Contributing to Zen, the CoderDojo Open Source Community Platform

Your guide to
contributing to Zen,
the CoderDojo
community platform.
Fully open source!

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1. How to
   contribute to Zen,
   the CoderDojo
   community platform
   Fully open source
   

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2. What is CoderDojo?
   ● Global movement of:
   ○ free,
   ○ volunteer-led,
   ○ community based programming clubs
   ○ for young people aged 7-17
   ● Within the CoderDojo Movement there is a focus on:
   ○ community,
   ○ peer learning,
   ○ project based work,
   ○ youth mentoring and self led learning
   ● 860+ clubs in 60+ countries
   

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3. Zen is our new
   community platform!
   ● Search for your
   local Dojo
   ● Administrate
   your Dojo
   ● Profile pages
   for parents,
   mentors and
   youths
   ● Administration
   section for
   CoderDojo
   Foundation
   staff to verify
   global clubs.
   ● Bespoke
   ticketing
   system where
   parents and
   mentors can
   book tickets for
   their local club
   

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4. Zen includes a community forum and Over 13s forum which runs on NodeBB
   

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5. Why contribute?
   ● Easy way to volunteer from home
   ● Showcase your development skills
   ● Learn from experienced developers in the tech industry
   ● See peer coding reviews in real world scenario
   ● Experience Continuous Integration in a real world scenario
   ● Impact a global community of youths, parents and mentors!
   

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6. Technologies used
   Hosting, logging, code deployment! Reporting, automatic emails
   Communications
   Forums
   Open badges for displaying skills
   on profiles Google maps, recaptcha
   Logging Front end framework
   

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7. Technologies used
   Performance monitoring
   Version control, Issue
   management
   Localisation/translation
   Main coding language
   Database language Main framework
   Wireframing
   Unit testing
   

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8. Getting started
   ● Visit the repository at http://bit.ly/coderdojo-zen
   ○ cp-local-development repo for dev environment
   ○ Contributing and architecture docs
   ○ The “beginner” labelled issues are ideal for your first pull request
   ○ “hints provided” label is also useful
   ● If you need help getting set up, email us at info@coderdojo.com, we can help
   you remotely if you need!
   ● We have our own Slack organisation which you can join if you get in touch:
   ○ Two channels, one for alerts and one for development chat
   ● Remote help and mentoring from Technical Lead at any time
   

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9. How to contribute: Assign yourself an issue
   

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10. Make sure you are up to date with master
    Check out a new branch with the issue name
    

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11. Start up your development environment
    

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12. Make code changes!
    Once saved your development environment will automatically refresh
    Template file
    Translations file
    

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13. Check your changes at localhost:8000
    

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14. Commit your changes, push your branch
    

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15. Open a pull request
    Once approved, it will be deployed as soon as possible
    

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16. Our top list of features
    ● Automatic awarding of badges
    ○ based on number of events attended
    ● Collect more info about individual Dojos
    ● Redesign of events section
    ○ Make it more intuitive for parents/Dojo members to book tickets for events
    ● A Dojo stats page so an individual Dojo Admin can see:
    ○ the number of users,
    ○ user types, and
    ○ number of events attended
    

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17. Mozilla Open Badges can be awarded to youths and mentors through Zen!
    

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18. For non-coders!
    ● We need translators! You can join CrowdIn to help:
    ○ http://bit.ly/coderdojo-crowdin
    ○ We even have Klingon, Pirate, and Lolcat
    ● Get involved in the conversation about new features by:
    ○ Discussing our issues tagged with “request for comments”
    ○ Visiting the forum at http://forums.coderdojo.com and starting a conversation!
    ● Help us manage issues by:
    ○ Closing issues that are no longer relevant
    ○ Confirming/debunking a bug that someone else has reported
    ● Encourage your local Dojo to use the ticketing and badges features
    ○ New badges being launched next week
    

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19. We’re hiring!
    ● Technical and Education Content Lead
    ○ Passionate about CoderDojo
    ○ Proficient in coding languages typically used in Dojos
    ○ Exceptional writing and communication experience
    Ask me for more info or visit
    http://bit.ly/coderdojo-content-lead
    

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20. Questions?
    ursula@coderdojo.org
    Repository
    http://bit.ly/coderdojo-zen
    Workshop to be held late January
    Follow us on Twitter
    @CoderDojo
    

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