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 for contributors!
We at LiteFarm value your time and hard work and want to provide something of value to you in return for your contribution! In order to do that we wanted to have an organised process for welcoming new contributors in a way that helps you get all that you can from LiteFarm in a way that is best for , we’ve created this page to help you identify all the potential benefits that LiteFarm can offer, based on your interest!
We would like to give back to you – while you are giving to us ! Be that work experience, volunteer hours or othersomething else!
Please take a look at some general interests we have identified and how we think we can address those intereststhem. If one of the onboarding paths interest you please take a look at that onboarding page by clicking the link!
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A paid job at LiteFarm → Check out: I want to work for LiteFarm!
Work experience:
Software
Developers check out → I want to grow as a developer!
Other areas like UI/UX, QA, Business Development etc?
UI/UX Designers please see → I want to grow as a UI/UX designer! (page not yet available)
Farmer Success over here → I want to help farmers use LiteFarm! (page not yet available)
A way to help farmers ! → Check out: I want to help farmers!
A only want a place to build cool things ! → 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!
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First of all please check out our careers page to see if what you are looking for is already available.
As a small non-profit our resources are unfortunately, limited. That means that there is a chance that we may not be hiring for a role you are interested in for quite some time. But if you are interested in being a regular contributor anyways and you want to be first in line when any new opportunities arise your best path will be to check out one of these resources:
Developers check out → I want to grow as a developer!
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Current capacity: 1
Open positions: 0
Outlook: Unlikely to increase capacity in the mid term as this is currently the “CEO” position at LiteFarm
Mentorship capacity: ?
Farm Success Coordinator
Current capacity: 1
Open positions: 0
Outlook: ? (Possibly foreseeable increase in coming year or two)
Mentorship capacity: ?
UI/UX Designer
Current capacity: 1
Open positions: 0
Outlook: ? (unlikely to increase in the mid term as industry average puts designer to developer ratio at 1:10 or 1:20)
Mentorship capacity: ?
Quality Assurance
Current capacity: 2
Open positions: 0
Outlook: ? (unlikely to increase in the mid term as industry average puts designer to developer ratio at 1:3 or 1:5)
Mentorship capacity: ?
Full Stack Software Development
Can vary wildly based on skill, communication and goals but first google result suggests roughly 1:4:12 ratio of Senior:Intermediate:Junior developers.
Junior Full Stack
Current capacity: 1
Open positions: 0
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
Intermediate Full Stack
Current capacity: 1
Open positions: 0
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
Senior Full Stack
Current capacity: 0
Open positions: 0
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
Technical Lead
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.
This page will look into the best way to incorporate you as a equal team member under the direction of our technical lead. If you are more interested in simply building cool stuff and showing it off please check out → I just want to build cool stuff!
From here we will need you to self-assess your skill and comfort level as a developer and with our stack:
I am:
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I am…
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Characteristics may include..
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LiteFarm Onboarding Path
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Intangibles
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A complete newbie
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Almost zero experience programming
No specific language proficiency
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JS Bootcamp recommendation
Secondary interest bootcamp recommendation
Mentor check-ins
→ Junior Dev Path
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Mentorship
Networking
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A junior developer
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This may be your first or second experience working on a production codebase
May or may not be familiar with our stack
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LiteFarm local running
LiteFarm development processes (github, testing ,linting, etc)
Guided stack journey through Jira tickets and ticket review
Mentor check-ins
Mentor opportunities
Education suggestions
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Job references
Job hunt help
Mentorship
Networking
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An intermediate developer
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Developing on a production codebase for several years
In a position to mentor juniors
Likely familiar with at least some of the stack
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→ Accelerated Junior Dev Path
Mentorship responsibilities
Guided interest specialisation (CI/CD, testing, db architecture, frontend, api, server etc)
Education opportunities
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Mentor opportunities
Leadership opportunities
Networking
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A senior developer
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Developing on a production codebase for many years
In a position to mentor intermediates
Likely familiar with at least some of the stack
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→ Accelerated intermediate path
Guided full-stack specialisation
Mentorship responsibilities
Leadership opportunities
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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.
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Order
(Simultaneous)
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High Level Concept
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Resources
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Jira ticket tags/Badges
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1
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Bootcamp
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external
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N/A
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2
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Local Setup
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Litefarm
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2
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Github Beginner
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litefarm
external
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Beginner-easyfix
Beginner-easyfix-review
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3S
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Navigating Frontend
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Beginner-CSS/Review
Beginner-Story/Review
Beginner-PureComponent/Review
Beginner-Container/Review
Beginner-Forms/Review
Beginner-Selector/Review
Beginner-Saga/Review
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3S
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Navigating Backend
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Beginner-Routes/Review
Beginner-Controllers/Review
Beginner-Validation/Review
Beginner-Models/Review
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3S
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Navigating mono-repo
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Beginner-Package.json/Review
Beginner-Devtools/Review
Beginner-Database/Review
Beginner-CI/Review
Beginner-Env/Review
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3S
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Beginner mentorship
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Mentor a newbie
Peer programming
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4S
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Understanding Github
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Github Actions/Review
Merging/Review
Management/Review
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4S
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Understanding Frontend
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Feature-View/Review
Feature-Form/Review
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4S
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Understanding Backend
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Feature with controller/Review
Feature with migration/Review
Feature with validation/Review
Feature with model/Review
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4S
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Understanding monorepo
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Dockerfiles/Review
Docker development/Review
Configuration/Review
package.json vulnerability/Review
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4S
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Beginner requirements
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Requirements pushback/Review
Requirements collaboration/Review
Dev process creation/review
minor documentation/review
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4S
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Understanding mentorship
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Mentor a junior
Peer programming
Run a sprint meeting
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5S
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Understanding Deployment
CI improvement/review
Server differentiation/review
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5S
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Understanding architecture
Frontend Requirements creation/review
Backend Requirements creation/review
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5S
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Understanding requirements
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major documentation/review
feature development/collaboration/review
triage backlog/review
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5S
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Leadership
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Mentor intermediates
I want to give back !
Thats great news, we have lots of ways to donate time!
For your service to us please let us know if we can provide any of the following:
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!
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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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Volunteer hours at a non-profit → Check out: I want to give back!
Something Else… → Please let us know what we are missing and add your comment below !