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2 - Community & Networking

Community participation & Networking report

Description

What to create
  • Report
 
description
The student should dedicate time to engage in different activities that have the potential to strengthen their participation in the web industry.
 
Group arrangement
This work must be done individually.
 
Minimum requirements
  • The report to be created (e.g. a spreadsheet) should contain a short description of each activity, the amount of hours spent and links to supporting documents (certificates, emails, project attributions, etc)
  • A total of 30h should be spent in the activities throughout the entire length of the course, with no constraint on when they should be done (i.e. the student decides on  when to do each activities)
  • Even though it’s not a problem to spend more than that amount of time in a certain activity, no activity should account for more than 10h in the report
 
returnables
  • link to report file
 
Theme ideas
  • Participating in open source projects
    • Creating software
    • Contributing to existing projects
  • Answering front-end development-related question on websites such as Stack Overflow and Quora
  • Helping out on the organization web-related events
  • Organizing web-related events
  • Participating on web-related events

Topics

  • Community participation
  • Networking

Goals

Knowledge

Understand that the web industry runs on communities, and that being known in one is how a lot of work is found
Understand what open source is and how contributing to it works in practice

Skills

Be able to take part in a community — an event, a forum, a project — rather than only reading it
Be able to keep an honest record of what you did and how long it took

Idea for return

A simple report containing a description of the different activities where you spent the 30h needed for this assignment.