Re: Diaspora at RailsGrils Summer of Code

[Florian Staudacher]

Hello Lisa!

I think this is definitely worth bringing up on Loomio. Do you need an
invitation there?

Since (at least) MrZYX and I are both students, too, I think it would be
important to know when exactly it would be taking place, so we could plan
accordingly.

About possible areas of work - we've had a few bigger points on our list, that
keep getting requested and would require desperate attention. It should be
possible to complete them in a few months, given some basic Rails knowledge:

* (REST) API
* separation of federation into a layer
* "seed migration" - moving your account to another server
* more useful admin backend
* ...

And, of course, non coding-related stuff like:

* writing/updating documentation
* making how-to videos
* ...

Anyway, I am sure, if we talk this through, we could come up with a way to
make this happen.

- Raven24 // Florian


Am Sonntag, 21. April 2013, 05:22:46 schrieb Lisa P:
> Hello everybody!
>
> You guys might know the RailsGirls initiative, which aims to teach girls
> Ruby and Rails.
> Well, RailsGirls is starting a new project called RailsGirls Summer of
> Code, which aims to bring the students into open source projects.
>
> What we need now are open source projects (something with Ruby and Rails),
> a mentor per project (who really knows his/ her way around the project/
> code base) and a coach who helps the student with this goals. It is
> compareable to Google Summer of Code, but with beginners instead.
> If my description is a little too confusing, check out our website
> (http://railsgirlsberlin.github.io/summer-of-code) and github
> (https://github.com/RailsGirlsBerlin/summer-of-code).
> Just to drop some names of projects that will work with us: Sinatra,
> Rubinius and still to be confirmed Rails and Puma. But we just started, so
> bear with us ;)
>
> Anyway, one of the initiators approached me concerning Diaspora. It would
> be cool to have Diaspora listed on the projects page, especially because
> its concept is easily grasped (social network vs Ruby implementation, if
> you know what I mean ;)) and suited for a beginner with some help from the
> coach.
> Plus, it could bring some attention to Diaspora itself :D
>
> So what do I want now? First of all some feedback what you think on the
> project. Then if you think if Diaspora is suited and if you have someone in
> mind as a mentor or maybe coaches for later. Someone from the main
> organizer team to sign up Diaspra for the RG Summer of Code. A mentor can
> be found later
>
> Maybe I should also post this to Loomio?
> Anyway, thx for the attention
>
> - Lisa
>
> l...@wk3.org

[Paul Richardson]

I think this is a great idea for a lot of reasons. One thing to consider is the scope of these projects. I believe scoping the projects
for the participants so that something meaningful can be completed would contribute to the success of such an effort

/pgr
Oakland, California

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