I think this is a great idea, thanks for the feedback—I completely agree we want people to be able to hit the ground running on the day. I would imagine groups are most effective when they’re formed around strong coders, perhaps there’s a way we can work that into the doc.
One thing we’re considering is an ongoing Discord server, where people could see ideas/projects/who’s working on what, etc. The idea would be that the server would persist between events, and move more towards having ongoing projects as above. I think this could potentially solve some of the cold start issues, but I am also hesitant to ask people to join yet another Discord server, and it’d probably need to reach a critical mass of people in order to be valuable. Having written out this comment, I think we will likely start it and push to get it to a good size, and if not we can re-evaluate.
Thanks for pointing out the bad link, I’ve corrected it now!
I think this is a great idea, thanks for the feedback—I completely agree we want people to be able to hit the ground running on the day. I would imagine groups are most effective when they’re formed around strong coders, perhaps there’s a way we can work that into the doc.
One thing we’re considering is an ongoing Discord server, where people could see ideas/projects/who’s working on what, etc. The idea would be that the server would persist between events, and move more towards having ongoing projects as above. I think this could potentially solve some of the cold start issues, but I am also hesitant to ask people to join yet another Discord server, and it’d probably need to reach a critical mass of people in order to be valuable. Having written out this comment, I think we will likely start it and push to get it to a good size, and if not we can re-evaluate.
Thanks for pointing out the bad link, I’ve corrected it now!