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Good morning Martijn,

my name is Maurizio Galluzzo and I am writing to you from Venice in Italy. I am a professor of Communication Design at the University of Florence (and a contact for DEI) and I have been working in IT since 1984. I have written some books, thousands of articles but since 1996 only completely free posts. I have organized many barcamps dedicated to digital.

I have always worked with open source software and in Italy I founded Aaron Swartz Day https://aaronswartzday.it together with many friends.

It is precisely with these friends that we have been in contact with IndieWeb for some time and we would like to set up an Italian section to organize meetings, barcamps, homebrews and meetings face-to-face and online.

I took the liberty of writing to you because I saw that you are one of the few, I think, European participants in the IndieWeb project.

I would like to ask you how we can organize ourselves and start working by opening an Italian chapter of IndieWeb.

On April 5th we organized a meeting in Venice on the topic of “return to the web of the origins” and I would like to introduce to the participants, briefly, your project by browsing the site IndieWeb.org

What do you think?

Thank you and best regards.

Cordiali saluti

Maurizio Galluzzo www.mauriziogalluzzo.it

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Hi Maurizio,

Apologies for the wait on my answer. I only check email a couple times a week.

I think we have quiet a few European participants. Not only that, last year we had 3 European based and 2 US based IndieWebCamps.

If you want to get in touch with us, I would always recommend checking out the IndieWeb chat. It is available through Slack, Discord, IRC, and the web: https://indieweb.org/discuss the general #indieweb chat is the most active, and there is also the #indieweb-meta channel where organisers speak with eachother about getting stuff to happen.

The list of chatters that people can add themselves to on the wiki (https://indieweb.org/chat-names) also seems to have some people who have written they are in the Rome timezone. Reaching out to some of them in chat might also be a great start.

Without knowing what your Venice meeting is about, or who the audience is, it is always a little hard to say how to present the IndieWeb. I think the IndieWeb principles are a great starter to present as it really encapsulates how the community views the web: https://indieweb.org/principles

If there is anything specific you think I might be able to assist with, let me know.

If you want your event or talk to be highlighted to the IndieWeb community, you might consider adding it to our event page: https://events.indieweb.org/

All events and happenings around IndieWeb are organised by the community, mostly through indieweb.org. So we try our best to document how people have run events. There are no “chapters”, just locals who want something to happen. But even with local organisers, lots of international collaboration often happens (e.g. Tantek has helped organise IWC in Berlin while being based in San Fransisco).

There is a wiki page dedicated to organising https://indieweb.org/IndieWebCamp_Organizing as well as one for planning where people try to gauge interest at specific locations https://indieweb.org/Planning. Some events right now that are seeing some buzz for EU are Berlin and Edinburgh.

Of course nobody is expecting you to read the entire wiki and hit the ground running. So I would again recommend joining our chat through one of the methods described in the first link. If you want to ping me there, my chat name is Zegnat.

I hope this finds you well and addresses some of your points.

Best regards,
Martijn van der Ven