Scribe-iOS Outreach 👋🚀

[andrewtavis]

Sharing and promoting Scribe-iOS

This pinned issue is for discussing where and how best to promote Scribe-iOS. The purpose is to spread the word so that others can find Scribe-iOS as potential users, to provide feedback and to grow the contributors base. The issue text will be edited as the discussion below progresses :)

Everyone is welcome to share their input, and efforts to share Scribe-iOS are much appreciated! Communities revolving around open-source, open-data, Wikidata, Wikimedia, Swift, iOS, iPadOS, language learning and the languages Scribe-iOS supports should all be considered.

Where Scribe-iOS is currently posted:

• Wikimedia New Developers page
• Wikidata tools for lexicographical data
• open-source-ios-apps
• up-for-grabs.net (GitHub)
• firstcontributions.github.io (GitHub)
• 24 Pull Requests (GitHub)
• CodeTriage (GitHub)

Organizations that have featured Scribe-iOS:

• Wikimedia: new developers page and hackathons
• Wikimedia Deutschland: Wikidata events, blogposts and social media
• CocoaHeads Berlin: meetups and social media

Places where Scribe-iOS outreach could occur:

General

• Mastodon - suggested shares and posts welcome!
• Hacker News
• Product Hunt

Conferences

• Swift Conf
• Slash Berlin

Language and learning institutions

• Forums for places where people learn programming as new developers are welcome
• Major language institutions for a given language
  • For example the Goethe-Institut, Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, Académie française, Institut de France, etc
  • See List of language regulators on Wiki
  • See Higher education institutions that teach Swift
• University language learning departments for the languages that Scribe-iOS supports
• Podcasts and other groups that support/serve language learners
• Institutions that are trying to preserve languages as a Scribe-iOS keyboard could be made for them

Tech subreddits

r/programming	r/software	r/opensource	r/apple
r/ios	r/swift

Language subreddits

r/languagelearning	r/learnfrench	r/French	r/German
r/italianlearning	r/Portuguese	r/russian	r/learnspanish
r/Spanish	r/Svenska

[andrewtavis]

Something that could eventually be done is adding social media share buttons with custom messages in their links to the top of the readme. This could be made into an issue if people think it would help 🤔

See the Tweet button documentation for an example, with this being imbedded into a readme shield as seen below or another style of button to make it more distinct. Examples:

• Check this when they're added

[andrewtavis]

Something we'll be considering in the future is Outreachy, which is a program that would allow people to do internships while working on Scribe.

[andrewtavis]

Here are three more places with repos for new developers:

• https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners (PR)
  • Closed as it’s not maintained
• https://github.com/firstcontributions/first-contributions (PR)
• https://ovio.org/ (I've sent a request to get Scribe on there via the website)

Getting Scribe on each of these would be great 😊

[andrewtavis]

Also @SaurabhJamadagni, could you give a thought to how best to tweet about v2.0.0 once it's passed review? I think we should definitely put it on Twitter, and maybe add some hashtags like #wikidata and #languagelearning or whatever would help it get to the right audience.

[SaurabhJamadagni]

Let's keep hashtags to the minimum @andrewtavis. From what I have read, hashtags on twitter can sometimes negatively affect reach. Also I was wondering, what if we created a few Scribe intro tweets first before apple is done with the review so that people know what Scribe. Then the main v2.0.0 tweet could take place to make the real splash haha. Let me know what you think? Tweeting about v2.0.0 sounds like a great idea though! 🚀

[andrewtavis]

Suggestions for tweets are more than welcome, @SaurabhJamadagni! I can also send along the twitter PW to you as we discussed. Feel free to send along what it is that you're thinking for the various messages 😊

[andrewtavis]

Something that could eventually be done is adding social media share buttons with custom messages in their links to the top of the readme. This could be made into an issue if people think it would help 🤔

And let me know if you think social media buttons on the readme as discussed above would be useful. I was thinking that they could go in before the table of contents on the readme after the project description? 🤔 Also no need to add them if you don't see value in them though.

[SaurabhJamadagni]

I can also send along the twitter PW to you as we discussed. Feel free to send along what it is that you're thinking for the various messages 😊

Yeah sure that works @andrewtavis! I'll try to craft a few tweets, maybe even a thread about everything that's new.

I was thinking that they could go in before the table of contents on the readme after the project description?

Or I was also wondering, what about under the 'Download on the App Store' image? We could just have the socials logos that link to the respective pages.

[andrewtavis]

I was thinking under “Download on the App Store” would be too many buttons tight next to each other, but then that might be where they belong?