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IIIT-Delhi / byld-website

Static Website for IIIT-Delhi's Software Dev Club Byld
https://iiit-delhi.github.io/byld-website/
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About US #69

Open peey opened 6 years ago

peey commented 6 years ago

Currently we display only a brief summary on front page

What's Byld? Byld is the software development club of IIIT-Delhi. We’re a bunch of students who love building apps and hacks using various tools and technologies.

Also I think we should put up our vision / mission of what we want byld to be / what we try for it to be on the website. The orientation session happens only once a year and then a lot of people don't even know what programming is, and almost no one knows what dev is.

@geekSiddharth suggested another session on "what is dev, why is it cool, what role does it have in jobs, what is byld?" based on first hand interaction with a few first years.

We could also summarize all of this within 3 paragraphs and have a "about us" section on the website, that'd be good for presence.

yati1998 commented 5 years ago

I would like to work on this

peey commented 5 years ago

Target Audience: Students in IIITD, esp new students who don't know what byld is or does. Desired Effect: Tell them who we are, what we do, what we want to do. Give accurate information so that they know how valuable (or not) such a club is and hopefully get them involved as members first and then organizers second.

Would ideally like to get this finalized and merged before the clubs intro session in monsoon. This also contains stuff which hasn't been implemented yet in strikethrough, which is a lot of stuff.

One formulation:

Byld is the community of developers in IIIT-Delhi who love building apps and hacks using various technologies. Some of our work is showcased on , and we regularly hold tboth introductory and advanced talks1 2, hackathons and contests which are open to all students.

Contests are the best way to put your skills to test and know where you need to learn more. We organize Darwin Dev where everyone competes to make something from a new library or API and automation challenges. We send teams to hackathons and contests and have had a few achievements (link).

We have a lot of students who are brilliant developers. Byld hopes to recruit such students as members. Members get a club shirt and have access to a members-only chat, a mailing list where alumni often send opportunities, and Byld VMs. We hope to build a strong alumni network and keep up the quality of our members's skills to maintain it.

We've always invested in keeping our community strong and providing new students opportunities to learn and join this community. In future Byld hopes to organize more things to incentivize: open-source contributions, collaborative projects, and curated learning resources. Byld also hopes to align itself with bigger developer organizations and companies which do community outreach.