nptech.io <= the social good hackernews - sudo-discuss

Pete Forsyth

19 Nov 19 Nov

8:41 p.m.

It looks great on the surface, but as with so many of these things, I find myself hungry for context, and the site provides none! Who built it? What were their goals? How will they be thinking about whether they are reaching those goals? How committed are they to fixing bugs, developing new features, doing outreach, ensuring that it reaches its potential, ensuring that it's not put to negative and unanticipated uses (spam, bullying, etc etc)? What kind of resources (financial, humanpower, emotional) do they have to bring to it? This month? This year? This decade? These are the kinds of things that are probably known, and could easily be communicated through a prominent "About this project" page or similar. These days, when a page like that doesn't exist, I tend to think "Oh, that looks like an interesting project with potential" and move on, unless something actively pulls be back in. Marina, do you know any of those answers? Are you in a position to suggest that the creators tell a bit of that story on the site itself? I hope this doesn't come across as curmudgeonly. I think it's an easy problem to solve, so I hope this feedback is useful! Pete On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

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hi all, i have wanted this to exist for a long time and now it exists! nptech.io is the hacker news for social good. let's put more awesome stuff on it and tell everyone! how else are we going to find out about all the rad stuff that everyone is working on? we need this! - marina _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Pete Forsyth

8:47 p.m.

Awesome, thanks! Look forward to hearing more. Pete On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

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i met the person who's working on it today and will hopefully see them again tomorrow (at a conference), so will ask! - marina On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

It looks great on the surface, but as with so many of these things, I find myself hungry for context, and the site provides none! Who built it? What were their goals? How will they be thinking about whether they are reaching those goals? How committed are they to fixing bugs, developing new features, doing outreach, ensuring that it reaches its potential, ensuring that it's not put to negative and unanticipated uses (spam, bullying, etc etc)? What kind of resources (financial, humanpower, emotional) do they have to bring to it? This month? This year? This decade? These are the kinds of things that are probably known, and could easily be communicated through a prominent "About this project" page or similar. These days, when a page like that doesn't exist, I tend to think "Oh, that looks like an interesting project with potential" and move on, unless something actively pulls be back in. Marina, do you know any of those answers? Are you in a position to suggest that the creators tell a bit of that story on the site itself? I hope this doesn't come across as curmudgeonly. I think it's an easy problem to solve, so I hope this feedback is useful! Pete On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

hi all, i have wanted this to exist for a long time and now it exists! nptech.io is the hacker news for social good. let's put more awesome stuff on it and tell everyone! how else are we going to find out about all the rad stuff that everyone is working on? we need this! - marina _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Pete Forsyth

9:40 a.m.

So excellent -- really, really good! Thanks for posting here, and for passing along that suggestion :) Pete On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

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hi everyone, i spoke with john (who made the site) about some of the concerns you all raised and he's created an about page: http://nptech.io/s/j4p1dw/about_nptech_io. they're also very responsive on twitter: https://twitter.com/_nptech going to add more things to it! - marina On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

Awesome, thanks! Look forward to hearing more. Pete On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

i met the person who's working on it today and will hopefully see them again tomorrow (at a conference), so will ask! - marina On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

It looks great on the surface, but as with so many of these things, I find myself hungry for context, and the site provides none! Who built it? What were their goals? How will they be thinking about whether they are reaching those goals? How committed are they to fixing bugs, developing new features, doing outreach, ensuring that it reaches its potential, ensuring that it's not put to negative and unanticipated uses (spam, bullying, etc etc)? What kind of resources (financial, humanpower, emotional) do they have to bring to it? This month? This year? This decade? These are the kinds of things that are probably known, and could easily be communicated through a prominent "About this project" page or similar. These days, when a page like that doesn't exist, I tend to think "Oh, that looks like an interesting project with potential" and move on, unless something actively pulls be back in. Marina, do you know any of those answers? Are you in a position to suggest that the creators tell a bit of that story on the site itself? I hope this doesn't come across as curmudgeonly. I think it's an easy problem to solve, so I hope this feedback is useful! Pete On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: > hi all, > > i have wanted this to exist for a long time and now it exists! > > nptech.io is the hacker news for social good. > > let's put more awesome stuff on it and tell everyone! how else are we > going to find out about all the rad stuff that everyone is working on? we > need this! > > - marina > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >

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