should we start a community to announce and seek contributors for open source projects?
should we start a community to announce and seek contributors for open source projects?
given the absolute fucking state of the open source community in general, and the fact that hacker news of all places is where the majority of new open source projects get discovered, is there any interest in starting a community here where folks can announce and solicit for help with their open source projects?
we could possibly use NotAwfulTech, but:
- I kind of want to keep self-promotion out of that community
- my code is probably awful for everyone else, that's why I'm seeking contributors
let me know if anyone's down for the new community or wants to expand the scope of NotAwfulTech to include stuff like this. if you're on team new community also feel free to suggest a name
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+1 to interest.
Name wise: If you're willing to spend time thinking about this, I'd think of all the things you want the community to be, all the things you don't want it to be, and then move forward from there. Personally, I'd want the vibe to be in opposition to hacker culture, but that's just me.
I think you've got exactly the right idea, especially with regards to the vibes I'd like the new community to have. hacker culture is an embarrassing, toxic, ultra-libertarian thing I've seen exclude many more people than it's welcomed, and as a set of organizing principles it's holding us back. collective effort can do fucking magical things, but all hacker culture does is insist its only utility is to the corporations using us for our output and only ever demanding more
I'm pretty ignorant of it and haven't really looked into it too much,, but from the surface the "hacker culture" surrounding things like the Chaos Computer Club and whatnot seem much more palatable, seem skeptical of, or outright reject, capitalist influence and is less right-libertarian than hacker culture in the US.