Organization, Goals and Communication

[marceloboeira]

Hey folks,

I've invited you to the org so we can start centralising our open-source efforts/pet-projects to more robust and well-thought solutions. We can count on each other for thorough API definitions and code-reviews.

During the next couple of weeks I'll start publishing some projects here, so we can start normalising them.

There are some open questions, definitions, I would love to hear your thoughts.

1. What can we use for communication? (Slack/Gitter/Telegram...) PS: I would prefer something public, even reddit or such, rather than Slack or Telegram, for instance.
2. Are you okay with us starting a standard for projects? (general definitions of README, API, contribution guides, license, CI setup, Issues, Roadmaps and such?)
3. What are your ideas for the organization?

cc @cristianoliveira @mauricioabreu @joeblew99

[mauricioabreu]

Thank you for the invite!

1. I'm ok with public communication channels. gitter looks like a good option.
2. 100% ok here. Lack of consistency is something that bothers me a bit. Having a standard for projects would be awesome.
3. Ideas for the organization:
   3.1 Code of conduct (necessary if we wish to invite more and more people)
   3.2 Diversity
   3.3 Share our learnings and applications (blog? site?)

Should we focus on specific topics?

[joeblew99]

Hey all !
Thanks @marceloboeira for setting this up !

I also like GItter.

I will upload the CDC thing that me and @marceloboeira were talking about.

[marceloboeira]

@joeblew99 awesome!

1. We can go with gitter!
2. I'm going to setup a "skeleton" repo, with some basic models of README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, Makefile, ... we can all open PRs to express our thoughts.

@mauricioabreu about your ideas,

3.1 - CoC - yes, I think we can look at that as soon as we start to invite more people.
3.2 - Diversity - let's invite more people as soon as we see fit.
3.3 - Completely agreed, I've reserved the medium http://medium.com/14-bits, even tho I'm not 100% happy with medium's choices recently. We could also have a GitHub Pages type of blog, with Markdown and such... might be better/easier to maintain.

Other ideas I've had: (long-term)

• Live streaming coding (sharing PRs or other ideas with the community live, so people can see things being done and that it's not that hard to participate).
• Podcast about recurrent CS/Cultural topics.

[mauricioabreu]

I like Github Pages idea.

About live streaming/podcast: I'm not the kind of person who likes to talk live but I am here to help it happen (helping to write the podcast script for example)

[cristianoliveira]

I liked both Ideas! A Podcast is great!