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Start - 09:00 am Sat 27th May.  Breakfast from 8:15, Lunch provided at 12:00,  + Snacks.  Day ends at 16:00

Location: Datacom Wellington, Level 1, 84 Abel Smith Street Wellington  South Tower, 68-86 Jervois Quay, Wellington.

Somebody will meet you in the foyer and swipe you up to Level 10.

If nobody is there, call Adam Barnes on 0272025298, Vince on 0273068509 or post a comment on Gitter.

Chat: Join us on Gitter: https://gitter.im/voluntarily/community  

Codebase: https://github.com/voluntarily/vly2.  

Kanban board: https://voluntarily.atlassian.net/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?projectKey=VP&rapidView=2

Documentation: Voluntarily Product

What you need to bring

Laptop, power cable, phone charger, yourself and others.  Please continue to promote the event through your networks we can cope with more people on the day but if they sign up online it will help with catering.

sign up at: https://voluntarily.nz/aucklandcode

Is this just for coders?

No we will make good use of BA, Design, Architect, DevOps, Test, and general thinking and problem solving skills.

What if I don't know javascript/node/react/next etc?

We can teach you, there will be simpler tasks that you can help with, you can pair program with someone, you can test stuff, or you can help not re-invent the wheel by researching solutions.

Missions include

MVP road to production

All the basic functionality for our Minimum Viable Product is in place. but there are loads of fine details and small bugs to fix. Our goal is to get 'many eyes' on the system as it stands and work out the details.

We will start the day with a mass role play for teachers and volunteers running various scenarios

Corporate Integration challenge. 

We have everything in place to allow us to display volunteering opportunities embedded in corporate intranet pages - but we need to create some custom pages without headers to provide the appropriate content.

Activity Challenge

And the next big feature to work on is Activities and Organisations.

Plus any amount of 

  • Testing - writing tests, and fixing the bugs they find.
  • Styling - making the pages look like the designs
  • Training/Learning - crash course in react, node, mongo and next etc.
  • Researching solutions.

Outline of the day

Saturday


8:15 Mingle and Breakfast.
9:00Welcome, purpose, the mission and approach to day  Kerry Topp and Andrew Watkins
9:20

Project & asset orientation - Andrew Watkins & Walt Lim.

Platform walk through and bug hunt.


10:00

Pick your teams & challengeTutorials
12:00Lunch
12:30Build Build BuildTutorials
16:00Theoretical close
17:00Bar meet up


Sunday


8:15 Mingle and Breakfast.
9:30Stand up - and plan for the day

10:00

Continue buildingTutorials
12:00Lunch
12:30Consolidate and Commit
15:00Demonstrations and what next
16:00End


Tutorials will include ( subject to demand )

  • Dev basics for contributors - git, get codebase, build, test, commit, pull request.
  • Guide to the technologies: React, Mongo, Express etc.             
  • Tour of the Code - pt1 Server side - Express, Next, API and Mongo DB
  • Tour of the Code - pt2 Client side - React components, Pages 
  • Test and debug across the stack.
  • Advanced topics:  Redux, Asynch programming
  • AWS and Dev/Ops information
  • Any others you ask for