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| 48 CURRENT | warren |
February 10, 2022 23:41
| almost 3 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2021 is our eighth great year of open-source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: (Coming soon!) Last years can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Using Milestones and Planning issuesYou have been selected for the Summer of Code Program, congratulations! The first thing you should think about in your first week is breaking down your projects into small chunks. Use this link as a resource on how to break down the tasks needed for your project https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-18-2018/software-outreach-modularity-is-great-for-collaboration Once you have broken down your tasks, the next thing to do is create an issue to list all the tasks needed for your project. You could use a format similar to these issues:
Using the checklists and creating an issue for each task before the implementation period helps the mentors know what is expected and they can also help you break down or modify the tasks. Please also note that the tasks do get updated, modified, or added throughout the project, you need to be flexible and adaptable to that. Also, we encourage you to create a milestone that will track the progress of your completed task. Once a task is completed and marked as done on the issue checklist, or an issue /PR has been closed or merged add it to the milestone. Have a look at this link to learn more about milestones: https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/tracking-the-progress-of-your-work-with-milestones/about-milestones You are always welcome to reach out and ask any questions Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 47 | warren |
May 22, 2021 01:59
| over 3 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2021 is our eighth great year of open-source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Using Milestones and Planning issuesYou have been selected for the Summer of Code Program, congratulations! The first thing you should think about in your first week is breaking down your projects into small chunks. Use this link as a resource on how to break down the tasks needed for your project https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-18-2018/software-outreach-modularity-is-great-for-collaboration Once you have broken down your tasks, the next thing to do is create an issue to list all the tasks needed for your project. You could use a format similar to these issues:
Using the checklists and creating an issue for each task before the implementation period helps the mentors know what is expected and they can also help you break down or modify the tasks. Please also note that the tasks do get updated, modified, or added throughout the project, you need to be flexible and adaptable to that. Also, we encourage you to create a milestone that will track the progress of your completed task. Once a task is completed and marked as done on the issue checklist, or an issue /PR has been closed or merged add it to the milestone. Have a look at this link to learn more about milestones: https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/tracking-the-progress-of-your-work-with-milestones/about-milestones You are always welcome to reach out and ask any questions Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 46 | warren |
May 22, 2021 01:51
| over 3 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2021 is our eighth great year of open-source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Using Milestones and Planning issuesYou have been selected for the Summer of Code Program, congratulations! The first thing you should think about in your first week is breaking down your projects into small chunks. Use this link as a resource on how to break down the tasks needed for your project https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-18-2018/software-outreach-modularity-is-great-for-collaboration Once you have broken down your tasks, the next thing to do is create an issue to list all the tasks needed for your project. You could use a format similar to these issues:
Using the checklists and creating an issue for each task before the implementation period helps the mentors know what is expected and they can also help you break down or modify the tasks. Please also note that the tasks do get updated, modified, or added throughout the project, you need to be flexible and adaptable to that. Also, we encourage you to create a milestone that will track the progress of your completed task. Once a task is completed and marked as done on the issue checklist, or an issue /PR has been closed or merged add it to the milestone. Have a look at this link to learn more about milestones: https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/tracking-the-progress-of-your-work-with-milestones/about-milestones You are always welcome to reach out and ask any questions Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 45 | ruthnwaiganjo |
May 20, 2021 15:25
| over 3 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2021 is our eighth great year of open-source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Using Milestones and Planning issuesYou have been selected for the Summer of Code Program, congratulations! Once you have broken down your tasks, the next thing to do is create an issue to list all the tasks needed for your project . You could use a format similar to these issues https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/8513 and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/9069 Using the checklists and creating an issue for each task before the implementation period helps the mentors know what is expected and they can also help you break down or modify the tasks. Please also note that the tasks do get updated, modified, or added throughout the project, you need to be flexible and adaptable to that. Also, we encourage you to create a milestone that will track the progress of your completed task . . Once a task is completed and marked as done on the issue checklist, or an issue /PR has been closed or merged add it to the milestone. Have a look at this link to learn more about milestones https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/tracking-the-progress-of-your-work-with-milestones/about-milestones You are always welcome to reach out and ask any questions Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 44 | ruthnwaiganjo |
May 20, 2021 15:13
