Bluepojo

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   by Bluepojo 16y ago

   Didn't take it as harsh. I appreciate when people make me think about what I'm working on, so thanks. ;)
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   by Bluepojo 16y ago

   OpenHatch does some things well: they have a place to store tasks that get people involved on a basic level, and they let you promote your projects. Githacking is built directly on GitHub, however, so we have tons of data about the projects
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   by Bluepojo 16y ago

   That's only part of the picture. What if you know what project you want to work on, but don't know what exactly needs doing? An example from my experience: before I started working on Rubygems' testing infrastructure, I wanted to contribute
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   by Bluepojo 16y ago

   Ah, yeah, I can see that. We're a group of 4 developers who started this project this past Friday so we're still hashing a lot of things out. Hopefully we'll get the message across clearer the next time around, thanks for the notes. I'll ke
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   by Bluepojo 16y ago

   Yeah the word "social" is not accurate, thanks for pointing that out. Githacking is about connecting developers to projects and surfacing accessible tasks to get involved in OSS. ie: I'm a developer looking to get involved in git developmen
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   by Bluepojo 16y ago

   We ended up winning 1st prize for Startup Weekend (we posted this in advance of the demo). Here's our presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OhsAUMWbM
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   by Bluepojo 16y ago

   The paid platform will be a bit more involved to get working, for sure. Right now we're focusing on getting this useful for open source projects to find collaborators then we'll worry about making it useful for companies.
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   by Bluepojo 16y ago

   I always called it Model View Controller... MVC