2016/NYC2/Introductions

From IndieWeb

The opening IndieWebCamp 2016 NYC2 session.

IndieWebCamp leaders will lead you through:

  1. Announce: Welcome to the fourth 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 Γ‡elik 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:
    • hack sessions, lunch, hack sessions, demos
  7. Show code-of-conduct, point out organizers to go to in case of anything
  8. Tools: IRC/Slack, this wiki, http://etherpad.indieweb.org
  9. Demos of what works on your site today
  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 sesssions* at start time

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