IndieWeb Carnival

From IndieWeb

IndieWeb Carnival is a blog carnival on topics related to the IndieWeb specifically.

Why

An IndieWeb carnival will help motivate people to post more on their personal websites and provide inspiration for writing. See also:

How to

Each month, the carnival has a different host. At the beginning of the month, the host comes up with the topic, and posts it both on their website and here. Then, other people post their submissions and alert the host about them. At the end of the month, the host collects all the received submissions and posts an overview of it.

Hosting

The whole process is open to change, so any suggestions welcome.

Any person having their own website is eligible to become a host. You can be the host just once or you can repeat multiple times.

If you want to volunteer as the future host, please add your name to the below list of future hosts. One does not need to decide on the topic until posting the call for submission.

If you changed your mind and you do not want to host, simply remove yourself from the list. That way some other people can volunteer for that month. As long as the months did not yet start or is about to start in less than a week, there is nothing else needed done.

If you are in that time frame, then please contact the person who started this carnival ( Sara Jakša - email: [email protected] ) to arrange for the replacement.

If the month you are assigned started and you did not post a call of submission before or in a first couple of days of the month, your spot will be taken by one of the pinch hitter hosts.

See also Advice for Hosting the Carnival of Aces for more suggestions (originally intended for the Carnival of Aces, but relevant to carnival hosting in general).

The List of Future Hosts

2026

Month Host Theme
March capjamesg Museum memories
April Pablo Morales TBD
May Juhis A love letter
June Alex Hsu TBD
July Joe Crawford Masks, Identities & Cosplay
August Chris Shaw TBD
September winther TBD
October Marisabel Pages
November z1nz0l1n Where You At?
December V.H. Belvadi TBD

2027

Month Host Theme
January andrei.xyz TBD
February Sara Jakša
March Kristof Zerbe TBD
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Pinch-Hitter Hosts

If you want to be a host but do not want to commit to it for a specific month, you can add yourself to the pinch hitters list. A pinch hitter fills in if a scheduled host has to back out, or if there is a month without a host. In that scenario, we will try to find a host from this list.

By adding yourself to the list below, you only indicate that you are willing to be asked to host on short-term notice. It does not mean that you need to accept it at that time.

Topic Ideas

List Of Past IndieWeb Carnivals & Hosts

2026

Month Host Theme Round-up(s)
January Jeremiah Lee

Meaning of life

Round up post
February zacharykaiwrites Intersecting Interests Roundup

2025

Month Host Theme Round-up(s)
January V.H. Belvadi

On the importance of friction

Roundup post
February Joe Crawford "Affirmations" Roundup Post
March Pablo Morales Self-expression Roundup Post
April Jamie Thingelstad Renewal Roundup Post
May Chris Shaw Small Web Communities Roundup Post
June Nick Simson "Take Two" Roundup Post
July Maxwell Joslyn Totems

Roundup Post

August Marisabel Colors Roundup Post
September Sophia Second Person Birds Roundup Post
October Bix Ego Roundup Post
November Alex Sirac cycles and fluctuations Roundup post
December V.H. Belvadi Where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030? Roundup post

2024

Month Host Theme Round-up(s)
January foreverliketh.is Positive Internalization Archived version Roundup Post Archived version
February Manuel Moreale Digital Relationships Roundup Post
March orchids (basement community) Accessibility in the Small Web Roundup Post
April Aaron Leonard Good Enough Roundup Post
May Juhis Creative environments Roundup Post
June Andrei DIY — Something from (Almost) Nothing Roundup Post
July capjamesg Tools
August Steve Ledlow rituals Roundup Post
September Matthew Graybosch "Power Underneath Despair" (Suicide Prevention Month) "Last Call" Roundup Post
October ZinRicky multilingualism in a global Web Roundup Post
November Alexandra Impact
December Zinzy Waleson belief Roundup Post

2023

Month Host Theme Round-up(s)
June Sara Jakša IndieWeb and cooking Roundup Post by Sara
Roundup post by Jeremy
July capjamesg Moments of Joy Roundup Post
August Mark Sutherland Gardening Roundup post by Joe
September Jeremy Cherfas My Kind of Weather Roundup Post
October Pablo Morales Self-care and Routine. Roundup Post
November Alex Sirac Community and Belonging
December jo personal holiday / December traditions Roundup Post

Current rules (can be changed in the future)

Default rules for the host

The carnival happens every month that has the host. At the beginning of the month, the host posts about their topic on the blog. The host then collects the submissions until the end of the month. After that, the host posts the summary of all the submissions with the links and sends them to the next month's host post.

Any rules beside the upper paragraph are at the host discretion. In case the host does not provide any additional rules, you can use the below ones as the default ones.

The minimal qualifier for what every host would be accepting is that the blog posts are in English. The host can specify a broader range of submissions that they are willing to accept (like different media, formats or languages).

The main way of people submitting the post are webmentions. If your site does not support the webmentions, then the main way of submitting is the email. A host can also specify a different way to accept the submissions.

Default rules for the participants

Any rules the host has specified for their carnival take precedence. Otherwise, the rules defined below stand.

Once you see the topic, post something connected to the topic suggested on your blog. The blog post should be written in the month the carnival is taking place - so between the posting of the topic and the last day of the month. Then, submit your submission to the host of this month.

Since this is an IndieWeb community, the main way of people submitting the post are webmentions. If the host site does not support the webmentions, then send them an email with the link.

The minimal qualifier for what every host will be accepting is blog posts in English language.

Supporting Services

Suggestion for Possible (Future) Improvements

Here are ideas for possible improvements to the carnival, as ideas for hosts, for potential future of this carnival or for other carnivals. Please include any suggestions for either each host or carnival as the whole.

For Hosts

  • Include possible prompts and questions to help people figure out what to write for the month's topic (it inspires more than the topic alone)
  • Share the graphic with prompts on socials
  • Include pings, hashtags, emails and RSS feed reminders
  • If you have somebody that you want to write on your topic (and they have somewhere on their website to indicate that they are open to that kind of contact), message them to participate in the carnival

For Carnival

  • Collect all the submission posts to their own feed through the month, that other people can subscribe to (like IndieWeb News or Carnival of Mathematics)
    • Carnival of mathematics can do that because they have a centralised submission platform, and the submissions then get forwarded to the host of that month
  • Also share the prompts questions on the wiki for each month, not only the topic

History

Started as based on the discussion in the 2023-06-14 Homebrew Website Club London/Europe.

Inspired by this carnival

Links


See Also

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