San Francisco

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San Francisco (abbreviated SF) is a California city on the West Coast of the United States, and one of many cities that has hosted several IndieWebCamps and regular fortnightly Homebrew Website Club meetups.

Location: 37.7895, -122.3889
Dopplr color: #f4334f

Local IndieWeb Members

Active (e.g. in chat, wiki, posts) IndieWeb community members that are local to San Francisco:

Tantek Çelik
Ryan Barrett
Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Homebrew Website Club

On hiatus until organizers find a venue and interest in meeting in person again.

Check the next Homebrew Website Club to see when there will be one in SF!

Organizer(s):

Tantek Çelik

Emeritus organizers:

Stacey De Polo, Ben Werdmüller, Ryan Barrett, Kevin Marks, Kyle Mahan

IndieWebCamps

Past IndieWebCamps:

2019-12-07…08 2019/SF at Mozilla
2018-07-31 2018/SF at Mozilla
2015-12-03 2015/SF at Mozilla
2014-03-07…08 2014/SF at Embassy Network

And their co-organizers:

Potential organizers (folks that have expressed interest)

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Hazards

Hazards and warnings for visitors.

Local tips (and warnings!) for those visiting for an IndieWebCamp:

2022-02-28 SFGate: What are the rites of passage for becoming a San Franciscan? Reddit users listed them.
Compiled from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/sow8nz/what_are_the_rites_of_passage_when_becoming_a_san/

Surveillance Cameras

For those visiting for an IndieWebCamp who wish to avoid (some) known public surveillance:

https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1093271496158371840
- "The San Francisco District Attorney maintains a map of thousands of surveillance cameras across the city.
  
  Now, thanks to a public records request, EFF is sharing this data publicly: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/san-francisco-district-attorneys-10-most-surveilled-places" @EFF February 6, 2019

In 2022, San Francisco started a 15 month trial use of police access to private security cameras:

2022-09-21 SFGate: San Francisco passes controversial surveillance plan
Under the new policy, police can access up to 24 hours of live video of outdoor footage from private surveillance cameras owned by individuals or businesses without a warrant as long as the camera's owner allows it. Police must meet one of three outlined criteria […]

In 2019, San Francisco became the first city to ban the use of facial-recognition technologies:

2019-05-14 WIRED: San Francisco Bans Agency Use of Facial-Recognition Tech
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Property Theft

A bit ironic given the previous criticism.

tl;dr: Keep your laptop, iPad, phone(s) on your person at all times when out and about in the city. If you are in a car, keep these items with you in the passenger compartment, not in the trunk. If you are sitting at a table or parklet, keep any bags/purses in front of you, not draped over the back of a chair you’re sitting in.

Property crimes (especially car breakins) are quite common unfortunately: