It was great to get some updates in this week’s team meeting. In some ways, things can seem stagnant, but it looks like some things are moving and there’s a clearer path for a bit!
We have the Elm site at new.snowdrift.coop and the original Haskell/Yesod site at the main domain. Well, there’s just some sysadmin tasks to get a combined site where the main domain can serve Elm pages where we have them and old pages otherwise! That will mean we can easily develop and iterate on the live site within the new Elm framework. And the Haskell backend is just about updated to newer build system and updated dependencies.
When that stuff is done, we’ll also be more readily continue charging initial patrons and getting feedback from that process.
We have still-more work to do on getting co-op Bylaws settled so that patrons getting charged can actually be full co-op members and participate in governance. That’s been slow, but we’ll get to it soon.
And once we have a real working co-op patronage alpha situation, we’ll have the work of making better formal announcements and so on. If we can get substantial funding through this, we’ll have actually gotten through the absurd bootstrap phase of the whole project… we just need people putting in the time, and we know how to go forward!
I’m personally a bit more available lately, and I’ll be getting to core Snowdrift stuff sometime after catching up on a mix of personal tasks and on preparing for my keynote presentation in early November at SeaGL (which won’t be on Snowdrift specifically but on some tangential things). My own part of the path is finally getting clearer day by day instead of having the snow piling up more and more…
Cheers!