Weekly Community Check-in #21: "Motivate"

[rexagod]

Hello Everyone! 🎉 ✋

We all at Public Lab 🎈 learn, grow, work, brainstorm ideas, contribute together so why not share about our weekly goals and the awesome work we have done at Public Lab with each other, so we can support and collaborate with each other better. The goal of our Community Check-In is for every community member to share something about their work from the past week and about their current week's goal dart. You are also welcome to share fun-fact 😄, new ideas 💡, your learning goals. ☑️

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This Week's Theme: "Motivate"

A bit of context first. Before I started contributing to PublicLab back in November, I drifted a while between different organizations, trying to find the right one, trying to fit in, trying to do something amazing. I was well acquainted with JS concepts back then as well, but lacked a driving force to keep me going. I would go on hours of formatting the code according to their linting rules, proper indentation, using the latest APIs and double checking anyone of those that might be deprecated, just to be neglected off since I was a newer contributor, and hadn't been around that much, so those repositories, more or less, always had the same people that reviewed, pushed, and merged the PRs. Always.

This would really put me off. I would decide to checkout a new organization the next day, and hopefully make some progress there, with little or no luck, until eventually, I came across an organization that actually had a label for first-timers-only and the welcoming atmosphere seemed too good to be true. I don't know if other organizations do this too now or not, but initially this really got my spirits up, and I pushed some commits. After that I was suggested to complete a fto-candidate, so I did that as well, and immediately moved to PublicLab's Editor, a JS lib, that interested me back then, and still does.

I honestly did not expect any of the humongous support I got along the way. My PRs were reviewed the same day, enabling me to put in as much work as I wanted to, maybe even push my limits, which I enjoyed every second of. Before you know it, I was opening fto issues welcoming newer contributors just like me to the repository! How @jywarren, @gauravano, @sashadev-sky, or anyone else managed to do the brilliant work they did, while welcoming newer contibutors like me, while solving my doubts on Gitter, while providing insightful reviews on my PRs, and so much more, was out of my ability to comprehend, and I was in fact, motivated.

I will always be thankful for the environment PublicLab enabled me to work in, so that I can contribute with the same energy from back when I completed my fto to this day, it's really been an amazing journey.

Go ahead, volunteer!

Fighting my temptation to keep going on with the storytelling, I will get down to the point now. In order to help make PublicLab the welcoming and progressive community it is and has been, I'm volunteering to help open fto for similar folks, looking for a place to start and continue as well. I will also be helping folks across as many repositories, in as many areas as possible, so that they, in the near future, may hopefully repeat the loop.

I would love any and all the help I can get with this, and if you could spare some time to do the same, doesn't matter how long a member you've been, please comment below to volunteer. To summarize, you can open new ftos or fto-candidates, help people (not only first-timers) complete their PRs, clear doubts on Gitter, etc. To further clarify, this will be different from the normal workflow in the fact that the volunteer will be doing these tasks in a greater frequency this week, if at all possible, than they do usually. There will not be any judgement, and you are free to do the above tasks as a volunteer at your own pace or even attend to your own issues whenever you feel like it.

Below are a few ftos and one fto-candidate I managed to spin up today, so if you're reading this, and haven't yet contributed to any of PublicLab's repositories, pick one (comment here and check them out after completion)! Also, since the check-in is in this repo, I thought of doing the same with the ftos.

• Remove Bower support #61
• Add an installation section #62
• Update CI Node versions #63
• Fix examples/*html in gh-pages branch to show a working demo #64
• Redesign examples/*html #65
• Implement legible font size for different media queries #66
• Add a meta description #67
• Adjust content's width to fit viewport's width #68
• Make Address Bar to matches Brand Colors #69
• Add a fork ribbon #70
• Refactor and modularize processSection.js #71

You can find our list of previous check-ins here. 📓

Community Survey

@ebarry has compiled the results of the community survey, which was open from January 14 to March 21, into a comprehensive code community report. Please add your comments here to this thread for what we are inspired to do/change as a result of reading:https://publiclab.org/notes/liz/04-15-2019/report-2019-software-contributors-survey

This is a really unique opportunity to contribute to open source from a greater scope, and a reminder of the greater meaning behind the work all of you have been doing!

