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Improve list of communities in the home webpage #21

Closed rubo77 closed 4 years ago

rubo77 commented 7 years ago

Please put a link on "Several communities around the world " and link to a page with all known sites, that use libremesh

ilario commented 7 years ago

Does someone know where LibreMesh is in use? It could be used in many places without us noticing... An indication could be the Chef profiles, they're 250. We could send a survey to all the users of Chef via their contact email.

nicopace commented 7 years ago

indeed @ilario . what do you think @nicoechaniz @altergui ?

ilario commented 7 years ago

6 months without comments nor a single move in this direction. Let's close this issue.

nicopace commented 7 years ago

Well... the question from @rubo77 is interesting... showing where is being used, despite it is not easy to determine it (despite the most known ones), would open the chance to allow that conversation to happen, where communities like the Spanish guy that was using LibreMesh as a way to help fighting gentrification, would allow us to get a better understanding of the people we are working for. I think we should solve it by putting a contact form in our site so people can come up and tell their story, and we can manually add them. What do you think @ilario?

ilario commented 7 years ago

mh, nice, it would be like a blog, we could change the tab "News" in the website to "Blog" and ask for user stories. We can try...

nicopace commented 7 years ago

Let's have it on scope then!

rubo77 commented 7 years ago

Maybe we can add an option in the build-process to optionally send stats of the build process automatically to a collecting server, so you will get an email each time someone on earth builds a firmware:

If you are building for an active community please consider setting this option to "spread the word" of your community existing

rubo77 commented 7 years ago

For the registration form, you can use the code for the Freifunk Api Generator at https://github.com/freifunk/api.freifunk.net

nicopace commented 7 years ago

@rubo77 right now we are able to know if a firmware gets built, but I feel that having a statitic of who builds something frome where is not enougth.

Which would be the use case you propose? Or, why would you think that having a page of known sites would be good?

rubo77 commented 7 years ago

If you start a new Community, it would be great to look into others projects, nearby.

All communities should communicate and exchange experiences

rubo77 commented 7 years ago

Sure, there shouldn't be in no way be sent any information from a highly secure buildserver without question.

I thought of an optional option so maybe during the build process, there could popup this question:

Do you want to send the community information to the LibreMesh-api? [y/N]

The information could be collected and presented as a link with the information in the GET vars of the URL string, so you can send it from your own Browser.

This would make it easy for new users to add data to the LibreMesh-Api (that has to be built)

nicopace commented 7 years ago

@rubo77 that is information that is already being published and shared. Also, everything on LibreMesh Chef is open for everyone to use. If you want to build a private firmware, you better use https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk .

ilario commented 7 years ago

We can put a link in the website pointing to the network profiles repository, that list is increasingly reflecting the communities using LibreMesh: https://github.com/libremesh/network-profiles

ilario commented 4 years ago

I added a line trying to solve this issue: https://github.com/libremesh/lime-web/commit/ae858ebd37ae8d36ca301dcfae225d93c4d226ee#diff-974d4d4e5c05e40faea2b8941aea0fe8 Feel free to re-open it if you want to push for a better solution.