Contributor call: August 21 2021

l3xander commented 3 years ago

You are all invited to the contributor call. Please leave a comment here or on Discord to put things on the agenda. This issue will be updated after the call with notes and todos.

Hosted by @tangerineshark and me.

About

Location: https://discord.freesewing.org (meeting channel/room)
Date: Saturday August 21, 2021 16:00 UTC, which is: Los Angeles: 09:00 Chicago: 11:00 New York: 12:00 São Paulo: 13:00 London: 17:00 Paris: 18:00 Johannesburg: 18:00 Moscow: 19:00 Mumbai: 21:30 Hong Kong: 00:00 on Sunday Tokyo: 01:00 on Sunday Sydney: 02:00 on Sunday

About

Discuss @sannek's block
Discuss new Bee Bikini pattern by @/prudencerabbit and Bob
There are other people (other than Roy) willing to make illustrations
Discuss halloween blog post: we should have figured out how to present and sort the Halloween ideas, if so: we can start making the lists, if not: we have to figure it out
Discuss October newsletter
Follow up on Instagram; the call for volunteers, and perhaps some talk on events?

Notes

New pattern in development: Bee Bikini by PrudenceRabbit (design) and @bobgeorgethe3rd (code)
- The pattern is a bikini top based on the Bella block.
- Prudence showed what she's sewn and what the bikini will look like.
- @bobgeorgethe3rd showed the progress on the code, there will be a lot of options, such as; changing the curve on the cups, changing the width of the strings and choosing the style of the strings, such as a pointed top. Bella features will still be there (although there's some discussion on how and where), so people who have sewn Bella for themselves and who know what features work for their bodies can adapt that to this pattern as well. @joostdecock gave some advice on option groups.
People have come forward saying they are willing to make illustrations for FreeSewing.
- It is best to have a consistent style for the covers of the patterns, so preferably Roy (the cover artist) makes them, or most of them.
- However, there are other drawings that still need to be made. See #1199. @joostdecock and @bobgeorgethe3rd expressed we need diagrams showing the different options of patterns, sometimes you need a visualization to explain them.
- @eleonoremilbou and @lucibytes expressed that the illustrators that have come forward are (likely) creative illustrators, while diagrams are technical line drawings. Is there any creative work that FreeSewing would benefit from?
- Well, yes! @joostdecock mentioned there are different types of illustrations. @bobgeorgethe3rd gave an example for his witch hat pattern that they are still working on: it would be nice if there was a drawing showing the different main styles of witch hats. This would be nicer as a stylized drawing than as a technical line drawing.
- I (@lucibytes) mentioned that I was interested in drawing the cover for the pattern I'm planning to make and if that's possible. @joostdecock answered that, although there are no hard rules and we're not going to forbid people from doing things, it is nice to have a form of consistency.
Newsletter! @tangerineshark went over the things we want to publish in October.
- Hellgy's Yuri, it's not yet released (perhaps it will be in time for the newsletter), but there are pictures already.
- An likely has some interviews written out. If she only has notes or recordings, @eleonoremilbou offered to help write them out.
- @woutervdub was on a podcast recently: Sew Over 50! Would be fun to write a bit about that in the newsletter. Also: they invited @joostdecock too! (Even though he's not 50 yet.) Perhaps we can write about that too if the podcast episode is recorded before our deadline, but we also don't want to take shine away from @woutervdub 😝
- Anthony MJ mentioned on Discord that they have an idea for something to write, but that's all the info we know right now. Very mysterious.
- Question from me (@lucibytes) if Halloween will be a newsletter or a blogpost. We settled on a blogpost (likely two blogposts) and a little blurb about it in the newsletter.
- At the beginning of the year(?), there was some talk about writing an article on recycling old clothes by tailoring them to fit your body. @tangerineshark mentioned this and that we can maybe reach out to the people who initially suggested it, ~~@nataliasayang~~, @rrolon47 and @DocSpencer77.
- @bobgeorgethe3rd mentioned that his hats probably aren't gonna be ready in time for the newsletter.
- The Bee Bikini pattern is already in the testing stage, we can put in the newsletter that we would appreciate pattern testers.
- Hellgy's survey has not been used yet, do we want to put it in the next newsletter?
- The deadline for newsletter articles is September 17.
On to the Halloween blogposts.
- @bobgeorgethe3rd mentioned that the Holmes hat could be used for a Detective Pikachu cosplay. @lucibytes shared an Overwatch cosplay that could be made from the apron pattern. Lots of possibilities with cosplay.
- Early September is the deadline for this.
- @lucibytes asked @joostdecock if there's something like a gallery widget on the site, but there isn't, but we can look into that. We can also 'picture dump'. We need a good way to display all of the pictures.
- There will be two Halloween blogposts: one for cosplay ideas and one for general ideas.
Call for volunteers soon, we could use some help with the Instagram and with events.
- I (@lucibytes) explained where we could use a hand with events: I'm from the Europa region, while ~half the server is from the America region. It would be nice if someone could manage events for those timezones. I'm also not super socially competent.
- @joostdecock asked what to think of when you hear "event": right now we have only done DnD events, but we also have room for Jackbox/party events and the occasional Overwatch game. There are also roles for sewing and coding events, but no concrete plans for those categories yet.
- The coding bootcamp was mentioned, which would be fun, but as of right now there are no developers available to organize that.
@bobgeorgethe3rd mentioned the Holmes pattern, which they have worked on, and that there are some formatting mistakes. He asked @joostdecock if he should fix it now or wait until project 2022, to which they replied to just go for it, that it will be merged eventually.
@starfetch mentioned that when people send a crash report to Github, via the FreeSewing site, that it shows the (FreeSewing) username handle. This while the site explicitly says the bug report is anonymous. It only seems to show up if people have a Github username set (not sure if that's true), which is also shown. It would probably be good to change the description the site gives when reporting a crash.
@bobgeorgethe3rd showed the testing of his Minerva hat! They explained it's still a bit floppy, but it's coming together.

Note: some people use multiple pronouns. Mentioning this because the occasional pronoun swap in the notes can make people confused. 😅

To-do's

[ ] Mention in Discord that FreeSewing would benefit from certain creative drawings, but preferably not covers for patterns.
[x] Reach out to Anthony MJ about their newsletter idea
[x] Reach out to the ~~three~~ two people that suggested an article on recycling old clothes. Also #1110
[ ] @bobgeorgethe3rd and @lucibytes: halloween blogposts. Also figuring out how to present the pictures.
[x] @lucibytes finish the "call for volunteers" message
[ ] Change the phrasing on the site when you report a crash to Github

nataliasayang commented 3 years ago

I wasn't involved in the article on recycling clothes, but found this discussion which may be of interest: https://github.com/freesewing/freesewing/discussions/1110

Good luck to the writers!

l3xander commented 3 years ago

@nataliasayang Thank you for clarifying! I remembered it wrong 😅 I'll add that to the notes, thank you.

l3xander commented 3 years ago

Notes done, to-do's done, closing issue.

tangerineshark commented 3 years ago

Just a note that I reached out to Anthony and Rachel for newsletter content, and I will follow up with any updates in the next Contributor Call 😄

l3xander commented 3 years ago

@tangerineshark Thank you! :D

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