SeanCLynch / bridge

Unoffical VFA social network
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The Bridge Project

A platform-based project exploring entreprenurial social networking and culture design for entrepreneurs through bottom-up, agile design.

See also: Bridge API here

Mission

The goal of Bridge is two-fold: to collapse fragmentations between VFA's fellows, who are seperated by city, class, and social group, fostering an open, electric community of entrepreneurship across space and time. We want to create a minimalistic, simple database of fellows, with some additional awesome features. The second, broader goal of "The Bridge Project," of which the Bridge app is a core product, is to experiment with different forms of culture design and network formation in entrepreneurial environments beginning with VFA and expanding outward, initiating entrepreneurship across the world in small and large communities, rural and urban, at scale.

On a more meta level, our organization is itself an experiment in how we want to build and participate in startup-like environments. Bridge is a place for you to experiment and practice the skills we'll need to build thriving businesses, a kind of testing ground for people to and hone new potentials among great friends.

We aren't oficially associated with VFA. It's made by and for fellows!

Driving Question

What kind of fellow community should we design to achieve our full potential as entrepreneurs?

Timeline (under revision)

  1. MVP Completed By August, 31st
  2. Beta Launched By September 30th

Communications (under revision)

  1. "Bridgecomms.slack.com" is our workspace. We have one channel, bridge, for all to collaborate.
  2. Other conversations happen in DMs, texts, and phone calls. Please don't create new Slack channels.
  3. Meetings will happen over Zoom, which is integrated into our Slack workspace.

Organizational Structure

Team Directors

Michael Wedd, Co-founder, Bridge Project Director
Eric Zhang, Co-founder, Director of Systems
Jake Peacock, Director of Research & Development
Hannah Hund, Director of Culture Design
Sean Lynch, Director of Engineering
TBD, Art Director

Engineering Team

Back-End Spec.

Sean Lynch, Lead Back-end Engineer
Jake Peacock, Back-end Engineer
Adam Stern, Backe-end Engineer
Samreeen Islam, Back-end Engineer

Front-End Spec.

Andre Gomes, Lead Frontend Engineer
Robert Hwang, Front-end Engineer
Halley Cummings, Front-end Engineer

Research & Development Team

Jake Peacock, Director

Art Team

Lydia Dick, Graphic Designer
Taysa Mohler, Graphic Designer
Rosalie Reuss, Graphic Designer
Amy Jo Weaver, Videographer

Culture Design Team

Julia Kelley, designer
Amy Young, designer
Dylan Yuksa, designer
Destinee Mentor, designer
Ying Yu, designer