Revamping Openflock

[waseem18]

Hi @icaroponce

Thanks for your interest in this project.

I hope your got the gist of this project. Unfortunately I couldn't renew the domain and left it because I was completely busy with my office work and couldn't continue working on this project.

If you're interested in shaping this project we can probably start off working on it.

Just to give you some information

This project was hosted on Google App engine. This project uses Python 2.7 - Webapp2 - Google datastore The current version of code for this project is not appreciable. What I'm planning (If we can collaborate on this project)

We can use AWS or Digital Ocean or any other provider. We can use Flask (or Django?) or MERN stack? (I feel flask would suit our needs and Django would be an overkill - If it's going to be Python stack). MERN stack would also work! We can probably make a fresh start with similar UI designs (or some other - if you have got some in mind) and use React - Redux (I too used React sometime back) What do you say?

And Thanks once again for your interest in this project.

[icaroponce]

Hi @waseem18

Yes, I think we can work together on this! Initially, I'm also a bit busy with my office work and with my relocation to another country, however I hope to have more free time to work in cool projects soon.

I also would like to know more about this project, for example: how other people use it, what do you want expose here in github and why, if you have in mind a roadmap for this project or know more or less what we would do in the next steps. (You don't necessarily need te answer these questions right now and here, I'm thinking about use another tool for communication, I'd suggest IRC or Slack - I prefer slack) I really would enjoy to know more and discuss about it and other cool projects which we can work on together.

About the technology: what I dislike at a first moment, is all this necessary configuration to get it running. Maybe you should think about other ways to make it simpler. Using Docker?

About the stacks, I've been working with NodeJS for web in the last 3 years, and my greatest skills and experience are with Node. With Python, I have only used it for data processing and batch scripts, and even tough I believe to have a very good understating of the language in a general way, my knowledge is a bit limited when it comes to web developing with Python. I don't think it'd be a problem at all, I used Flask in some small projects before, I don't think it'll be a tough challenge for me to code it here. About Django, I know nothing about it.

In front-end, I also have a great knowledge with React-Redux and I have been working daily with these 2 for some months.

About the domain: It'd be nice to have it working again. About providers: I've been working with Azure in the last moths, but also have worked a long time with AWS.

One suggestion: what about create an organization to Openflock here on Github?

Thanks

[waseem18]

Hi @icaroponce

Thanks for the reply. Yeah the current code base is not great and is painful to deal with. We can surely use Docker and that would be a great step.

Coming to technology, as we mutually dealt with NodeJS before it would be better if we proceed with using NodeJS - React - Redux - (MongoDB?) for what we're trying to build.

Creating organization is a good call, let me proceed with creation of organization and invite you. :+1:

Coming to 'domain', I feel we can have it once we've a working app ready.

I've also created a Slack for the future discussions. Here's the URL : https://openflock.slack.com

Thank You.

[waseem18]

The primary use case of this application was to allow fellow open source contributors to promote their open source projects on Openflock.

In other words, if you're building an open source project named 'X' and you want some helping hand, you can promote project 'X' with the reason on Openflock.

If some open source projects wants people to work on their 'Low hanging fruit' bugs, they can promote that project with the required reason.

Earlier when the app was running, there were around 100+ users and 10+ projects were promoted daily. Unfortunately without any notice I lost the domain and left it as I was busy.

We can add more features to Openflock now, let me know if you've got any.

[icaroponce]

hi @waseem18

Thanks for creating the organization! Just a little and not so relevant observation: what do you think about keep the whole organization name in lower case? it creates a friendly url by default and it seems to be the most used pattern all around github. I also believe that only "openflock" as the organization would be simpler and enough.

Coming to technology, it sounds nice for me! (Yes, I'd choose MongoDB as the database since it the database where I have more experience, besides redis, which's not really a database).

About the domain, that's ok. We can buy it once we have a first beta running. Hope it's still going to be available.

I couldn't login in slack, could you please add this email to the team: icaroponce@rankmyapp.com.br? This is the email I'm currently using there.

Thanks!

[icaroponce]

In the next 2~4 weeks, I'm gonna be very busy, because as I mentioned before, I'm moving to another country and I still have a lot of things to be done in order to move. I'll try to be present here the most I can, but I think that coding hard only will be possible once I arrived in the another country and had organized my stuffs.

The project sounds really amazing, can't wait to start working on it!

[waseem18]

Hi @icaroponce ,

I've invited you to slack.

Coming to organization, 'openflock' (all small case) has already been taken so I went on to the current name.

Anyway, good luck for your relocation. Looking forward to start working on this project.

[icaroponce]

Hi @waseem18

I couldn't log in on slack yet, what's quite strange. Can you please add the following emails: ponceicaro@gmail.com and icaro.ponce@rankmyapp.com.br ?

Once I had logged in with one of these we can remove the other ones.

Cheers

[waseem18]

Sure, will do thatOn Aug 22, 2017 19:32, Ícaro Ponce notifications@github.com wrote:Hi @waseem18 I couldn't log in on slack yet, what's quite strange. Can you please add the following emails: ponceicaro@gmail.com and icaro.ponce@rankmyapp.com.br ? Once I had logged in with one of these we can remove the other ones. Cheers

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