IMakeFOSS<p>Thanks for listening to me this week! I've been (and continue to be) Erin. </p><p>You can find me over on my account @erindale_xyz or on YouTube if you are interested in learning some Blender nodes! ✌️</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/erindale" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/erindale</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>b3d</span></a></p>
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IMakeFOSS<p>We teach digital litracy in schools but not digital security or ethical computing.</p><p>What's one computer lesson you would want taught to kids?</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ethicalcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ethicalcomputing</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>Do you have a strategy that you've found works towards building community around your project?</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>It's overwhelming how much Blender can do but it's not because Blender has made this all this functionality, they just opened the doors to the sandbox.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>b3d</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>If anyone is interested in learning how to do parametric design with @Blender and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Sverchok" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sverchok</span></a>, I teach a course on it!</p><p><a href="https://www.futurly.com/blender-parametric/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">futurly.com/blender-parametric/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>b3d</span></a> @futurly_space</p>
IMakeFOSS<p>Blender's community activitation goes beyond just creating the Open Movies. There are weekly livestreams about interesting commits with @PabloVazquez_, the Blender Studio outputs training and BTS content, there's significant developer presence on Twitter...</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>Check out Bforartists, a fork of Blender which fundamentally overhauls the UI/UX allowing for a visual-first workflow paradigm.</p><p><a href="https://www.bforartists.de/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bforartists.de/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a> @bforartists <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>b3d</span></a> <br />[Image credits to @Trinumedia]</p>
IMakeFOSS<p>I'm using the term 'community' vaguely on purpose. It could be a full fledged developer community all the way down to people for whom the project is just in their awareness.</p><p>To sell, people need to see that you're selling.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>To wrap up my week with IMakeFOSS I can't not talk about Blender.</p><p>Being a 3D artist, and specifically a Blender-native, has been a large of my identity for over half of my life. I think <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>b3d</span></a> makes a great <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> case study.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>It's a great time to be an artist because all you <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> developers keep pushing out huge updates.</p><p>On Tuesday I talked a bunch about the new <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Krita" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Krita</span></a> 5 but in 2020, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MyPaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MyPaint</span></a> 2.0 and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Inkscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inkscape</span></a> 1.0 were released and it looks like GIMP 3 is on the horizon as well.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>Have you had any highlights in your <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> community?<br />It'd be great to hear your stories!</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>Your communities are your best ambassadors. Take advantage of that.</p><p>Community Discord servers, Instagram tags, retweets, community conversations etc.</p><p>Give people an excuse to talk about your <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a>.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>If you want to get bug reports from your community, make it as easy as possible for non-technical users.</p><p>Maybe reference @Blender 's bug tracker. A button in the Help menu takes you straight to the tracker form with clear instructions of what's wanted.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>Developers,<br />Talk to people who are creating tutorials. We want to provide the best and most salient information but we can get it wrong or miss something.</p><p>Let us know. We spend hours making videos because we love your work and want to share that.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>No user will read your documentation cover to cover so make sure that each page can be read in isolation. If prior knowledge is required, please provide links to that.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>When your community wants to try experimental features they can branch, or even create entire forks.</p><p>This ecosystem of software can then become symbiotic, passing code back to your master. </p><p>This is one of the inspiring beauties of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>More important than the potential of income, a community brings the potential of innovation.</p><p>If your project answers a question (and you publicise) people will buy it. If you have a community of users and developers, your project will expand and build worth.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>Up to a certain point, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> projects are built on inertia. The excitement from the core developers needs to be transferred to a community to foster a group of contributors, testers, and advocates. </p><p>Are you taking advantage of social media in your strategy?</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>One key benefit of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> projects, and one that I think gets skipped over by a lot of smaller projects, is community.</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a></p>
IMakeFOSS<p>The <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> world is so wonderful because of community. @Krita_Painting is no exception.</p><p>Here are 5, free resource packs from the community 👇</p><p>-Erindale<br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IUseFOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IUseFOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Krita" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Krita</span></a></p>
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