Welcome to the Alumni Lab YYC!
The goals of this lab:
- Have fun being better developers by doing:
- Code more
- Learn new stack or tools
- Practice good habits
- Documentation
- Testing
- Code reviews
- Agile
- Practice / Exposure to dev workflows
- DevOps
- Planning
- Estimation
- whatever else we think appropriate
- beers plus pizza??
Overview:
- Once a fortnight for 3 hours (Saturdays?)
- Show up with your own projects, or come to pick up a project
- Your own projects stay closed source, or whatever license you'd like to keep
- Projects started in the lab are open source
We'll have to figure this out together. Here's an init:
- meet biweekly? at the
Central LibraryEdison? on Saturdays? 11am - come at 11am, leave whenever you want? I'll be leaving at 2pm-ish
- stand up meeting from 11:05am - 11:20am, to set the tone for the day.
- do stuffs ...
What roles could look like:
- wireframing
- user stories
- code reviewers
- pair programmers
- QA + testing
- DevOps
- front end
- back end
Main ones that I would like to start with are:
- React + Express / Koa
- React Native
We would explore other tech as we see fit.
- Let's grab some open source thing and take some tickets
- Final-project style, kick off a project
- Chrome extensions
- Chatbots
- Web apps
- Games
- Robotics
- Hardware stuff??
- Blockchain
- Starcraft deepmind teams (Alphastar) http:https://wiki.sc2ai.net/Main_Page
The first session will need to be an ideation session for the most part, exploring what people are interested in and then forming the session around that. Once some projects get kicked off, then there will be more stuff for people to pick up when they drop in.
Should people do work outside of lab time? They can! I will maintain the projects, and they can submit pull requests.
Ideas for the first project:
- Video bookmarking app
- Pluggable widgets library
- Other ideas you bring with you to the first meeting
Generally formed around buzzwords:
- GraphQL
- Serverless
- Microservices
- Monorepo / Lerna
- etc.