Making the
Open to All
whoami?
I'm jacky.wtf. I run a consultancy in Oakland aimed at directly improving peoples' lives and increasing the values of communal strength.
Learn more at black.af.
Inspire
Invite
Investigate
Demonstrating more quirky, fun and exciting things we can do with our own Websites.
Keeping the door open for those looking in and wanting to join in.
Looking to see where the IndieWeb potentially falls short for those getting started.
INSPIRE
Inspiration
- Comes from "pure" place
- Repeated exposure
- Low effort / high return
Approaches
<article class="h-entry">
<a href="https://cly.de"
class="u-author">Clyde</a>
liked
<a href="https://bonn.ie">Bonnie</a>'s
<a href="https://bonn.ie/trips/capers"
class="u-like-of">last caper</a>.
</article>
Clyde liked Bonnie's last caper.
Live code-to-browser editing demonstrations of markup.
Approaches
Visual network effects of the IndieWeb.
Visualizing how interactions spread between sites.
Approaches
Showcasing adjacent examples of diverse presentations.
Your site!
Approaches
Link back to how people can join in.
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In order to let someone in, we have to point to the door and light up the road.
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Highlight IndieWeb responses
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Build solutions friendly to ephemerality.
INVITE
Invitations Are Hard
Convincing people that owning their identity in an age of the dilution of the such is not easy.
We have to listen to what stops people from getting in. What might be easy for one might not easy for someone
Principle #3
https://indieweb.org/principles
- Difficult for me to adhere to
- I optimize for communal solutions
- What do I do?
What do we do?
Advocacy!
- Promoting tools the community use versus hand-rolling every time
- Embrace "developer advocate" practices
- More anthropocentric (low tech knowledge) demos
- Present more testimonials about IndieWeb "living"
INVESTIGATE
Common Blockers
- MicroData?
- "No" "out of the box" solution
- Known, Wordpress + plugins, micro.blog
- Developer centrism
Common "Show Stoppers"
- Audience control
- Ephemeral Identities
- "I don't have a website"
IndieCMS
- Flexible presentation
- Loosely designed
- Minimally extensible
What do we do?
What can we do?
- Build beyond us
- Less itching, more crafting
- Listen.
Thank you.
Making the IndieWeb Open to All
By Jacky Alciné
Making the IndieWeb Open to All
Discovering and exploring what it'll take to bring the IndieWeb to a larger audience.
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