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Re: Contribulle

#16 Post by LienRag »

Geoff the Medio wrote: Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:55 pm What would this email address be used for exactly, beyond being visible?
Good question.
I guess for asking questions to the team about how to contribute ?
I do not intend to do anything with it myself (apart to use it to create the Fediverse account) without clear instructions from the official team, anyway.

Geoff the Medio wrote: Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:55 pm I don't know what Mastodon or the Fediverse are.
The Fediverse is the sum of all servers connected through the ActivityPub protocol.
Mastodon is a fork of GNUsocial that succeeded, basically - it's the flagship of the Fediverse.

If we (read : me, except if another decision is made) create a FreeOrion account, Fosstodon would be the obvious choice for the instance I guess¹.


¹ Fosstodon ban nazis and gab but I'm not sure that there are a lot of nazis among freeorion players (and personally I don't think we should cater to them even if there are) and also Spinster.xyz, which is a bad thing imho but I don't believe that Spinster.xyz is our core target either.

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#17 Post by Geoff the Medio »

LienRag wrote: Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:19 pmI guess for asking questions to the team about how to contribute ?
Is there a way to specify that people should contact on the FreeOrion forums or via GitHub, rather than emailing? I don't want to have yet another place I need to check on regularly, but you could specify [email protected] if an address is required...
The Fediverse is the sum of all servers connected through the ActivityPub protocol.
Mastodon is a fork of GNUsocial that succeeded, basically - it's the flagship of the Fediverse.
I don't know what GNUsocial or the ActivityPub protocol are, or what it means to be the flagship.

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Geoff the Medio wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:12 amIs there a way to specify that people should contact on the FreeOrion forums or via GitHub, rather than emailing? I don't want to have yet another place I need to check on regularly, but you could specify [email protected] if an address is required...
Keep in mind that inquires will be in French.
I don't know what GNUsocial or the ActivityPub protocol are
For what I could read in their pages, those are social network akind to twitter, for microblogging, but focused on people interested in technology.

GNUSocial focused on GNU/Linux (Unix they cite, actualy) related staff.
FOSStodon less linked to Unix/Linux and more to FOSS.

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Oberlus wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:21 am
Geoff the Medio wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:12 amIs there a way to specify that people should contact on the FreeOrion forums or via GitHub, rather than emailing? I don't want to have yet another place I need to check on regularly, but you could specify [email protected] if an address is required...
Keep in mind that inquires will be in French.
So should I use the gmail one (which will make some people unhappy - including me but I'm not going to throw a fit about it) or one (like protonmail as I suggested) that I can monitor myself at least for the time being (which allows me to answer in French to French inquiries)?
I certainly can ask people to direct their inquiries to github (which may also discourage people interested in free software, by the by, but I'll go with your decision) and/or the forums, so maybe this address won't be used much, there's no real way to know in advance.

Geoff the Medio wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:12 am
The Fediverse is the sum of all servers connected through the ActivityPub protocol.
Mastodon is a fork of GNUsocial that succeeded, basically - it's the flagship of the Fediverse.
I don't know what GNUsocial or the ActivityPub protocol are, or what it means to be the flagship.
Ah.
Like Oberlus says, GNUsocial (and Mastodon) began as a free and decentralized social network a bit like twitter (though the saying was that "GNUsocial would need a second user to actually be a social network").
AcitivityPub is an internet standard developed by the W3C and Mastodon uses it.
There are a lot of other softwares using ActivityPub (and as such being able to interact with the rest of the Fediverse) but none has been as succesful as Mastodon (2 million accounts I think ?) which makes Mastodon the most known amongst the Fediverse (hence, its flagship).

More importantly, I asked about creating (and managing, though if I'm the one going to do it, it will be a minimum-level management, announcing events and answering questions as long as there are not too many of them) an account for the FreeOrion project on the Fediverse in order to reach to potentially interested people, since a lot of people on the Fediverse are technically-oriented and those are mostly free software (or at least open-source) enthusiasts.

