Today Robert and Lars had a small working meeting and discussed their thoughts about our future work for grouprise.
- In the long term we will need a bit of frontend maintenance, in order to prevent it from collecting dust.
- Maybe we should integrate an interface to the fediverse?
- This would not be targeted at users, but could be helpful for attracting nerdy folks or service hosters.
- Maybe a grouprise instance could then be used with a fediverse client. Or maybe we would extend an existing client in order to make it usable for grouprise.
- For the frontend update as well as for the fediverse implementation, it would be helpful to plan a cautious and iterative restructuring of some data model details.
- We could advertise the Matrix integration as “access stadtgestalten.org from your smartphone”.
- The only missing feature is a global room for the frontpage feed.
- We could improve the group status view (e.g. “last message in chat”) in order to attract users.
- Optional: ask users for confirmation of their Matrix ID when they click on their first chat link.
- Write an enthusiastic article in order to encourage chat usage.
- Recently we received only very few requests regarding the hosting of grouprise. Thus maybe we should spice up the website a bit.
- Publish releases as blog articles (maybe partially automated).
- Add a link to the instance kroetenzaeune.de in order to show the broad scope of grouprise.
- In general: write more blog articles (like this one) in order to show our continuous activity.
- Support for multiple languages would be nice.
- Some kind of visual revitalization of the front page would be nice (even though no one among us really enjoys that kind of work).
- More (un)social media!
- Source of volunteers:
- e.g. ask for help at https://youvo.org/ (only for design or marketing)
- trying to recruit local students (e.g. marketing) for an internship (in the sense.lab e.V. society)
- Goal:
- Not focused on increased activity on stadtgestalten.org - it seems to run on its own at the moment.
- Developers would be nice - possibly attracted via fediverse.
- Hosters of grouprise instance would be nice - but these are probably hard to find.
- Source of volunteers:
Afterwards we went through a lot of open issues and discussed or closed these.
We decided to rename the master
branch to main
.
Lars will take care for this.
We are still looking forward to the freeing the world from unscrupulous data mongers :)