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Your final updates for IndieWeb Summit!
Hello! Only a couple more days before we all come together for IndieWeb Summit! I am very much looking forward to the week, and I hope you all have a fantastic time while you're in Portland.
Here are a few last details before we meet. You'll probably want to save this update so you can refer to it as you make your way to Portland for the festivities.
Weather
It looks like we'll have some pretty great weather, much less hot than last year! The forecast is showing a high of 75 and low of 50, with a chance of rain Monday morning and dry the rest of the week. I'm looking forward to sharing Portland's nice weather with you in contrast to last year's 100+ degree days!
Breakfast and Lunch
We will be providing bagels, fruit, and protein bars on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings thanks to GoDaddy. Coffee will be available all day thanks to Mozilla!
Lunch on Wednesday will be provided at the venue thanks to Okta. We'll have a taco bar with gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options! Tuesday lunch will be on your own at any of the nearby food carts.
Monday Pre-Party
On Monday evening, we'll be hosting a pre-party at Pine Street Market in downtown Portland starting at 5:30pm.
We'll have drink tickets available thanks to Name.com, and anyone is welcome to come to the pre-party!
Pine Street Market has a variety of food and drink options, including burgers and veggie burgers, ramen, pizzas, bratwursts and German pretzels as well as Salt & Straw ice cream, excellent coffee, smoothies and fantastic cocktails.
Getting Around
We'll be at the Eliot Center at 1126 SW Salmon St, in the Buchan Building. The doors open at 9:00am on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Please note the entrance is on Salmon Street. If you enter from another street you'll be quickly lost inside the rest of the First Unitarian Church. The picture below shows what our entrance looks like. Look for either "1226", or "Buchan Building". We'll also have an IndieWeb Summit sign on the door.
Public Transit
There is a streetcar that runs North/South along 10th and 11th Avenues that will drop off a couple blocks from the venue.
TriMet runs the buses and light rail here. The cheapest way to get into town from the airport is to take the MAX red line which picks up at the airport and drops off at Pioneer Square downtown. It's $2.50 for a 2.5 hour ticket or $5 for an all-day ticket.
If your phone supports Apple Pay or Google Pay, you can just tap your phone to buy a Tri-Met or Streetcar ticket using the "Hop" readers at every stop! It's by far the easiest option. Make sure you tap your phone at the stop before boarding. You don't need to tap out when you get off. Otherwise, you can use a credit card or cash to buy a ticket at most MAX and Streetcar stops.
Remote Participation
We will have people participating remotely who couldn't come to Portland this year! The main room will be set up for remote participation with cameras and screen sharing, and all the sessions will be recorded. The two breakout rooms will have a camera setup for remote participation as well. More information and the relevant links are on the wiki.
Related Events
Donut.js
On Tuesday night, Donut.js is having their monthly meetup featuring a fun collection of talks! Despite the name, only one of this month's talks is actually about JavaScript. The event starts at 6pm and there are three 15-minute talks. Donuts and La Croix are provided. Your IndieWeb Summit ticket will let you register for Donut.js for no additional cost! Just use the coupon code INDIEWEBDONUTS when you register at donutjs.club/tickets.
Open Source Bridge
Friday is the 10th and final year of Open Source Bridge. If you're still in town on Friday, this will be a great event to attend! You can read the Open Source Bridge blog for more details about what to expect. You will need to register separately for this event.
Join the Chat
If you haven't already, join our Slack room or IRC channel (they're connected) and introduce yourself! We'll be using the chat during the event to take notes, share links, and communicate with the remote participants.
Code of Conduct
As a reminder, we have a Code of Conduct that applies to IndieWeb spaces both online and offline.
Thanks to our Supporters
I'd like to give a shout-out to our sponsors who make all of this possible! A huge thanks to GoDaddy, Name.com, Okta, Mozilla, and Bridgy, as well as our monthly supporters and everyone who contributed specifically for this event! Also special thanks to our venue sponsor Stumptown Syndicate.
That's all for now! Looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday!
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I'm excited to announce that @namedotcom is our newest sponsor of @IndieWebSummit and they'll be joining us next week! It's not too late to register! 🔜 https://2018.indieweb.org
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Vance Lucas
http://vancelucas.com/
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Jun 18
Shower thought: We don’t need decentralized _platforms_ like Mastadon vs. Twitter/FB, we need a way to personalize _aggregation of decentralized content_ that also has social features built-in, even if that means the platform itself is centralized. -
My slides from #nidevconf18 on "Playing with the #IndieWeb" are now available at https://noti.st/srushe/7D5URN/playing-with-the-indieweb. The irony of using a silo for this is not lost on me. When I put my new site together there will be a slides section :)
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•Do early design work in small, invested groups
•Design in the open, but away from the bright lights of the big stage
•Iterate furiously early on because once it’s in the web, it’s forever
•Prioritise interop over perfect specs
https://infrequently.org/2018/06/effective-standards-work-part-2-threading-the-needle/ #indieweb #microformats -
New York, New York • Fri, June 8, 2018 8:06pmMoving the party to the roof because the bar was too crowded! #indieweb
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Surprise! I'm in NY! Meet me for a popup #indieweb meetup tonight at Hofbräu Bierhaus near Grand Central! 7:30pm http://4sq.com/i9XQuQ
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＠c̲hris̲epps̲tein
http://chriseppstein.github.com/
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Jun 4
john. why don't people microformat more? it's such a good thing.We're microformatting a lot over in the #indieweb! https://indieweb.org/microformats (This tweet was literally brought to you by Microformats) -
Improving the HTML type="url" Field
Using the HTML
<input type="url">field is normally a good idea when you're asking the user to enter a URL. It doesn't make a huge difference on desktop browsers, but makes it a lot easier on mobile browsers. On iOS, when you've focused on a URL input field, the keyboard switches to a slightly different layout with different keys optimized for entering URLs.
The URL type keyboard on iOS provides easy access to special characters used in URLs. This is great for things like web sign-in where you're asking the user to enter their domain name to sign in. However, for some reason, browsers have implemented the URL validation a bit too strictly. If you don't enter a URL scheme, you'll get an error like the below if you try to submit the form.
This is pretty irritating because it forces the user to enter the URL scheme
http://orhttps://, which ironically on the special iOS URL keyboard, requires tapping the "123" button in order to get to the screen to type the ":" character. It would be nice if the URL field accepted plain domain names and defaulted tohttp://.I wrote a bit of JavaScript that will prepend
http://to the value of any<input type="url">form fields on blur.<script> /* add http:// to URL fields on blur or when enter is pressed */ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { function addDefaultScheme(target) { if(target.value.match(/^(?!https?:).+\..+/)) { target.value = "http://"+target.value; } } var elements = document.querySelectorAll("input[type=url]"); Array.prototype.forEach.call(elements, function(el, i){ el.addEventListener("blur", function(e){ addDefaultScheme(e.target); }); el.addEventListener("keydown", function(e){ if(e.keyCode == 13) { addDefaultScheme(e.target); } }); }); }); </script>I wish browsers would implement this themselves, but in the mean time you can use this bit of JS to provide a bit better user experience when asking your users for URLs.
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Just finished beta support for email and PGP auth on https://indielogin.com! Please give it a try and let me know if you find any bugs! Here are the setup docs: https://indielogin.com/setup
This means it's now feature complete with https://indieauth.com, so I can now start switching over my apps to use it. With any luck I'll be able to switch the https://indieweb.org wiki to it before IndieWeb Summit!
