Meetup notes & next steps
Michael Mayer
Our Meetup yesterday evening was great fun! It was very good to see you all in person.
As the year is about to end and we all need time to recover, our focus was not so much on specific tasks. I'd still like to outline some next steps:
## Slides on personal photo management ##
Andrea Ceroni just sent me his slides. Thank you very much, that's a great overview! We'll move the contents to our own templates (to be created first) and put them on dl.photoprism.org
## Upload sample images ##
Everyone is invited to upload example image files for testing to https://dl.photoprism.org/samples/ - simply ask for an account! If you have Telegram, we can use a secure chat: @lastzero
## Blog post for Gopher Academy ##
We're going to write a blog post for Gopher Academy. What do you like about PhotoPrism? What would be good topics / tech / code for this blog? Maybe we can find more contributors this way. See https://gopheracademy.com/
## Refactoring tasks ##
Matthias Loibl suggested specific refactoring tasks. Let's keep an eye on this! Great input. As already explained in comments to related issues, I'd prefer to have more test coverage first. Refactoring will be easy then. While a solid package structure is very important, we also don't need beautiful code that doesn't work: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/wiki/Code-Quality
## How to find and engage contributors? ##
How can we encourage more source code contributions? Ideally also for "boring" tasks like adding tests or larger issues that take more time to complete? How do other projects handle this? Please share your ideas & experience, either directly or on this list.
## Please spread the word ##
Maybe you know sites / blogs that would like to add a link to our project or even write a short article? You can share the link on Twitter, Mastodon or whatever you are using. The more visible our project is, the more likely it is to find new contributors and financial support.
## Reach out to companies and related projects ##
Any help with reaching out to companies and related projects is highly appreciated. You are welcome to use our slides for this: https://dl.photoprism.org/slides/PhotoPrism.pdf
From what I remember, Robert Sprunk knows a TiDB developer?
## Have a Merry Christmas & a relaxing holiday season ##
Please come back next year :)
Michael