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

[Pete Forsyth]

Awesome, thanks! Look forward to hearing more.
Pete


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com>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 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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