Showing posts with label mentoring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mentoring. Show all posts

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Project orientation for ignitespeak on 9/13

I'll be holding an online orientation session for the ignitespeak project on Sunday, 9/13/15 at 8:00 pm. It'll be a Google Hangout, and we'll record it in case you can't make it.

I wanted to do something efficient to help get everyone up to speed. Right now everyone's getting bogged-down in setup issues.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

I want to mentor you on an open source Rails project

Update: there's an orientation session on 9/13/15 if you're interested in helping

I built a small, fun Rails app called ignitespeak to manage speakers and proposals for Ignite Baltimore. I've long thought that it would be a great project for beginners to work on, because it's well-tested, it gets regular use, and it's open source.

I have an ambition to make the app more useful and available to all Ignite organizations around the world. If you're looking for a way to break into Rails development, and would like to get my personal attention, advice, or mentoring on your commits and pull requests, please contribute!  I created a number of Github issues for some possible projects.

If you're really serious about gaining more Ruby/Rails skills, I'd even be willing to do some pair programming with you, either remotely or at an open source hack night.