2016/MIT/birthday

Birthday events (birthdays) was a session during IndieWebCamp MIT 2016.

Archive of notes taken in http://etherpad.indiewebcamp.com/events

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MIT 2016

2016-03-14 13:00 EDT Indie Events, RSVPs, Invitations, UI - We ended up talking about birthdays

• Tantek.com: I post RSVPs on my own site, want to post events and eventually invitations as well
• Ben.thamtustbe.me: I am in the exact same spot as tantek.
• Satra: I use google spreadsheets!
• mlncn: Uses Known which can post events but this is the first one ever: https://mlncn.withknown.com/2016/indiewebcamp-mit-2016 (date and time are not given a provided format)

References:

• http://indiewebcamp.com/event
• http://indiewebcamp.com/rsvp
• http://indiewebcamp.com/invitation

mlncn:

• Use-case: your own birthday, and people that know you on the IndieWeb, being notified of your birthday, wishing you Happy Birthday on your own website.

• tantek uses facebook.com/events as a his facebook homepage, as it's a better UI than any calander system
• one can separate private and public components on indieweb using logins
• Tantek prefers to message people rather than write on their Timeline (formerly wall) so as to be sending a personal message rather than performing for the recipient's publics
• Aside: Translate feature of everything people write to you is really cool, people are probably more comfortable writing in their own language.

Reference:

• https://indiewebcamp.com/birthday

Events Reader: e.g. https://facebook.com/events - shows a box in the top-right of today's birthdays and upcoming birthdays this week, and birthdays of the past two days, links to:

• https://www.facebook.com/events/birthdays

shows:

• Today's Birthdays
  • photo/name, age (sometimes), text input box to "Write a birthday wish on his Timeline...", and View Friendship
• Upcoming Birthdays (for the week)
  • each person in a small box (hover-card enabled on their name & photo)

Questions:

• How would I IndieWeb publish my birthday?
  • See: https://indiewebcamp.com/birthday#IndieWeb_Examples
• How would you find out about someone's birthday on the IndieWeb?
  • We need an IndieWeb equivalent "events reader" similar to fb.com/events
  • benthatmustbe.me would want to see all their birthdays in his calendar, whether gained from their site or entered himself
  • Or find out about it from your own site and calendar where you have added them at some point (ok to copy because birthdays don't change)
• How would you wish someone a happy birthday on the IndieWeb?
  • I would go to their contact page and message them from there - Tantek
  • Feed of birthdays from which can send message in any way, text on phone for a close friend, facebook for someone who uses facebook, their web site for indieweb
    • ics/ical (standard format viewable in Thunderbird Lightning, Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, etc). Problem with that is not extensible, hard to implement.

Issue of public and private information: Do you know who is invited

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