| over 3 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2021 is our eighth great year of open-source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Using Milestones and Planning issuesYou have been selected for the Summer of Code Program, congratulations! Once you have broken down your tasks, the next thing to do is create an issue to list all the tasks needed for your project . You could use a format similar to these issues https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/8513 and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/9069 Using the checklists and creating an issue for each task before the implementation period helps the mentors know what is expected and they can also help you break down or modify the tasks. Please also note that the tasks do get updated, modified, or added throughout the project, you need to be flexible and adaptable to that In addition to that, we encourage you to create a milestone that will track the progress of your completed task . . Once a task is completed and marked as done on the issue checklist, or an issue /PR has been closed or merged add it to the milestone. Have a look at this link to learn more about milestones https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/tracking-the-progress-of-your-work-with-milestones/about-milestones You are always welcome to reach out and ask any questions Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 43 | ruthnwaiganjo |
May 20, 2021 15:12
| over 3 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2021 is our eighth great year of open-source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Using Milestones and Planning issuesYou have been selected for the Summer of Code Program, congratulations! Once you have broken down your tasks, the next thing to do is create an issue to list all the tasks needed for your project . You could use a format similar to these issues https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/8513 and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/9069 Using the checklists and creating an issue for each task before the implementation period helps the mentors know what is expected and they can also help you break down or modify the tasks. Please also note that the tasks do get updated, modified, or added throughout the project, you need to be flexible and adaptable to that In addition to that, we encourage you to create a milestone that will track the progress of your completed task . . Once a task is completed and marked as done on the issue checklist, or an issue /PR has been closed or merged add it to the milestone. Have a look at this link to learn more about milestones https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/tracking-the-progress-of-your-work-with-milestones/about-milestones You are always welcome to reach out and ask any questions*** Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 42 | ruthnwaiganjo |
May 20, 2021 11:16
| over 3 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2021 is our eighth great year of open-source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 41 | warren |
September 15, 2020 16:40
| over 4 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 40 | warren |
February 08, 2020 00:30
| almost 5 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. What makes a good projectHi all, at Public Lab, @emash and @warren brainstormed on this a bit, and we felt that a good project:
EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 39 | warren |
January 30, 2020 21:51
| almost 5 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7360 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe have not yet opened our call for proposals, but you can read last year's here, to get ready! Feel free to ask questions there as well until the 2020 call is posted. Thanks! You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 38 | warren |
October 19, 2019 10:50
| about 5 years ago
Public Lab has received support for fellows to work on Public Lab software projects via several "Summer of Code" style programs including Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsOur 2019 call for proposals at Outreachy is open! Read here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/6285 You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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| 37 | warren |
October 19, 2019 08:09
| about 5 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsOur 2019 call for proposals at Outreachy is open! Read here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/6285 You can see past years' calls for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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October 19, 2019 08:02
| about 5 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsOur 2019 call for proposals is open! Read here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/02-28-2019/call-for-summer-of-code-2019-proposals You can see past years' call for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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August 23, 2019 14:59
| over 5 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsOur 2019 call for proposals is open! Read here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/02-28-2019/call-for-summer-of-code-2019-proposals You can see past years' call for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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August 23, 2019 14:59
| over 5 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsOur 2019 call for proposals is open! Read here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/02-28-2019/call-for-summer-of-code-2019-proposals You can see past years' call for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. EvaluationsWe've posted various guidance on how we do evaluations in our Summer of Code programs. Here is a short collection of suggestions and info!
Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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March 07, 2019 22:50
| almost 6 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsOur 2019 call for proposals is open! Read here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/02-28-2019/call-for-summer-of-code-2019-proposals You can see past years' call for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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March 06, 2019 23:50
| almost 6 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsOur 2019 call for proposals is open! Read here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/02-28-2019/call-for-summer-of-code-2019-proposals You can see past years' call for proposals lists here: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals asks people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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February 05, 2019 16:44
| almost 6 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe'll then open up a call for proposals. You can see past years' call for proposals lists here; this year's will be very similar: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals will ask people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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January 31, 2019 20:13
| almost 6 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2019 is our sixth great year of open source coding with GSoC! In 2017 and 2018 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program, and in 2018 we participated in Outreachy. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this website) as well as other Public Lab coding projects.
