2016/NYC/Introductions

The opening IndieWebCamp 2016 NYC session.

IndieWebCamp leaders will lead you through:

1. Announce: Welcome to the third IndieWebCamp NYC!
2. Show Squarespace parody video
3. Tell brief history:
   • why: control your online presence, user experience and design, own your content
   • Aaron Parecki & Tantek Çelik with Amber & Crystal organized the first IndieWebCamp in 2011
   • now hosting IndieWebCamps worldwide
4. Show http://indiewebcamp.com/ home page and principles
5. Note explicit decision to focus on
   • personal site "scratch your own itch" doers, doing, selfdogfooding, demoing
6. Overview of IndieWebCamp Hack Day:
7. Show code-of-conduct, point out organizers to go to in case of anything
8. Demos of what works on your site today
9. Explanation of today (hack sessions)
10. Intro to how Barcamp sessions are scheduled: write THREE THINGS on a notecard:
    1. session name,
    2. your name,
    3. session #hashtag - used for tagging and etherpad.indieweb.org/hashtag
11. Session scheduling!
12. Camp leaders call *start your sessions* at start time

Notes

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See Also

• 2016/NYC
• 2016/NYC/Schedule