DEV Community: GOSHROW

Spam on dev.to?

GOSHROW — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 07:29:09 +0000

I have seen a dozen of blatant spam on dev.to since today morning from atleast 3 different accounts, which I have subsequently reported.

Please refrain from harming this great community. As for others who have witnessed similar things on your feed, please report them as well.

It will also be great if dev.to imposes a stricter spam avoidance mechanism on posting to feed, since shitoberfest is already a real thing now. 😔

PS. I have screen recorded my feed if needed later on, but would prefer not to doxx anyone or violate anyone's privacy.

Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise, https://dev.to/search?q=customer%20care%20number&filters=class_name:Article filters out these reports for ease of removal.

GitHub Organizations: How to SetUp and Use Wisely

GOSHROW — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 21:32:58 +0000

While laying the ground work for our upcoming FOSS Event BIT Summer Of Code, it appeared to me just how useful and important GitHub has become into organizing any and all events related to FOSS. And a major reason for this may be accredited to the GitHub Organizations.

This is what makes GitHub a huge advancement over the basic Git VCS: its rich set of feature. As such, Organizations provide an upper-hand over the Single-User, Single-Account paradigm. Just from the abundance of Corporate Organizations showing up regularly on this FOSS platform, one may estimate how good of an organizational tool this feature is.

The creation of a GitHub organization is rather trivial on the other hand. On your homepage at GitHub, click on the the 'Create Organization' from the drop-down on top-left. .

Thereafter select either of the premium plans for the Organization at hand, although the Free Plan works brilliantly for a range of low to medium level intensive organizations.

Thereby name your Organization as such and fill in a basic form asking for a contact email-id and a basic purpose of the Organization.

So, is that it? Yes. Pretty Much. You have an Organization for Yourself.

However, an organization for a single person is no better than a Single Account. So, let us add some collaborators to manage this immense work load.

Move ahead to the 'People' section in the nav-bar for your new organization.
https://github.com/orgs/<your-organization>/people

Here you can invite members to collaborate with you and assign them Membership Roles which you can customize as well further down the line:

Owner : The one with all priviliges and who can modify others' membership roles.
Member : A customizable role granted as a General Contributor.
Billing Managers : Folks that manage the billing settings for Your Organization.
Outside Collaborators : These are folks that make casually contribute to your Organization and make it into a Great Product. It is upon your wise decision to secure your data accordingly.

DOCS

For further wise usage, you can use Github Teams https://github.com/orgs/<your-organization>/teams for Seamless Communication relevant to the Organization, handle your Organization's software releases https://github.com/orgs/BITSoC/packages and even set up your workflow with Projects https://github.com/orgs/BITSoC/projects.

Also be vary of the 'Settings' section since it upholds a variety of customizations to the way you use and maintain an Organization, be it to hold a FOSS event like ours, have software release or just maintain a nice cluster of Developers for like-minded activities.

Mentor-Mentee and Community Relations in the times of WFH

GOSHROW — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 19:13:52 +0000

With a general remote work environment due to the pandemic, most of developers as well as student developers have shifted completely to an online mode of work. This pretty much changes up our mode of development, interactions and lifestyle.

My college also had to shift events to be conducted entirely online, such as BIT Summer Of Code which aims to minimize the gap of mentors and mentees.

While the mentor-mentee relations have been strained due to the absence of Face-to-Face conversations, it also opens up a whole new world of interaction where everybody can mentor each another and be mentored similarly; thus attaining FOSS in terms of human knowledge and human interactions.

I would love to discuss upon the instances, the relevance, the importance and the practicality of such a remote mentorship.