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What if the email address is configured to reply with an automated answer "Go to https://freeorion.org/forum for your inquires" ?

In any case, it should be managed by a FO developer.

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Oberlus wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:31 pm What if the email address is configured to reply with an automated answer "Go to https://freeorion.org/forum for your inquires" ?

In any case, it should be managed by a FO developer.
I don't have a problem with that.
Automated replies are not available on free protonmail accounts, though.
So it would need either to be configured by who has access to the gmail account, or to use another provider.

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Can this email be changed later?

Short term, it could be set to the ProtonMail address that you can answer in French.

If you disappear at some point, it could be changed to another address.

While having it be controlled by an core dev would be nice, if the initial correspondance needs to be in French, I don't think that's a practical option...

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#23 Post by LienRag »

The email should be modifiable, yes.
Here's the first demand : https://contribulle.org/projects/47

To whom should I give the password for the protonmail address I created ?
It's [email protected] as [email protected] is apparently already taken.
I've sent the link to edit the demand to that very protonmail address (it's not done automatically, apparently).

There's an field for "remuneration of the work", which I've set to be "many thanks". But if someone has a Duniter account (I don't) and want to use it for paying contribution, it's also an option.
I know there won't be cash money involved, but if someone has others ideas about remuneration, please let me know.

I'll make more demands when I'll have a bit more time; apparently the demands for a single project do not have a centralized page for them, which I find quite weird.

What about the Fediverse account (note that it's totally independent from Contribulle) ?

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#24 Post by Geoff the Medio »

LienRag wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:04 amTo whom should I give the password for the protonmail address I created ?
Send a forum PM to Vezzra and me.
What about the Fediverse account (note that it's totally independent from Contribulle) ?
We don't really use Twitter, so I doubt we'll use an alternative Twitter...

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Geoff the Medio wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:28 pm
LienRag wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:04 amTo whom should I give the password for the protonmail address I created ?
Send a forum PM to Vezzra and me.
Done.

Geoff the Medio wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:28 pm
What about the Fediverse account (note that it's totally independent from Contribulle) ?
We don't really use Twitter, so I doubt we'll use an alternative Twitter...
Well, I was offering to manage it myself, to raise some awareness about FreeOrion among FreeSoftware enthusiasts (I've never met someone who knew about it, so I believe there is some awareness to raise).

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Here are the various demands :

https://contribulle.org/projects/48 for writing more extensive Species descriptions

https://contribulle.org/projects/49 for translations

https://contribulle.org/projects/50 for playtesting

https://contribulle.org/projects/51 for maintaining the wiki

https://contribulle.org/projects/52 for general graphic material

https://contribulle.org/projects/53 for Python developers to help improve the IA

https://contribulle.org/projects/54 for additional music

https://contribulle.org/projects/55 for C++ developers

https://contribulle.org/projects/56 for general UI help

I was not able to make a demand for Godot developers as Godot is not listed in the language list.

I would like to make a demand for creative ideas to redesign completely the Policies part of the game as I find that it's not taking a good direction, but I'm not going to make an official demand from the project on my own without it being approved by the core team.

Any other ideas ?

Geoff mentioned that the project has no presence on Twitter; does that mean that we would need a community manager or at least someone to communicate about it ?
Not that I recommend going on non-free social networks, if I need to precise.

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Geoff the Medio wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:28 pm
What about the Fediverse account (note that it's totally independent from Contribulle) ?
We don't really use Twitter, so I doubt we'll use an alternative Twitter...
I suppose Vezzra posts about weekly test builds and releases on Twitter.
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#28 Post by Geoff the Medio »

o01eg wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:39 pm
Geoff the Medio wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:28 pmWe don't really use Twitter
I suppose Vezzra posts about weekly test builds and releases on Twitter.
I mean in terms of interaction with other people or groups, discussions, etc. involving regularly checking and responding to tweets.

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