Please Invite Me to #OpenLibrary Slack

[mekarpeles]

Slack Invites for Active Contributors

Most of our day-to-day chat happens on #openlibrary-g -- a public community channel on our archive.org slack. We're happy to send invites to Active Contributors who have worked through setting up Docker and or have demonstrated commitment by discussing or working on issues.

If you are an active contributor and would like to be apart of our slack channel, please let us know by going to https://openlibrary.org/volunteer and contacting the appropriate Team Lead!

Requirements

What is an Active Contributor? An active contributor has done one or more of the following things:

• You've setup docker (or you've hit a problem with docker and need help)
• You've attended one of our community calls
• You've created an issue or commented meaningfully on an existing issue
• You've submitted a meaningful PR to address an issue

Why Are There Requirements?

As you can see in the comments below, we receive a large volume of requests from community members to join our slack channel. A good portion of the folks we invite don't end up participating making it hard for new members to figure out who the active members are. As a result, we have decided to reserve slack as a place where trusted active contributors can meet, discuss issues, and unblock each other.

But I Need Help!

We've got you covered -- If you're just getting started, we have a gitter channel (https://gitter.im/theopenlibrary/Lobby) where you can ask troubleshooting questions and receive help choosing a first issue.

[sbshah97]

@mekarpeles I feel it would be better if we put this maybe in the README rather than over here as it's too many tabs for a contributor to traverse through to find this! We already have put out Gitter Channel link on the README, so maybe we could have that first-time contributors can ask questions on the Gitter channel and then get added to the Slack channel. As in this entire thing could be one process!

What do you think about it?

[himanshu1603]

How can I join the community?

[mekarpeles]

Hi @himanshu1603! We'd love you to tell us more about what you're interested in and we can help you contribute to the Open Library project. You can reply on this thread, or you can chat with us on https://gitter.im/theopenlibrary/Lobby.

[seabelis]

I'd be interested, though I'm not sure how much I can contribute as a non-developer.

[mekarpeles]

@seabelis, if you send me an email mek@archive.org we'd be happy to invite you to our slack channel. Designers and librarians are still developers and we're happy to receive input and contributions from everyone! Thanks for lending your voice :) and amazing job with the logos, this was such a big help.

[LoganSimonsen]

Hello Everyone, I am a Web Developer student at DevMountain Bootcamp and I am building a React application for a project assignment that uses the Open Library API to search books and display results. I am thinking that in the future I could potentially convert this to React Native as a mobile application. Here is my project (still work in progress): https://github.com/LoganSimonsen/no-db-project

Do you know if anyone has built a mobile application already for Open Library?

[mekarpeles]

@LoganSimonsen @rchrd2 started working on a proof of concept for a progressive mobile web app -- you may want to comment and tag him on this project https://github.com/ArchiveLabs/openlibrary-lite

[LoganSimonsen]

I've hosted the app I built if anyone would like to check it out.

openlibrarysearch.now.sh

[manangoel99]

I'm new to opensource and would like to start contributing. I was wondering if I could be added to the slack channel

[rachelmoore]

Hi there! I am a JS dev in SF and have volunteered with Internet Archive in the past (just sorting media). Interested in helping out with frontend stuff on Open Library and would like to join the Slack channel.

[nirabpudasaini]

I am a mobile developer with some js experience, i am looking to contribute to a project where i will also have a chance to learn. I also love the work openlibrary is doing. I am hoping to set up and look through the first issues in coming days.

[mekarpeles]

@nirabpudasaini, @rachelmoore, @manan-goel-1999 -- you should receive invited by Tuesday (US Pacific Time). Thank you for your interest, we're looking forward to welcoming you to our community on slack :)

[friyaz]

Hi ! I am new to open source world but genuinly interested in contributing. I am learning javascript an have familiarity with html and css.

[mekarpeles]

@FrackeR011 we need your email to do so, please email mek@archive.org so we can add you

[tabshaikh]

@mekarpeles maybe we should think of redirecting to a readme as said by @salman-bhai as i was redirected by this link https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php so we should change the link to our contributors guide

[aman-tugnawat]

Would love to be a part of the community mailto::aman.tugnawat@gmail.com. Please send an invite https://google.com/search?q=Aman+Tugnawat

#wayback #beta #backrub #sergey #larry #sundar sundar@google.com

[jaccarmac]

I'd love to become a contributor! Pretty sure my email is public, just in case I'm emailing the mek address.

[w3bh4ck]

Hi, I just got to find out about archive.org today and It was really helpful for what I needed to do at that moment. Although I may not be able to make a reasonable donation, I will like to help out in the area of development. I am a full-stack JS developer and can comfortably work with PHP and Python also. If you need extra hands as volunteers, I will be glad to help out. Email: amadiluckysampson@gmail.com

[viccro]

Hi! I'm interested in contributing; please add me?

