+1 I think a better IRC directory would go a long way toward a) shortening the new hire up-to-speed time (speaking from experience!) and b) helping outsiders join the community. Thanks for taking the initiative on this, Damian! TC On 7/5/17 8:05 AM, Tom . wrote: > I think this is a good idea, and am fine with all that info. My > standard photo is 'out there', but I'm not sure if I'll choose that or > my identicon. A couple of thoughts: > > - It's pretty easy/simple to handle people who don't want a photo: > it's standard practice everywhere to just let them pick a (hopefully > non-offensive) thumbnail they like or use already. > > - If someone doesn't want to pick a thumbnail, perhaps we can default > them to an onion. > > - I'm not sure how I feel about the EFF page being full-width and > everything. I'm not sure how well that works for the long list we > have. > > Ideas/Opinions: > https://www.eff.org/about/staff - full width means very long. I also > prefer our abbreviated bios to these very long ones that try and list > every notable accomplishment the person has ever done (looking at you > Peter!) > > https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/team.html - I don't like any design > that requires hovering over to get any non-biographical information > though. > > https://www.opentech.fund/about/people - This could almost work, but > many people's descriptions are longer than 6 words. > > -tom > > On 4 July 2017 at 16:25, Damian Johnson <atagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Freedom! Sweet GSoC-less freedom! Ok, lets ruin it. >> >> Between newhires and new volunteers Tor is growing quite a bit right >> now and a common complaint I've heard for years is that our community >> makes it maddeningly hard to figure out who's who. Yes, for many of us >> this is intentional but for others it's not... >> >> "Who's that arma guy I was talking with on irc? He seemed nice. Ok, >> thanks. Now which of these people is Roger? Great. And, what does he >> do?". Multiply that by ninety dev meeting attendees and it's no wonder >> we drive our lovely hair-pulling newcomers to early baldness. >> >> For much of our community this anonymity is intentional and we >> definitely don't want to muck with that, but I suspect some opt-in >> information from those of us ok with it could make our community a lot >> easier to join. As such I'd like to run the following questionnaire >> among our tor-internal@ membership... >> >> * Would you like to be listed on the 'core people' webpage [1]? If so... >> >> * What name or alias would you like to be called? >> * Provide a description for the page of what you do. >> * Would it be ok to list your IRC nick? If so, what is it? >> * Would it be ok to list your OpenPGP key? If so what is your public key? >> * Is there a photo or image you'd like to have displayed? >> >> Many folks will say 'heck no' to much of this and that's perfectly >> fine. The last question is a bit of an experiment where I'm curious if >> we can pattern ourselves after the EFF's page [2]. Maybe this won't >> pan out but here's my thoughts... >> >> * Newcomers first come to know us by cryptic irc nicks that look akin >> to truncated sha256 digests. Pictures may make our community feel >> friendlier and more approachable. Note this *doesn't* need to see a >> photo. For example see Mark Burdett and Ben Burke on the EFF page. >> >> * Maybe a page of smiling faces and cartoon turtles will be helpful to >> Shari for her upcoming fund raiser? >> >> Maybe this'll work, maybe it won't. My hope is that folks will have >> fun coming up with a picture to represent them, but maybe too few >> people will to make it work. Who knows - worth asking. ;) >> >> Thoughts? This dovetails nicely with my role maintaining tor-internal@ >> so I'd be happy to keep it up to date as we continue to grow our >> community. >> >> Cheers! -Damian >> >> [1] https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en >> [2] https://www.eff.org/about/staff >> _______________________________________________ >> tor-project mailing list >> tor-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project > _______________________________________________ > tor-project mailing list > tor-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project >
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