#FAQ
##What is CodeBuddies? We're a community of independent code learners who help each other on Slack, schedule hangouts to learn with each other, contribute to a periodic anonymous crowdsourced newsletter where anyone can share a personal project or leave a shout out, and post on Facebook. We come from all over the world; there are members living in the United States, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Russia, Australia, Canada, India, and more.
Learning with each other helps us learn faster. We strive to create a safe space for anyone interested in code to talk about the learning process. The project is free and open-sourced on Github, and this app is 100% community/volunteer-built.
##What are you trying to build here?
##Why are you building this site? Our community spends a lot of time helping each other on our public Slack (P.S. You can get an invite here if you want to join), but it's hard to schedule google hangout study times via Slack, and it's also hard to know who else is online and available for joining a hangout to work on something together. The platform we're building solves those issues.
##How do I contribute to this project? PLEASE GO TO contributing.md and follow the first six instructions listed there!!!
And here are the volunteers so far:
- @linda, https://github.com/lpatmo - contributed to various issues
- @sbe, https://github.com/sbe - contributed to discussion on features
- @abdulhannanali, https://github.com/abdulhannanali - contributed to the start of a #todayilearned slackbot
- @bethanyg, https://github.com/bethanyg - contributed good advice and discussion on features
- @mattierae https://github.com/mattierae - contributed awesome balsamiq mockups
- @adachiu https://github.com/adachiu - contributed awesome high-quality designs for almost every page of the app, lead the design and UX thinking
- @wuworkshop https://github.com/wuworkshop - contributed advice on a huge number of issues and helped organize the git process flow
- @Richardh https://github.com/studentrik
- @anbuselvan https://github.com/anbuselvan - contributed code for the foundations of the app, including hangout/learning creation and Slack authentication.
- @husam https://github.com/hudat
- @ccr https://github.com/Iccr
- @ghazi https://github.com/ghmoha
- @mualth https://github.com/maudem
- @oliver84 https://github.com/Oliver84
- @selfspunwebs, https://github.com/anonRegions
- @luxis https://github.com/Luxisapex - contributed to various issues, including the "kudos" feature which lets users upvote learnings
- @sergeant-q https://github.com/sergeant-q - contributed fixes for issues, including hangout deletion and email notification for cancelled hangouts, and improved thinking on process steps for how to collaborate on this app
- @daisukeoka, https://github.com/daisukeokaoss
- @adanot, https://github.com/adanot
- @sheldonbarnes, https://github.com/sheldonbarnes - contributed fixes to issues, including textarea word limit
- @howdoicomputer, https://github.com/howdoicomputer
- @mduca, https://github.com/mduca - contributed to discussions on features
- @alex, http://github.com/nestevez7 - contributed to discussion on features
- @will, http://github.com/William-R-Wilson - contributed fixes to issues, including ability to edit/trash learnings
- @anon user(s) - contributed fixes to bugs, including security measures, re-touching of the kudos layout, and scrolling pagination
- @olivia, http://github.com/foxiae - contributed to discussions on features
- Add Your Name on the Google Doc (link below) If You Want To Help, then read contributing.md
If you'd like to help contribute, add your name on the google doc at http://bit.ly/codebuddies-hangouts-platform-v2-googledoc, say hello in the #codebuddies-meta channel on Slack, and be sure to read the "how do I contribute" instructions on contributing.md!
P.S. We'll schedule hangouts to do code walkthroughs or code show and tells occasionally, and announce it in the #codebuddies-meta channel on Slack. The goal is to help everyone who wants to contribute to this app learn quickly through collaboration. The list of contributors above contains a good mix of full-time developers and as well as people contributing to an open-sourced project for the first time.