[RECAP] CodeLab 002!

[leighphan]

Location: Pro Desk Space August 15, 2016

Attendees: Nick Christina Leigh Simeon V Patch N Theresa L Ashley K Wes T Joseph S Jon Cho Tim D Jorg

Started off with intros; had some new members!

Discussed potential collaboration project ideas:

• Amazon Alexa hacking (Nick): Project use Nick’s Echo / emulator on AWS; Mashery (If paired w/ open data, would need a frequently-updated dataset)
• Raspberry Pi / Arduino
• Tessel: similar to Rasp Pi/Arduino; runs Node JS
• Open Data: e.g. LA County Crime, Air Quality, NASA data
• Photo-A-Day Project using JS + Google’s Firebase platform (Simeon)
• Future talk on authoring Node modules (Tim)
• Creating website for CodeLab (#13)
• Create logo for CodeLab (#15)

  Discussed beginner resources to open source projects:

yourfirstpr.github.io Firsttimersonly.com http://up-for-grabs.net/ 24pullrequests.com https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/labels/easy%20fix

Simeon gave his recap of attending Cascadia Fest (JS conf)!

Browsers with latest ECMAScript compatibility: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

Future / Next meeting:

Interested in collaborating on a project? See open issues! Show & Tell - share what challenges you're working on. Keep in touch on Slack - check out new channels :)

Feel free to add / suggest anything we may have missed