Hardware Podcasts

Ep. 5 - Community Communication

Open Hardware Manufacturing Podcast · 28 Sept 2023 · 1h 16m

What this episode covers

Stephen Oz and Lucian Shaper of Opulo discuss the complexities of managing community communication for their open source hardware project, the Lumen pick-and-place machine. They detail their decision to use Discord for real-time interaction, MKDocs for official documentation, and GitHub for issue tracking and design reviews, while noting the failure of their wiki. The hosts analyze the trade-offs between forums and chat apps, emphasizing the need to lower barriers for community contributions via 'edit' buttons and PRs while maintaining a single source of truth for mainline users.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Opulo, Formlabs, V1 Engineering, CNC Labs
Products
Lumen, Voron
Tools
MKDocs, Discord, GitHub

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