Create The Web You Want To See!
Feel isolated by the endless scroll? Come search, connect, and link with us!
until (add to your google calendar) @ Albina Library, Community Room 2A (directions)
When you come to Web Day, you'll sit down with someone and share keyboard, mouse, and browser to explore the Endless Web. In the past, we played games (every Flash game ever!), delved into local Portland services and historical data, made new web pages, and clicked a lot of links.
You can come in any time, for 5 minutes or an hour. Play one little game or spend the whole time exploring.
As the organizer, I will pair you up when you come in. We share a live document (like a Google Doc) of suggested activities to try out, like "find a 2-player game", or "find a page full of jokes". You'll choose one of those or bring up your own idea. Every 30 minutes we get up for 5 minutes to stretch, look away from the screen, get a drink of water, and rotate who is paired up so everyone meets different people.
You don't need to bring anything, just show up for yourself and your community. If you want to, you can bring your laptop and external keyboard and mouse (bluetooth or wired) are nice to have.
Maybe as you read the above you thought, "You just surf the web? Seriously?" Exactly! Web Day is silly, mundane, and banal together, in person.
When you sit down with us, next to a stranger or a friend, and explore open, free websites built by human hands, you directly combat the fascist forces which would prefer we stayed separated and locked into echo chambers.
Technology can connect us, but the version we get at home or on our phone is broken. We continue this month after month because we feel it's different, it's special, and it's real connection — connection to each other and The World Wide Web.
So, come play a Flash game. Or click around a web ring. Dream of a future where this doesn't feel so weird, and make that future a reality with us.
You Deserve To Be On The Web!
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Free And Open Web For All!
Participants must follow all of the library rules and we ask that everyone follow the IndieWeb Code of Conduct. This is not an IndieWeb event, they're just great guidelines for a welcoming, creative environment.