[OH-Dev] Meeting Minutes from the 2015-06-25 OH Discussion at Open Source Bridge

[Guido Stein]

Cool, glad to here it... I will keep an eye on the irc.

-Guido

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:36 PM Philip James <pjj at philipjohnjames.com> wrote:

> Hey Guido! Thanks for asking. (There's also a good discussion going on in
> #openhatch on irc.freenode.net)
>
> This email was us tossing ideas around about how OpenHatch can
>
> 1) encourage people to be active in Open Source
> 2) Have more of a presence out in the world
> and
> 3) Do so while having a smaller software footprint that requires less
> maintenance.
>
> I don't think any of us want the content and resources of OpenHatch to
> disappear entirely in favor of the campus events, we just want to make sure
> everyone is spending their time where it will be most impactful.
>
> Hope this helps, please continue to ask great questions!
>
> Philip
>
> PJJ
> http://philipjohnjames.com
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Guido Stein <guido at guidostein.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just to make sure I am reading this correctly, is OpenHatch for students
>> only and only focused on on campus events?
>>
>> I ask because as a non-student who attended one of the on campus events I
>> found it really useful to learn more about the open source community and
>> would like to continue pointing my friends and colleagues to your
>> resources, but if they are not students??
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>>
>> guido
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:17 PM Philip James <pjj at philipjohnjames.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> There was an impromptu discussion about OpenHatch and it's future at
>>> Open Source Bridge in Portland two weeks ago. These are the minutes from
>>> that meeting, with annotations of speaker wherever possible. These minutes
>>> are not exact, but I hope I've captured the sentiment. Feel free to make
>>> corrections.
>>>
>>> Attendees: Asheesh Laroia (AL), Elana Hashman (EH), Philip James (PJ),
>>> Cathy Theys (CT), Bradley Kuhn (BK)
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>>
>>>    - The main OH website should basically be replaced with the content
>>>    of campus.openhatch.org (AL)
>>>    - Projects and profiles on OH-Mainline should be deprecated and
>>>    removed, they're probably more trouble than they're worth (EH)
>>>       - We should measure how much they're actually being used
>>>    - We should replace the missions in OH-Mainline with coursera or edx
>>>    content that is curated/created by OH members
>>>    - It might be worth spinning off learn-irc.com (or something like
>>>    that) to replace the IRC mission - general usefulness to the internet at
>>>    large
>>>    - When people fund OH, they're mostly funding the campus events - BK
>>>    - Search has high SEO and engagement, and should be fixed rather
>>>    than abandoned (EH)
>>>    - The wiki is a mess, should be better (EH)
>>>       - AL agrees
>>>       - EH suggests moving some of the wiki content into "main" content
>>>       (better formatting, easier discoverability?)
>>>       - AL: we should be promoting certain pieces of content better
>>>    - Going forward, no new features on OH-Mainline, but we should
>>>    certainly fix bugs
>>>    - AL needs to train others on deployment!
>>>       - moving to Heroku?
>>>       - Rackspace might donate a lot of hosting - BK
>>>
>>> Reading over these notes, I'm betting there's the potential for a lot of
>>> discussion about them. I think it's worth noting that nothing on this list
>>> has been enacted, and for the moment (I think) these are strong suggestions
>>> instead of hard commandments.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Philip
>>>
>>> PJJ
>>> http://philipjohnjames.com
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