mini-camp, but we’ll choose sessions the morning of the event.
    Tentative Schedule (all times Pacific):
    9:00 AM 30 minute introduction & IndieWeb building blocks
    9:30 AM 20 minute session pitches and scheduling
    9:50 AM 10 minute break
    10:00 AM 60 minute Session 1 (including 10 minute break)
    11:00 AM 60 minute Session 2 (including 10 minute break)
    12:00 PM 50 minute Session 3
    12:50 PM 10 minute closing remarks
    1:00 PM pop-up finished
    Everyone is welcome to attend.
    Resources

    Technology notes for those attending
    IndieWeb Chat Room
    Etherpad: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/DistributedLibraries (for real time chat, questions, and note taking during the session)
    #hashtag: #DistributedLibraries

    RSVP (optional)

    If your website supports it, post an indie RSVP to this event page; or
    On that page log in to indieweb.org and click “I’m Going”.
    RSVP yes, no, or maybe to this tweet.
    (And if none of this means anything to you, don’t worry about it; just show up on the day!)

    Questions? Concerns? Want to volunteer help?
    Feel free to comment below or ask in the IndieWeb chat: https://chat.indieweb.org/indieweb/
    Organizer(s): Chris Aldrich (chrisaldrich in chat)

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