#userdev — Public Fediverse posts

@cj If you don't mind me reawakening this thread, I think this is a great layer to put on top of the lower free software layer. The lower layer provides the foundation of the four freedoms through the license and through community practices.

The next layer of user freedom involves #userops, #userdev and giving greater recognition to contributions outside code, i.e. documentation, evangelism, support and giving users a say in the development of the software in terms of priorities. I think "those who do, decide" is still an inevitable and necessary component, but you can foster a project culture where those who do (and therefore in practice decide) find it in their interest to develop the features user want, need and deserve, and which provide user autonomy.

One single scene had a team of 15-20 engineers working on it for weeks, just to make a tentacle grab you, flip you on your back and you being able to fire back at it from your back.

Imagine what a AAA budget like that could do for free software solving the problems of distributed applications, deployment, composability and interaction design, ushering in a new era of users doing programming. How do we get the money for that?

#userops #userdev invidio.us/watch?v=BQ3iqq49Ew8…