Mozilla's Global Sprint (June 1st and 2nd 2017)

[bmpvieira]

About

"Mozilla’s Global Sprint is a fun, fast-paced and two-day collaborative event to hack and build projects for a healthy Internet. A diverse network of scientists, educators, artists, engineers and others come together in person and online to innovate in the open. Get your tickets now!"

Communication channels

Come chat with us at http://gitter.im/bionode/bionode or IRC (freenode) #bionode!

Ways to contribute to Bionode during sprint:

Very little or no programming knowledge required:

• Make sure all repos have the up to date special files (README, LICENSE, etc) such as bionode/bionode: bionode #38
• Make sure all repos follow the JavaScript Standard style guide: bionode #26
• Add missing documentation from READMEs and code comments to website: doc.bionode.io, index
• Add more lessons to tutorial: biohacker #1
• Finish the Personas and Pathways exercise: bionode #37

Some JavaScript knowledge required:

• Pipeline Graph (DAG) Visualization bionode-watermill #50
• Simple usage tutorial bionode-watermill #49
• Quickly create new bionode modules from auto-generated template: bionode #23:
• Make sure all repos use same label system and create script to generate them automatically for new repos: bionode #39
• Add insight dependency to anonymously report usage metrics: bionode #34
• Replace tests framework mocha with tape to work better with browserify: bionode-gff #1, bionode-fastq #5

Challenging issues:

• Improve bionode hackathon prototype modules in bionode-hack so they can be moved to bionode.
• Write data analysis pipelines (e.g. bioinformatics) using bionode-watermill
• Convert wrapper modules into Node.JS C/C++ addons: bionode-sam #3
• Prototype Common Workflow Language support: bionode-watermill #45
• Prototype Atom.io extension: bionode-seq #4
• Explore benefits of Nodestream for bionode-watermill: bionode-watermill #46

[bmpvieira]

Done 😄
https://twitter.com/bmpvieira/status/870598035964932096