Hoodie Contributors Landing Page

[gr2m]

Our Hoodie Tent release (aka Contributors release) is as close as it looks: http://gr2m.github.io/milestones/

As we put new and existing contributors into our focus for that milestone (see also: the larger Hoodie Roadmap), it would be nice to have a place we could send everyone to who is interested in contributing, or who is already a contributor and wants to see what the rest of the community is doing, or find something else to work on.

What we have today is this page: http://hood.ie/contribute/

What I’d like to build is something with more of a dashboard character. A landing page that welcomes the visitor and directly shows things people can work on, e.g. dynamically load issues from GitHub or things that have recently been completed e.g. to say thank you in a blog post or newsletter, and to show how active our community is.

I really don’t want to over-engineer this. The main motivation here is that we will soon release the new Hoodie version and probably market it through tweets, blog posts, newsletters and what not. Ideally people will take notice and would like to check out what the buzz is all about and how they can contribute, and for them it would be great to have a nice welcome page with actionable items they can pick and start contributing.

I’ve also started a "Contributor Documentation", it’s more random thoughts, but feel free to comment and amend: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hBP_y4xXKo6U_MckWqp-fLXHipPBior19RzoKMOjUNo/edit

I’d love to hear your thoughts and get some help with this if possible. So far interested were @NickColley, @gem and @jsimplicio. Would be nice to have someone from the editorial team giving input, too.

Ideally we would have something ready by the end of this month as Hoodie turns 3 on Feb 28 :)

[gr2m]

see also: hoodiehq/editorial#49 (comment)

Another idea I had for the Tent release would be a landing page for new and existing contributors. It would be like docs.hood.ie, but documentation for contributors, not users. We could document conventions like how we do READMEs, how we prepare issues to make them "starter" issues, what tools we use, why, and how, we could make tutorials where we go through the code base explaining how things work together. And all this for both, code & editorial contributors, of course. I’d love to work on this, and I’ll have time in February / March, but I will need help with thinking this through and managing what needs to be done and by whom.

[jsimplicio]

Something I really liked when I found hoodie for the first time was that you emphasized how you can contribute in a variety of ways such as design or writing, not only code. That felt super welcoming. Maybe we keep that going in a theme?

[jennwrites]

One thing I would have liked when I first started was a list of who I could contact about what. Could we put names and maybe avatars of who to contact for frontend/editorial/backend etc. questions?

And maybe they might not be available to help but can refer to some other person/solution/reference?

[gr2m]

Great feedback, thanks @renrutnnej, we definitely can fix that :)

[gr2m]

it’s not perfect, but we know have https://github.com/hoodiehq/camp. Also I would consider this a follow up discussion for this issue: hoodiehq/camp#102

Closing due to inactivity :)