Open eppfel opened 7 years ago
(Speech is barely audible in the Jitsi call …)
Is this issue the one that was mentioned in connection with steering people:
– and so on?
@grahamperrin Yes
@eppfel @jancborchardt @jdittrich @evalica @simonv3 @belenbarrospena @grahamperrin and everyone else: Does this capture the main usage for GH and for Discourse?
I've made some assumptions, so if they're terribly wrong please shred this and make improvements.
Unless there are significant changes/thumbs down I'll send a PR to add this to the READMEs and a shortened version of the "what we use Discourse for" to @grahamperrin for Discourse.
Rough notes on this from today's meeting
The objective of using Github to record, discuss, document, and co-ordinate tasks or changes that we (the Open Source Design community) need to do as part of the community.
These different activities are managed in individual GH repositories.
The objective of the OSD Discourse forum is to be an inclusive forum for promoting, and supporting discussions about the broad topic of "designing in open source".
The expected topics for discussion are broad and wide - it is not expected that discussions need to focus on "software development".
It is expected the discussions will mirror the broad range of topics at our open source design tracks at various FOSS conferences.
The Discourse discussions are to be open to whoever wants to take part - from interaction designers, user researchers, industrial designers, developers, UX designers, product designers, architects, print designers, graphic designers, accessibility experts, logo designers working on open source software to users of open source design software - GIMP, Inkscape and many more.
Discourse discussions also need to be inclusive and welcoming for people (all the types mentioned above) who are:
We're used Twitter as a way of advertising, and spreading our activities - from advertising jobs on our jobs board to advertising and promoting our activities and events.
We've also used Twitter as a way to communicate with people who are currently "outside" our community, but who we would like to welcome in to OSD community.
IRC serves a useful objective of being a channel that developers (one of the groups of people we want to welcome) are very comfortable with. Some will be more interested in starting their "adventures" with design and open source from a comfortable starting point. Therefore it is a channel we want to maintain.
The OSD community use IRC as a more ephemeral discussion forum. Historical logs are available. A lot of our best ideas have come from a random "what about...." message in IRC.
… and Forum Welcome message
Also, the /about
text should be less exclusive.
From post 3 under First impressions, part two:
From the previous comment:
… an inclusive forum for promoting, and supporting discussions about the broad topic of "designing in open source".
From post 6 under First impressions, part two, a slight variation to wording that was suggested by @rosecheval:matrix.org in the designUX room:
A community promoting more open design processes • Dedicated to improving the user experience and interaction design of open source software
The omission of trailing punctation (.) is intentional. From the earlier post:
… suspect that people will more often see the text in the context of e.g. tweets. …
To see for yourself how the /about
text appears in tweets: https://twitter.com/opensrcdesign/status/855146100956770306
@ei8fdb can you add your writings here? :)