[tantek]My understanding is that newer variants are symptomatic much quicker, reducing the window greatly for asymptomatic transmission. I need to look up some articles on that though
[tantek]I also think there's a real risk of expecting an overwhelming level of "duty tax" on volunteer organizers, so much so that it discourages some number of organizers or at least raises the burden/barrier to being an organizer that it makes organizing itself non-inclusive
[tantek]So to be clear, I am highly skeptical of someone demanding (blogging) things of volunteer organizer who is not themselves actively organizing such events
[tantek]aaronpk no problem at all and to be clear it's also ok to say something like I won't help organize some event unless I have N other co-organizers who step up to handle X, Y, Z
[tantek]We should define the minimum required responsibilities for an organizer of an in-person indieweb event. And have everything else be "highly recommended" or a "nice to have"
[tantek]Something like required to uphold and be an exemplar of the code of conduct, and maybe something about respect & care for any venue (to both avoid "burning" a venue, and frankly to uphold the be respectful intent of the CoC towards the venue)
[tantek]Also I would be down for having a frank and direct (and minuted) conversation about this with others who have co-organized in-person event(s) since Covid started, because I do think it's different than before
[tantek]GWG, I think first steps would be to 1) make a list of in-person indieweb events that have been held since March 2020; 2) collect the list of co-organizers of such events (yes including you GWG, you helped co-organize both in-person at SD and remotely for Nuremberg)
[tantek]gRegor, to be clear, strongly supportive of setting up a /health-and-safety-examples page of examples of real world events and what they are doing
[tantek]separately, would be ok with /health-and-safety-brainstorming as a separate page of ideas/requests from folks who are not themselves event organizers or have never organized an event with the rules/guidelines/procedures they are proposing/requesting.
gRegor> "I am highly skeptical of someone demanding (blogging) things of volunteer organizer" I don't believe this is a fair take on the public health pledge or Josh's post. There are real world examples of events that have implemented various levels of stronger precautions.
gRegorHonestly, I was not yet in a good space to take on that duty for IWC SD which is why I did not sign up to co-organize. With the trend of the fall's transmission numbers, I didn't think it was a great idea and wasn't sure how much I was going to attend. A small thing that did encourage me to actually go was when Peter mentioned in the etherpad intros that he was still being covid cautious and masking.
tantek.comedited /IndieWebCamp_Organizing (+574) "/* COVID precautions */ Health and safety, section stub, summarize goals/should, provide example statement re: symptoms, note prior IWCs with guidelines, more directed calls to action on resources" (view diff)
[tantek][KevinMarks] how have you heard "successfully"? We know films have been made, we don't know how many got sick in the making films, and I would consider the latter a necessary aspect of "successfully implemented"
[Paul_Robert_Ll]Ha yeah, August would be mental. Haven’t been to the fringe for a few years, but I think its a bit like SXSW, gotten so big its not as enjoyable. But I bet everyone says that, no matter when they started going 😂
capjamesg[d]Another option is the Edinburgh Futures Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh. I think they might be sympathetic to offering space for free, since the IndieWeb aligns closely with their goal of advancing innovation, etc.
[KevinMarks]During the Fringe would be a bit much (there used to be an Edinburgh HWC, and my son went along when he was performing at the fringe, but he felt like an interloper because of Fringe dislike)
[KevinMarks]The Fringe is great IMO, but yes it did make things a bit pricy - he did another show in 2022 so I went to it wiht him and wow, what a lot of shows to see
[tantek]capjamesg create an "Edinburgh" subsection inside /Planning#2024 and dump all the info you write above about possible dates and possible venues
[Paul_Robert_Ll]I’m having second thoughts about that image, bit too straight-laced in retrospect, and right now working on something a little more ‘indie’ 😄
[tantek][Paul_Robert_Ll] can you check with Jeremy about which local coding groups he got in touch with for 2015? Seems like that was one of the more (the most?) well attended and diverse IndieWebCamps in Brighton, and it would be good to know what worked there and try doing more of that
capjamesg[d]That is basically an invitation for people to compare their sites with others', disregarding the extent to which something matters to them.
