# Social Platforms Content Brainstorming

###### tags: `Social Awareness`

### To let students know about our programs where we facilitate them to gain practical experience

**Inform students about pitfalls**

*Not having a senior engineer to give technical guidance*

“Without having the assistance whenever we need it, we had to spend hours googling and asking online.” - Baichen

“Even though tons of youtube videos are available, it’s a different experience to have someone that understands what you are going through to guide you in the project.” - Brian

*No structured team environment*

“When you work in a team and it’s easier to have the motivation because you see the project moving forward and everyone doing their part.” - Lee

*No clear roadmap to implementation*

“There was no clear leader, everyone was equal, but thought their idea was superior. So there was a lot of back and forth, instead of meaningful work.” - Baichen

“It’s easy to lose sight of your goals and lose track of progress” - Billy

“As an individual project, you are required to know every aspect of the component including frontend, backend, etc. As a result of that, for most students they have a significant knowledge gap to fill. This preparation process can be time-consuming and discouraging.” - Brian

*No professional best practices*

“We had no knowledge of the professional workflow. We didn't set up a git repo, and accidentally lost some source code.” - Baichen

**Inform Students about benefits**

Having a leader that has built several successful projects allows for a cleaner road-map, thus preventing premature production. - Shawn, Student at UTM

It was nice to have a mentor and professor to bounce ideas off of, and build within a structure. Building in a way that's scalable in a team is hard, and I'm glad to have given it a try. - Arnav, Student at UTM

Arsala did a great job as a mentor since he understands the challenge that a 2nd year student could be facing. He also understands the situation that most of his students have no experience with software development as a team before. His constant advice and critiques helps the team to steadily move toward the right direction and for students to grow. - Brian, Student at UTM

### Raise awareness about our open source projects

- Weekly State of the Apps report
- Technical insights about

### To promote the spirit of OSS development

**Post about our open organization updates**

*Provide monthly open financial update data*

- Potential to automate this task via open collective web hooks

*Provide weekly open analytics data*

Every week, we fetch our org analytics and post them on social media.

- Potential to automate this data via N8N scripting

**Post useful open source development knowledge**

*Post when there are updates to our learn and glossary repos*

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GojgXGOn2GryuPIlr08lp0M0qxvvGnd6atgAquyKiRY/edit?usp=sharing