events/2014-01-15-homebrew-website-club
Homebrew Website Club Meeting
Details
When
at -
Where
- San Francisco
- Mozilla SF, 1st floor, 2 Harrison st. (at Embarcadero), San Francisco, CA
- Portland
- Esri R&D Center, 920 SW 3rd Ave #400, Portland, OR
What
Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...
See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.
URLs
Portland:
RSVP
SF:
- James Chivers
- Tantek Γelik
- Ben Werdmuller
- r. kevin nelson
- John Rogerson
- Josh Juran
- Ryan Barrett
- Johannes Ernst
- Kevin Marks
- Pius Uzamere
- ...
Portland:
- Aaron Parecki
- Bret Comnes
- Tom Henderson
- Eric Drechsel
- Laura
- benkay
- ...
Sorry to miss you!
- Matthew Levine
- ...
Notes
Notes from the meeting.
Blog posts
Blog posts before the meeting:
Portland P2P Section
Brief list of topics OH in the discussion section:
- http://camlistore.org/
- Resources for learning HTML/CSS
- http://www.htmlandcssbook.com/
- http://diveintohtml5.info/ (noting a number of out of date issues with this reference)
- HTML5 Now
- What is http://clojure.org/ ?
- Some talk about Scheme
- Bret Victor's Talks
- Media for thinking the unthinkable
- The Future of Programming
- ... Check out all of this mans work: http://worrydream.com
- People wanted more time to hack on stuff, so maybe start organizing some hack sessions on the weekend.
- IndieAuth helped reveal a weird issue with github pages: https://github.com/aaronpk/IndieAuth/issues/46
- Introducing people to indieauth and getting people signed into the wiki.
- A good irssi tutorial was noted http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi/
- Make sure to use the highlight window script that notes PMs and highlight words... There are two versions of the script and the tutorial links to the wrong one iirc.
- This should be the right one http://scripts.irssi.org/scripts/highlite.pl
- Maybe consider weechat instead http://weechat.org/
- Make sure to use the highlight window script that notes PMs and highlight words... There are two versions of the script and the tutorial links to the wrong one iirc.
- Question: What are good books with the title along the lines of 'Designing from scratch?'
- ... (answer missing)
- ...
Photos
Portland
present but not pictured, photographer Aaron Parecki
San Francisco
present earlier (left before photo) : Pius
present but not pictured, photographer Tantek Γelik