Originally published at: Discourse for Maker Communities
There is a thing called the “maker movement” and, well, it’s awesome. People are setting up shop in their basements, backyards or dedicated makerspaces to create things together. Makers openly exchanging their ideas and designs with one another in the pursuit of better solutions to problems that need solving. That problem can be anything from…
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The “maker movement” is a community-driven initiative where people create and share ideas, designs, and solutions in collaborative environments like makerspaces. erlend_sh highlights the benefits of using Discourse in maker communities, citing its ability to facilitate sharing, feedback, and iteration. A survey of 17 maker communities found that Discourse is used for various purposes, including project showcases, user feedback, announcements, and troubleshooting.
Several maker communities have successfully implemented Discourse, including Formlabs, Vancouver Hackspace, Pololu Robotics and Electronics, and Noisebridge Hackerspace. These communities appreciate Discourse’s features and have provided feedback for future development, including plugin ideas such as user photo galleries, assigning posts to specific users, and a blog-style homepage.
erlend_sh also invites users to share their feature requests in the meta.discourse.org #feature category.
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The Vancouver Hackspace in Vancouver, BC, Canada also uses Discourse at https://talk.vanhack.ca/. At first primarily as a replacement for the mailing lists, but now everyone is settling into using “Talk” quite nicely. We also have integration from our announcements/events category into Slack.
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Pololu Robotics and Electronics is also happily using Discourse. We switched from phpBB and have been quite happy with the change! We wrote about the upgrade experience on our blog.
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Noisebridge Hackerspace a San Francisco utilizza Discourse all’indirizzo https://discuss.noisebridge.info
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