From ffad0c1257d359cfa9fbb551f22b8d94147f054d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Maxime=20=E2=80=9Cpep=E2=80=9D=20Buquet?= Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 23:07:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Stockholm sprint: Reword some sections MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Maxime “pep” Buquet --- content/posts/stockholm-sprint.md | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/stockholm-sprint.md b/content/posts/stockholm-sprint.md index 10d23af..25afa54 100644 --- a/content/posts/stockholm-sprint.md +++ b/content/posts/stockholm-sprint.md @@ -6,12 +6,13 @@ draft: true --- Another episode of the XMPP sprints series happened this weekend close to -Stockholm in the Nacka prefecture, in a house we rented. We worked together on -improving a new groupchat bookmarks specification, file transfer -interoperability issues, and a future landing page for new XMPP users! +Stockholm in the Nacka prefecture, in a house we rented. Significant +improvements to the sprint infra this time are sauna and crêpes! -As usual, every developer meetup comes up with its share of bug fixes, new -ideas, and improvements. +We worked together on improving a new groupchat bookmarks specification, file +transfer interoperability issues, and a future landing page for new XMPP +users! As usual, every developer meetup comes up with its share of bug fixes, +new ideas, and improvements. ![Stockholm scenery](../stockholm.jpg) @@ -66,22 +67,21 @@ server depending on different factors that would be gathered automatically for the most part (if not all). This is more or less similar to other portals like [joinmastodon][joinmastodon], or [nextcloud sign-up process][nextcloud-signup]. -While I am no designer at all, building up a website isn't the hardest part, -what is hard is finding a way to convey to the user what "federation" or -"public network" mean. Roel teaches in Interaction Design, and so he was a -great help over the weekend. We came up with a narrative for the project, and -a sketch for a sign-in flow. +Building up the website isn't the hardest part, what is hard is finding ways +to convey to the user what "federation" or "public network" mean. Roel teaches +in Interaction Design, and so he was a great help over the weekend. We came up +with a narrative for the project, and a sketch for a sign-in flow. The project is far from being over, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Lots of work needs to be done with the "stakeholders", that is mainly users and server operators. To know what server to recommend to users, we need to first get a list a -servers we are confident about and are willing to recommend. This would -mandate discussing with server operators to get feedback. And this would then -be fed into usability testing sessions for user to validate all of it. After -that, we would need lots of promotion around it, and that's also going to take -a significant amount of effort. +servers we are confident about and willing to recommend. This would mandate +discussing with server operators to get feedback on a required "feature set" +and policies. All this would then be fed into usability testing sessions for +users to validate all of it. After that, we would need lots of promotion around +it, and that's also going to take a significant amount of effort. While I am excited about all this, I don't think diving in head first is a good strategy and I would rather take it slow.