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

[Marina Kukso]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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