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IndieWebCamp was founded in 2011 by:

IndieWeb movement and terminology

2010: The IndieWeb "movement" (as much as two people getting together and naming something is a "movement") was started by:

after they both attended the 2010-07-18 Federated Social Web Summit in Portland, Oregon and decided what they wanted was a different focus, a focus on:

creators instead of talkers - people that create design/UX/code instead of just email/chat about it.
selfdogfooding - using your creations on your own website that represents your primary self
own your data - owning what you author by publishing it first on your own site, and only later copying to silos

Tantek Çelik and Aaron Parecki decided to use the term "IndieWeb" or phrase "Indie Web" to refer to this new focus and effort.

IndieWebCamp founded

2011: The next year they joined forces with Amber Case & Crystal Beasley and organized the first IndieWebCamp in Portland Oregon on 2011-06-25 and 2011-06-26.

History of IndieWebCamps

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)

IndieWeb movement and terminology

IndieWebCamp founded

History of IndieWebCamps

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