Thanks and keep contributing! Contributing to Public Lab means contributing to the Environment!

Previous Check-ins 🎉

Gaurav Sachdeva (@gauravano) publiclab/plots2#4327
Sidharth Bansal (@SidharthBansal) publiclab/plots2#4369
Cess (@cesswairimu) publiclab/plots2#4476
Harman Jolly (@coderjolly) publiclab/plots2#4548
Rishabh Rawat (@Rishabh570) publiclab/plots2#4607
Sasha Boginsky (@sashadev-sky) publiclab/plots2#4676
Rishabh Kr Bothra (@geekychaser) publiclab/plots2#4711
Shubham Sangamnerkar (@shubhscoder) publiclab/plots2#4757
Siddhant N Trivedi (@sidntrivedi012) publiclab/plots2#4784
Isha Gupta (@IshaGupta18) publiclab/plots2#4844
Gaurav Sachdeva (@gauravano) publiclab/plots2#4879
Harshith Pabbati (@harshithpabbati) publiclab/plots2#4917
Gaurav Sachdeva (@gauravano) publiclab/plots2#5034
Harshith Pabbati (@harshithpabbati) publiclab/image-sequencer#883
Harman Jolly (@coderjolly) publiclab/mapknitter#447
Divya Baid (@divyabaid16) publiclab/PublicLab.Editor#317
Gautami Gupta (@gautamig54) publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers#164
Sasha Boginsky (@sashadev-sky) publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage#215
Sagarpreet Chadha (@sagarpreet-chadha) publiclab/leaflet-blurred-location#198
Harsh Khandeparkar (@harshkhandeparkar) publiclab/spectral-workbench#451
Pranshu Srivastava (@rexagod) #61

Have a great week everyone! 🎈❤️🎉

[rexagod]

@jywarren, @ujithaperera, @david-days, @dependabot[bot], @ananyo2012, @SidharthBansal, @icarito, @gauravano, @sagarpreet-chadha, @ViditChitkara, @btbonval, @namangupta01, @jiteshjha, @Souravirus, @lalithr95, @milaaraujo, @cesswairimu, @siaw23, @oorjitchowdhary, @ryzokuken, @CleverFool77, @sirMackk, @stefannibrasil, @IshaGupta18, @mridulnagpal, @divyabaid16, @kevinzluo, @geekychaser, @shubhscoder, @ValentinaTironi, @500swapnil, @seafr, @StlMaris123, @aspriya, @sashadev-sky, @Sreyanth, @dinaelhanan, @Diksha2008, @gautamig54, @sukhbir-singh, @JonathanXu1, @kunalvaswani123, @ykl7, @ananyaarun, @ankitbhardwaj78, @dewanhimanshu, @Pk13055, @rishabhptr, @imacubsfan23, @rtrunkhill

[rexagod]

@carolineh101, @alonpeer, @derek-allen, @ebarry, @Dsxv, @Radhikadua123, @conkytom, @chongr, @okonek, @kaustubh-nair, @Mujadded, @sandyvern, @tsparksh, @mohitRJranjan, @aamarill, @meinou, @biswesh456, @madeofhuman, @cheneyshreve, @greysteil, @noordean, @saurabh-sikchi, @shreyateeza, @ValeriaCobianISW, @narnt, @40404notfound, @BrainBuzzer, @amiedes, @jainaman224, @amitsin6h, @Neidley, @Anjalizi, @AnthoniaOkafor, @Anupam-dagar, @aryanbhasin, @igniteeng000, @btakita, @uzorjchibuzor, @ehamamrah, @gSanchezCiarrocchi, @Gayathrir1666, @coderjolly, @ianroberts131, @kryptc, @k-sau, @manish310794, @mardelvalle, @starkblaze01, @nickstaggs

[rexagod]

