Basement Devs Coding Dojo

An event where community members take on roles as a development team in an immersive simulated sprint with the goal of delivering a simple but complete application in one month inside Basement Devs community.

This event focuses on practicing English and interacting with the open source community by promoting weekly meetings to discuss the project from planning to review.

Join the Dojo!

To be part of a Coding Dojo, you must be a member of the Basement Devs community and register yourself using the Coding Dojo Registration Form.

Usually up to 7 people can be selected to participate in each Coding Dojo, but there's no limit to the number of members participating in a Coding Dojo team, it depends on the application planning.

Requirements

• Be a member of the Basement Devs community
• Speak at least intermediate English
• Studying or working in technology (development, data, product, designer, quality, etc.)
• Availability of 1 hour per week to participate in Coding Dojo voice meetings
• Ability to asynchronously participate in interactions on the Coding Dojo channel within the Basement Devs community or contribute to the Coding Dojo open source project

What you'll get

• An active study group with people from different areas of technology
• An exclusive channel for the project on the Basement Devs community
  • Practice reading and writing in English only with the Coding Dojo team
  • Ask questions about the project, exchange ideas and share experiences
• A weekly meeting that simulates a real sprint meeting
  • English conversations in voice channel
• Participate on an open-source project for study
  • English codebase, commits, and documentation
  • Practice product ideation, development, best practices, and process improvements in English
• Write an article/presentation in English on a topic learned at the end of the project

Schedule

With the duration of 1 month, every new month a new team will be chosen to participate developing a new application.

• Coding Dojo #1 (February) - Poker Planning Web App
• Coding Dojo #2 (March) - To be defined

Meet the creator

	Lorena Montes Fullstack Developer and Tech Manager LinkedIn / GitHub