Scribe-Android Outreach 👋🚀

[andrewtavis]

Sharing and promoting Scribe-Android

This pinned issue is for discussing where and how best to promote Scribe-Android. The purpose is to spread the word so that others can find Scribe-Android as potential users, to provide feedback and to grow the contributors base. The issue text will be edited as the discussion below progresses :)

Everyone is welcome to share their input, and efforts to share Scribe-Android are much appreciated! Communities revolving around open-source, open-data, Wikidata, Wikimedia, Kotlin, Android, language learning and the languages Scribe-Android supports should all be considered.

Where Scribe-Android is currently posted:

• Wikimedia New Developers page

Organizations that have featured Scribe-Android:

• Wikimedia: new developers page and hackathons
• Wikimedia Deutschland: Wikidata events, blogposts and social media

Places where Scribe-Android outreach could occur:

General

• Mastodon - suggested shares and posts welcome!
• Hacker News
• Product Hunt

Conferences

• WIP

Language and learning institutions

• Forums for places where people learn programming as new developers are welcome
• Major language institutions for a given language
  • For example the Goethe-Institut, Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, Académie française, Institut de France, etc
  • See List of language regulators on Wiki
  • See Higher education institutions that teach Swift
• University language learning departments for the languages that Scribe-Android supports
• Podcasts and other groups that support/serve language learners
• Institutions that are trying to preserve languages as a Scribe-Android keyboard could be made for them

Tech subreddits

r/programming	r/software	r/opensource	r/apple
r/Android	r/Kotlin

Language subreddits

r/languagelearning	r/learnfrench	r/French	r/German
r/italianlearning	r/Portuguese	r/russian	r/learnspanish
r/Spanish	r/Svenska

[andrewtavis]

@angrezichatterbox, bringing this to your attention in case you have ideas! We do similar issues for Scribe-iOS and Scribe-Data :)

[angrezichatterbox]

@angrezichatterbox, bringing this to your attention in case you have ideas! We do similar issues for Scribe-iOS and Scribe-Data :)

I don't have any specific idea for now but if any come up I'll share it here. 😄

[shuvashish76]

The best way to promote it is to show how it can be useful :)
F-Droid (a non-profit volunteer project) is one of best platform for Android FOSS apps.
If you've any queries feel free to ask in their forum or matrix room :)

[shuvashish76]

Join Hacktoberfest : https://hacktoberfest.com/ | https://github.com/topics/hacktoberfest

(3rd party project which tracks all the android FOSS apps from F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid that are joining Hacktoberfest : https://github.com/TheLastProject/Droidtoberfest)

[andrewtavis]

Hey @shuvashish76 👋 Thanks for reaching out here as well! As said in Matrix, we'll 100% be on F-Droid, and we'll also be in Havktoberfest too! Scribe has been a Hacktoberfest participant for years now 🎃 This will be Scribe-Android's first though. @angrezichatterbox: let's be sure to have as many good first issues up for the start of Hacktoberfest as we can. Maybe we can do a call and map out issues to be made :)

[angrezichatterbox]

Yes, we can map out issues. There are some style issues in the app now which I think would be a good addition to good first issues.

[andrewtavis]

I think that we're ready to add Scribe-Android to firstcontributions.github.io, @angrezichatterbox :) Do you want me to send along the PR for it? It would be like these that I opened for Scribe-iOS.

[angrezichatterbox]

Yes, it makes sense that 'First Contributions' is perfect for finding repositories to contribute to. We could also add the repository to this site: Good First Issue right.

[andrewtavis]

Yes, I can do all of these soon :) I know some of the maintainers through past interactions, so should work out 😊

[andrewtavis]

Note that I've sent along PRs to the following:

• firstcontributions.github.io/pull/431
• up-for-grabs.net/pull/4816