[OSCTC-planning] Infrastructure changes

[Heidi Ellis]

Hi Folks,

We frequently send students to openhatch.org without mentioning OSCTC.  OpenHatch is a great place to give newbies ideas of how to get started. That seems to me to be the main mission of OpenHatch.   OpenHatch lets students see what others are doing and what can be done which is very helpful.  So making that transparent on the site seems to me to be a real help to the community. OSCTC is one effort that also supports getting started.  I also send students to hang out on the IRC channel.

I'm not sure what

Heidi



From: OSCTC-planning [mailto:osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org] On Behalf Of Alex Bayley
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:46 PM
To: Planning for Open Source Comes to Campus
Subject: Re: [OSCTC-planning] Infrastructure changes

Actually, can I just ask... what does OpenHatch do that *isn't* OSCTC?  And what is its relative priority/importance, relative to OSCTC?

A.
On 17/12/2014 9:44 am, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:


On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Alex Bayley <skud at growstuff.org<mailto:skud at growstuff.org>> wrote:
Surely newcomers would mostly land on openhatch.org<http://openhatch.org>?

That's probably true.  Currently openhatch.org<http://openhatch.org> points towards campus.openhatch.org<http://campus.openhatch.org>, which is actually a pretty bad place for it to link, information-wise, in that it's aimed entirely at organizers (not attendees, maintainers, or non-organizer volunteers) and is possibly the spot, of all those listed, that has the most restricted access.

Sheila, can you elaborate on "Have a friendly landing page that is generated from readme?"




A.

On 17/12/2014 8:07 am, sheila miguez wrote:


On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com<mailto:shaunagm at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

I'm hoping to make a bunch of infrastructure changes over the next week or two. Asheesh and I started brainstorming on an etherpad here:
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/openhatch-infrastructure
[...]

With regard to A: perhaps the place to start is with a canonical place that everything points to (and that points to everything else) that newcomers can be pointed to.  Have folks seen this done before/do you have intuitions about the best place to put this?  In the Github readme, perhaps?

Have a friendly landing page that is generated from readme?

  *   For people who find you via github, they won't have to dig around to figure out the url to the content, it will be in the readme.
  *   For people who do not know about github, they will have easy access to the content (and can find the repo from it).
  *   The brand is not github.





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