Goal
Provide resources to help newbie devs get their journey started. Our focus is on helping underrepresented newbie devs feel like they belong
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Plans
Starting with physical snail mail welcome kits. Eventually will gather a website, I think.
Ideas of things to Include
- git cheat sheet
- hot key cheat sheet
- dev interactions comic (code reviews, pairing, PRs)
- list of resources
- how to google things
- list of awesome communities
- You Belong in Tech stickers (by Anna Rankin)
- A card about Newbie Coder Problem Solving School (by Nicole Archambault)
- Moderndotweb #ChangeTheRatio stickers
- Printed version of git zine (by Julia Evans)
- Printed version of debugging zine (by Julia Evans)
- ?
How
- Send emails to companies
- Look for sponsorships
- Set up Patreon/bmac for people to support the kits
- Set up way for people to donate their unwanted stickers
- Find #CodeNewbies starting their journey
OutReach
I need help finding emails for for the ones I haven’t contacted yet.
Contact
- alexa99
- AWS cloud
- Github
- Digital Ocean
- CircleCI
- Sonatype
- Twilio
- repl.it
- glitch
- Egghead.io
- Scratch.mit.edu
- codepen.io
- https://pride.codes/
- flatiron school
- CSS Tricks
- FreeCodeCamp
- CodeNewbie.org
- Treehouse
- Dev.to
- GitLab
- This Dot Modern Web
- OpenSource.com
- RedHat
How you can help
Individuals
(this idea is in it’s infancy and could use ALL ideas. Have ideas? DM me on twitter or submit a pull request.)
- Give ideas
- Ask your company to sponsor/create/contribute something for the kit
- Suggest companies that are willing to help
- Donate your unwanted stickers
Businesses
- Create/contribute something for the kit
- Sponsor to printing and artist compensation for a zine or sketchnote
- Sponsor printing of cards for Newbie Coder Problem Solving School
- Sponsor adding these You Belong in Tech stickers to the kit
- Create/contribute something Newbie friendly that helps explains how things work or how to do things
- Reach out to me on twitter and figure out how we can work together
Many Thanks for Contributing
This couldn’t happen without you. Thank you so much for your contibution to helping newbie devs feel welcomed to the community.
| Who | Contributing |
|---|---|
| HelpDocs | sticker sheets |
| FlyTrap | stickers |
| You or Your company? | ? |
| You? | ? |
| Your company? | ? |
Disclosure: ALL donations/contributions will be given to #CodeNewbies. No profit will taken.
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