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- <title>The Revolution will be chock-full of non-coders</title>
- <meta name="date" contents="2014-03-21 8:45" />
- <meta name="author" contents="Deb Nicholson" />
- <meta name="tags" contents="contributors, community" />
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- This weekend, my friend <a href="http://mmillions.wordpress.com/">Molly de Blanc</a>
- and I are going to be speaking at <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2014/">LibrePlanet</a>
- about Nurturing Non-Coders. It feels like a pretty timely topic. The
- current issue of Model View Culture just published a insightful piece on
- the <a href="http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-myth-of-the-non-technical-startup-employee">treatment of non-technical employees at start-ups</a>
- and here at MediaGoblin, we've been overwhelmed with non-coding help during
- our <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html">campaign.</a>
- I'd like to take some time to highlight a few of our amazing
- volunteers and hopefully inpsire some potential non-coders to find a
- project that needs their help.
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- <p>
- Fateh Slavitskaya (of <a href="http://urchn.org/">Urchn/Wires for Empathy</a>
- fame), who is already super-busy with her own 3D animation
- production work, helped us immensely with the script on our campaign video.
- She also used her formidable messaging and communication skills to mold our
- <a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/mediagoblin-decentralized-social-media-publishing-for-everyone">Knight Foundation grant proposal</a>
- into a cohesive pitch. (See also <a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/invisible-city">her own proposal for a free software documentary</a>!)
- When I say we couldn't have done it without her, I mean it just would
- not have happened.
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- <p>
- Free software activist, Laura Arjona created
- <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/video-captions-on-campaign.html">English and Spanish subtitles</a>
- for our video allowing us to bring the MediaGoblin word to both
- Spanish-speakers and deaf and hard of hearing community. Plus, she's
- been constantly boosting us on social media. She even just gave a
- lightning talk about getting MediaGoblin into Debian at the
- <a href="http://bcn2014.mini.debconf.org/">Debian Women Minidebconf in Barcelona</a>
- -- another audience we would not have reached without her initiative.
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- <p>
- Speaking of subtitles, we're also really grateful to Pieter van der Eems
- who did the Dutch subtitles, Matti Lammi who gave us the Finnish
- version, Sebastian Riedel who added German, French translations by Mathieu Duponchelle,
- and Czech translations by digital_dreamer. Folks who aren't known to
- us could be sharing the MediaGoblin video with Finnish, German,
- French, Czech, and Dutch speakers -- which is pretty exciting. Go
- internet!
- </p>
- <p>Have you ever wondered why MediaGoblin's stuff has such a lovely
- consistent aesthetic? It's because of the work of our dedicated
- designers, like Jef van Schendel who laid down all the original look
- and feel of MediaGoblin, Jeremy Pope who has done further design and
- updated us to a more responsive design, and Nils Georg Heinrich
- Reichert who (via an internship) has been pitching in on the website
- design -- especially the
- <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html">campaign page</a>.
- On the video side, Bassam Kurdali
- (also of <a href="http://urchn.org/">Urchn/Wires for Empathy</a>
- fame!) gave us lots of help with animation direction and advice.</p>
- <p>
- Socially speaking, we also really appreciate folks like Paul Tagliamonte (and others!)
- who have <a href="http://blog.pault.ag/post/78948241683/donate-to-mediagoblin">blogged about us</a>
- (<a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/help-spread-the-campaign.html">you can help too!</a>)
- and everyone else who's re-shared on Diaspora or written in with
- feedback. MediaGoblin won't succeed if the only people who care about
- it are the folks writing the code. Or put another way, it takes a
- virtual village to raise a goblin. Thanks for all your hard work!
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- <a href="/pages/campaign.html"
- ><img src="/blog_images/goblin_force_badge-campaign.png"
- alt="goblin force badge for campaign"></a>
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