[OH-Dev] A new simpler future for openhatch.org web tech

[Guido Stein]

This all sounds great. Thank you for sharing this.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:20 PM Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Hi oh-devel,
>
> Elana and Carol and I met today about future technical direction of the
> OpenHatch code base. With a new year coming up, we want to have a 2016 new
> year's resolution for OpenHatch and its code base. OpenHatch values being a
> place for new contributors to learn about open source and the basic skills
> needed to begin contributing.
>
> Here's our 2016 new year's resolutions for OpenHatch.
>
> * OpenHatch will focus on encouraging users and organizations to run Open
> Source Comes to Campus events. (This probably makes the best use of our
> volunteer energy.)
>
> * A new landing page for openhatch.org will be created and simplify
> access to useful resources. (It will probably be static HTML.)
>
> * The existing Django website will be archived as a time capsule of
> OpenHatch's past. (The three of us are very grateful to John Morrissey for
> the huge task of moving it to Heroku, which makes it sustainable from the
> perspective of future time of OpenHatch volunteers.)
>
> * We will migrate the training missions to some kind of technology set
> that doesn't require us to maintain a backend. (Perhaps
> https://www.npmjs.com/package/workshopper )
>
> * We will investigate migrating the wiki to another host, decoupling it
> from OpenHatch logins. (This will probably mean you'll have to do password
> resets to regain access to your account. Working out the details.)
>
> * We will try to find another community to house the volunteer opportunity
> finder, perhaps the nice people behind http://up-for-grabs.net/. (It'd be
> nice if we can fix the constantly-broken bug importers, resulting in us
> contributing something novel to up-for-grabs.net, namely the ability to
> search non-github projects. Probably this would result in us running the
> bug importers on the Heroku infrastructure, thanks to John's work.)
>
> * While we make these changes, we will continue to strive to be a
> welcoming and friendly community. That will mean, for example, helping
> people get their current pull requests merged if they're interested in the
> educational value of doing that.
>
> * We will have a regularly scheduled monthly development meeting that is
> open to all to participate.
>
> We wish everyone in the OpenHatch community all the best for 2016.
>
> Yours,
>
> Asheesh, with Carol Willing and Elana Hashman.
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