[tantek]yes, I agree with both of those criticisms. that dfn is a bit out of date unfortunately. will attempt a fix to reflect more modern (what we've discussed in the past few years of IndieWebCamps) understanding
[tantek]IndieMark << to-do: update definition to reflect a more updated understanding (and intent) of collection of emergent patterns of feature adoption/implementation among the IndieWeb community, and roughly ordered incremental steps for implementation that make each step more implementable by a developer during an IndieWebCamp or possibly in a matter of hours or less
Loqiok, I added "to-do: update definition to reflect a more updated understanding (and intent) of collection of emergent patterns of feature adoption/implementation among the IndieWeb community, and roughly ordered incremental steps for implementation that make each step more implementable by a developer during an IndieWebCamp or possibly in a matter of hours or less" to the "See Also" section of /IndieMarkhttps://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=92570&oldid=92568
[tantek]capjamesg[d], half empty vs half full perspective. rather than looking at the bits you don't want to do, why not focus on the bits you do want to do?
capjamesg[d]rather than looking at the bits you don't want to do, why not focus on the bits you do want to do? - if one person has this impression, others are going to have it too 😄
[tantek]IndieMark << to-do: write an explicit guide for developers to seek out the features described in IndieMark that they want to do, instead of worrying about the features that they don't want on their personal site
Loqiok, I added "to-do: write an explicit guide for developers to seek out the features described in IndieMark that they want to do, instead of worrying about the features that they don't want on their personal site" to the "See Also" section of /IndieMarkhttps://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=92572&oldid=92571
[tantek]always assume there will be a variety of perspectives and reactions, and rather than extrapolating from your own experience, gather a diversity of perspectives to reason from
capjamesg[d]That's fair. With that said, we already have criticism / people put off about the perceived amount of technical knowledge required to participate in the IndieWeb community.
sknebel(and ideally none of it would need "you" to be a developer, because you could pick something to host your site with that lets you turn on nearly all of it)
capjamesg[d]I think this would work well as a guide for people _building_ web tools like micro.blog as a way to evaluate their connectivity to the social web.
[tantek]Tumblr, WordPress, and many others "looked easy to use" and turns out they were either very hard to make IndieWeb friendly, or IndieWeb dead-ends
tantek.comedited /IndieMark (-424) "complete to-do: rewrite definition to a more modern (like past 5+ years at least) understanding and intent, clearly state up front that it is in-progress and for developers" (view diff)
Loqi✅ IndieMark is an in-progress developer guide of clusters of related IndieWeb features, gathered from emergent feature implementation trends in the community, ordered within clusters towards a step-by-step approach to incrementally building IndieWeb features for your site https://indieweb.org/IndieMark
[campegg]> IndieMark is an in-progress developer guide that organizes IndieWeb features into related clusters. These clusters are based on observed implementation trends within the IndieWeb community and are ordered to provide developers with a step-by-step approach to incrementally integrating IndieWeb features into their sites.
tantek.comedited /IndieMark (+86) "simplify definition, separate details into a second sentence and rewrite for better readability and some additional precision. thanks to campegg++" (view diff)
Loqi✅ IndieMark is an in-progress developer guide that organizes IndieWeb features into related clusters based on implementation trends within the community https://indieweb.org/IndieMark
[tantek]and now I want vegan softserve. I blame you [Paul_Robert_Ll]. unfortunately the best vegan softserve place in Brighton stopped serving it 😞 I have to find a new one
Loqi[preview] [BarCamp London] We're having discussions with the venue. Hoping to establish a firm agreement within a couple of weeks.Now we need some challengesBarcamp London Hack 202415 & 16 June 2024, Stratford, East London https://bclhack.wordpress.com/challenges/#goadsg #bcl...