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ℹ️ This is a past IndieWeb Summit! See the Summit page for the next IndieWeb Summit.

IndieWeb Summit 2018 was June 26-27, 2018 in Portland, Oregon; the eighth annual gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, graphic artists, designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, create & improve their personal websites, and build upon each others creations.

Summary

When

Tuesday June 26th, 2018 to
Wednesday June 27th, 2018

Optional Leaders Summit Monday June 25th (see 2018/Leaders if you're not sure if you should come)

Where

Eliot Center
1226 SW Salmon St
Portland, OR.

URLs

https://2018.indieweb.org

Chat logs

RSVP

Register and RSVP on

2018.indieweb.org

You can optionally add yourself to: The Guest Book to indicate your interest in participating!

Additional listings:

• Calagator: http://calagator.org/events/1250473691
• Upcoming: https://upcoming.org/event/indieweb-summit-aev76z5310
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/442208779562298/

Nearby Events

June 25-29 will be an exciting IndieWeb Week! Check out these events while you’re in town!

• 2018-06-25 5:30pm IndieWeb pre-summit social meetup at Pine Street Market!
  • Monday night before day 1 of IndieWeb Summit
• 2018-06-26 6:00pm DonutJS!
  • Tuesday night after day 1 of IndieWeb Summit

• 2018-06-27 6:29am November Project Portland (#NP_PDX)
  • Just show up at the Salmon Street Fountain - free outdoor workout!

• 2018-06-29 all day - Open Source Bridge unconference / BarCamp!
  • Consider signing up for Open Source Bridge, Friday June 29, 2018 (register for OSBridge 2018 on ti.to)
  • http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2018/04/celebrate-10-years-of-open-source-bridge-with-a-1-day-unconference-and-party/

Schedule

• Monday June 25th
  • morning: 2018/Leaders
  • evening: pre-party open to all (bring friends and guests no problem)

• Tuesday June 26th - Wednesday June 27th
  • See: session grid

Day 1 Discussing	Day 2 Making
Day 1 is about discussing in a BarCamp-like environment. Bring a topic you'd like to discuss or join in on topics as they are added to the board.	Day 2 is about making things on and for your personal site! Work with others or on your own.
Keynotes Introductions Session Grid	Demos

Participating

• Please read through our Code of Conduct
• Session Grid - session proposals and session grid
• 2018/Demos - day 2 demos
• Discuss
• Guest Book - add yourself to the guest book

Berlin Remote Event

• Organizer: Anika
• When: Tuesday 19:00 Europe Summer time
• Where: Skalitzer Str 49.
• FB Event: https://facebook.com/events/239789466797663/

Depending on how this goes, we’ll join again on Wednesday!

Remote Participation

IndieWebCamp has a strong tradition of remote participation, typically using chat, Google Hangouts and Etherpad during as well as after the event.

How to Remote Participate

• Join the IndieWeb you can use the chatroom or on IRC. The server is irc.freenode.net and then choose port: 6697 (usually default. You can learn more about the channels on discuss. To join on slack visit our channel.
• Follow the schedule All times are local.
• If you are using social media use the hashtag #IndieWebCamp
• All of the keynotes will be streamed live. URLs will be shared as sessions begin. They will also be archived on YouTube.
• Introductions occur During lightning rounds. This happens at 11:45. As a remote participant please answer the following prompts in the #IndieWeb chatroom (feel free to post time shifted if 11:45 pdt does not work in your local timezone):
  • What is my Domain? Why
  • What is one cool thing you did?
  • What is the next thing you want to try?
• At 14:00 the unconference sessions begin. Each session will be streamed, have a hashtag, and an etherpad. Check the schedule grid for sessions.
• If you would like to propose a session as a remote attendee ping Martijn van der Ven or Greg McVerry and they will make sure your idea is considered.
• Vote with your browser. If you are in a remote session and you do not enjoy feel free to get up and go to another room.
• Add yourself to: Remote Participants Guest Book to indicate interest in remote participation!
• Please do not register for a ticket on ti.to, since we use those registration numbers to estimate food and space requirements

If you can't get to the event, consider remote participating or finding/running an IndieWebCamp remote party near you.

📺 Videos:

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Travel and Lodging

Airport

✈️ PDX Airport. If you are flying to Portland, Oregon, PDX is the airport you want.

Public Transit

🚈 From the PDX airport, the MAX will drop you off downtown a few blocks from the venue. It costs $2.50 for a ticket. Public Transit directions

Lyft or Uber

🚙 You can also take Lyft or Uber from the airport, they will pick you up in the lower level, in a section named "Transportation Network Companies." The cost will be about $18-22 for UberX. More info on the Uber blog.

Taxi

🚕 If you want to take a local cab, Aaron Parecki recommends calling Radio Cab (503-227-1212) when you are just outside security, and they will meet you in the lower level for pickup. Alternately, there is usually a line of cabs ready to take people in the lower level.

Hotels

🏫 Here are a few nearby recommended hotels:

• The Nines - website yelp
• Ace Hotel - website (Influencer Media Stay Request), yelp
• Mariott City Center - website yelp
• The Society Hotel - website yelp
• Hotel Monaco

Roomsharing

• add yourself here if you are interested in sharing a room with others!

