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[OSCTC-planning] Infrastructure changes

Britta Gustafson brittag at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 05:39:55 UTC 2014 

I like the idea of organizing the homepage by "actions" like that! I think
the homepage could fit a pretty good summary of OpenHatch's resources for
all three.

Britta

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Carol,
>
> I like that approach!  I've thought along those lines myself.  It seems
> like we have three major audiences:
>
> - individuals who want to get involved in open source
> - project maintainers or project members who want to involve their
> projects by finding new contributors, becoming more welcoming,
> participating in events
> - open source community builders who want help running events, using our
> tools, etc.
>
> Any given tool, product, or program can help all three.  A community
> builder might be the first person to organize an OSCTC even but project
> maintainers should know the program exists so they can participate in
> events.  Same for individuals.
>
> What about a design that starts by asking whether you want to: (I dislike
> the phrasing for all of these but it gets to my point)
>
> - Learn More About Open Source / Get Involved In Open Source
> - Make Your Project More Welcoming
> - Build A Community / Run an Event
>
> Which lead to further pages that link to individual
> programs/tools/resources?  With perhaps the biggest projects - IRC channel,
> opportunity finder, OSCTC, also linked on the main page but more
> discretely, like in the top navbar.
>
> - Shauna
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Carol Willing <
> willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>>  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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> *From:* OSCTC-planning [mailto:osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org
>> <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> 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:
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Alex Bayley <skud at growstuff.org> wrote:
>>
>> Surely newcomers would mostly land on openhatch.org?
>>
>>
>>
>> That's probably true.  Currently openhatch.org points towards
>> 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?"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> A.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 17/12/2014 8:07 am, sheila miguez wrote:
>>
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>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <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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>>
>> --
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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