Proposal #2: Speakerinnen List

[zaziemo]

Speakerinnen is a project which originated from a Rails Girls Ruby study group (@rubymonsters) in Berlin which has been meeting for almost two years.

The application aims to make it easy to find female speakers for conferences and panels. After launching an initial, basic version in early March 2014 the app received quite some attention in (mostly) German media, including some major newspaper online outlets and radio interviews.

It is now being moderated and run (content-wise) by Anne Roth and maintained and run (tech-wise) by @tyranja and @zaziemo (still being supported by the @rubymonsters study group). The team will also be mentoring the project. We are based in Berlin (Germany) so it would be great to have a team also working here. But this is not a must.

We are currently slowly working through a backlog of requested improvements, new features and bug fixes, and we hope to have a good amount done by July. Still we expect there to be a good number of open issues, like nice-to-have features, general improvements and refactorings that we believe it would make a nice project for the Rails Girls Summer of Code.

If you are looking for a project for Rails Girls Summer of Code, please consider Speakerinnen!

Here's why you want it:

• The project is real, i.e. it is actually running, and people are actually using it.
• There is Anne, who is very experienced with running successful campaigns (i.e. there's a real "product owner").
• There is a group of Rails Girls students who are very familiar with both the code base and the open issues and feature requests, so they'll be able to act as mentors for this project.
• It still is a standard Rails app, which means you'll be able to pick things up and get started with actual improvements easily.
• And finally, this is a project that originated from a Rails Girls study group, so it's just an amazing story to tell :)

We are looking forward to hear from you!

❤️

[sray]

Sounds quite interesting and challenging. I would love to spend some time on this project during the Railsgirls SoC and help you improve it.

[zaziemo]

@Saheba great ;) thanks a lot!

[sray]

Alright, I am looking for a teammate then. Are you just offering the project or are you also interested in coaching? And can you give me a link to get in contact with the Rails Girls students who could act as mentors, please?

[runlevel5]

I could not be the coach due to my other commitment. Besides it is preferred to find coach in same location.

I'd like to suggest you send an email to spree mailing list first

[OObatwomanOO]

Would be very happy to work on that project too ! --> I'm busy looking for a pair...
http://teams.railsgirlssummerofcode.org/users/87

[zuzannast]

Can I ask about the project - what are the main goals you want to achieve? Do you want to add some features to it or improve the basic?

[zaziemo]

Hey @zustmust, great that you are interested in the Speakerinnen project!
It is difficult to talk about our main goals since that is work in progress and the project is developing very fast. Here you get an overview over the open issues: rubymonsters/speakerinnen_liste#216 Those are very diverse - there are some bugs, some bigger and new features, some tests. It would be great if the RSoC team could work on some smaller issues in the beginning and to grab one or two bigger features to work on for a longer period. Does that make sense for you?
Don't hesitate to ask again if you have further questions.

[zuzannast]

Thank you @zaziemo. :-) Yes it does! That's exactly what my team has thought about. We've been discussing the issues and how they could be divided among the exact months and we would be delighted to work on this project.

[krln]

@zaziemo hi! I and my teammate are interested in this project, will you be a mentor of this project or do we have to find someone else? :)

[zaziemo]

@krln we will be the mentor of the project. Thanks for asking. I will add that in the description above!

[sray]

@zaziemo @tyranja: just submitted application with @chatulli for working on speakerinnen.org ... crossing fingers now :)