Meeting Notes July 18, 2020

Before you dive into the notes, please make sure you have read the following:

• Chapter's README
• Chapter's Vision

In Attendance

• Project Lead: Quincy Larson - Dallas, TX
• Ayotomide Oladipo - Nigeria
• Jim Ciallella - Greenville, SC
• Patrick San Juan - San Francisco Bay Area, CA
• Tim Chen - San Francisco Bay Area, CA
• Vaibhav Singh - Mumbai India
• Jonathan Seubert - Portland, OR - UX / Design
• Gwen - Faraday Academy - freeCodeCamp Contributor and runs a Code School
• Philippe Jide - Benin - UX Designer/ Full Stack Developer
• Igor Silveira - Portugal
• Nikhil John - San Francisco Bay Area, CA
• Fran Zekan - Zagreb, Croatia

Agenda

Talk about plans after the pandemic is over.

It's been about 4-5 months since our last pre-pandemic meeting.

Quincy suggested two possible outcomes for the future of events and socialization:

• People got comfortable with doing everything from home and prefer it and in-person activities decline and virtual events increase
• People are stir-crazy and events and socialization booms to "make up for lost time"

Either way, we don't expect meetups to go away and we need an open-source, decentralized option for non-profits and alike to host and promote their events.

Each attendee shared:

1. Name and location
2. How has the pandemic affected you?
3. What would you do in the first month if the pandemic ended?

Meetup.com has been sold again in March by WeWork and there's a window of opportunity to fill gaps and fix the negative aspects of such paid community event hosting.

Current Status

• MVP Project Cards
• MVP Issues
• Most of the admin logic and UI (creating events, locations, and fields) is done

Next Steps

• Add a user story for virtual / online event link to the schema
• Quincy suggested an organizer can have a UI toggle for selecting In-person / Online
• Jim will continue documentation - Quincy shared https://contribute.freecodecamp.org as an example of documentation
• Fran will continue building the admin UI, routes, models, and data migrations
• Ayotomide will continue building the public facing client pages / forms
• API will be continued by Timmy
• Patrick will continue with Google Authentication
• Jonathan will continue with email
• Vaibhav will continue with Heroku 1-click deployment. The settings / variables will be set in the Heroku admin UI

Next Meeting

Quincy will share an invite for the Saturday, August 1st meeting at the same time.