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Communication Projects

Improving Curriculum Feedback Loops

There currently isn't a clear way for a student to give overall feedback about our curriculum. They can include it in the post-workshop survey, if they want, or create an issue on GitHub (which could be intimidating for some).

The RailsBridge Blog

The RailsBridge blog became the Bridge Foundry blog at some point. If RailsBridge wants to have our own blog, we should figure that out!

Some post ideas:

  • Write about your experience as a student, TA, teacher or organizer
  • Interview someone else about their experience (we can give you names!)
  • Share tips for leveling up as a student, teacher, or organizer

We are currently looking for someone to be the RailsBridge Blog Editor. If you're interested in doing that, email [email protected] and we can chat about it!!!

A Road Map for RailsBridge

It would be fantastic to have a topic/skills roadmap for the RoR ecosystem (and the Railsbridge curricula in particular). Ping the mailing list if you’re interested in working on that!

Curriculum Projects

Write a new curriculum

There are a lot of skills that it takes to become an effective developer. Do you want to write a short curriculum on any of these things?

  • Using JavaScript with Rails to make your site snappy
  • Git - more than just git add .
  • the Command Line (beyond cd and ls)
  • Productivity Tools (Get ShiftIt, make your fonts bigger, etc)
  • Active Record

Improve the existing curricula

  • Teach a workshop, and see where the curriculum could be improved, then submit a PR! (Or open an issue with your ideas first, to get feedback and support.)
  • MobileBridge needs help improving their curriculum so less experienced teachers can use it. (It's currently experts-only, to some extent.) You can find them at https://github.com/mobilebridge/.
  • Some folks have discussed merging the Boston RailsBridge repo with the main RailsBridge repo. If you’d like to help with that, ping the Google group.
  • Add more exercises to the Ruby curriculum! [Inspiration here](Ruby Exercise Links)!

Coding Projects

Bridge Troll

Bridge Troll is our workshop and volunteer event registration system. It is well-tested Rails app developed mostly by Travis Grathwell. Travis is always happy to review pull requests!

RailsBridge.org

RailsBridge.org is a Rails app with static pages that hits a couple of API endpoints in Bridge Troll to return workshop/event details. It's development has been mostly dormant since mid-2013, but there are some really fun projects waiting to happen there. (Individual chapter pages, visualizations of RailsBridge's impact?)

Other projects:

  • Bridge Foundry
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