[Community] Growing the Community

Thu Jun 13 22:44:22 CEST 2013

Am 13.06.2013 um 22:04 schrieb Adrien Dorsaz:

> 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...).

I think you can - since the GTA04 is sort of an upgrade for the GTA01/02
and therefore can extend the life of the device. It was the logical extension
of the Bas/Buzz/#1024 fix activities. I.e. a CPU/Glamo/WWAN-Data speed fix.
So IMHO some may be still interested.

> 
> 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) ?

Well, importing the member list and inviting them isn't difficult.

> 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

Yes, that is our plan! And the "PRISM" system has shown that it is even more
important than I did think to keep in control of our own privacy.

BR,
Nikolaus

> 
> 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>
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