Notices by maloki (maloki@mastodon.social)

But do we really have enough coders? According to the survey, as well as people who reached out in person, yes, yes we do.

We have 50 people who say they can contribute with code. 20+ people who can contribute with Governance of software of organization. Others want to help with experience, money, emotional support, resources. (hover photo!)

Some of the "other:" responses were: Testing, Sysadmin, Code Review, Copywriting, Mentoring new contributors, Security/Penetration testing.

#ForkOff

Actually over 100 people (109 responses to the survey) wanted to #ForkOffTogether. And all in all we had 171

To put that in perspective of the 470 contributors that #Mastodon has had on the GitHub repo, I feel like we have a solid base to go from here.

Some of the comments even suggested that "No I don't want to, but we need to", explaining why they ticked No.

Anyone want to know how many people said Yes to #ForkOffTogether ? :blobheart:

For anyone still worried about mine, @Laurelai , and @PaulFerence 's defacto involvement in the continued #ForkOff project. The first order of business at the meeting we're inviting everyone to is:

First Order Of Business: Laurelai, Maloki and PaulFerence are rejecting any direct involvement in management, interim-committee, or the committee of the ForkOffTogether initiative in its first FULL year.

This should offer a good time frame to build the governance that You folx want for this w/o us.

The wording of this can of course still be adjusted, to be even more clear and strong.

But the point we're trying to make clear is that we do not want to be nominated, nor accept any roles in this management/committee.

We just want to help you all to kick this off.

#ForkOffTogether

#ForkOffTogether update #4
TL;DR

A small survey about what makes a good CoC for you is now out!

https://goo.gl/forms/1tE5W9LKkKCzwT412

As well as info about what kind of meeting I want to invite everyone to:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DUwDW8U0NHd8q4AxAojTOJuG6VeOPXAjOzG0_0L0-DU/edit?usp%3Dsharing&sa=D&ust=1528551816643000&usg=AFQjCNEFA8X_5ipBASnSBCn8J32JICInzg

Friendly Reminder, A lot of the #ForkOff Updates are now on #ForkOffTogether, as it's a bit less negative of a hashtag.

And not all posts are necessarily tagged about this either.

The pre-project #ForkOffTogether tagline is:

Community Over Code

We, @Laurelai , @PaulFerence and I, will be using this to help describe and guide the current process.
It derived from Organization First - Code Later, we managed to write a few iterations and find a nice tagline to use for now.

So if you're wondering why there's no code-fork yet. That's why.

The shift in the community has already happened, and all of you who reached out are proof of that. #ForkOn

TL;DR: Yes we're doing this!

Just taking it slow, to get it right.

#ForkOffTogether #ForkOn

This work may seem slow, but we're trying to get it right from the very start.

I don't want to over share as it's also a process of iterations.

What I can share is that, we will send out some sort of official invitation when this current work is done. And then we'll have a meeting, and go from there.

Be patient, and save your thoughts and ideas somewhere, we'll need them.

#ForkOffTogether #ForkOn

Here are all the relevant links (Updated!):

What is #ForkOffTogether (Updated hashtag from only #ForkOff)?
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100138750035893344

Is Forking hostile? No, it's Self- and community care:
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100139110948500738

Summary of what went down Yday
https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/100141071475864283

Keep Calm and #ForkOn

@Gargron Yes, but everything else that covers the "getting started" has a back button.

that's why I brought it up.

@Gargron If I load more I can't close it...

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It's still available for another week, so take your time in deciding if you want it or not.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/web-design-development-books?partner=maloki&charity=1598764

#HumbleBundle #WebDev #WebDesign #OReilly #ad

Apparently #HumbleBundle is doing a Spring Sale Encore!

Lots of games that have been on sale lately are back on sale (from my understanding), feel free to follow through with our link, to support us!

https://www.humblebundle.com/store?partner=maloki&charity=1550632

#ad #sellout

Oh, and they released the info about 2 more games for the Humble Monthly Bundle.

So, not only do you get Destiny 2, you now also get Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!; and Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
The rest of the games will be revealed during June!

https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly?partner=maloki&charity=1550632

#humblebundle #ad #sellout

If I was going to do it though, I wanted some assurance that I wouldn't get kicked out of the admin channels and organization on github. You know, have it on paper that I was a member of the team, as well as some governing rights, which would've come with project management anyways.

This is probably why I reacted so badly to having my admin rights on the discord removed, especially since I had kept it while I wasn't working last time.

I wasn't entirely against the idea of me continuing doing what I was doing and supporting myself with patreon or Liberapay, or at least getting invited back to the Liberapay team.

A friend talked me down from relaunching my patreon though. As it kind of was a PR disaster waiting to happen.

"Employer doesn't renew contract but has employee relaunch their private patreon to continue working"

It doesn't look, nor feel right from that perspective.

Being told that you're not owed anything because the contract is fulfilled, is incredibly hurtful.