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And i repost the same post so lemmy user can see us. Sorry for the duplicate. 😅

Hi everybody,

I hope you are well. I’m quite busy with my course, so i’m not there a lot. Sorry and thank you for animating this community and being kind. You are awesome. :)

During this week-end, i planned to advance french translation and the Piefed wiki. We decided a meeting with french translators so we can share our ideas and decide together about the most accurate translation.

And i thought why not inviting you. Yes, you ☺️

I purpose you a hackathon this week-end. Yeah, this idea just popped up in my mind. 😁

There is plenty things to do : documentation, translation…and not only PieFed (lemmy, mbin, nodeBB, loops, iceshrimp…)

We can coordinate our effort to make the fediverse a quite good place. If you want to do a hackathon for another software, i suggest to create a separate post and share its link in comment (we also need a way to centralize this event for better coordination). ☺️

Here is a draft of this idea. Nothing new but i want to setup a set of rules so we don’t waste our energy and time. :)

  • hackathon start the week-end, at the beggining of each month (depend of your need)
  • before the hackathon, we create a to-do list : documentation, code development, mobile app, translation, ads, UI, updating wiki, squashing small bug…everything missing.
  • in comment section, we create small team (code, wiki, communication…) and tell users : when ? How many people ? Topics ? And then, you self-organize together.

What do you think ? Would you be interested by those workshops ? Maybe you need more time and already have plan for this week ? We can repport it to March. Got another idea ? :3

    • Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.frOPEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Nit really. We talked several time about inclusive language in french without reaching a conclusion since several montha

      The main goal is to invite news users to contribute together and form some team and works together. To create some teamwork, collective.

      It is not intended to remplace it’s current development but help us to advance on several topic as translation, communication, small bug.

      I saw a hackathon for yeswiki and it worked quite great. Devs who usually worked far aways in various countries meet each other IRL, talked about their daily life, then discussed about their project, technological choice then coded during the whole week-end.

      Honnestly, i think it is great way to know each other, have fun. As long you don’t put an absurd deadline.

  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I love it. Seems like something that would make sense to stand up a matrix instance for. If I were to participate this month, I think I’d want to work on something meta, like building a way to make pitches and form teams for the hackathon.

    • Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.frOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Good idea for the matrix instance altough i prefer zulip for its channel management. Can you manage that ? :)

      Anyway, we need a tool for teambuilding, a very simple one where we can share our need and ask for help without overhelming devs space.

      The main idea of this project is too invite news users to give some time and contribute on few tasks. :)

          • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Thanks for the offer! I got sidetracked last night because I discovered a spider mite infestation in the pepper plants I’m overwintering indoors and it needed a quick response. I think I’ve got everything set up, but I was kinda hoping to let just you in to take a poke around before publicly posting the invite link. Unfortunately, I’m getting a 404 when I try to message you on Matrix – should I just DM you here, even though its in the clear, or…

            • Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.frOPEnglish
              1·
              7 hours ago

              Ah, thank for the notice. Maybe i haven’t updated my matrix account…tedomum migrated their serveur to a new one and changed their tld

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    While I can’t offer my time, I like the idea. A community get-together for improving community stuff 👍

  • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyiEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Good idea. I can help with German translations, some CSS and I have a joinfediverse.wiki account as well. I don’t think PieFed is relevant enough for Wikipedia or is it?