IRC log of #jetrowebdev for Monday, 2026-04-20

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jelknerGood morning Jetro!10:58
jkollieGood morning jelkner 10:58
jelknerYesterday i met with ben manski, tony, rachel and sahnun about NSS web tech needs and had my weekly check-in with zOnny. Today i'll be focusing on teacher duties and hopefully working with a jetro dev on Little Webster.10:59
mulbahGood morning to all10:59
jelkneroops a minute too soon :-(10:59
jelkneri'll do that again in a minute10:59
jelknerYesterday i met with ben manski, tony, rachel and sahnun about NSS web tech needs and had my weekly check-in with zOnny. Today i'll be focusing on teacher duties and hopefully working with a jetro dev on Little Webster.11:00
jelknerACTION done11:00
jkollieYesterday I had a wonderful board meeting with the members, Today I'll start with my html and CSS lessons, do some practical and prepare for class. No blocker 11:00
svayeYesterday I attended the last meeting for my late grandfather, and everything   has been concluded. Today I will start from where I stopped because I have been missing for a while. No blockers 11:00
thomasboimahYesterday I attended our work session and helped jkollie attend the SJC board meeting. I also started looking into the bug that I was not expecting in the sjcompute bot. Today I will complete the work on the bot. No blockers.11:00
dcammueOn yesterday, i work on the php class lesson and mapped it to the calendar and do pull request on the repo. today, i will walk the students through the php class and read over my lesson from UL.11:00
thomasboimahACTION done11:00
dcammueACTION done11:00
svayeACTION done11:00
jkollieACTION done 11:00
gabrielYesterday i attended a productive meeting with zonny and try to look up my task today, there's no blocker now.11:01
gabrielACTION done11:01
jelknermulbah?11:01
jelknerfkoikoi?11:01
dcammueACTION says; fkoikoi is typing ;-)11:02
jelknerSuper shout out to dcammue, thomasboimah and jkollie!11:02
fkoikoiyesterday, I read on forms but didn't get a clear picture of it. Today I was to get the understand it better with the help of dcammue and thomasboimah 11:02
fkoikoiACTION done11:02
jelknerworking with the 3 of you is *such a joy*!!11:02
thomasboimahsame here jelkner 11:03
jelkneri came in this morning and saw dcammue's pull request11:03
mulbahover the weekend I try pushing to the repo but I get 403 no permission to push to it I plan on forking the repo so you can see the changes 11:03
jelknerdid a quick approval, and looked at the lesson plan, and found it to be spot on!11:03
mulbahACTION done11:03
jkollieThe pleasure is mine jelkner 11:03
jelkneryes, mulbah, learning that workflow is important11:04
jelknerjkollie is emerging as a natural leader11:04
jelknershe will be a fine president for our improving non-profit organization11:04
jelknerthomasboimah, i had a great conversation with zOnny yesterday evening11:05
jelkneri think we are pretty much on the same page11:05
fkoikoiwow, congratulations jkollie, keep it up11:05
jelknerat this stage, we have two dev teams in NOVA / Jetro:11:05
jelknerThe Django Team11:05
jkollieThanks fkoikoi 11:05
svayeCongratulations jkollie 11:06
jelknerthomasboimah and zOnny, with hopefully gabriel and mulbah really joining in soon11:06
jkollieThanks svaye 11:07
jelknerand the "other team" (originally focused on Decidim, but they are experienced devs, so who knows where they will go ;-)11:07
jelknerThat team is tony, rachel and sahnun11:07
jelknerzOnny and i agreed that i can only support the Django team financially with my own resources11:07
jelknerso we really need to make a good financial plan11:08
fkoikoiJetro Websters, my phone was stolen last night so my number is off for now till i can get another phone11:08
jelkneri hope to make this a central discussion at our retreat on May 2nd.11:08
jelknerfkoikoi: we need to get folks using laptops, and at the office11:08
jelknersorry abour your phone though11:09
jelknerthe folks who really want to be part of the business need to work out a schedule for yourselves11:09
thomasboimahjelkner, i was taking rachel to be a business person ;-)11:09
jelknerso you are showing up at the office, where good bandwidth will be provided you11:09
thomasboimahnot know she is a developer too11:09
thomasboimah*knowing811:09
gabriel+111:10
jelknerrachel will be a business person11:10
jelknerrachel has many talents11:10
jelknerbut she may be getting business that we aren't ready to handle11:10
jelkneri'll have to work with her to figure this out11:11
jelknershe has a lot of contacts in the free software world11:11
