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

[Marina Kukso]

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 at gmail.com> 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 at gmail.com>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
>>
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