- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
- fediverse@lemmy.world
We have a new community and would love if you came and checked us out ( ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙ )
A couple of us have been working on a project that took quite longer than we expected, but we finally have opened registration on our forum, and would love for you to come check it out if you are interested :)
Our intent: We are trying to create a community focused on collaboration and genuine connections to create and make things with others. From software developers to artists, to handicrafts, and etc. We are working on a public wiki that can be used for creators to display and collaborate on each others projects that are openly licensed.
We want to create a community that is different than the much of the fast paced, superficial communications that happen on modern day social media - and instead try to build lasting connections where creative people and projects can grow and contribute to the commons.
From our “About Page”:
An unfinished project is a seed that someone else can water when you no longer have the time or the tools.
The community thrives when we treat every piece of unfinished work as a stepping stone for the next person. You don’t need a long-term commitment to make a difference. Whether you finish a single page on our Wiki or solve one small problem in the Forum, you are making a project “slightly less unfinished” than it was yesterday.
We still have a lot of work to do to improve our platform (primarily our wiki - which is invite only until we ensure everything is working and in order), but we figured it was time to open up registration on our forum and see if we can get our few first members to help establish our community and maybe stick with us through a few more hurdles until we get everything more polished.
If this sounds like something you might be interested in being a part of, and are willing to stick around as we polish things up and try to grow, we would love to have you :)
I hope to maybe see one or two of you over at our federated forum!
PS: We will eventually be looking to “partner” with some other federated communities that share our values, so if you have a community that would be a good fit, feel free to reach out - as it would be great to have a network of communities that can support each other and provide value for the members.
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A small nitpick, but could you do something about the image alt text in your post? A filename, especially a non descriptive one, is not exactly great for accessibility.
I would love to, however I am not exactly sure how - Do you mean the alt text for the link? I can add a quick note below the image that says alt text, is that the best way to handle it? Sorry for my ignorance in the matter.
I’m not sure how or if Piefed’s UI shows it, but posts are written in Markdown.
When you add an image, text gets added to your post or comment in the following format:
. So, in your post the “image” is just the string, which clients (Lemmy’s & Piefed’s web UI and applications) replace with the actual image.So, if your post/comment editor has an option with something like “source”, “plain text” or “Markdown” in the name, you can enter a description for the image in the brackets right after the exclamation mark.
Fixed image example:
The alt text is used by things like screen readers, and even normal browsers, if the image fails to load. So, something like the following might be better:
Logo of Unfinished Projects, with the tagline “In solidarity we can build a future that benefits us all”
If anything is still unclear, I’m happy to answer any questions you may have.
Edit: Lemmy keeps “fixing” “https://media.piefed.zip/posts/bT/UD/bTUDGZRAcKZdXyO.png” to a proxied url for some reason. If you copy the Markdown from this comment, please fix it on your end, as I can’t seem to on mine.
Thank you. The preset alt text in the markdown threw me off, as I thought the text was the url. It should be fixed now. Thank you so much for the in depth answer :)
No problem, happy to help!
Quick observation. I think would be helpful to have a login button somewhere instead of one having to get all the way down to a topic. Also, what if I wanted to see everything new for a category instead for a single topic? Anything like that supported yet?
Are you writing anywhere about how you are doing this? Tech stack, team members, etc…
New project submissions, such as https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Submit_Project, should be behind login. Otherwise, eventually, you will get lots of spam registrations.
Lastly, when I see this “The Libre Community” makes me think that this would be even nicer if it was for all creators… think solopreneurs who may be trying to create a SAAS. Those are a group of people who may be primarily consumers of open source, but they can provide great feedback and also be early adopters of anyone trying to create a new open source software.
I think would be helpful to have a login button somewhere instead of one having to get all the way down to a topic.
The Forum Login is in the top right of every page (if the menu is not expanded, it will simply be an icon - so I could understand how it could easily be missed):
Login on the wiki is currently disabled (invite only) as we are currently still developing and building up the pages. But wiki login will be in the bottom left:
Are you writing anywhere about how you are doing this? Tech stack, team members, etc…
I don’t have anything super detailed yet, but I am trying to be extremely transparent with anything, and all of that is on codeberg: https://codeberg.org/UnfinishedProjects (Currently it has wiki backup info, “projects” is our kanban for building the platforms (we did most of it on another app, but just switched over to codeberg projects, so there is only a few tasks open atm). As time goes on, hopefully we will be able to flesh this out more, as well as actually building wiki pages with more information and detail - it will likely just take some time and motivation to get it all together. Also, since you mentioned tech stack - I just want to note that these are pre-built applications, we are not building them ourselves. The forum software is using nodeBB, and the wiki is using MediaWiki.
New project submissions, such as https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Submit_Project, should be behind login.
It most definitely SHOULD be. The entire wiki requires login submit or edit anything. If that isn’t the case, please let me know and I will try to fix it asap…but I think it should be disabled.
Lastly, when I see this “The Libre Community” makes me think that this would be even nicer if it was for all creators
We did think about allowing projects that were not open licensed, but it felt like there was too much room for abuse or issues. We want to prevent people from trying to use our platform to simply advertise - and instead it should be about collaboration. I think on the forum, we may end up being slightly more lax in terms of libre only projects (we will have to see how our community grows). As for the wiki, closed licensed projects could also cause legal issues that I don’t want to deal with or know anything about.
With that said, we do want to invite everyone, from any skillset or background (as long as you are respectful to others and the intent behind the platform). Nothing is stopping people from networking on our platform to meet others who want to start their own (closed source) projects outside our ecosystem, but projects within on our platform are intended to be contributing to the commons (open source/creative commons).Not sure if any of that made sense, or it was just me rambling on - but I hope that answered your questions. Feel free to follow up if it didn’t (☞ ͡◉ ͜ʖ ͡◉)☞
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