@Paarmita, @rexagod, @rafael-acerqueira, @rbhatia46, @ruan-brandao, @sk9331657, @CodeSarthak, @xssc, @g33kyshivam, @williamhelton, @geekiam23, @yashbth, @bashhike, @chitra591, @DamonClark, @devaman, @Ellimist22, @faithngetich, @gcttong, @handlerug, @jmliu1417, @rohan2599, @shelbyfirebaugh, @shivani-kapania, @sudheesh001, @vikul1234, @harshkhandeparkar, @kanikashrivastav, @alator21, @sjones88, @aakashbansal, @aayushgupta1, @abhishek71994, @abhishekzambre, @abizerlokhandwala, @redtachyons, @adarsh-ideal, @adrian-lara, @devamaz, @akshaygupta533, @SwordShieldMouse, @alanunruh, @f3mshep, @alexey-klimuk, @aliklynnlyle, @Nirvikalpa108, @amychan331, @ananya, @AndyCodez, @Aneal-Sharma

[rexagod]

@Apoorva-13, @soner-cirit, @msarit, @arungoel123456, @asquare14, @atulbi, @austindenny, @foggy1, @avsingh999, @vanguard07, @bentonwong, @blancasnz, @BobStevens, @Codeama, @calaway, @cassianoblonski, @zenara, @chrislazo22, @krys2fa, @robotscissors, @Chrisyee22, @coopjc, @kopecs, @corbettbw, @DanilParshukov, @DanielKim1, @djmgit, @devinbalkind, @Dhiraj240, @weirdwiz, @DivyeshPuri, @wimpykid26, @eduardoltorres, @eli6, @emctackett, @EmBh, @emestabillo, @eplata31, @Eshaabhasin, @ffiebig, @georgepampalis, @GettyOrawo, @gyi2521, @gowrimanoharir, @gdestree, @gurpreet9001, @haleymnatz, @HarrisonLKatz, @harsh1599, @hklebs,

[rexagod]

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[rexagod]

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[rexagod]

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[rexagod]

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[rexagod]

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[grvsachdeva]

Really awesome check-in @rexagod 💯 🎉. FTO issues you opened are also great 👍. Go ahead and mention about this check-in in the Gitter room.

You really mentioned every contributor of Public Lab 😄. As you have tried to reach all the contributors/members of Public Lab, I like to mention this -

All the fabulous work and efforts, each one of you have put in building the Public Lab is awesome and priceless ❤️ and it is your commits, ideas, research notes, wikis and time, that has helped and is currently helping new members in building all these projects at Public Lab and in welcoming new members.

We're doing an OpenHour tomorrow about Launching Summer of Code. It will be at 2:30pm ET, right after GSoC slot announcements are made. Hope you can hop on for a meet and greet. Also, big thanks to all who have applied for slots, volunteered to mentor, or are in other ways supporting the open coding community of Public Lab. Let's chat! :) www.publiclab.org/openhour or direct link to join here: https://zoom.us/j/233841847

Please mark date and time - Monday, May 6th, 2:30pm ET 😄. Everyone is most welcome for the Openhour, I want to specially request those who have been a part of GSoC with PL in the past to join the meet for encouraging this year's selected candidates.

Thanks!
Gaurav Sachdeva

[jywarren]

Oh my goodness, what a check-in! Hello everyone! ❤️ 🙌

I LOVE the list of FTOs. I wondered what happened to my inbox 😂 😅 🎉 Epic and wonderful work, @rexagod !

Regarding the Open Hour tomorrow -- We will also hear of Outreachy selections tomorrow at 12 noon ET, 4pm UTC. 🎉 🎉 🎉

We will be celebrating of course, but I want to also acknowledge that we are always a bit sad that we cannot work with every one of the amazing people who apply to the program. We are very lucky each year to have such a wonderful community, and we appreciate everyone, whether in Outreachy/Summer of Code or not. For those we aren't able to work with, PLEASE consider us again in the next cycle, which for Outreachy is just 6 months away. ❤️ 🙌

[SidharthBansal]

Also, please consider GCI. We will be requiring mentors for GCI too from September onwards. Thanks all.

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