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Okay, I will explain what I am doing and how I see the "fun" in the project. I work with an open-source framework for data engineers. The community members are developers and people who use the tool - DEs. Indeed, I am facilitating a monthly community meeting for everyone to meet and discuss important topics, but that's the only part that takes their direct time, and it's totally voluntary, so DEs usually don't join, but I'm glad that the developers are joining and participating. What I was having in mind is more of a design and promotion question. I have a vision for open source projects to have a feel of friendliness, and openness (fun) which I communicate through design and visuals that are part of the repo and information we share about the project. And, as I don't find long texts engaging, because I literally can't focus when I see a long description of, say, a GitHub repo, I have an internal struggle against very detailed descriptions. That said, I am having an internal wish to transform the project into something more like this: https://github.com/mage-ai/mage-ai Instead of this: https://github.com/vmware/versatile-data-kit But I'm questioning myself, and thinking that maybe it is better suited for DEs as it is.
Okay, I will explain what I am doing and how I see the "fun" in the project. I work with an open-source framework for data engineers. The community members are developers and people who use the tool - DEs. Indeed, I am facilitating a monthly community meeting for everyone to meet and discuss important topics, but that's the only part that takes their direct time, and it's totally voluntary, so DEs usually don't join, but I'm glad that the developers are joining and participating. What I was having in mind is more of a design and promotion question. I have a vision for open source projects to have a feel of friendliness, and openness (fun) which I communicate through design and visuals that are part of the repo and information we share about the project. And, as I don't find long texts engaging, because I literally can't focus when I see a long description of, say, a GitHub repo, I have an internal struggle against very detailed descriptions. That said, I am having an internal wish to transform the project into something more like this: https://github.com/mage-ai/mage-ai Instead of this: https://github.com/vmware/versatile-data-kit But I'm questioning myself, and thinking that maybe it is better suited for DEs as it is.
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