Name: devshopquestions
Owner: Meteor
Description: the new Devshop Questions app
Created: 2013-11-12 02:24:57.0
Updated: 2015-11-05 08:28:17.0
Pushed: 2014-12-04 20:26:17.0
Homepage: http://devshopquestions.meteor.com
Size: 376
Language: JavaScript
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This is the questions app used on monthly Meteor Devshops at San Francisco.
From 2pm to 6pm there is a co-working session during the devshop, people work on their projects, learn Meteor or just held interesting conversations on related topics.
Sometimes people have technical questions or questions about certain application design decisions. They are looking for help from people around them and then they would use this app to post a question.
Core developers, volunteers or anyone else can look at the question they are interested in and help the asker in person. It is very important to preserve the idea of live personal help as opposed to a text-based answer or a link to Google. We want people to communicate in person as they are already on devshop onsite, otherwise we would just use StackOverflow.
Each question has a one-line description of their problem and the question. We encourage users to put their real names and their location within the devshop so someone can find them to answer the question.
App allows users to login with their GitHub account to have a control over their question if they want to delete it or to mark as “answered”. Also the app would auto-fill their name from GitHub as well as their user picture.
Question can be marked as answered, deleted or edited by the creator or an admin.
App allows anonymous questions and questions by guests just in case the asker doesn't have a GitHub account or doesn't want to share it.
There is a small one-line banner notification from devshop organizers on the top of app interface. Usually it is about something happening on the event right now.
Examples:
There is a skeeball competition upstairs! Be sure to post your highest score!
or
Free flushots are on the second floor!
On http://devshopquestions.meteor.com/displays we have a special view to project on the wall. In this view we emphasize the banner notification, questions and the Twitter feed on #Devshop.
Admins can modify/delete/mark as answered any question. In addition admins can flag the question as “difficult” to ask for more help from core developers.
Admins are configured in http://devshopquestions.meteor.com/admin panel and added by their GitHub names.
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