Hello from Sam in Georgia, USA

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#1

Hi all,

My name is Sam and I’m a software developer from Atlanta, GA USA. I have been involved in a number of co-ops in the past and have two co-ops of my own that I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to start for a number of years.

I am also heavily involved in open source and open standards development (with the XMPP Standards Foundation and, to a lesser extent, the IETF). I’m looking forward to Snowdrift both for its utility to open source projects and for its use in helping the co-op economy.

I’m looking forward to helping in any way that I can.

—Sam

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#2

Welcome!

Well, co-op founding and software development are two ways it sounds like worth exploring among others. What sort of development do you have experience with? Front-end, back-end, what frameworks?

In addition to the forum, we have regular discussion on Matrix/IRC.

We want to update it soon but https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/community/how-to-help has some description of different areas of involvement.

Cheers!

#3

My career has been entirely in backend development, mostly vaguely web or realtime communication focused. I’m afraid to say that I don’t do any Haskell though, so I won’t be much use to snowdrift on that front.

I don’t hang out on IRC as often as I used to, but I’ll definitely try to pop in on occasion. And thanks for the link, I’ll read over it!

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#4

Welcome Sam, glad you found your way here! Things are simmering on the co-op front, but I’m sure that conversation will bubble up soon.

#5

Hi Sam!

Hello and welcome from Germany. Looking forward to see you around! :smile: