Homebrew Website Club | Chris Aldrich

❤️ Seeing good examples of existing domains is crucial for showing students what is possible in creating their own domain, says @CassieNooyen

Seeing good examples of existing domains is crucial for showing students what is possible in creating their own domain, says @CassieNooyen #domains19
— Mo Pelzel (@MorrisPelzel) June 10, 2019

👓 Loveland Public Library to Host Free Beginners WordPress Class Online May 22, 2019 | WP Tavern

Read Loveland Public Library to Host Free Beginners WordPress Class Online May 22, 2019 (WordPress Tavern)

Public libraries are one of the few remaining community centers where people freely pass on valuable skills to neighbors young and old. In addition to offering free access to books, computers, and …

This library looks like it’s essentially hosting a WordPress-sepecific Homebrew Website Club and doing something in the wild that Greg McVerry and I think would be a great public model.

📅 Virtual Homebrew Website Club Meetup on May 15, 2019

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 who want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project…

Everyone of every level is welcome to participate! Don’t have a domain yet? Come along and someone can help you get started and provide resources for creating the site you’ve always wanted.

This virtual HWC meeting is for site builders who either can’t make a regular in-person meeting or don’t yet have critical mass to host one in their area. It will be hosted on Google Hangouts.

Homebrew Website Club Meetup – Virtual Americas

Time: May 15, 2019 8:00 pm PDT to May 15, 2019 9:30 pm PDT
Location: Google Hangouts: https://hangouts.google.com/call/MANr-n5uNBrCMDXV9g3WAEEE

More Details

Join a community of like-minded people building and improving their personal websites. Invite friends that want a personal site.

Work with others to help motivate yourself to create the site you’ve always wanted to have.
Ask questions about things you may be stuck on–don’t let stumbling blocks get in the way of having the site you’d like to have.
Finish that website feature or blog post you’ve been working on
Burn down that old website and build something from scratch
Share what you’ve gotten working
Demos of recent breakthroughs

Skill levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Any questions? Need help? Need more information? Ask in chat: https://chat.indieweb.org/indieweb/

RSVP

Add your optional RSVP in the comments below; by adding your indie RSVP via webmention to this post; or by RSVPing to one of the syndicated posts below:
Indieweb.org event: https://indieweb.org/events/2019-05-15-homebrew-website-club#Virtual_Americas_West
Twitter “event”: https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/1122956290756530176
Meetup.com: https://www.meetup.com/IndieWeb-Homebrew-Website-Club-Los-Angeles/events/261026321/

Spent a few minutes late this afternoon to update the CSS on my website to hide the automatic titles given to annotation and highlight posts. Also modified these slightly to give the highlighted/quoted portion of other sites a highlighter-yellow color.

An example of the yellow highlight color of highlighted/annotated posts on my website. Previously the quoted portions had been a muted grey like other posts.

RSVP to Virtual Homebrew Website Club Meetup on July 25, 2018

RSVPed Attending Virtual Homebrew Website Club Meetup on July 25, 2018

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 likeminded interests. Bring your friends who want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project…

Everyone of every level is welcome to participate! Don’t have a domain yet? Come along and someone can help you get started and provide resources for creating the site you’ve always wanted.

This virtual HWC meeting is for site builders who either can’t make a regular in-person meeting or don’t yet have critical mass to host one in their area. It will be hosted on Google Hangouts.

Time: July 25, 2018 7:30 pm PDT to July 25, 2018 9:00 pm PDT
Location: Google Hangouts (link to Hangout TBD)

I hope the following can come and join me:
David Shanske
gRegor Morrill
Greg McVerry
William Ian O’Byrne
Clint Lalonde
Aaron Davis
Doug Beal
Cathie LeBlanc
John Johnson
Taylor Jaydin
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Alan Jacobs
Dan Cohen
Asher Silberman
Micah Cambre
Michael Kirk
Scott Gruber
Chris Bolas
Michael Bishop
Khürt Williams
Eddie Hinkle
Aaron Parecki

I’ve never done it before, and I’ve never received one myself, but I’m going to send some invitations (via webmention) to folks to join me. I’m curious how the original post will handle it and what Semantic Linkbacks will do and what it will display. Semantic Linkbacks is set up to display RSVP:Invitations, but I’m not sure what will happen. So this post will serve as a test and we’ll see! Is anyone else supporting invitations (sending or displaying)? In the future I could see supporting an Event Invitations page similar to my Mentions page which displays all the events I’ve been invited to.

Incidentally I’m noticing that there’s also an issue in the latest update that RSVP’s on prior event posts aren’t facepiling like they should/used to.

📅 Virtual Homebrew Website Club Meetup on July 25, 2018

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 likeminded interests. Bring your friends who want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project…

Everyone of every level is welcome to participate! Don’t have a domain yet? Come along and someone can help you get started and provide resources for creating the site you’ve always wanted.

This virtual HWC meeting is for site builders who either can’t make a regular in-person meeting or don’t yet have critical mass to host one in their area. It will be hosted on Google Hangouts.

