2024-12-indieweb-gift-calendar

🎁 Welcome to the IndieWeb Gift Calendar! The 2024 IndieWeb Gift Calendar is the 8th annual group effort to gift (ship) one or more IndieWeb-related thing(s) each day of December that others can use to improve their IndieWeb experience.

This can be anything from IndieWeb friendly services & apps (like social readers, Micropub clients), CMSs, plugins, major documentation contributions, or community libraries.

Anyone can participate. See the Inspiration section below for ideas.

See previous years for examples: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

Please keep Considerations in mind, and if you’re not sure, make a commitment for yourself to ship something you’ll use yourself, which may reveal ways to improve things for the community.

Once you've finished something, write a short blog post and link to it in the calendar below!

December 2024
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
						1
2	3 🎁	4 🎁	5 🎁	6 🎁	7 🎁	8 🎁
9	10 🎁	11 🎁	12	13 🎁	14	15
16	17	18 🎁	19	20 🎁	21	22
23	24	25	26	27 🎁	28	29
30	31

Considerations

Gifts can be anything from major wiki documentation contributions / improvements to shipping updates on any of the IndieWeb applications (like social readers), services, CMSs, plugins, community libraries, or any other projects in use by multiple folks.

Please keep in mind the following considerations when adding something to a day:

Please keep the description to three lines or less. If you need help or ideas to copyedit your description down to fit, see other entries, or ask in chat for help copyediting.
It must be shipping / usable, not just a blog post announcing / saying you plan to do it.
Is it clear what your thing does?
Is it clear how someone is supposed to use it or otherwise benefit from it?
What use-case does it solve for others (besides yourself)? Ask yourself, how would/could someone else in the community use the thing I'm posting?
If it's a markup / styling example, is it clear what its purpose is, and how someone could/should copy the markup/styling and customize it for their own site?
If it's a programming example, is it clear how an indieweb site could use the code, using what language(s)? Does it require any frameworks?
If it's a code example or project, is it clearly open sourced, with a clear link to its GitHub or other code repo that has at least a README explaining how it can be used for either direct user benefit or to enhance existing indieweb sites?

Emoji gift kinds

We use emoji to indicate different kinds of IndieWeb related gifts. E.g. (and every one of these must be IndieWeb related, assume that literally as a prefix of the description) Used so far:

🎁 gift planned — wait for the day for it to be unwrapped! Have something you’re making for the community for a particular day? Put the 🎁 emoji on that day, and optionally wrap it in span giftwrap like
- <span title="from: yourname">🎁</span>
❇️ new user service (none yet in 2024!)
✳️ updated or friendly user service (or improved building blocks support)
📄 new wiki page
📑 new category wiki page
🛠 tools, libraries, web components, command line utilities etc. for developers
📫 newsletter published, e.g. This Week In The IndieWeb
🧩 user-installable plugin or add-on e.g. WordPress/Drupal plugin, browser add-on/extension
💬 chat related improvements (bots, chat bridges, moderation, archives, chat web UI)
📅 event, e.g. IndieWebCamp, Pop-up, Homebrew Website Club, Front End Study Hall
🎧 podcast, e.g. TWITIWAE
📃 for external documentation updates for any of the above (e.g. improved docs for tools)
🖍 graphics posting/creating user client (presumably with Micropub support)
📜 blog post about the IndieWeb — only use this if the blog itself is the gift, i.e. if it’s a blog post about one of the above, use the icon related to the thing itself, not the blog post about the thing.

More ideas (inspired by kinds of gifts from 2021)

📝 writing client (presumably with Micropub support)
...

More sources of ideas:

See posts#Types_of_Posts

Inspiration

Looking for something to do to benefit the community?

In general (feel free to add things here that you find inspiring in general, or hope someone else is inspired to do :)

Updates to / new versions of things shipped in last year’s calendar or prior gift calendars.
to-do and look for something you can do in a day!
IndieWebify issues to fix, fix one, and get an update deployed
New release of microformats2 parser(s)
- php-mf2
- mf2py
- ...
Work on 2024-review and previous years that weren't completed
Organize and host an IndieWeb event
...

Specific inspirations:

"how to save or republish your Foursquare lists" could be a post for the IndieWeb Gift Calendar, since the app is being shutdown 2024-12-15, and the Foursquare domain in early 2025
We haven't had an updated "people grid" in a while (latest 2016?). If someone would like to go through more recent IWCs and other IndieWeb events, a new one could be created from photos or current avatars on their personal sites
...

In progress

Got something you're working on for the IndieWeb Gift Calendar but it's not quite complete or ready for community re-use? Feel free to link to it here while you're working on it, especially if you'd like others to review it, provide feedback etc.