Meeting Notes April 24, 2021

Before you dive into Chapter, please make sure to read the following:

In Attendance

Quincy Larson - Dallas, TX USA
Fran Zekan - Zagreb, Croatia. University student and board game designer
Oliver Eyton-Williams - Brussels, Belgium - Full-time with freeCodeCamp and some time is now allocated to Chapter
Jim Ciallella - Greenville, SC USA
Vaibhav Singh - Mumbai, India
Patrick San Juan - Software Engineer - SF Bay Area USA.
Paul Gamble - Barrie, ON - Canada
Robert Bertram - North Dallas, TX, USA - learned to code 4 years ago on fCC and is now a full-time develop
Sajith Pradeep - Kerala, India
Nick Carrigan - Vancouver, WA, USA - full-time with freeCodeCamp for a few months and is mostly working on other fCC projects
Jonathan Seubert - Beaverton, Oregon USA - UX / Design
Jonathan Martinez - Dallas, TX, USA - invited by Robert Bertram

Per Oliver, we are past many of the bottlenecks in the code base and we're getting to the point where contributors can easily hop in and start contributing with less ambiguity
Oliver added RenovateBot has been added to keep the 3rd-party packages up to date.
Oliver has worked on the testing and linting tools to ensure things are stable for contributors.
Jonathan Seubert got the email resolver roughed in. It will still need authorization and testing, but it works well enough to send an email. He hopes to shift work more on the front-end of the application.
The contributing docs have been updated to include GitPod and Windows / WSL shell options.
Fran has added a skeleton for the public-front end pages seen seen in the Figma documents.
Most of the admin pages are rendering a basic page too.
The password-less email authentication is roughed in by Patrick. Fran has done more work on wiring this into the rest of the application.
Fran added Chakra UI and built most of the new pages with it. Fran is suggesting Material UI be replaced by Chakra.
Fran talked about using TailWind vs SASS or JSS. He is suggesting using Chakra UI and it's built in styles.
SchemaSpy has been added under the GitHub pages gh-pages branch as an interactive database schema. It is manually refreshed.

Fran plans to work on wiring up the authentication in the coming days.
Fran said the data is mostly fetched into the application pages and other contributors can take that data and work on implementing the UI.
A visual of the workflow for the MVP is mostly mapped out in the Figma doc by Ayotomide Oladipo
Jim will continue to improve the contributing documentation and we'll add a TROUBLESHOOTING.md file to help with errors for third-party tools like Docker and WSL.
We'll start using Chakra UI and start replacing the Material UI. Fran suggested we shouldn't delay other tasks, but we will plan to remove Material UI from the application before the MVP so it doesn't bloat the code base.

Quincy will share an invite on the Chapter chat channel for the next meeting once we establish another meeting is warranted.