Onboarding new team members

[desputinski]

Hi!

*Make sure you are protecting your identity before posting here. (make a new account on github)

Please introduce yourself in this thread, your skills and your interests and check our projects for a place where you might fit best: https://github.com/orgs/tcfev/repositories

We need help in backend, frontend, design, strategy, architecture, management and public engagement.
*You can also define your own field, convince us, and start your work there.

Becoming a member of our parent organisation is easy (but you don't have to)

• Membership

Becoming one of us over Github is easier. Just let us know here in this thread that you are in and let's make a plan of action.

Contributing to our projects is super easy. Just work on one of the issues or make a new one, clone/fork, add things, commit and make PR.

Want to chat in private or have a video call?

• send us an email over: Fordem@transcf.org
• or simply post to this discussion.

Let's see what we can do together. We are excited!

[chandansgowda]

Hello @desputinski
I recently came across this project. May I know more about it ?

[chandansgowda]

Hey @desputinski @armantorkzaban,
I'm interested to work on the project. I'm actually busy till Wednesday. It would be great if the phone call is scheduled anyday after Wed.
Thanks

[armantorkzaban]

Hi @chandansgowda, have you received our email?

[chandansgowda]

Hey @armantorkzaban
I was actually busy since we last spoke. I have replied to your mail.
Thanks

[armantorkzaban]

Hey @chandansgowda, you missed our appointment for today.

[chandansgowda]

Hey @armantorkzaban
I got confused about the timings and thought it was at 8PM IST. Are you still available?

[desputinski]

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ist-to-cet-converter

So when it is 7 p.m. IST, it is 2:30 p.m. MEZ (Arman, Christopher)

[IranNewsWatch]

Hello everyone. I'm glad to join!

[armantorkzaban]

Hi there. Welcome!
Please let others know about your project.
Take a look around and see our projects and their issues. (some are hidden, we will show you those once you're finished with the public ones. ;-))

[IranNewsWatch]

Sorry I missed the notifications. I have created a simple automation tool which automates Iran protest news propagation (and filtering) here https://twitter.com/IranNewsWatch
Main repo here: https://github.com/IranNewsWatch/irannewsbot

I code in python, SQL. I understand basic HTML and hot to build dashboards using dash-plotly. Interested in twitter stuff, Knowledge management/categorization, e-demogracy

[armantorkzaban]

I love your project.
What do you think about a robot that works like this:

1. called with @forDemRobo+[tag/topic] -> it imports the post above it to a list for a moderator to import in forDem under [tag/topic]
2. user connects it with their account and it crawls and imports all the user's tweets in a temporary list, waiting for confirmation/categorisation of the user to publish on forDem

[IranNewsWatch]

on number 1:
The form of the UI matters. However, the import module in the backend is going to be pretty much the same. I can work on that part, i.e.: 1. The bot gets triggered by a mention. 2. Imports the tweet (and mentions) with the link to the tweet.
In term of planning, let's make sure moderators will eventually get replaced by our AI concept categorization, etc

[armantorkzaban]

Shall we begin? @IranNewsWatch

[osAIran]

Hello there
I'd be glad to join you as well.
You can find me at we.are.jina.amini@proton.me

[armantorkzaban]

How/where would you like to begin?

[desputinski]

We could also brief you on what what parts of the project you can take part, where it makes sense. Maybe chat or phone... We have a chat group on the secure messenger session for example (https://getsession.org/)

[osAIran]

I think its best for me to begin with the discussion I made about voting and the coalition platform.
That sounds good, lets have a quick chat

[IranNewsWatch]

Hi Jina. Welcome. Where can I find the "discussion ... about voting and the coalition platform"?

[osAIran]

#160

[desputinski]

Hello/Welcome to the project!

[Zohreh-sudo]

Hi,
I've got a message from one of you for contribution last week. How shall we communicate in this platform?

[Zohreh-sudo]

Alright now I read the info at the top.

[desputinski]

we also have discussion/chat groups in the privacy chat app "session": https://getsession.org/ We can add you there, if you want to!

[armantorkzaban]

Hi @Zohreh-sudo,
nice to have you here. Where would you like to begin? Would you like one of us to to show you around?

[Zedi-Bi]

Hi,
Thanks for answering. Sorry for my late reply. I was terribly sick for 2 weeks. Where shall I start? I'll leave an intro in discussion.

[armantorkzaban]

Hi @Zedi-Bi, I have answered your message over Session. Still waiting for your reply.

[Zedi-Bi]

Hi, I'm Zedi and new here. My skills are in design thinking, system thinking and strategy. I'll be very happy to contribute in your project. It would be great if you could guide me through and let me know how I. Can contribute.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Best

[desputinski]

Welcome! Great, you want to join! With all questions concerning programming, it is probably best, if you phone or have a video call with Arman. With general questions we can also call/phone or chat. As said above, we have a group on the privacy messenger session. Best regards Christopher

[armantorkzaban]

Hi @Zedi-Bi,
I am available over Session with this handle for a private talk: 051e78c4fa5aed198ab156a3be8ae039afe9fb3569e8c594856f15ebefd3054858

In addition we could use this discussion board: #163

[fabifj]

Hi, I'm fabi and new here. My skills are in Design and Programming( JS Frameworks, Flutter). I'll be very happy to contribute in your project.
You can assign me the tasks and I'll try to develop the front end of the App.

[armantorkzaban]

Hi @fabifj,
this is wonderful. Welcome to the team.
together with @zanzendegi we can assign fordem-app front-end tasks to you.
This will include making a Flutter version of Mastodon Android App. Are you ready?

[desputinski]

Hello fabi, that is great! We need people like you :)
About the question which programming-tasks you can take part in, Arman will be able to brief you...
Best regards

[zabuzara]

درود به همه دوستان،

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Viele Grüße
Omid