2023-12-indieweb-gift-calendar

🎁 Welcome to the IndieWeb Gift Calendar! The 2023 IndieWeb Gift Calendar is the 7th annual group effort to gift (ship) one or more IndieWeb-related thing(s) each day of December that others can use to improve their IndieWeb experience.

See the current IndieWeb Gift Calendar

This can be anything from IndieWeb friendly services & apps (like social readers, Micropub clients), CMSs, plugins, major documentation contributions, or community libraries.

December 2023
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
				1 🛠 Bridgy Fed: profiles for all web sites Ryan Barrett 📫 This Week in the IndieWeb 📜 IndieWeb Carnival Dec. jo	2 ✳️ indiebookclub Year in Review gRegor Morrill	3 🧩 WordPress IndieAuth 4.4.0 David Shanske
4 📜 Ideas for improving metaformats parsing Anthony Ciccarello	5 📄 Craft.do JL Gatewood 🧩 WordPress ActivityPub 1.3.0 Matthias Pfefferle	6 📅 HWC EU/London capjamesg 📅 HWC Pacific David Shanske	7 🛠 mf2py 2.0 Angelo Gladding & capjamesg	8 📫 This Week in the IndieWeb	9 📄 Data Dialogues Tantek Çelik	10 📜 How to write about blogs Frank Meeuwsen 📄 Meta Platforms 📄 location tag Tantek Çelik 🛠 lexrpc 0.5 Ryan Barrett
11 📜 IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023 Joe Crawford 🧩 IndieWeb for Elgg v1.1.0 👤 Nikolai Shcherbin	12 📄 IWC SD planning 📑 IWC SD 2023 Category gRegor Morrill 📄📄📄 word of the day, long word, web component capjamesg	13 🛠 <recommend-firefox> capjamesg 📅 HWC Nuremberg Björn Stierand 📅 HWC EU/London capjamesg 📄📄 Accra goifnetwork.org Tantek Çelik	14 ✳️ Threads federate out ActivityPub Meta Platforms 🛠 Bridgy Fed supports following Threads confirmed Ryan Barrett	15 🛠 AutoWrite personal text engine capjamesg 📫 This Week in the IndieWeb	16 📅 IndieWebCamp San Diego	17 📅 IndieWebCamp San Diego 📄 Slim gRegor Morrill 📄📄📄 December, joy, what to make at IndieWebCamp‎‎ Tantek Çelik 📄 swiftbot capjamesg 📄 iNaturalist Barnaby Walters 📄 typecast Chris Aldrich 📄 Bandcrash fluffy 📜 IndieWebCamp San Diego Day 2 Joe Crawford
18 📜 Choosing between ideas for blog posts Tracy Durnell	19 📄 Monogram gRegor Morrill	20 📅 HWC EU/London Mark Sutherland 📅 HWC Pacific David Shanske	21 🧩 WordPress IndieAuth 4.4.1 David Shanske	22 📫 This Week in the IndieWeb	23 📄 communication-preferences Tantek Çelik	24 📄 static web hosting Tantek Çelik
25 📅 IndieWeb Createfest David Shanske ❇️ IndieWeb Movie Watching Overview Sara Jakša 🧩 WordPress Webmention 5.2.0 Matthias Pfefferle	26 📄 personal feed Tantek Çelik	27 🛠 web-calendar web component capjamesg 📄📄📄📄📄📄📄 new pages per year 2017-created 2018-created 2019-created 2020-created 2021-created 2022-created Aaron Parecki 🧩 WordPress Webmention 5.2.1 Matthias Pfefferle	28 📄 developer FAQ Tantek Çelik	29 📫 This Week in the IndieWeb	30 🛠 Bridgy Fed front page redesign, docs rewrite for multi-protocol Ryan Barrett	31 📄 large language model 📜 capture first, edit publish later 📜 adding a No LLMs used… disclaimer Tantek Çelik

Considerations

Gifts can be anything from major wiki documentation contributions / improvements to shipping updates on any of the IndieWeb applications (like social readers), services, CMSs, plugins, community libraries, or any other projects in use by multiple folks.

Please keep in mind the following considerations when adding something to a day:

Please keep the description to three lines or less. If you need help or ideas to copyedit your description down to fit, see other entries, or ask in chat for help copyediting.
It must be shipping / usable, not just a blog post announcing / saying you plan to do it.
Is it clear what your thing does?
Is it clear how someone is supposed to use it or otherwise benefit from it?
What use-case does it solve for others (besides yourself)? Ask yourself, how would/could someone else in the community use the thing I'm posting?
If it's a markup / styling example, is it clear what its purpose is, and how someone could/should copy the markup/styling and customize it for their own site?
If it's a programming example, is it clear how an indieweb site could use the code, using what language(s)? Does it require any frameworks?
If it's a code example or project, is it clearly open sourced, with a clear link to its GitHub or other code repo that has at least a README explaining how it can be used for either direct user benefit or to enhance existing indieweb sites?

Emoji gift kinds

We use emoji to indicate different kinds of IndieWeb related gifts. E.g. (and every one of these must be IndieWeb related, assume that literally as a prefix of the description) Used so far:

🎁 gift planned — wait for the day for it to be unwrapped! Have something you’re making for the community for a particular day? Put the 🎁 emoji on that day, and optionally wrap it in span giftwrap like
- <span title="from: yourname">🎁</span>
❇️ new user service (none yet in 2023!)
✳️ updated or friendly user service (or improved building blocks support)
📄 new wiki page
📑 new category wiki page
🛠 tools, libraries, web components, command line utilities etc. for developers
📫 newsletter published, e.g. This Week In The IndieWeb
🧩 user-installable plugin or add-on e.g. WordPress/Drupal plugin, browser add-on/extension
💬 chat related improvements (bots, chat bridges, moderation, archives, chat web UI)
📅 event, e.g. IndieWebCamp, Pop-up, Homebrew Website Club
🎧 podcast, e.g. TWITIWAE
📃 for external documentation updates for any of the above (e.g. improved docs for tools)
🖍 graphics posting/creating user client (presumably with Micropub support)
📜 blog post about the IndieWeb — only use this if the blog itself is the gift, i.e. if it’s a blog post about one of the above, use the icon related to the thing itself, not the blog post about the thing.

More ideas (inspired by kinds of gifts from 2021)

📝 writing client (presumably with Micropub support)
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More sources of ideas:

See posts#Types_of_Posts

Inspiration

Looking for something to do to benefit the community?

In general (feel free to add things here that you find inspiring in general, or hope someone else is inspired to do :)

Updates to / new versions of things shipped in last year’s calendar or prior gift calendars.
to-do and look for something you can do in a day!
IndieWebify issues to fix, fix one, and get an update deployed
New release of microformats2 parser(s)
- php-mf2
- mf2py
- ...
Work on 2023-review and previous years that weren't completed
Organize and host an IndieWeb event
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Specific inspirations:

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In progress

Got something you're working on for the IndieWeb Gift Calendar but it's not quite complete or ready for community re-use? Feel free to link to it here while you're working on it, especially if you'd like others to review it, provide feedback etc.