@flaburgan or someone else - want to make a quick post on the blog too?
(or maybe just copy the status message 
- I wrote it but I’ve no access to the blog)
I’m not convinced this needs publishing on the blog. It’s something of interest to people who are already in Diaspora and want to get more involved, so publishing from Diaspora HQ as you’ve done is the most appropriate thing.
Anyone who gets into Diaspora in the future won’t have encountered the sign-up hurdle to Loomio so won’t need a blog post to tell them that it’s now open.
I’m taking the approach that more communication is better than less. Do you know who reads the blog? What’s the purpose of the blog? Sure there was less communication in the past. We should blog about anything that we are passionate about…
There’s also the danger of providing too much information, bombarding people with things they don’t need to know about.
That’s why I suggested here that we discuss properly what belongs on the blog (and what doesn’t) before we really get going with blogging. It’s only a few days since the last blog post, so it’s not exactly as though a new post is needed urgently. Let’s plan first and post later, rather than the other way around.
If this is agreed to be something that should appear on the blog, it will need writing in a different way from the DHQ post, I think, as it’s a different audience (will need an intro to Loomio and why and how we use it). At the moment I’m afraid this isn’t something I could take on.
it certainly needs to be reformulated but I think it’s a nice thing to point that we are open to discussion and suggestions. So I would vote for a post about that on the blog.
If someone wants to add it on the pad and work on it, ping me here when it will be ready and I will be happy to post it.
Hy there 
I’ve just a 1 or 2 hours ago heard about loomio and this diaspora group the first time. This morning I put a public post about the changes since the last diaspora-update in connection with the notifications. I posted a question, because I wasn’t sure if the notification’s behavior is just locally (in my browser only) another than before or not. One or two comments later I knew that it had changed globally - so I posted my oppinion and again some comment later somebody said : “Most people of those whom got asked, wanted it this way” So my next question was : “How can that be ? I haven’t been asked for anything at all - where is that place ? Where can I tell my oppinion about something in connection with Diaspora ?” Then he gave me the link to loomia. The first I wanted to do : writing a thread an ask about this topicm but I found this one so I write in here - I hope it’s ok ?? There were very different oppinions in here about who should be allowed to be here (feels very strange). I’m not in anger or something like this. I came here, because there are some things on Diaspora I’d like to discuss and because I’d like to take part in here as far as I can. I’m not really a developer, but I not so very far away from some technical backgrounds. I know … or better said : I understand why you think sceptically about to invite everybody, because of much information, because of perhaps angry users who ask huge things in here and so on and so … but the other side is - in this example I just write my personal oppinion :
users (me) are sitting there and have to realize, that things on Diaspora change. Some things are good and others are not so good - and the first thing in my head is : What a kind of community is it in fact, if so many users write posts about their dislikes and almost nobody sees it ? You know what I mean ? It feels strange and somehow it hurts if not everybody is asked for oppinion about changes and existing features. Again : I just can speak for myself, but I would like to part of it
Hi, @rebekacatalina.
There were very different oppinions in here about who should be allowed to be here (feels very strange).
What makes you say this? Every vote in the proposal to open up membership of Loomio has been for that motion. The only reason membership has not been completely open up to this point is because that was not possible in the Loomio platform, not because of a decision by Diaspora project members.
You’re very welcome (as is every Diaspora community member) to take part in discussions in Loomio. Please note, however, that Loomio is for forward planning decisions about the direction of the project and the development of the software; it is not for user feedback. Have a look at our guide to using Loomio for more information.
We’re trying at the moment to improve communication with the wider community through the diaspora* HQ account and the project blog, and do try to respond to user feedback given in comments on posts by the diaspora* HQ account.
Ok, thank you very much - sorry then I’ve missunderstood things a bit Sorry for that You know - I just today heard about this place and I though : why the hell is this place so hidden and not mentioned publicly ?! 
But ok, understand 
So yeah I’ll just be in the background for the next time. Reading and so on - I’m interested in helping as well for sure, but I’m not so sure, that I really can help - currently I’m learning in several directions and my interests are currently gettin’ more deep into linux systems and several stuff with encryptions and so on. Some years ago I started to learn webdevelopment as well - but … so I stopped it because of some private reasons, but I remember a post on Diaspora by Fla, that there are possibilities to help with already quite simple things - and yes… it’s been a quite long time sinced I coded web stuff but perhaps I also could do something ? I would need some time to get back into web-codes and I’d have to begin slowly, but I would like to give it a try somewhen as well I not sure that my programming knowledge is enough, but perhaps we can talk about it and give it try somewhen
Loomio definitely isn’t kept secret - see posts in Diaspora such as this one and blog posts such as this one, and this wiki page.
It would be great if you want to contribute. If you want to try contributing code, have a look at our guide to getting started and then check out the issues marked as suitable for newcomers. There are also lots of other ways to contribute. Whatever you feel you can do, your contribution will be welcome!