fkoikoijelkner, I'm currently using my laptop at the office now. I'm just letting the team know encase they try contacting me for now11:11
jelknerbut that can mean a lot of things11:11
jelknerDrupal, Ruby, PHP etc.11:11
jelknerwe are still learning to hone our skills11:11
jelknerand i believe we need to develop a core competency and stick with that in the beginning11:12
thomasboimahsure11:12
gabriel+111:12
jelknerso that we can deliver real value to customers11:12
jelknerthat core competency is Django11:12
jelknerand Python + PostgreSQL more broadly11:12
jelknerit aligns with the instructional program that Chris Jones and i teach11:13
jelknerand it rocks as a tech stack, and is great for leaning best practices11:13
thomasboimah+111:13
jelknerso i am going to encourage the more experienced devs to go do what they think is best11:13
gabrielsure11:14
jelknerand let me continue working with cjones, zOnny and thomasboimah on our Django plan11:14
thomasboimahsound good to me..11:14
jelkneri'll ask them to keep their budget needs front and center too11:15
jelknersince i need to be clear on what budget we have on our side11:15
jelknerwith i can continue to fund through SJC, and which hopefully we can find a way soon to broaden that funding through SJC donations11:15
jelknerour focus will be using Django to build apps aimed for use in Africa i hope11:16
jelknerbut we will also look for local customers in the U.S.11:16
jelknerwe will discuss this *a lot* while i'm there with you11:16
jelknerin the mean time, zOnny wants to focus on getting our infrastructure to the point we need it11:17
jelknerso he is focused on BT, LibreOrganize, and our main portfolio websites, including our own11:17
jelkneri think that is a great plan11:17
jelknerso i want to back him on that11:18
jelknerok, one quick and important note on wednesday's schedule, dcammue 11:19
jelknerwe have an early release schedule11:19
dcammueokay11:19
jelknerwe have a shortened class that day that runs from 14:20 to 15:2511:20
jelknerbtw, thomasboimah 11:20
jelknerthe Django team will be the one that cjones/jelkner student interns first work with11:20
jelknerwe have the kara, ben, josh team this year11:21
jelknerthey will be in our program for the next 2 years11:21
thomasboimahOkay looking forward to that11:21
jelknerand hopefully we can have the business to the point where when ben and josh are seniors in 2 years11:21
jelknerthey can be paid interns for our co-ops11:21
jelknerthat's my dream11:21
jelkneri want to work hard to make it a reality11:22
thomasboimahsound good to me.11:22
dcammuethat's a great dream jelkner 11:22
jelknerthat will be the same time we are building a schol in Liberia, right?11:22
jelknerschool11:22
gabrielsure, and hopefully, jelkner11:22
jelknergabriel, if we work hard, we can make it happen11:22
thomasboimah+111:22
gabriel+111:22
jelknerlast thing before i go11:23
jelknerdid anyone here from mr. zawolo?11:23
jelknerhe is only one building over from me, but i hardly ever see him11:23
thomasboimahI been in communication with concern the designer11:23
thomasboimah*zawolo11:23
jkollieHe didn't respond to my calls 11:23
thomasboimah*concerning11:23
jelknerso thomasboimah, you have been in contact?11:23
thomasboimah+111:24
jelknergreat11:24
jelkneri'll try to drop in on him this morning11:24
jelknerand find out what happened yesterday at our SJC meeting11:24
jelknerdcammue, do you have class at UL tomorrow?11:24
dcammueyes11:25
jelknerok, see y'all wednesday then11:25
dcammuei will be off by 3:30pm to 5pm11:25
jelkneractually, see some of you in few hours11:25
dcammueoff class i mean11:25
jelknerdcammue: we can chat a bit more then11:26
dcammueokay11:26
jelkneri don't have students tomorrow11:26
jelknerso maybe we can meet to talk getting me on BT?11:26
dcammuelooking forward to seeing you on tomorrow11:26
jelknerand about the inventory list11:26
jelkneris it updated yet?11:26
dcammueyes11:27
dcammueit is up to date11:27
jelknerso we own gabriel for that, yes?11:27
jelknerdcammue, we need to learn to plan effectively11:27
jelknerthat will be our job11:27
dcammueoh, not mean that11:27
jelkneryou said gabriel was doing that11:28
dcammueyes11:28
jelknerlet's talk tomorrow11:28
dcammueokay11:28
jelknerok, gotta run for now11:28
jelknerACTION signs off until class11:28
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svayedcammue: when is our class starting today11:29
dcammue2pm11:30
dcammue3pm11:30
svaye2pm or 3pm11:30
dcammuelast11:30
svayeAlright thanks 11:31
svayeACTION signs off11:31
dcammue3pm11:31
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