Knight-Mozilla's OpenNews is bringing a number of great news technologists to Portland for Code Convening. They've graciously agreed to spend some time with us so we can learn what they're up to. Join us!
May 22
Do any of you have the list of projects that will be coming? I signed up to help them do documentation and would like a heads-up on the tooling.
May 5
We haven't announced the projects we'll have at the OpenNews code convening, but we do have a post planned for this weekend. These events aren't quite like most hackdays -- we do a lot of advance work to identify projects that are already production-ready and in use internally at their host orgs, but need some focused time for abstraction and cleanup so they can be open-sourced. Or in this case, focused time to write good documentation :)
Each team/individual has a pretty tight plan, though, that leads up to a release Sunday night. Because of the types of projects we try to bring to these events, however, not everything is necessarily on GitHub yet. Some projects are getting spun out of organizational repos, others are in the middle of sprints so that the code convening can be a finish line. So we generally haven't announced projects in advance, just to avoid any of that extra "uh oh, now people are watching!" pressure while that's going on.
May 14
My experience in facilitating these--and in being a dev offering help if anyone wants it--has been that projects transitioning from 100% internal to open-sourced are hard to jump into cold. I just don't have the context to contribute meaningful code. But where that actually comes in handy is somewhere toward the second half of the event, when trying out an install and running through docs with fresh eyes provides a great sanity check for the devs that have been working heads-down. We want these projects to be useful to new people, so what better time to test that out!
It's the kind of thing we try to leave up to each team, of course, but that's one of the reasons we're excited to be at the WTD sprint, with people around who are both interested in journalism and willing to provide that kind of support. Looking forward to seeing you there.
May 14
During this event, we'll be raffling off a free ticket to the 4-day, open source tech conference Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org/ in June, so be sure to attend!
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If anyone's interested, the Portland chapter of the Online News Association is having an event next week: http://www.meetup.com/ONA-PDX/events/222714201/