[whispersystems] Introducing the Open Whisper Systems Community Forum

Discussion:

Leo Francisco

2016-02-21 14:18:33 UTC

Discourse is looking slick as hell. This looks like a great resource for
the Signal community.

Hello All,
Following lots of meta discussions regarding the OWS community
recently, over the past few weeks, a few of us have been working with
OWS to set up a brand new definitive location for community activity
and discussion.
https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net
It's our intention that most discussions that would usually take place
on the mailing list can now take place here. Including discussions
that previously had no obvious home.
- Improvements (like suggestions / feature requests)
- Support Questions
- Development Help + Assistance (across all platforms).
- Promoting Signal (Designing Posters, Videos etc...)
- Discussions of developing signal for other platforms (e.g. Windows Phone)
- Discussions of the Servers
Note that this is an **unofficial** forum, and is going to be managed
and maintained by community members and not the OWS staff.
Note also that bug reports should still be reported using GitHub issues.
We now have a new "Welcome to Signal Community" introductory post that
https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/welcome-to-the-community/8
https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/how-to-get-involved/24
Over the next few days, we will be updating things like the README
files and wikis on GitHub to direct people to the new community hub.
We hope you enjoy what we have set up!
Best Wishes,
The OWS Community Moderators (2-4601, agrajaghh, haffenloher and samlanning)

"Ahmad Youssef" (via whispersystems Mailing List)

2016-02-21 15:58:16 UTC

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It's definitely a great move!
Great job all.

Post by Leo Francisco
Discourse is looking slick as hell. This looks like a great resource for
the Signal community.

--
/Regards/,
/Ahmad/

Alexander Kayumov

2016-03-01 12:43:09 UTC

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I am not sure the mailing list is the proper venue for this kind information, and I apologize if it isn't. But if it is, then this could perhaps prove useful. 
 
DuckDuckGo is apparently going to donate a certain amount of money to FOSS projects. They say, "The donation pool amount has yet to be decided but will be split between 6-10 projects, half of which will be chosen from community nominations." So the more people mention Signal in comments or in replies to already existing comments about Signal (I don't know which way it's supposed to work), the higher the chances of getting a donation. 
 
I thought since many Signal community members have been asking about ways to help the project, voting for Signal to get a donation could potentially be a very easy, yet useful way to contribute. 
 
Here's the link: <a style=" font-family:'courier new'; font-size: 10pt;" href="https://duck.co/blog/post/247/2016-foss-donation-nominations">https://duck.co/blog/post/247/2016-foss-donation-nominations</a> . 
 
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