Firefox winter scarf project

[Larissa Co]

Hey everyone,

Sorry it took me longer than I thought to get going on this. In our last
meeting, I showed some ideas for a scarf pattern for our first project.
We talked about getting a broader community to help us test / make /
hack the pattern through a blog post.

Here's my draft:
https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1OXNm4CGxQPDqCNJXQCMTpsSqar8u8OC2_J5rI0AFO_E/edit

Before I can post it, I wanted to get your thoughts on where we'd like
others to hack on the pattern. Ravelry and Github seem like good
choices. Ravelry is where a lot of knitters and crocheters live, but I
don't know how easy it is to "fork" or "link" different patterns because
I've never done it before. Github is good for forking and sharing, but I
think it's not very accessible to non-techies. Or maybe there are other
better places for us to hack on this? What do you think?

Also, I'm working on getting a starter intarsia pattern going.
Unfortunately, the pattern generator I found online doesn't make
anything smaller than the image I have in the Google doc... I'm worried
it will make the scarf too wide. If you have any resources to suggest,
let me know. Worse comes to worse, I'll make the chart manually (or
something)

Anyway, let me know if you have feedback! I think this will be fun :)

Larissa

[Janet Swisher]

On 12/19/13 10:04 PM, Larissa Co wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Sorry it took me longer than I thought to get going on this. In our
> last meeting, I showed some ideas for a scarf pattern for our first
> project. We talked about getting a broader community to help us test /
> make / hack the pattern through a blog post.
>
> Here's my draft:
> https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1OXNm4CGxQPDqCNJXQCMTpsSqar8u8OC2_J5rI0AFO_E/edit
>

Looks great!

>
> Before I can post it, I wanted to get your thoughts on where we'd like
> others to hack on the pattern. Ravelry and Github seem like good
> choices. Ravelry is where a lot of knitters and crocheters live, but I
> don't know how easy it is to "fork" or "link" different patterns
> because I've never done it before. Github is good for forking and
> sharing, but I think it's not very accessible to non-techies. Or maybe
> there are other better places for us to hack on this? What do you think?

Ravelry and Github will definitely tap different audiences. You could
use Ravelry to display completed projects, and Github to store the
pattern. Ravelry doesn't have an intrinsic way to share patterns, so you
have to link to the pattern elsewhere anyway.

> Also, I'm working on getting a starter intarsia pattern going.
> Unfortunately, the pattern generator I found online doesn't make
> anything smaller than the image I have in the Google doc... I'm
> worried it will make the scarf too wide. If you have any resources to
> suggest, let me know. Worse comes to worse, I'll make the chart
> manually (or something)

Sean Martell might be able to help you do a smaller bitmap that looks
good. He is already on break until January, though.


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Janet Swisher <mailto:jREMOVE...@mozilla.com>
Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org>
Developer Engagement Community Organizer

[Janet Swisher]

Correction: Ravelry has a pattern database, but it just stores metadata about the pattern, not the pattern itself. I took the liberty of creating an entry for Fabricio's phone "costume" pattern, with a link to the Github repo: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/firefox-os-phone-cozy

(I called it a "cozy" because in English, a "cozy" is something you wrap around an object (such as a teapot) to keep it warm.)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Swisher" <jswi...@mozilla.com>

Ravelry and Github will definitely tap different audiences. You could
use Ravelry to display completed projects, and Github to store the
pattern. Ravelry doesn't have an intrinsic way to share patterns, so you
have to link to the pattern elsewhere anyway.