Lets go meta: custom wrapper for join-a-breakout...breakout group

[easherma]

About the group

We've been experimenting with using Github Issues as a way to track the ongoing working and educational groups that meet here at hack night.

This is a great example of the 'hacking' part of hack night; using an existing tool for a new/originally unintended purpose.

So far, the group has done a great job adapting to this change. Lets take this hack to a new level!

We suspect that using Github issues is not a 100% perfect solution for our problem as-is.

For example, in order to create a new breakout group, you have to create a Github account. If you're a non-techie/not on Github already, this is L A M E and is one more obstacle for new people to create new groups.

But there are other aspects as well that could be tweaked.

Group leaders

Eric Sherman ericandrewsherman@gmail.com

Who we're looking for

We are looking to collect user feedback from people, especially if you've never used Github! We want to scope out what a custom wrapper around Github Issues would look like that also integrates with the platform and style of chihacknight.org Also looking for:

• UI Dev
• Github API experts
• Javascript, Python, whatever (people who can write code)

  Tools

• Github API
• Jekyl/Github Pages

  Relevant Links

https://chihacknight.org/breakouts.html

Where we meet

Hopefully we'll grab a side room or find a corner to chill in.

[easherma]

Potentially useful/relevant stuff:

http://prose.io/#about https://github.com/michael/github https://developer.github.com/v3/

[easherma]

Potential Feature tweaks/needs:

• Custom issue order
• Guest Account so users can make breakout groups without a Github account
• Putting breakout groups to 'sleep' (potentially automatically)
• Integration with slack bot to make channels/ping users to see if they will be at hack night that week
• Style that matches the chihacknight.org website
• Custom opening/closing of issues based on DOW (i.e. Dolphin Tank only meets on certain Tuesdays)
• user permissions/collaborators

[easherma]

made a repo

[easherma]

Ryan: starting a Bootcamp, some light coding, no github extra github stuff at the top for the breakout group repo that has nothing to do with the project Where to find repos Level of complexity Creating or joining a breakout is not clear (add a breakout group button just links to more instructions)

[derekeder]

Not meeting tonight, closing.