Arbor Sync 2021-03-04
Updates
-
Elizabeth (@elizabUX)
- Consulted on finance ideas moving forward
- Comparing Arbor to traditional nonprofits (board members vs employees)
- The toggle for subscribing to communities is ambiguous about whether or not it is “on”
- Gutter
-
Jack (@Astartes)
- Sprig
- Constrained the maximum width of messages on wide screens for better readability
- Refactored for code clarity
- Sprig
-
Chris (@whereswaldon)
- Wrote this bounty program document
- Gio
- Fixed image scaling bugs
- Fixed some inaccurate documentation
- Sprig
- Finally added a screenshot to the README
- Added a little padding under and over scroll bar
- Renamed “Conversation root” => “Root”
- Added subscription management menu
- Added subscription selection to setup flow
- Sponsorship update
Finances
- Monthly Income: ~$255/mo
- $232/mo github sponsors of @whereswaldon
- ~$13/mo ($3.15/wk) liberapay sponsors of @whereswaldon
- $10/mo @whereswaldon personal contribution
- Monthly Expenses: $115.83
- $5/mo digitalocean hosting of aspen.arbor.chat
- $2.50/mo arbor.chat domain ($30/yr divided by 12)
- $8.33/mo Apple Developer Program membership ($100/yr divided by 12)
- $100/mo to make 25 Coffees for bounties
- Upcoming expenses: (anticipated total) $139.16/mo
- $8.33/mo for a Windows code signing certificate
- up to $15/mo more for infrastructure
Coffees
| Category | Coffees |
|---|---|
| Design | 4 |
| Backend | 8 |
| Frontend | 0 |
| Documentation | 2 |
| Infrastructure | 4 |
| Unallocated | 7 |
Proposed bounties by category:
- Design
- 4 Coffees: design a “contacts” experience
- apply notes/metadata to your contacts
- display contacts differently
- Future: “roles”
- Future: avatar images
- 4 Coffees: design a “contacts” experience
- Backend
- Frontend
- Future: use op.DeferOp to put a context menu for the overflow menu
- Documentation
- Infrastructure
- 4 Coffees: deploy birch.arbor.chat
Discussion
- About Us statements?
- It would be cool to have a page dedicated to who all comprises our community. If you’d like to be listed there, can you jot down a couple of sentences about yourself and how you do or intend to contribute to the project?
- Next retreat date poll: