Re: July 9th: PDX11 Mentoring Hackathon & Kickoff
Bryan Jacobson
ePDX.org (Source is project Citizenry on GitHub https://github.com/reidab/citizenry/)
has much of what we need for a mentor matching website:
- People/profiles
- Sign in via LinkedIn, Google, OpenID, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- Groups
- Connection with Calagator
- and much more.
I believe Reid is OK with using ePDX/Citizenry as a starting point.
I think it's likely that mentor matching becomes a feature of ePDX and
an optional feature in the Citizenry code base.
A few additional capabilities are needed for a basic mentor matching
website.
* In your profile be able to say: "I can be a mentor and I can help
people learn: <this>."
* Able to say: "I'm looking for a mentor and I would like to learn:
<this>."
* Ability to match with (or simply browse through a list of) mentors
and people looking for mentors.
* Some ability to send messages: "I'm looking for a mentor to help me
<this>. Are you available? Can we get talk?"
The goal is to get those working on Saturday.
Thanks,
-- Bryan
On Jul 1, 6:12 pm, Sam Livingston-Gray <geek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe I missed something on another list, but has a language/platform been selected already?
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> On Jul 1, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Bryan Jacobson <bryans.advent...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Group leaders, please pass along to your groups!
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> > Calagator event:http://calagator.org/events/1250460772
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> > Website:http://pdx11.org/
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> > Description
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> > Goal: Community development of a website to help Portland's growing
> > tech community find Mentors and share knowledge.
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> > Inspired by Calagator and ePDX.org.
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> > This is our kickoff and initial hackathon. We hope to have a basic
> > mentor/mentee matching website working by the end of the day.
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> > The Portland Development Commission will be providing food & drinks!
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> > All skill levels welcome, and also people who are passionate about
> > technical mentoring and knowledge sharing.
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> > Join the Google group to share ideas and coordinate development:
> >http://groups.google.com/group/pdx11-mentor-development
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> > Also, there's a pilot program so Mentors and Mentees can start
> > connecting right now:http://goo.gl/s7QlX
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> > Thank you to Puppet Labs for hosting this event!
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