{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/27","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/27/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/27/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/27/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/27","id":63544526,"number":27,"title":"exercism.io","user":{"login":"kytrinyx","id":276834,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/276834?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx","html_url":"https://github.com/kytrinyx","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kytrinyx/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/labels/accepted","name":"accepted","color":"009800"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":11,"created_at":"2015-03-22T15:37:01Z","updated_at":"2015-04-11T02:42:51Z","closed_at":null,"body":"**Name and Contact of the Project Mentor:** Katrina Owen (@kytrinyx - katrina.owen@gmail.com)\r\n\r\n**Name of the Project:** Exercism\r\n\r\n**URL:** http://exercism.io\r\n\r\n**About the Project:**\r\n\r\nExercism is a web platform for skill development in programming.\r\n\r\nIt has small programming problems in the form of a README and a test suite. The first goal is to get all of the tests passing. The more interesting part of exercism is the conversation that happens after a solution is submitted. This conversation can take several forms. If the programmer submitting the problem is a beginner, then the feedback often takes the form of help learning the language better. When the programmer submitting the problem is more experienced, the discussion revolves around style, idioms, and best practices. As the code is discussed, the programmer submits new iterations of the solution, evolving and exploring the problem space.\r\n\r\nThe project lives in the https://github.com/exercism organization. The languages used for the platform itself are Ruby, Go, and Javascript, CSS, and HTML, but each supported language has its own repository containing the problems (test suites) in that language.\r\n\r\n**Suitable for beginners?**\r\n\r\nYes, mostly.\r\n\r\nThe environment is very supportive and friendly. The main code base is somewhat chaotic and unweildy (nature of a prototype, unfortunately), so it can be hard to get started. Other parts of system are quite easy to understand and work in.\r\n\r\n**What are issues/features students may work on?**\r\n\r\nI am currently working on organizing and defining work. Here are some of the over-arching things that I'd like to achieve in the next few months:\r\n\r\n1. Make the project easy to contribute to for people of all skill levels (https://github.com/exercism/exercism.io/issues/2092)\r\n2. Replace the current \"pending nitpicks\" list with granular subscriptions and an activity stream:\r\n(https://github.com/exercism/exercism.io/issues/1899)\r\n3. Design and implement a \"mentor\" feature, allowing a mentor to be notified whenever the mentee submits code (https://github.com/exercism/exercism.io/issues/2248)\r\n4. Improve the onboarding process -- I'm not sure what this means, and I would need help with the entire process: brainstorming, design, product management, implementation.\r\n5. Designing and implementing the dashboard -- again undefined at the moment; this could be a series of small improvements or a big design effort, depending on who gets involved and what they're interested in.\r\n\r\nAll in all I have far more things to do than people to do them, and I am happy to spend time with students defining and refining ideas.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/comments/91746631","html_url":"https://github.com/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/27#issuecomment-91746631","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/27","id":91746631,"user":{"login":"rubydiamond","id":11421116,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11421116?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond","html_url":"https://github.com/rubydiamond","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubydiamond/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-11T02:42:51Z","updated_at":"2015-04-11T02:42:51Z","body":"I'm in Echo Park.\n\nLet's talk on the tele.\nemail my real email and I'll send you my phone number. :)\n\n------------------ ------------------ ------------------\n\n*Rails Girls LA*\nrailsgirlsla@gmail.com <railsgirls@gmail.com>\n\nhttp://railsgirls.com/la\n@RailsGirlsLA\n\n*Jen Diamond *\n323-363-0002\nthejendiamond@gmail.com\n@jendiamond\n\n\nOn Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Katrina Owen <notifications@github.com>\nwrote:\n\n> Oh, are you in LA/Santa Monica, btw? I'd love to meet up.\n>\n> —\n> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub\n> <https://github.com/rails-girls-summer-of-code/projects/issues/27#issuecomment-91745738>\n> .\n>\n"}}