Ideas for canvas 2023

eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zone to Canvas@toast.ooo – 34 points –

500x500 size, cos last canvas was too big

Last for longer, maybe 2weeks or more

Early 2024, maybe February -march or April

Announced early- like a week in advance for groups to form

@grant@toast.ooo

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I’m personally against it lasting so long. It’s fun because it’s short, if it lasts that much it starts turning into a chore.

I agree, I said that cos the grid didn't get filled in last time but this time the grid is smaller so it'll be fine.

canvas size: i do agree the last canvas was too big with not enough people, honestly didn't think twice about how big i actually set it to. i might do what @CameronDev@programming.dev is suggesting, with it dynamically growing size

event time: i am not entirely sure atm, completely depends on when i think most people would be able to and my availability

announcing: i have plans to announce it a month in advance 🎉 then slowly ramping up announcements as it gets closer

other things we have a matrix chat and i'm working on getting a discord setup w/ bridging to the matrix space when i get the time to

Couldn't we figure out a way to make it dynamically grow? I think it would be really cool if it wasn't a perfect square.

It would be super cool if the dimensions followed the A4 paper scale, i.e. approximating 1:sqrt(2) each time it expanded.

i actually really like that idea, i'll keep note of it :)

Thanks! I have two questions:

Q1: Would you care to divulge how you managed to find my reply to a comment you didn't make, on a post you didn't make, a mere two hours after I posted it? Are you a wizard? :)

Q2: Do you listen to the Hello Internet podcast? I ask because you moderate a CGP Grey community and a pixel art community, both of which seem closely related to HI.

A1: I’m passionate about this project so I want to keep up with the community around it :) I’ve used Lemmy’s sort by new in the community + comments filter and also following the community via my Mastodon account (Lemmy community comments show up as boosts when viewed on mastodon)

A2: I don’t listen to the HI podcast, haven’t really gotten into any podcasts myself. I just noticed that there wasn’t a CGPGrey community yet, and because I like his content, wanted to make a small community around his content :)

(I don’t remember moderating a pixel art community, unless if you’re talking about Canvas, which is a yearly fediverse event :) )

I would buy a poster with the canvas on it. Maybe this this could fund the project in the future.

this is also pretty inventive, i'll also keep a note of this :)

Dynamically grow the canvas? I.e, if less than 10% pixels are free, expand the canvas? Might need some tweaking, but could prevent the "ghost town" affect somewhat, hopefully without making it too crowded? Tricky to balance especially with relatively unknown user interaction levels.

Are there any plans to get people from all over Lemmy to participate and organisize at the Canvas?