Homebrew Website Club Meetup – Virtual Americas

Time: July 25, 2018 7:30 pm PDT to July 25, 2018 9:00 pm PDT
Location: Google Hangouts

6:30 – 7:30 pm (Pacific): (Optional) Quiet writing hour
Use this time to work on your project, ask for help, chat, or do some writing before the meeting.
7:30 – 9:00 pm (Pacific): Meetup

More Details

Join a community of like-minded people building and improving their personal websites. Invite friends that want a personal site.

Work with others to help motivate yourself to create the site you’ve always wanted to have.
Ask questions about things you may be stuck on–don’t let stumbling blocks get in the way of having the site you’d like to have.
Finish that website feature or blog post you’ve been working on
Burn down that old website and build something from scratch
Share what you’ve gotten working
Demos of recent breakthroughs

Skill levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Any questions? Need help? Need more information? Ask in chat: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today#bottom

RSVP

Add your optional RSVP in the comments below; by adding your indie RSVP via webmention to this post; or by RSVPing to one of the syndicated posts below:
Indieweb.org event: https://indieweb.org/events/2018-07-25-homebrew-website-club#Virtual_Americas
Twitter “event”: https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/1020460581038391296

👓 Notes from Virtual Homebrew Website Club: Blogging 101 edition | INTERTEXTrEVOLUTION

Read Notes from Virtual Homebrew Website Club: Blogging 101 edition by Greg McVerry (jgregorymcverry.com)

Well Cathy and I did not have any students looking for Blogging 101 help so we spent the hour in an #IndieWeb support group.

Wish I could have joined this. Certainly some interesting thoughts for improving the overall pieces for the #edtech set.

Virtual Homebrew Website Club Meetup on May 30, 2018

Everyone of every level is welcome to participate! Don’t have a domain yet? Come along and someone can help you get started and provide resources for creating the site you’ve always wanted.

This virtual HWC meeting is for site builders who either can’t make a regular in-person meeting or don’t yet have critical mass to host one in their area. It will be hosted on Google Hangouts.

Homebrew Website Club Meetup – Virtual Americas

Time: May 30, 2018 4:30 pm PDT to May 30, 2018 7:00 pm PDT
Location: Google Hangouts (link to Hangout TBD)

4:30 – 5:30 pm (Pacific): (Optional) Quiet writing hour
Use this time to work on your project, ask for help, chat, or do some writing before the meeting.
5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pacific): Meetup

More Details

Join a community of like-minded people building and improving their personal websites. Invite friends that want a personal site.

Work with others to help motivate yourself to create the site you’ve always wanted to have.
Ask questions about things you may be stuck on–don’t let stumbling blocks get in the way of having the site you’d like to have.
Finish that website feature or blog post you’ve been working on
Burn down that old website and build something from scratch
Share what you’ve gotten working
Demos of recent breakthroughs

Skill levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Any questions? Need help? Need more information? Ask in chat: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today#bottom

RSVP

Replied to a tweet by

Heather Sears (Twitter)

4. I signed up for a pilot account immediately. There were a host of apps to experiment with. I was particularly delighted to hear that I’d finally have institutional space and easy to use WordPress to run #10DoT https://10daysoftwitter.wordpress.com/ #pressedconf18

I’ve done something similar to #10DoT for independent authors before to promote their books, but it could also be an interesting model for helping people to set up #IndieWeb or #DoOO websites as well.

The underlying idea is also reminiscent of some strong advice to a beginner I saw in the IndieWeb chat last week: “Start small, then make incremental steps. Don’t eat the whale all at once.” – Scott Merrill

And then, just as I’m about to make this post and syndicate it out, I notice that Taylor Jaydin is doing something similar as an in-person laboratory for their #DoOO project:

Announcing Open Domains Lab! Work on your domain with us on Apr 5, 4pm to 8pm CT. Everyone’s invited. #DoOO https://t.co/GD6q8XzMLB

— Taylor Jadin (@TaylorJadin) March 29, 2018

This Open Domains Lab sounds very similar in nature to the long-running Homebrew Website Club concept. It makes me wonder if we couldn’t help to better dovetail some of the IndieWeb and DoOO communities’ efforts? Perhaps we could utilize pieces of the IndieWeb wiki like IndieWeb for Education, DoOO, or similar pages. Perhaps the IndieWeb community might consider sucking the #DoOO hashtag into the chat there as well? If Taylor is open to it, perhaps it’s worth listing their Open Domains Lab on the IndieWeb wiki’s schedule of upcoming events? They might also use the IndieWeb chat functionality for the virtual portion of their program to increase interaction. I’d certainly welcome them to have interested parties stop by on either the wiki or via the simple-to-use webchat 24/7 if they need help, resources, or motivation of any kind.

Incidentally, I’ll note that Taylor very naturally POSSEd a copy of the post from his own website to https://knight.domains/thinkdeeper/open-domains-lab/ as well.