How to applyWant to get involved? As a first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Brainstorming project ideasWe kick off each season with a big brainstorm of ideas. You can find this year's discussion here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-02-2019/brainstorming-for-summer-of-code-2019 Our Summer of Code Ideas Page will list the final brainstormed ideas that come out of this process. Call for proposalsWe'll then open up a call for proposals. You can see past years' call for proposals lists here; this year's will be very similar: https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals The call for proposals will ask people to post their proposals using this template: https://publiclab.org/gsoc-application-template We encourage people to leave comments, encouragement, tips, and questions on each others' proposals in a community fashion, and to be friendly and welcoming to one another! How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! Once you are comfortable with our workflow by completing a At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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October 03, 2018 14:49
| about 6 years ago
Public Lab has received support for students to work on Public Lab software projects via Google's Summer of Code program -- 2018 is our fifth great year of open source coding! In 2017 we also joined the Rails Girls Summer of Code program. This is a key way that we are able to develop our collaborative platform (this site) as well as other Public Lab coding projects. Check out the updates and ideas page for 2018 Summer of Code here! *
Ideas pageWant to get involved? Read over our Summer of Code Ideas Page to learn about possible projects How we workOver recent years, we’ve steadily refined a workflow that helps new contributors get plugged into our community and code with a warm welcome, and aims to support building skills incrementally and cooperatively. As their first step, we ask everyone to complete a “first-timers-only” issue, which you can find on our Welcome page at https://code.publiclab.org. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and welcome feedback! While it’s helpful to have some experience with the Git version tracking system, we have guides to help you go through this process, and will be there to help you get your code posted. Almost all of our code is in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, so basic familiarity with these systems is a plus. We have a chatroom at https://publiclab.org/chat where you can get help pretty much any time. Once you are comfortable with our workflow (you can complete a second issue as well to get the hang of it) we’d like to ask that you compile your project steps into a planning issue, which you can learn about here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-18-2018/software-outreach-modularity-is-great-for-collaboration You can see examples here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/planning At this point, we recommend you begin going through the task list, creating a pull request like a mini-project for each task. Each one will ideally have tests, and we can help you develop these. As you progress, we encourage contributors to grow as leaders by reviewing others’ pull requests, helping troubleshoot, and also taking small parts of your project to post as “first-timers-issues” for someone else. You can read more about these steps at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/support. Your code will be reviewed, supported and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) and potentially published to our live site as often as once a week, and you’ll be able to see it running and get feedback from people about it to inform your work. Towards the end of your project, we’ll encourage you to take remaining pieces you’d like to see followed-up on in the future, and describe them with enough information for others to take up and complete. This could be in the form of “first-timers-only” issues, or “break-me-up” issues that list out steps that can be adapted into small stand-alone tasks. Questions[questions:soc] Activities[activities:soc] MentoringWhat does it mean to be a mentor? Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement... while relying on the plots-dev list and the This means that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to code -- we need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature might be used by the community -- contextual info! If you're interested in being a mentor, email the developers list or jeff@publiclab.org -- and read over our software outreach resources to get an idea of how we work! Some more resources on mentoring:
CommunicationWe do occasional chat or video sessions, and mentors rely on each other quite a bit, in the chatroom and on the plots-gsoc list. BenefitsOur code contributor community is built on a commitment to mutual benefit -- we can’t create good software without welcoming in newcomers, and we are deeply invested in supporting contributors to learn new skills and grow as coders, designers, project leaders, and “cooperators”. Unlike many open source communities, much of our capacity is aimed at helping people become proficient coders, and to learn and apply principles such as code modularity, test-driven development, and more, as outlined at https://publiclab.org/software-outreach. But we also seek to change coding culture by recognizing how important communication, mutual support, and affirmative and welcoming tone are. As part of this, we seek to improve ourselves and help contributors learn how to support one another, welcome in a diverse and inclusive community, and build a more positive and equitable society by doing things a little differently. Past years
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