Philly CocoaHeads Website Relaunch Project

I haven’t had an active side project in the last few months. When asked I would tell people looking for a new job was my side project. Now that I have that new job search (and my Girl Develop It class behind me it’s time to kick something off; we’re going to rebuild the Philly CocoaHeads website!

When I took over the local chapter of CocoaHeads here in Philly (back in 2010 or so) the previous organizer had a Ruby/Markdown publish system setup. It was kind of neat but involved a lot of setup on the client box to get up and running. I had a few people posting to the site so rather than set up that system on each individual’s box I opted for WordPress. The WordPress site has done ok for us but we’ve been growing a ton and doing a lot more over the last year (workshops, video capture of meeting presentations). I’d love to start to centralize things like keeping track of our members and our money, overall there is a ton that could be automated and it’s time to make it happen.

I don’t want to do this alone and I also would love to start documenting the project as it unfolds. To get started we have a brainstorm session scheduled during Side Project Saturday. If you want to participate please consider stopping by. If you can’t stop by, but want to participate, let me know and maybe we can setup a Google Hangout call-in option. To capture notes I’m going to use Trello. The board is live and open to the public. (You will need to login with a Trello account to edit.) Feel free to start to document your ideas today.