In reply to @garbas:matrix.org
I don't think in person presence is needed for this kind of discussions. In person just makes those who can not come excluded from it.

From all I gathered in the in-person or synchronous meetings of the past two years, especially with people I thought I was in some more profound disagreement, it always turned out we all kind of want the same thing. But for various reasons we often fail to align either on somewhat superficial aspects or on priorities and order of execution. Which hints at that our mental models of the problem structure and its internal dependency relations may be out of sync.

But once that’s settled, the next steps are often obvious and uncontroversial. As long as the people involved manage to write down that thought process clearly enough, most of the time there is nothing to add to that. It does happen that small groups of people overlook important parts, and that’s why there needs to be a healthy interval between these discussions and final decisions, but otherwise it seems to work quite well that way.

fricklerhandwerk: I disagree on few point with your statements:

• however you spin it, in person meetings excludes those who can not come. i understand you find them efficient because you can be there. but not all have the luxury to go there.

• all the teams are misleading, marketing team is no different. all teams are just few people and will never represent thewhole community. those who want to help out with marketing are always welcome to join, just like in any other team i suppose.

Jonas Chevalier: I would really like to understand what goals would you like to achieve with a more focused branding strategy.

Just so you understand current goals of the marketing team: (1) attract new nixers - OUTreach (2) engage community to collaborate - INreach, i know it is not a word but i think you will understand :)

If you would ask me what is the most urgent task at hand that we are struggling to do I think I was laud at the NixCon about it. We need to rework the website. We already have a messaging plan and the vision/strategy after that, but it is hard to do the first step, since it is not small amount of effort.

however you spin it, in person meetings excludes those who can not come.

No doubt.

i understand you find them efficient because you can be there. but not all have the luxury to go there.

I know very well what it means not to be able to be present where the action is, and I appreciate just as much that it's a luxury most can't afford for a number of reasons.

Fact is though, there will always be in-person meetings, and we'll have to figure out how to make the best of all kinds of interactions that happen.

In reply to @djacu:matrix.org
Hey team
I'm looking at the nixos-homepage main branch and trying to figure out how people are starting the astro dev environment. The only thing I see in the flake is a package for building the site the old way. Am I missing something?

In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
that's not happening on main, but on astro/* branches

In reply to @djacu:matrix.org
I took a look at the branches and the only active one I see is astro/landingpage which hasn't change the flake.nix file significantly. So I'm still confused as to how people are developing astro components and testing them without astro available.

In reply to @avocadoom:avocadoom.de
Astro is an npm module. It's not a thing you have to install globally like hugo or jekyll.