At todays TiddlyWiki Hangout #70 we had a discussion about surmounting the obstacles to TiddlyWiki's broader adoption. It was triggered by this discussion thread:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/_rScP9Lscdg/discussion I wanted to record a few concrete suggestions that we discussed. The hangout recording can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDVD6mf9tk ! Defining roles within the TiddlyWiki community In order to better coordinate contributions to the project we should identify formal roles within the community, ask for volunteers to fill those roles, and list them on tiddlywiki.com. For example: Head of Translations tiddlywiki.com Editor tiddlywiki.org Editor Owners for TiddlyWiki plugins such as CodeMirror, Highlight, KaTeX, tw2parser Owners for each translation ! Establishing a TW5 community wiki To provide a place for community-created documentation we should move the current http://tiddlywiki.org content to classic.tiddlywiki.org, and instantiate a new TW5-based TiddlySpace at tiddlywiki.org. We'll need a dedicated and enthusiastic editor to take ownership, just as Tobias did for the TWC community wiki. We may also need some dev work to get TW5 working sufficiently well on TiddlySpace. ! Easing the path for contributions to the docs on tiddlywiki.com Anyone should be able to contribute by editing tiddlywiki.com, saving changes and submitting the resulting file to the editor. ! Replacing the TiddlyWikiDev discussion group with the use of GitHub issues Google Groups are not working well for us. We should put the current TiddlyWikiDev group into read-only mode and move future discussions to GitHub. We'd gain the ability to edit posts, use syntax highlighting and labels. ! Gathering testimonials from TiddlyWiki users Testimonials are a great way to show people the value of TiddlyWiki. We should figure out a way to invite users to contribute a testimonial, and to show them on tiddlywiki.com ! Eventually, replacing the TiddlyWiki discussion group with a federated TiddlyWiki-based alternative This is a big one, and not something that we can do in the near term. It's not the only way to free us from the limitations of Google Groups but it's one of the most powerful. I'm not afraid of ambitious goals that take multiple manoeuvres to accomplish; choosing the right ones is a great way to guide and shape ones agenda. Best wishes Jeremy. -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:jeremy.rus...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
