RailsBridge Hackathon
akanshmurthy opened this issue · 7 comments
Is anyone interested in organizing a RailsBridge hackathon?
Typical format but perhaps volunteers can help lead each team (1 volunteer/team) and guide students with tasks and the like. We could even preselect projects that we know can be done in a day.
I've heard from numerous students that something new compared to the regular curriculum would be welcome.
cc: @aneyzberg
The 18F folks have had "code pairing" sessions a while ago, that were
similar to this idea. They had some cool 18F projects to hack on.
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Is anyone interested in organizing a RailsBridge hackathon?
Typical format but perhaps volunteers can help lead each team (1
volunteer/team) and guide students with tasks and the like. We could even
preselect projects that we know can be done in a day.I've heard from numerous students that something new compared to the
regular curriculum would be welcome.—
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Cool! @siruguri , is that a potential yes, in terms of interest?
@akanshmurthy I'm in general up for organizing, and have co-organized a few RB (Rails intro) events before. If you want to chat/brainstorm offline sometime, lmk. I live in Oakland, and wfh.
@akanshmurthy I think that is a great idea, especially if there is a little more structure than a normal hackathon so that less experiences students could also participate.
@siruguri : awesome! I think I might have a sponsor already so perhaps I'll set up an organizer's meeting soon.
@aneyzberg : totally!
For those thinking about helping, we just had our first organizational meeting with 7 people (volunteers and/or sponsor representatives) in attendance. We are starting the process of determining the content for the event. Ping me if you want to help or have ideas!
Event was a lot of fun! People enjoyed fixing the broken tests and learning about RSpec as well as APIs related to Twilio, Bitly, and Cloudinary. TAs did a great job of stepping up and helping. And, despite a few hiccups, App Academy did a great job of sponsoring!