seanmarcia

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Yes, I did comment, sorry for the confusion. And the person who made the comment isn't crazy. We have another branch, claude_design, that was deployed briefly for some folks to look at and review and when he looked at the site it was the brief window that it was deployed. On the off chance that you have a better design sense than claude, love feedback/help on the new design -- and a PR ;)

seanmarcia

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Hey all, I'm Sean, the founder of Ruby for Good!

Excited to see this posted. We'd previously shared it in a few Slacks and were planning a larger announcement after the long weekend, but since someone beat us to it, we've opened up the early-bird registrations we were saving for Tuesday.

The Ruby for Good in-person event is absolutely not a hackathon. It's a friendly gathering of OS maintainers where we work on existing projects (some have been running for over 10 years!) and kick off new ones. We don't code into the night and burn folks out, either. We have a hard stop every day when we break for dinner. The evenings are reserved for karaoke, conversations and s'more-making around the campfire, board games, and all the other fun nerdery that happens when you get a group of awesome folks together. Really, the best way to think of the event is as "nerd camp for good." Everyone leaves having made a bunch of new close friends.

That's partly because helping non-profits is only part of the RfG mission. The other parts are growing the tech community and helping folks level up, regardless of skill level.

For people interested in attending this year: we'll be working on existing projects as well as kicking off several new ones. With ACA subsidies going away and the number of nonprofits reaching out to us, our focus area this year is healthcare. We'll be launching a project with an Ohio/Illinois nonprofit that works with pediatric cancer patients and their families, another in Virginia that works with cancer caregivers, and a Maryland nonprofit focused on mental health.

If you can't make it, almost all our projects are on GitHub and run year-round, so feel free to grab an issue!

seanmarcia

7 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

If you are a Ruby or Javascript developer I'd recommend checking out Ruby for Good. We build projects for non-profits who really need folks with our skill sets but would never be able to afford us -- places like diaper banks, women's shelters, animal rescues, and other great meaningful organizations. Our projects are on github at https://github.com/rubyforgood and you can join our slack to get more information here https://rubyforgood.herokuapp.com/. The important thing to note is that these projects get used! Our diaper project is being used by about 100 diaper banks around the country and is helping over a million children per year! While we do work on our projects all year round, we do have events! Our next event is in the SF area in April that everyone should definitely come out to because they are a TON of fun! They are all inclusive (lodging and food are covered,) they are absolutely NOT hackathons (which are toxic events that burn folks out!) We have a hard stop everyday at dinner time so we can spend our evenings socializing, playing board games, singing karaoke, and having lots of fun! The website for the April event is here: https://rubybythebay.org

seanmarcia

8 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

If you mean meaningful as in you want to do good meaningful work, I'd suggest taking a look at Ruby for Good. Offhand I know of a couple projects that could use some assistance:

1) Diaperbase - This is an inventory management program for diaper banks. The software is currently being beta tested by 6 diaper banks before opening to all diaper banks. (https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper)

2) Playtime Project Wishlist - This is an app for the Homeless Children's Playtime Project to facilitate the donation of toys for homeless kids. (https://github.com/rubyforgood/playtime)

Or just jump in our slack and offer to help, we have a lot of meaningful projects to work on! Grab an invite to our slack here: https://rubyforgood.herokuapp.com

seanmarcia

13 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Did anything ever come of the Aaron Swartz White House petition?

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