commons-app
Create a Community Server for Commons (Discord/Matrix/Zulip) ?
In recent days, nearly every open-source project has an active community where contributors and maintainers discuss and meet up. I recently reached out to @nicolas-raoul and i came to know that there’s currently only GitHub and the Commons-L mailing list for communication (https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/commons-l.lists.wikimedia.org/).
This issue is for proposing a community server (Discord/Matrix/Zulip or similar) to make it easier for new contributors and beginners to stay connected, engaged and keep all of us interactive, which could help improve the project and open-source flow.
A quick reminder: I’m currently comfortable with the present system as it is, but I think a Commons community space focused on juniors and new contributors and even us could boost activity and engagement.
This is just my suggestion; if you think it’s irrelevant we can close this issue. If you find it relevant, we can discuss and decide. All ideas are welcome.
I created a Discord server a while ago to find out more about the tech - https://discord.gg/YrTWksxj - welcome to see if it's the kind of thing that meets the need. There's really nothing there yet, but, welcome to poke around and play with it.
Back in the day, we used to have a community Hangouts group - but after the feature was deprecated by Google, I don't think we ever replaced it. We do have Zulip, but I think we mostly just use it for specific groups (e.g. communication with the Outreachy/GSoC intern, or between core developers previously).
So if we want to do this, we can either (1) use Paul's discord server, or we can (2) open up a public channel for our existing Zulip.
Also, if we do have a community server for new contributors, we would need a volunteer to check it regularly and answer the questions there. :)
