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Project management and tracking impact of Sarah's SSI Fellowship (2020)
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Design a flyer describing Binder to distribute at conferences #11

Open sgibson91 opened 4 years ago

sgibson91 commented 4 years ago

Summary

Design a flyer to distribute at conferences/events in order to attract people's attention to the Binder project. The specific target audience I'm thinking of when I visit JuliaCon and eRum would be new contributors.

What should the flyer contain?

Timeline

First conference I plan to attend is eRum, 27th - 30th May 2020 (#5)

Who can help?

consideRatio commented 4 years ago

what a great idea!!!! im slammed with todos for this and the next week though

sgibson91 commented 4 years ago

Thank you @consideRatio! (Truth be told, it was Malvika's suggestion!) No worries, I think the first conference I'll want these ready for is in late May. And even things like pointing out cool images we could put on the flyer will be a massive help to me!

willingc commented 4 years ago

Some quick thoughts:

PDF Cheatsheet to supplement the flyer

willingc commented 4 years ago

The conda cheatsheet is something that I have used for years and shared with thousands (literally): https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/cheatsheet.html

Another favorite: https://sphinx-tutorial.readthedocs.io/cheatsheet/

trallard commented 4 years ago

I love this!

I can help with graphic design and I do have a couple printing contacts.

I would advocate for having both a high quality print ready version and a digital one that folks can use in websites/online resources and the such.

+1 for the cheatsheet

sgibson91 commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the overwhelming positivity! I also have so much love for that conda cheatsheet

betatim commented 4 years ago

I think the idea is great and can be the basis for lots of things: flyer, cheatsheet, "one slide summary" in a talk, 60s explanation/"elevator pitch", basis for a lightning talk, etcc

The flyer for distributing at conferences is targeting people who we want to convert to users of Binder or convert to be contributors to the project? I have no strong opinion on which one it should be (or both) but I do think trying to target both in one flyer will be (very) hard. The level of familiarity with the project, the message that will sell people on the idea, benefits they are looking for, etc will be different in the two cases.

sgibson91 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for your input @betatim! In the context of my Fellowship and the conferences I'll be attending, the target audience will be new contributors 🤞

sgibson91 commented 4 years ago

I drafted up a contact cheatsheet

View link 👉 https://www.dropbox.com/s/cme65nj896bp0u8/binder_contact_sheet.pdf?dl=0 Download link 👉 binder_contact_sheet.pdf

choldgraf commented 4 years ago

I love it! Wanna put it in the JupyterHub team folder on google drive? https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8VZ4vaOYWZ3X29KTzZSemlNSG8

sgibson91 commented 4 years ago

@choldgraf I will definitely do that when it's finished! I want to try and squeeze links to the various tutorials on the bottom 😁

betatim commented 4 years ago

This is a meta comment triggered by the very nice contact sheet: we have simultaneously a lot of places for people to get in touch and no where for people to get in touch. What do I mean? We have mybinder.rtd, binderhub.rtd and repo2docker.rtd but none of these lets you see the team, the overall structure and "who is project binder and do i like them, what are they up to, is there a monthly team call?" Similarly we want to have a "contributor on-ramp" page where people can see a little journey from "how do I get involved in this awesome project?" -> "Now I am part of the core team".

This is a realisation from looking at the flyer and feeling a bit overwhelmed about the 101 different pages I could visit (or help maintain :D).

One thing I did think (and only spotted on the second read0: the "Introduce yourself" topic from discourse is on the flyer! Can we put this at the top? Compared to reading the BH docs and figuring out how to get involved posting on the forum thread is an easy thing to do, gets you to see other humans and gets you into the forum where there is a lot more context and pointers to things happening. WDYT?

sgibson91 commented 4 years ago

100% agree. What I didn't say when I shared the contact sheet was, in the world where this is a physical printed piece of A5 paper, I imagined it would be the back and all of the "who are binder, how seriously cool are they?" info would be on the front. But given my current amount of available brainspace, collecting the links together was a more achievable task than trying to articulate just how cosmically cool we all are 😄

However, another approach may be to keep the printed version to the more wordy info and then, as Carol suggested, just have a QR code that takes you to the e-version of the contact sheet (maybe hosted somewhere on jupyter.org/binder or mybinder.rtd?) and the introduce yourself link.

RE: the contributor on-ramp. I think what I'm trying to achieve here (generally) couples very nicely with developing https://github.com/jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy/issues/1131

sgibson91 commented 4 years ago

Hey y'all! I've just given the contact sheet another go over. PDF and pptx versions can be viewed here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qMHvJF083HVUt0RsfpgSg2BWI2fZ5BYZ?usp=sharing Comments and feedback appreciated! ✨

choldgraf commented 4 years ago

Nice - I think it looks great. Don't forget that we have a team folder for these kinds of things if you'd like to share w/ others: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8VZ4vaOYWZ3X29KTzZSemlNSG8?usp=sharing