WIP - some of this will be moved to separate pages
Step 1 : Draft pages
Step 2: Contributor interviews / polls
Step 3: Reassess based on feedback and launch
Welcome to the LiteFarm contributor self assign workflow!
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A paid job at LiteFarm → Check out: I want to work for LiteFarm!
Software Development experience → Check out: I want to grow as a developer!
Other areas like UI/UX, QA, Business Development etc?
Volunteer hours at a non-profit → Check out: I want to give back!
A way to help farmers → Check out: I want to help farmers!
A place to build cool things only→ Check out: I just want to build cool stuff!
Something Else… → Please let us know what we are missing and add your comment below !
I Want to Work for LiteFarm!
Awesome! And we want to have you!
But… for this section let us share a few resources and try to be upfront and honest about our upcoming vacancies.
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Current capacity: 1
Open positions: 1 –> Check out Careers
Outlook: ? (Possibly foreseeable increase in coming year or two)
Mentorship capacity: Currently open to all who are interested. Check out: I want to grow as a developer
I want to grow as a Developer
This is great news and we want to help you grow! (no pun intended). Should we ever be hiring… your contribution will be a huge step ahead of other applicants.
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I am… | Characteristics may include.. | LiteFarm Onboarding Path | Intangibles |
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A complete newbie |
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| Mentorship Networking |
A junior developer |
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| Job references Job hunt help Mentorship Networking |
An intermediate developer |
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| Mentor opportunities Leadership opportunities Networking |
A senior developer |
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| Mentor opportunities Leadership opportunities Operations opportunities Networking |
Guided stack journey (first draft)
An informal checklist of things to learn about LiteFarm and programming. The “type/review” means both creation of the code and review of others code of same type. I think a true understanding of what this stack journey should look like will come from sorting and categorising Jira tickets.
Order (Simultaneous) | High Level Concept | Resources | Jira ticket tags/Badges |
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1 | Bootcamp |
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2 | Local Setup |
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2 | Github Beginner |
| Beginner-easyfix Beginner-easyfix-review |
3S | Navigating Frontend | Beginner-CSS/Review Beginner-Story/Review Beginner-PureComponent/Review Beginner-Container/Review Beginner-Forms/Review Beginner-Selector/Review Beginner-Saga/Review | |
3S | Navigating Backend | Beginner-Routes/Review Beginner-Controllers/Review Beginner-Validation/Review Beginner-Models/Review | |
3S | Navigating mono-repo | Beginner-Package.json/Review Beginner-Devtools/Review Beginner-Database/Review Beginner-CI/Review Beginner-Env/Review | |
3S | Beginner mentorship | Mentor a newbie Peer programming | |
4S | Understanding Github | Github Actions/Review Merging/Review Management/Review | |
4S | Understanding Frontend | Feature-View/Review Feature-Form/Review | |
4S | Understanding Backend | Feature with controller/Review Feature with migration/Review Feature with validation/Review Feature with model/Review | |
4S | Understanding monorepo | Dockerfiles/Review Docker development/Review Configuration/Review package.json vulnerability/Review | |
4S | Beginner requirements | Requirements pushback/Review Requirements collaboration/Review Dev process creation/review minor documentation/review | |
4S | Understanding mentorship | Mentor a junior Peer programming Run a sprint meeting | |
5S | Understanding Deployment | CI improvement/review Server differentiation/review | |
5S | Understanding architecture | Frontend Requirements creation/review Backend Requirements creation/review | |
5S | Understanding requirements | major documentation/review feature development/collaboration/review triage backlog/review | |
5S | Leadership | Mentor intermediates | |
I want to give back !
Thats great news, we have lots of ways to donate time!
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Letter of reference
Certificate of recognition
Volunteer hours sign-off
Blog about your contribution?
There are lots of way you can give to our community:
Professional services and feedback (Check out → I want to grow as a developer)
Resource groups
Product testing
Release Sanity
etc…
I want to help farmers!
We are glad you are so passionate about our cause! While our goals are to meet the needs of our users(farmers) we sometimes fall short or have to balance responsibilities. We think the best way in the long run would be to participate in our regular development process (Check out → I want to grow as a developer) But if you are a person who is motivated to go straight for requested features you can check some out our suggestion portal here.
Disclaimer: We absolutely love and support this way of contributing to farmers but we must maintain certain design and code quality standards so be aware that anything brought to production will still need to be thoroughly reviewed.
I just want to build cool stuff!
Woo! We are DOWN for this type of contribution. But real talk we must maintain certain design and code quality standards so be aware that anything brought to production will still need to be thoroughly reviewed!
Okay sounds good? The best way to do this would be through an innovation session. Basically you do a slide show about your idea. We would offer our feedback or provide things to consider – then you can go ahead and build it! You can see some examples of innovation sessions here.
Even if your idea is not ultimately selected we may be able to find ways to showcase your working prototypes – like through blog posts or social media!
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