[Community] Growing the Community

Thu Jun 13 22:04:47 CEST 2013

Well, swap38 has founded a french OpenMoko community
(http://openmoko-fr.org) and the website (forum/blog/...) is dying,
because OpenMoko hasn't a lot of news (instead of great work of QtMoko
developers for the GTA02).

I'm almost the only one who has a GTA04 inside this community and I'm
not able to keep site attractive (yeah, latest news are already for
GTA04 and I'm not sure if I can continue to "spam" the OpenMoko
community with GTA04 news...).

Maybe some of you have an idea to take interest of these people and
maybe to merge the openmoko-fr community with the openphoenux one
(Indeed, an issue for openmoko-fr is the number of volunteers) ?

I've cc swap38 and openmoko list to be sure that some (last) openmoko-fr
members see this message.

Hope we can make great things together,
Adrien

Le jeudi 13 juin 2013 à 20:58 +0200, Lukas Märdian a écrit :
> In order to attract people outside the community we have to somehow make
> them think our project is worth their time.
> 
> In the simplest case, this can be done by a clean and informative
> project homepage. Therefore I created a new wiki page with a proposal
> for a new start page of openphoenux.org:
>   http://projects.goldelico.com/p/openphoenux/page/StartPageProposal
> 
> I used a little CSS to hide the wiki's "context" bar on the left side,
> but still keeping wiki functionality available (top bar). Furthermore I
> tried to give the content a little more structure and align everything a
> little bit.
> 
> What do you think about it? Do you think it's worth to move it to the
> start page?
> 
> BR,
>   Lukas
> 
> Am 13.06.2013 19:28, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
> > 
> > Am 13.06.2013 um 18:41 schrieb Lukas Märdian:
> > 
> >> Ah, I see.
> >>
> >> I've converted the text/font to paths in the SVG and created a PNG
> > 
> > This wnow works as expected.
> > 
> >> version as well. Both are attached.
> > 
> > I have updated all files on the web front page.
> > 
> >>
> >> And I've already put the "Member of the OpenPhoenux Community"-Button on
> >> my blog:
> >>  http://blog.slyon.de
> > 
> > Looks good!
> > 
> > Nikolaus
> > 
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>  Lukas
> >>
> >> Am 13.06.2013 18:16, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
> >>>
> >>> Am 13.06.2013 um 18:04 schrieb Lukas Märdian:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> this sounds like a nice idea!
> >>>> But the Logo (openphoenux.jpg) seems to be using a wrong font.
> >>>
> >>> Hm. Not really a wrong font.
> >>>
> >>> The SVG appears to use a font called "Sans" (which is not the same as "sans-serif") that is not installed in my machine:
> >>>
> >>>         style="font-size:48px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#8b8b8b;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Sans"
> >>>
> >>> So I never noticed that the designer did intend something else.
> >>>
> >>>> The original SVG contained a sans-serif font, which gives a more
> >>>> symmetric appearance.
> >>>
> >>> So it is more a bug that the text is not a vector graphics itself....
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I exported the SVG to a jpg, which contains the original font, maybe you
> >>>> could exchange the files? The jpg file is attached and has the same
> >>>> resolution.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, looks better. Thanks! I will update everything.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> BR,
> >>>> Lukas
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 13.06.2013 16:48, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
> >>>>> to help to grow the community I have made some extended
> >>>>> excerpt from the LinuxTag presentation which describes the
> >>>>> reasons why the world needs this community, what it is and
> >>>>> what its values are to give reasons why interested persons should
> >>>>> be a member. You can find it here (or linked on the top left
> >>>>> of http://www.openphoenux.org)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <http://projects.goldelico.com/p/openphoenux/downloads/get/OpenPhoenux.pdf> [1]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is not enough that we have the document somewhere... It must
> >>>>> be actively used by those who never did hear about OpenPhoenux.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So please use this material when talking to people about our activities.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think you could also do that by subscribing to relevant mailing lists
> >>>>> and fora and inserting it into discussions whenever it appears to be
> >>>>> appropriate. Sort of viral spreading of the word :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Another means of attracting new community members can be
> >>>>> by using the Logo and linking to the openphoenux.org home
> >>>>> page. You can easily do that by inserting the following (or similar)
> >>>>> HTML into your personal home page, blogs or other publications
> >>>>> where you find it appropriate.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <table><tr><td align="center">
> >>>>> <a href="http://www.openphoenux.org">
> >>>>> Member of<br>
> >>>>> <img style="width: 100px"
> >>>>> src="http://www.openphoenux.org/images/openphoenux.jpg"><br>
> >>>>> Community
> >>>>> </a></td></tr></table>
> >> <openphoenux-logo.png><openphoenux-logo.svg>_______________________________________________
> >> Community mailing list
> >> Community at openphoenux.org
> >> http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo/community
> >> http://www.openphoenux.org
> > 
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