Next week, participants in Hack Reactor's software engineering program will be embarking on a two-week-long open-source project sprint. If you're a project maintainer and would like some or all of the twenty hungry coders to tackle your issue backlog, please read on.
From 7/16 to 7/26, the upcoming graduates will be embarking on the open-source portion of our curriculum. Our students are prepped and ready to work with large code-bases and are eager to help your open-source project. They'll consider themselves open-source contributors and you'll gain some valuable, useful commits. Win-win!
- Tests.
- Clear commit messages.
- Quick turnaround on PR feedback.
- Awesome, motivated contributors.
- Active mentorship from our staff, including former developers at Google, Twitter, and Adobe and contributors to Sails, Salt, Meteor, and more.
- A part in changing a student's life.
Active projects with involved maintainers that merge good PRs quickly. A solid backlog of github issues to address (or a maintainer that's excited about building one), ideally with some issues tagged as "easy". Optional, but very sweet: a collaborator that is excited about building the number of open-source contributors. Cherry on top: local to the Bay Area; willing to visit 944 Market for a kickoff and/or other visits.
Hack Reactor is the school that teaches software engineering the way you wish it was taught. Our curriculum is intensely practical (git-based, project-oriented) but we focus on establishing strong fundamental skills (rigorous thinking, confidence in unfamiliar environments, managing complexity through modularity and interface design).
Our students come from varied backgrounds (professional software developers, CS program dropouts, lawyers/scientists/financiers) but they're uniformly smart and awesome to work with. At this point in the program, they're all capable of tackling fairly complex issues without hand-holding.
You can read more at http://hackreactor.com/.
Email shawn@hackreactor.com with a repo link + a short personal introduction. Projects will be selected by Friday, 7/12.
If you're interested in hiring them, come to the July 12 hiring mixer.