Code is Science 2022 tech team meeting notes

Yo Yehudi is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Code is Science
Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime

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Meeting ID: 991 1046 2365

2022-07-15

Present

• Isaac
• Padma
• Yo
• Devesh

Notes:

Dependency issues - difficulty installing packages from npm. Maybe try yarn?

2022-05-20

Present:

• Yo
• Pritish
• Tiz

Notes

GSOC! WOOHOO, two students.

• Pritish will work on the community site and set up a blog so students can post weekly updates.
• Make sure to have clear weekly goals.
  • GitHub tickets to track
• Heroku had some vulnerabilities
• GSoC Meetings:
  • 1 week separate frontend/backend, 1 week team meetings.
  • Yo's calendar: https://calendly.com/yo-yehudi/1hour?month=2022-05 <– use this if you want to invite Yo to the mentor meeting
• Tiz's tips:
  • Reserve time for code reviews for students.
  • Small PRs are easier to work with than big ones

2022-02-18

Present:

• Yo
• Pritish
• Isaac
• Padmaja

GSoC

• https://hackmd.io/@ols-4/gsoc-outreachy-2022-ideas - ready to submit

Current open tickets

• Thanks Padmaja for reviewing
• Yo to review other front-end tickets.
• Backend - Pritish to review and close any that aren't needed anymore.

2022-01-21

Present:

• Yo
• Pritish
• Isaac
• Shabik
• Abhibhaw
• Padmaja

Notes

• 2021:
  • GSoC
    • design for frontend redesigned
    • backend implemented.
    • Frontend on netlify
    • Backend Heroku
    • Just bugs to solve. User signup bug.
• 2022:

  • Pritish considering moving to node - take forward with Tiz.

  • Shabik interested in contributing, will need good mentor.

  • Onboarding docs project.

    • Time to start

  • GSoC Project ideas

  • [Pritish]

    • Approach DigitalOcean for sponsorship
      • Go ahead! :)
      • Link to the form
    • Approach Vercel for their premium subscription(I've seen folks approaching them)
      • Let's wait until we're in prod and tested.
    • I guess we've to draft a mail for the same

  • [Isaac]

    • Refactor some of the code in the Front-end repo. To avoid too much dependency on frameworks and make it easier for new contributors and students to make contributions to the project.