We hope you enjoyed the event!
Wednesday, 26. February 2020 at 18:30
Building an open source community from the ground upBy Stefan FeješWonder what's it's like to grow one of the fastest growing open source projects before graduating from high school? Since it's release, 30secondsofcode.org was nominated as the 6th fastest growing open source project by GitHub in 2018, gathered over 50,000 stars, made it to Hacktoberfest trending lists, and started series of education projects used by thousands of developers daily. Growing an organisation of this size isn't easy, especially when a newbie is running it. Stefan will share some of his most inspiring and challenging moments of running the organisation—and share tips for maintainers and teams starting their own open source projects.
Wonder what's it's like to grow one of the fastest growing open source projects before graduating from high school?
Since it's release, 30secondsofcode.org was nominated as the 6th fastest growing open source project by GitHub in 2018, gathered over 50,000 stars, made it to Hacktoberfest trending lists, and started series of education projects used by thousands of developers daily. Growing an organisation of this size isn't easy, especially when a newbie is running it.
Stefan will share some of his most inspiring and challenging moments of running the organisation—and share tips for maintainers and teams starting their own open source projects.
Testing web accessibilityBy Adrián BolonioWhen we develop a new web application, we often put a lot of work on the design, on making it beautiful and usable. In other words, we want our web app to be effective, efficient, and satisfying for the user. But a lot of times we don’t think about the user experience for people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments.For the web, accessibility (a11y ) means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with websites and tools, and that they can contribute equally without barriers.” (Source: W3C - Web Accessibility Initiative). Our role as frontend and web developers is to create clear interfaces to make people understand and care about data, independently of their disabilities or impairments, but what we, developers, often forget is to ensure that the code we write follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and the only way to achieve that is testing, either manual or automated. Automated web a11y tests can free up our QA team from manual testing every part of our application…but…they can’t automatically, and magically, make our site accessible. We should use automated a11y tests as one step of a larger testing process. Don’t forget that only 20% to 50% of all accessibility issues can automatically be detected. I will show you some testing tools, libraries and techniques to increase the a11y test coverage of your code with a simple React application example.
When we develop a new web application, we often put a lot of work on the design, on making it beautiful and usable. In other words, we want our web app to be effective, efficient, and satisfying for the user. But a lot of times we don’t think about the user experience for people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments.For the web, accessibility (a11y ) means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with websites and tools, and that they can contribute equally without barriers.” (Source: W3C - Web Accessibility Initiative). Our role as frontend and web developers is to create clear interfaces to make people understand and care about data, independently of their disabilities or impairments, but what we, developers, often forget is to ensure that the code we write follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and the only way to achieve that is testing, either manual or automated.
Automated web a11y tests can free up our QA team from manual testing every part of our application…but…they can’t automatically, and magically, make our site accessible.
We should use automated a11y tests as one step of a larger testing process. Don’t forget that only 20% to 50% of all accessibility issues can automatically be detected.
I will show you some testing tools, libraries and techniques to increase the a11y test coverage of your code with a simple React application example.
Our sponsors allow us to proide free drinks and on our meetups.
Within just a few years, durchblicker.at has grown from a start-up, to the leading online comparison platform in Austria. The platform provides consumers with insurance, energy/gas, finances, and telecommunication price comparisons, based on their individual needs, along with the option to simply switch provides online.
Durchblicker.at is on a constant growth path and we are looking for new talent. Are you ready for a new challenge in a fun and lively team? Contact us via: karriere.durchblicker.at | jobs@durchblicker.at | linkedin.com
Our Tech Stack: javascript / node.js / python / redis / reactjs / graphql / amazon web services / google cloud platform / microservices / ecmascript
Open Knowledge Maps is a young and growing nonprofit organization in the field of scientific knowledge discovery. We are building a visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.
Open Knowledge Maps is currently looking for a UX-minded frontend developer (f/x/m). If you know your way around reactive JavaScript frameworks and are interested in a position where your work positively affects people all around the world, then this job might be for you. This is a fixed-term, entry-level position for 20 hours/week in the Open Knowledge Maps office in Vienna.
For more information, please see the full job ad here:https://openknowledgemaps.org/doc/job-frontend-dev.pdf
