Take static site and break up into functional components that can be independently rendered and tested.

devpost.com/hackathons has a platform to post hackathons.

What features do we get to market? How would we integrate with the existing app/website? Are there integration options for events platforms such as eventbrite/meetup/universe?

We tried integrating the Lyft api into the application, and our first call to their endpoints was successful, but subsequent attempts all reached the same error. Lyft's servers were responding with a 404 status code, and I could not find anything in their documentation talking about a 404 status code. As of yet, the issue is still unsolved.

We need the images on the site to render faster. Look into finding smaller images to serve.

Would it be faster and more performant if we stored all assets in a database or hosted them online?

Build events page mockup. For now... this is a landing page that shows all events. This can be dummy data for now. This ticket also has some research responsibility.

Between options like EventBrite, Universe, Meetup etc.

eventbrite.com
meetup.com
universe.com

What platforms offer seamless integration?

Can we embed content into a local page? Or should we link out to an individual events page on their platform?

We are planning on having a forum that exists on a subdomain of queersintech.

Ideally, the app would live at forums.queersintech.com... Bonus points if you could get this up and running.

There is a service called discourse that will handle all of this through a CMS that would live on the subdomain. This is part research (are there better forum platforms?) and implementation.

Medium Publication Landing Page

Here is an example of the publication for Free Code Camp: Free Code Camp Example.

Specifications

• Design a landing page for the Queers in Tech medium publication located at https://medium.com/queers-in-tech.
• Match color schema with Queers in Tech website located at www.queersintech.com.
• Collaborate/Pair on categories, content, and potential contributors.
• Dive into medium publication documentation.
  • How to add contributors
  • Potential workflow and review procedures
  • Medium API work website integration
    • Medium Developers
    • Medium API Documentation

Please open up a pull request and copy the information above into the raw text. Once all boxes are complete include a link to the publication landing page.

Write the code to have all technical writers and all open source contributors through the github and medium API.

We need Name, Picture, and Profile Link.

Github info will be based off collaborators to the queersintech repository.

Medium info will be based of technical writers on the queersintech publication.

Queers in Tech React App

Specifications

• Take static html website www.queersintech.com and make into a React app.
• Integrate medium API and add components that auto-populate a contributors section or page.
  • Medium Developers
  • Medium API Documentation
• Integrate github API and add components that auto-populate a contributors section or page.
  • Github Developers

This a pretty open project. You have the freedom to restructure the site anyway that makes since for the project to be scalable.

Please open up a pull request and copy the information above into the raw text. Commit at regular intervals and submit links in slack for review.

Continuous Integration

Specifications

• Implement a continuous integration system for live website www.queersintech.com.

This is completely open to your research and previous knowledge. Please communicate your thought process, and the pros and cons of using different packages/resources.

Open a pull request and copy the above text. Commit frequently and post review links in slack.

Deploy the app on an instance of AWS using some sort of continuous integration model.

• Research a pipeline.

• Write CONTRIBUTING.md per template
• All tests must be ran and passing before submitting a pull request
• When adding a new feature/page/component and/or modifying an existing feature/page/component, write new unit tests or modify the existing test to coincide with the changes.

We talked a bit about creating a page with content. I think the MVP of this particular ticket would be to embed the medium posts (from queers in tech) into the page.

We want to integrate Twitter, Medium, and YouTube videos, either through APIs, already curated content, or scraping.

The biggest gotcha is we don't want to arbitrarily search the web for random content we won't have control over.

Queers in Tech seeks to ally with other organizations that share a similar mission and values. We want to make sure that we are constantly acknowloging queer organizations that align with our vision and want to be a resource for individuals to find exactly what they are looking for.

As a community mission-driven organization, we want to create direct relationships whenever we can.

The resources page will be a place to find links and information about other great queer companies doing wonderful things around the world.

This is an open ended ticket. Please be as creative as you can! We're looking for some sort of interactive (dashboard, map, ?) data visualization project that speaks to unique data for the queer community.

Think employment numbers, population density (particularly in metropolitan cities), financials, etc. More specifically things people may be looking for when researching a job.

Again this is flexible, if the specs lead towards this feature shifting into something else we're fine with that!

http://www.lgbtdata.com/
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://data.world/
http://data.un.org/