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| 1 | | -# ssb-onboarding |
| 2 | | -Work related to helping people understand Scuttlebutt and its various Clients |
| 1 … | +# Scuttlebutt: The Social Network of the Future, Available Today |
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| 4 | | -# Summary |
| 3 … | +# Summary |
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| 6 | | -Along with having incredible technology, and a phenomenal community, we need |
| 7 | | -stories and videos that help people learn about our technology and community. |
| 8 | | -This repo is intended to hold resources to help us collaborate upon for |
| 9 | | -creating these onboarding stories and videos. Rough ideas can be stored here |
| 10 | | -to be worked together into outlines, which are polished into stories and |
| 11 | | -ultimately published to the greater world. |
| 5 … | +This is a repo devoted to the revamping of the Scuttlebutt.nz page, and general promotion/onboarding |
| 6 … | +of Scuttlebutt. Our method is to set distinct goals for scuttlebutt.nz, then outline new content or |
| 7 … | +design revisions that can help achieve these goals. The repo will then hold the fruits of this work |
| 8 … | +for us to collaborate upon. |
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| 13 | | -# Type of Things You'll Find Here |
| 10 … | +And So! |
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| 15 | | -## Onboarding |
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| 17 | | -Resources for introducing new users to Scuttlebutt. |
| 18 | | -- Scripts for animations when a user first logs in |
| 19 | | -- Helpful documentation to better understand our different clients |
| 20 | | -- How to introduce the cultural aspect of SSB (how to join in a conversation, |
| 21 | | - what to _do_ on ssb, interesting places to start exploring.) |
| 22 | | -- Plans for improvement of existing resources |
| 13 … | +# Goals |
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| 24 | | -## Outreach |
| 15 … | +1. Scuttlebutt.nz is the most accessible entrypoint for people curious about the wonders of |
| 16 … | + Scuttlebutt. It's design and content, then, should be as accessible and wonder-filled to as many |
| 17 … | + types of people as possible. |
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| 26 | | -Resources for sharing SSB to the broader world |
| 27 | | -- Scripts for short videos explaining SSB |
| 28 | | -- Scripts for Videos explaining existing systems with a critical eye (i.e. how |
| 29 | | - would you make a case against centralization to a non-techie who has only |
| 30 | | - experienced facebook and twitter?) |
| 31 | | -- Is SSB Right for You?: Explaining SSB in the context of other apps (Where |
| 32 | | - does SSB sit, right now, when compared to Slack, or Signal, or Facebook, or |
| 33 | | - a paper journal--to help people understand how and why they'd use ssb.) |
| 34 | | -- Collaborative projects that exemplify the spirit of SSB (art apps, zines |
| 35 | | - written through git-ssb, scrapbooks and curating a public archive) |
| 19 … | +2. An incredible culture is forming within the scuttleverse. It is supported by the technical layer |
| 20 … | + (in a way unprecedented in a social network), but driven intentionally by the people in the |
| 21 … | + 'verse. This culture describes an alternative to oppressive, unjust systems in society, along |
| 22 … | + with an antidote to the depressed, competitive panic of standard social media. Scuttlebutt.nz is |
| 23 … | + a great vehicle to broadcast this culture to people who are seeking something different, but did |
| 24 … | + not know how to articulate it. |
| 25 … | + |
| 26 … | +3. We have a ridiculous amount of talented developers and technologists who understand the potential |
| 27 … | + of Scuttlebutt, and want to help build this future, but are unsure where to start. They are |
| 28 … | + desiring more technical specs and documentation for how to build in this space. Scuttlebutt.nz |
| 29 … | + can be the basecamp for these adventurers. |
| 30 … | + |
| 31 … | +# My Vision, In Short |
| 32 … | + |
| 33 … | +We create a classic landing page for scuttlebutt.nz that presents the idea of SSB in as simple and |
| 34 … | +elegant of a way as possible. We remove any auxillary/unnecessary information from this page, and |
| 35 … | +remove any formatting that could overwhelm or confuse non-technical vistors. Then, the landing |
| 36 … | +page would display two entrypoints into the larger ssb-handbook: One for people curious about a new |
| 37 … | +social network, and one for people eager to build upon this network. |
| 38 … | + |
| 39 … | +For those non-technical but curious: |
| 40 … | + |
| 41 … | +We create resources that communicate the spirit and excitement of SSB without technical terms |
| 42 … | +Additionally, we make resources that illustrate why this technical stuff is important (i.e. why |
| 43 … | +decentralized matters, and what exactly it means for something to be centralized). We also proudly |
| 44 … | +lean into the culture that's growing here, and use this as defining elements in our content. We do |
| 45 … | +not try to present SSB as a network that works for all people. We present it as radical and lovely |
| 46 … | +and strange as it actually is, and set our audience to be folks looking for this type of place. |
| 47 … | + |
| 48 … | +For the technical-minded: |
| 49 … | + |
| 50 … | +we flesh out the documentation for how all of this works, with tutorials for entry points into |
| 51 … | +development (how to set up your git-ssb repo, how to set up your own pub, how to build a simple |
| 52 … | +module for patchbay, etc.). We consolidate the blog posts and documentation already scattered |
| 53 … | +around the scuttleverse and (with permission) republish it on this central homepage. |
| 54 … | + |
| 55 … | +Lastly, we research how the internet and social media is used by different communities/users today, |
| 56 … | +and document this research. If we want to appeal to artists and generl non-devs, then we should |
| 57 … | +understand more what their life is like now, and build up a body of research around how people |
| 58 … | +interact with the online, and what makes them exhausted and depressed and looking for something |
| 59 … | +else. With these interviews and studies, we can better build applications that answer the needs of |
| 60 … | +these communities and build instructional content that speaks to their heart. |
| 61 … | + |
| 62 … | +# My Vision, In List Form |
| 63 … | + |
| 64 … | +1. Build a new landing page for Scuttlebutt that elegantly introduces the concept of SSB then offers |
| 65 … | + two paths to learn more: one for people who want to join this community, and one for people who |
| 66 … | + want to build for this community. |
| 67 … | + |
| 68 … | +2. [Develop stronger, and more accessible, content](non-dev-resources.md) for the non-dev, non-techie identifying folks who |
| 69 … | + want to join this community. |
| 70 … | + |
| 71 … | +3. Consolidate our current tech documentation and then flesh it out and make it more accessible to |
| 72 … | + techie-identifying folks who want to build out the network more. |
| 73 … | + |
| 74 … | +4. Build up a body of research into the lives and needs of different groups of people: artists, |
| 75 … | + musicians, scene-supporters, fans, to see how they exist online today, and what their dream of |
| 76 … | + a connected future would be. Use this research to build out our clients and protocols to better |
| 77 … | + answer the needs of these communities, and to write up content that better speaks to these peer |
| 78 … | + types. |
| 79 … | + |
| 80 … | +Each of these are rich enough projects to warrant their own grant, but connect together to make |
| 81 … | +a powerful whole. I would propose we take on each one individually, but conscious of the grander |
| 82 … | +vision. Personally, I know that I could not help much with point 3--but would benefit from it if |
| 83 … | +other people were able to tackle it. I _can_ help with points 1,2, and 4 and in the following pages |
| 84 … | +write out my proposals for each. |
| 85 … | + |
| 86 … | +# Individual Proposals |
| 87 … | + |
| 88 … | +1. New Landing Page (todo) |
| 89 … | +[2. Non-Dev Resources](non-dev-resources.md) |
| 90 … | +3. Dev Resources(todo) |
| 91 … | +4. Research into Communities(todo) |