Monthly Meetup
Next Meetup
If you have suggestions, ideas or questions about our monthly meetup you can talk to the coordinator, Ioannis/Jesusbill on the discussion forums.
December 5th, 2020 at 8pm/20:00 UTC
- Keynote
Andrew Peel
- Announcement and agenda:
- Follow up from previous meeting
- Recordings. We've been recording the whole session. Do we want to stop the recordings after the keynote? (added by Duncan)
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Previous meetups
Vi-Sense November 7th, 2020
Maximillian presented Vi-Sense for the first hour and we then had a rich discussion, mostly about the website, marketing and educational resources/courses.
- Video of the meetup: comming soon
Website We all agree that the website needs a better presentation. The sections/topics need to be visually distinct. The organisation needs to be clearer. User:Duncan has been looking at some alternatives to the current wiki skin, Chameleon looks interesting. Robert has offered to work on a new section for basic software relevant to running an office. Robert will post something on the forum and we can take it from there. Actions
- Make more use of for the guides and how to we have. (There's a bunch of Revit ones) (Duncan)
- Look more into visual identities of pages. Maybe just distinct banner and footers is a good start.
- Robert (@RWA108) will post a bit on the forum about regular FOSS software useful for an office environment which we can be developed further on the website
Education/courses Talked about different ways to create own content. Recording the short sessions that evolve out of questions in the forum and on the chat. Cyril has some content for teaching IFC, Dion has the content he made for buildingSMART. Two well respected opencontent learning systems are https://moodle.org/ and https://open.edx.org/ . One way forward is partnering with existing institutions to create open coursework anyone can then access.
Marketing / outreach We talked about how stronger ties to academic institutions is important. Dion knows of these initiatives in Germany: Aachen ... ################ Duncan also has contact with a technical college in Denmark and would love to present our project and some tools to them.
Actions
- Create new wiki redesign proposal with "themed" skin for different pages (@Moult can have a shot at this)
- Rename page names to use more "How to" terminology to better reflect user needs
- Assign wiki pages to 1) A software / tool category, 2) a workflow (e.g. how-to page) / information (e.g. directory page) category
- Register a new Twitter / Mastodon OSArch account to reserve the name, open for volunteers who would like to maintain (reach out to @duncan_nz), also bridge the accounts use https://moa.party/
- Start reaching out to Academia to see if there is potential collaboration. Dion has contact/knowledge of contacted so far: Bond & USyd in Australia, Aachen in Germany. Duncan has made contact with Aalborg University in Denmark.
Meeting notes by Dion & Duncan