[mekarpeles]

@w3bh4ck and @viccro are our last invites for the time being!

We have a large number of guests in our openlibrary slack channel who are are inactive and because of this, future invitations will require at least 1 contribution to Open Library. :)

Contributions might include code / PRs or code reviews, design, improvements to our documentation / wiki organization, fixes to book catalog data, adding new issues, QA testing.

[mekarpeles]

p.s. @viccro we'll need your email to add you. Feel free to ping me at mek@archive.org

[robla]

Hi @mekarpeles , I'd love to continue some of the conversations I had with all y'all at the DWebSummit. I'm particularly interested in exploring more about podcast metadata and also bookmarking.

[Alakhator]

I am new to open source. So please add me to your slack channel. I have sent you an email as well

[sbshah97]

Hi @Alakhator welcome to Open Library. Here are a couple of issues that you can resolve before getting invited to Open Library.

[mfhodges]

Hello!
I would like to join the slack channel and contribute @mekarpeles
Thank you!

[cdrini]

@mekarpeles Could you add @nilshah98 to the slack channel? They just completed their first PR :) #2861

[nilshah98]

Thanks a lot @cdrini .
I look ahead to get started and contribute to this community.

Specifically I am targeting GSOC 2020, and would like to know if there are any updates on the same.
Cheers, and thanks for having me again!

[Ma-Sam]

Hello everyone, I have C ++ experience and would like to contribute to this community.

[user404d]

Hello~ Looking for an invite. I have experience with docker, python, and js (though I have not done much frontend work recently). Would love to see how I can contribute to the project.

[aashimgarg]

Hello. I am looking for an invite in the slack channel. I recently made in 2 commits in the internet/openlibrary repository. I have experience in html,css,bootstrap,javascript frameworks.
would love to contribute to this project.

[yash-gupta2000]

I'm GSOC 2020 aspirant and am having problem in installing docker images. Error shown is
Sending build context to Docker daemon 14.85kB
Step 1/12 : FROM olbase
pull access denied for olbase, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied

I want to contribute to openlibrary but am stuck at this for past 3 hours. Help?

[yash-gupta2000]

@cdrini @mekarpeles
Hello, I'm GSOC 2020 aspirant looking to contribute to open library.
I made PR #3083 which is showing tick along with Travis CI build passed. I'm looking for invite in slack channel. I have hands-on experience in C/C++ , HTML, Bootstrap and JS and willing to contribute to this project.

[manav014]

Hello, I want to contribute to the open library for GSoC 2020. I have made a PR #3078 and have compiled the whole software with docker and even has set up the development environment for the same. I would be glad if you may please allow me to join the slack channel so that I could make my journey of GSoC with open library the best.

[jimchamp]

Please add me to your slack channel. I've set up my local development environment, created PR #3754, and intend to make additional contributions. Thanks!

[NanaYawBotar]

Please add me to your slack channel

[codetochangeMinds]

I want to contribute to open library project and looking to be a part of this community. I have done a handful of projects using python and javascript. Till now I have gone through the readme, wiki page and done with the docker installation. I am interested to contribute and would like to join slack channel.

[Yashs911]

@mekarpeles Please add me to your slack channel.

[BrittanyBunk]

I'd like to be invited to slack

[Zorlin]

@mekarpeles I'd like to be invited to the Slack. Cheers.

[Itachi8374]

@mekarpeles Please add me to slack channel. I have set up development environment.

[mekarpeles]

Howdy all, from here on out, please use https://openlibrary.org/volunteer!

Rules above still apply :)

[BrittanyBunk]

It would make sense if we can go through that website to be able to get invited to slack, but the button just redirects here. This should be opened back up!

[SwapnilSoni1999]

None replies to email nor anyone checks PRs, What is happening?

[BrittanyBunk]

@SwapnilSoni1999 idk either - it's so strange - I never got invited in. I remember a long time ago Mek was travelling, so maybe it's that delay? caitlin@archive.org is the one I talked to about this that can help

[Hitansh-Shah]

I created a PR #5996 and was successfully merged. I filled the google form provided at https://openlibrary.org/volunteer but I have not received any response and it has been 3 days. @mekarpeles please add me to your slack channel, I would love to contribute more and I am also looking forward to GSOC'22 in Open Library.

[Erdiha]

Hi @mekarpeles, I am Erdi, a recent computer science gradute from UCLA. I work as a frontend developer and I would like to be part of the volunteer team.
I would like to get access to slack community for openlibrary.
Thank you.

[Spedi]

Hi there!
I sent my application to be a Software Engineer volunteer but I didn't receive the invite to enter the Slack community.
Is there any chance that you can send it to me directly? My email is: matteospedi10@outlook.it.
Thank you!