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Lief's avatar
Lief
Executive
2 years ago

Lab / Idea / Unconference Meetup?

I have a couple things on my community backlog that probably require some level of customization - I tend to be looking for stuff in Atlas that already has some traction or headway

AND

I see lots of "under consideration" ideas

AND

I see lots of "Did anybody make an XYZ widget in their community..." questions

BUT

what I haven't yet found (beyond this forum itself) is an available time and place for Devs to get together on their own and either attack a specific common problem OR talk together through a top of mind issue.

It could be anything from a KhorosLed affair or even just an Unconference we put on ourselves. Would be REALLY great if there was a vanilla lab stood up to do actual live-action work that participants could then try to leverage in their own environments later.

Am I just not finding this yet?
Do we need to bootstrap something?

BlakeH - has this come up before?

 

API
Community API
FreeMarker
UI & Design

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  • keithkelly's avatar
    keithkelly
    Leader
    2 years ago

    I'm intrigued by this idea.  Even if not a live meeting, a space where it's natural to collaboratively build code would be pretty sweet. 

    It seems like even a small group of us could quickly build a little library of tools & utilities, from Python to FreeMarker to PowerQuery. 

  • Akenefick's avatar
    Akenefick
    Genius
    2 years ago

    I would love to take part in some kind of meetup. I'm a relatively new developer and would really like the opportunity to network and meet some people doing similar work. I have nobody to talk shop with 😀.

    I would also like to see a space for collaborating and sharing code. This forum seems more geared towards questions and answers than sharing or collaborating on projects, but maybe this could even be accomplished with a label like "Code Library" or something similar added to this forum.

  • BlakeH's avatar
    BlakeH
    Khoros Staff
    2 years ago

    I love the idea of an unconference / hackathon! I'm not sure what's in the works event-wise for the year yet, but I'll pass it on for consideration, for sure. 

  • cblown's avatar
    cblown
    Boss
    2 years ago

    Yeah sounds cool, happy to get our team involved time permitting.

  • Lief's avatar
    Lief
    Executive
    11 months ago

    Woah - it's been almost exactly a year since I put this up and...it only feels like 11 months ago. 😄

    BlakeH - anything in the works for this coming year?

    If unknown or no - I'll just setup a discord server or similar and put it on a calendar.
    (Really don't want to splinter conversations anywhere else for Khoros related stuff)

  • BlakeH's avatar
    BlakeH
    Khoros Staff
    11 months ago

    I still like this idea and think it should be done, and that you all crowd-sourcing ways to tackle each other's biggest dev problems has a lot of value.

    Especially now with Aurora coming up for a lot of people, as they're wondering what customizations they could / should build, this seems timely. Also wondering if our Product folks would like to get involved. I will find out!

    Let me get back to you by next week on it. Regardless, if we can't make it something more formal, maybe we could devote one of our upcoming Titan / Core roundtables to trying it? Just tossing ideas out.

  • BlakeH's avatar
    BlakeH
    Khoros Staff
    11 months ago

    Quick update: we've got some internal folks who are interested, and are thinking it would be smart to do this around the time the Aurora SDK is publicly ready.

    I don't have a firm date on that just yet, but it seems like we're aiming for sometime in the next quarter. I'll keep ya posted!

  • Claudius's avatar
    Claudius
    Boss
    11 months ago

    Count me in. I'm both working on Classic and Aurora and would love to enter a hackathon/unconference/dev meetup again.