Thursday, August 27, 2015

I want to mentor you on an open source Rails project

Update: there's an orientation session on 9/13/15 if you're interested in helping

I built a small, fun Rails app called ignitespeak to manage speakers and proposals for Ignite Baltimore. I've long thought that it would be a great project for beginners to work on, because it's well-tested, it gets regular use, and it's open source.

I have an ambition to make the app more useful and available to all Ignite organizations around the world. If you're looking for a way to break into Rails development, and would like to get my personal attention, advice, or mentoring on your commits and pull requests, please contribute!  I created a number of Github issues for some possible projects.

If you're really serious about gaining more Ruby/Rails skills, I'd even be willing to do some pair programming with you, either remotely or at an open source hack night.

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