AirBnB or Couchsurfing

🏡 Some alternatives to hotels are

• AirBnB
• Couchsurfing
• Trustroots

Attractions and other activities

If you have favorite things in Portland to recommend, please add them!

Food and drink

• 🍩 Blue Star Donuts has SIX Portland locations now (including apparently one at the airport).
• 🍜 Prasad makes excellent vegan bowls (and is connected with a yoga studio)
• 🍜 The Whole Bowl also makes excellent vegan bowls

Exercise

• 🏃🏻 November Project PDX (also on Instagram) meets Wednesday mornings for a good run + body weight exercises circuit workout (free)

Games

• 👾 Ground Kontrol has a good set of video games and pinball machines

Blog

Blog and post about IndieWeb Summit! See what others are posting: http://tagboard.com/indieweb

• 2018-05-11 gRegor Morrill: An Invitation to IndieWeb Summit
• 2018-05-12 Manton Reece: IndieWeb Summit invite
• 2018-06-12 Tantek Çelik: The 8th annual @IndieWebSummit is in 2 weeks!
• 2018-06-20 Tantek Çelik: 6 days til the 8th @IndieWebSummit gathers innovators, artists, designers, and journalists to share, make, and grow the independent web
• 2018-06-20 Marty McGuire: You're Invited to IndieWeb Summit! (archived)
• 2018-06-22 Name.com Blog: We’re going to the IndieWeb Summit (archived)
• 2018-06-26 Jacky Alciné: I Went to The IndieWeb Summit 2018! (archived)
• 2018-06-28 Jason McIntosh: I attended IndieWeb Summit 2018 (archived)
• 2018-07-02 The Jared White Show: Episode #5: Nostalgia Café (29 min) - Jared White after he returned from the summit.
• 2018-07-07 Chris Aldrich: IndieWeb Summit 2018 Recap (archived)

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Projects

See the Guest Book for what people have worked on and thought they might work at IndieWeb Summit.

After IndieWeb Summit, see what the attendees built and demoed!

Organizers

🤓 Have you helped organize an IndieWebCamp or series of Homebrew Website Clubs and want to help out with our annual IndieWeb Summit? Add yourself below, and what you'd like to / are available help do to make the summit happen:

• Aaron Parecki - lead organizer, onsite in Portland, venue
• Tantek Çelik - all kinds of wiki things (like this page and subpages), outreach, possibly cross-promotion with related events, Leaders Summit venue
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Volunteers

🤗 Participated in an IndieWebCamp and want to help out new folks? Or just passionate to help out any way you can? Add yourself here!

• gRegor Morrill - wiki gardening, lulz
• Marty McGuire - wiki gardening, bringing misc items for the event, outreach, coordinating demos, etc.
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Photos

Planning

See Also

• 2017

IndieWebCamps
2026	Düsseldorf • Nuremberg • San Diego Micropub (P) • Create Day November (O) • Planning More Camps & Popups
2025	Düsseldorf • Berlin • San Diego Create Day July (O) • Create Day November (O) • Photography (P) • Create Day December (O)
2024	Brighton • Düsseldorf • Portland • Berlin • San Diego Build a Website in an Hour March (P) • Create Day November (O)
2023	Nuremberg • San Diego Create Day November (O) • CreateFest December (O) Multi-Lingual Personal Websites (P) • Build a Website in an Hour July (P) • Build a Website in an Hour September (P)
2022	Düsseldorf • Berlin Create Day March (O) • July (O) • September (O) • December (O) Analog Meets Online (P) • Personal Libraries (P) • How to Make the IndieWeb More Approachable (P)
2021	Düsseldorf Create Day July (O) • October (O) • December (O) Respectful Responses (P) • Webmentions Beyond Webmention.io (P) • Very Sensitive Data (P) • Microsub (P) • IndieAuth (P) • Gardens and Streams II (P) • IndieAuth 2 (P)
2020	Austin Online • London (O) • West (O) • East (O) • Create Day (O) Garden & Stream (P) • Micropub (P) • IndieAuth (P) • Get Started with WP (P) • microformats2 (P) • Friendly WP Themes (P)
2019	Austin • New Haven • Berlin • Düsseldorf • Utrecht • 9th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • Amsterdam • Oxford • NYC • Brighton • Berlin2 • SF Online
2018	Baltimore • Düsseldorf • 8th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • SF • Oxford • NYC • Nürnberg • Berlin
2017	Bellingham • Düsseldorf • Nürnberg • 7th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • Istanbul • NYC • Berlin • Austin
2016	NYC • MIT • Nürnberg • Düsseldorf • 6th IndieWeb Summit (Portland) • NYC2 • Brighton • LA (Santa Monica) • Berlin • MIT2
2015	Cambridge MA • Germany (Düsseldorf) • Portland & Brighton (5th Summit) • Edinburgh • MIT (AKA Cambridge2) • SF
2014	SF • NYC • Portland/NYC/Berlin (4th Summit) • UK (Brighton) • Cambridge MA • Online
2013	Portland (3rd Summit) • UK (Brighton) • Hollywood
2012	Portland (2nd Summit) • UK (Brighton)
2011	Portland (Summit)