[OSCTC-planning] Infrastructure changes
Carol Willing
willingc at willingconsulting.com
Wed Dec 17 15:58:02 UTC 2014
Hi Shauna and all,
I'm not sure how to put this in words but I would love to see the
infrastructure flow from the major missions of OpenHatch. Stepping back,
I see two very valuable brands (OpenHatch and OSCTC) which could each
stand on their own but are more valuable together.
There has been huge growth over the past year and a half. Thanks to
many, many people. What follows is more or less what I tell people when
they ask what OpenHatch and/or OSCTC does:
Outreach and education
Open Source Comes to Campus <---> Open Source Comes to You (or your
community)
Welcoming, productive communities
Wealth of documentation
Welcome Bot
Profiles of projects/open source communities
You
Missions - building skills
Finding a project
Getting help
It would be really cool to highlight these major missions on the home
page and make information and access from each of these valuable
missions more accessible and easier to find/use/contribute.
Carol
On 17/12/2014 04:56, Heidi Ellis wrote:
>
> Hmmm, isn't that what the homepage of openhatch.org is currently? When
> I go there, I see:
>
> As for the mission, 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.
>
> Heidi
>
> *From:*OSCTC-planning
> [mailto:osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Alex Bayley
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:56 PM
> *To:* Planning for Open Source Comes to Campus
> *Subject:* Re: [OSCTC-planning] Infrastructure changes
>
> OK, so it seems to me like you could make the homepage of
> openhatch.org be mostly an OSCTC landing page, with links to the other
> stuff as subsidiary pages.
>
> A.
>
> On 17/12/2014 9:52 am, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:
>
> There's the IRC channel, the training missions, the opportunity
> finder, and occasional non-OSCTC in person events like sprints.
> There are a couple of projects that I've done as well that are
> used by OSCTC but not exclusively, such as the In-Person Event
> Handbook (http://opensource-events.com/), WelcomeBot
> (https://github.com/shaunagm/WelcomeBot) and Merge Stories
> (http://mergestories.com/). OSCTC is the highest priority
> OpenHatch project but the others are still quite valuable.
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Alex Bayley <skud at growstuff.org
> <mailto:skud at growstuff.org>> wrote:
>
> 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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