RSVPed Attending IndieWebCamp West 2020
June 27 - 28, 2020: Two days meeting up online to share ideas, create & improve personal websites, and build upon each other's creations. Whether you’re a creator, writer, blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, there is something for you here. All skill and experience levels welcome.
Coronavirus concerns have caused us to cancel the annual in-person IndieWebSummit 2020 , so I’m helping to co-organize this two day online event and welcome anyone who’d like to join.

Passionate about helping people to get online? Volunteer to help us out.

RSVPed Might be attending Jamstack Conf 2020 - Virtual & San Francisco

May 27, 2020 at 12:00AM- May 29, 2020 at 12:00AM

Jamstack conferences host speakers, workshops, and more for learning to design, develop, & deploy modern web projects. Join us online in May and in SF October 2020.

Not sure if I’ll be able to make all or even part of this, but it looks interesting. 
RSVPed Attending Future Trends Forum: Academia, race, and the pandemic

A conversation with a leading scholar and activist

Thursday, May 21, 11 am - 12 pm (PDT)

How does the pandemic impact a society structured by racial inequalities? What does this mean for higher education, and how can we respond?

We will investigate these questions with Jessie Daniels, an activist and scholar of racism and the digital world.  Daniels is faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and professor at Hunter College (Sociology) and The Graduate Center, CUNY (Sociology, Critical Social Psychology, Africana Studies).

The Future Trends Forum is a weekly discussion event created and hosted by Bryan Alexander.  Since 2016 we have addressed the most powerful forces of change in academia. Each week, this video chat brings together practitioners in the field to share their most recent work and experience in education and technology. The intent of the Forum: to advance the discussion around the pressing issues at the crossroads of education and technology.

Bryan is also the founder of the Future of Education Observatory, which includes the Forum, the Future Trends in Technology and Education report, a blog, and a bookclub.

RSVPed Attending Academia, race, and the pandemic

We're going to explore how racism and white supremacy shape social and academic responses to COVID-19.  On Thursday, May 21st, from 2-3 pm EST, we'll be joined by Jessie Daniels, an activist and scholar of racism and the digital world.  Daniels is faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and professor at Hunter College (Sociology) and The Graduate Center, CUNY (Sociology, Critical Social Psychology, Africana Studies).

Daniels is an internationally recognized expert in Internet expressions of racism, and the author or editor of five books, two of which are about racism on either side of the digital revolution: White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). She is currently at work on Tweet Storm:The Rise of the Far Right, the Mainstreaming of White Supremacy, and How Tech and Media Helped. In 2016, she co-edited (with Karen Gregory and Tressie McMillan Cottom) Digital Sociologies, which has been adopted by courses at several universities around the world.

Daniels’ attention is increasingly focused on how digital media technologies are changing higher education. She has co-authored two books on this topic, Being a Scholar in the Digital Era  and Going Public , along with a number of articles. In 2020, Daniels launched Public Scholar Academy to help faculty who aspire to be public scholars achieve their goals and to help university administrators who want to assess and respond to attacks from the far right against their institutions. 
I plan on asking Dr. Daniels about how racism shapes the unfolding pandemic. How does that impact colleges and universities?  What can we do to create a more just academy?

RSVPed Attending ONLINE: Homebrew Website Club West Coast
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–7:30pm IndieWeb Meetup
I’m hoping we’ll have some conversation about read, listen, and watch posts.
RSVPed Attending WordCamp Kent 2020
On May 30-31, 2020, the northeast Ohio WordPress community will come together online for the sixth consecutive year in Kent, Ohio for WordCamp Kent. This year, the organizers promise an exciting WordCamp Kent, featuring distinguished speakers and a variety of interesting topics touching on blogging, business, design and programming on the WordPress platform.