[CodeLab 026]: Mon, Aug 28, 2017

[kangashley]

🎉 Aug 28, 2017: CodeLab 026 in Session :alembic:

Leave a comment below if I missed anything!

Who's here: Simeon (@svincent) Rob (@honzo0481) Jim (@jimthoburn) Danny (@dannylew12) Kyle (@fujisawakyle) Josie (@josiegarcia1) Ashley (@kangashley) (🌟 = first-timer)

Stand Up 🙌

Announcements 📢

1. CodeLab meets WEEKLY! 🎉
   • Review of our Code of Conduct. If you haven't already, complete our intro survey and workshop idea survey. Follow us on Twitter and Slack!
   • First week of month: Onboarding for newcomers, new projects, project/language you started in the previous month
   • Once a month: Urban Drool Tool work session
   • Rest of the month: Workshops
   • Pair programming track: Simeon has moved some of the JavaScript Exercism exercises to Glitch—so you don't have to worry about setting up! We are interested in figuring out how to move exercises for other languages to Glitch.
2. Upcoming events
   • [10–6 pm / Thu & Fri, Sep 14–15 / DTLA] Hacking for Humanity, hosted by Girls in Tech / RSVP
   • [10 am–4 pm / Sat, Sep 23 / UCLA] Creating Coding Fest / RSVP

In the Lab 🔬

• Jim revived the CodeLab Floating Library and brought titles such as The Elements of Typographic Style, Don't Make Me Think!, Content Strategy for the Web, and CSS Secrets!
• Git it: Josie forked Hello Page from @jlord's Fork-n-Go!
• CSS Grid-ing with Grid By Example by @rachelandrew, 3D Transforms , a grid cube by Rob
• 🆕 updates to UDT: Map legends with Mapbox GL JS, API

Plans for Next Meeting (September 4, 2017) + Future 🔮

• We're off next Monday for Labor Day weekend but some of us might meet up in LA over the weekend. Check Slack for plans!
• Pending on the agenda: Show-and-Tell 🎩, tutorials on timing, service workers, technical writing/documentation, creative coding
• Urban Drool Tool: Ashley and Leigh began setting up docs in a Wiki. @theresaluu has documented how we set up our GitHub Pages site with Jekyll. @codeforamerica's Civic Tech Patterns has reached our radar!
• 💡: Build a CodeLab Calendar

[jimthoburn]

These notes are outstanding, Ashley! 🎶💯