Welcome! Introduce yourself by making a post here. Please include what excites you about this community, as well as any skills you have, or want to learn, which you’d like to contribute to our mission of creating a kinder, friendlier world with more peace in. Experienced members will reply and help you get started Tools:Getting Started - Navigating
Welcome to the Public Happiness Community!
Congratulations you are the very first members of our new community platform dedicated to create more peace, kindness and happiness in the world.
Its a pretty big place and we’re still finalising some core navigation components so its best to explore in your own time.
This category is for you and your colleagues in the Prequel Wave, joining in before we’re even ready for Alpha testing. As you’re the 1st here you can define pretty any role you want for yourself in this community.
This ‘Prequel Wave’ category is for you all. Its dedicated to your experience the community and platform, and to help support each other. If you’d like support from a more experienced member use the @Welcome tag in a comment anywhere.
I should also mention that this is a decentralised ownership platform. When it reaches full launch you’ll own it every bit as much as i and the web dev team do. It’ll never sell your data, or spam you with adverts… which is nice
1st steps to find your way
Read the community values if you haven’t already and check that you want to be here
Introduce yourself in this category and please include any skills you have, or want to learn, that you’d like to contribute to the mission.
Post yourself onto the Happiness Map by clicking ‘Gather’ if you’d like others nearby to be able to invite you to go create kindness together (we recommend using a landmark nearby rather than your actual address)
Give other members hearts, positivity and encouragement if their contributing is a positive step to the the overall mission of creating more kindness, peace and well-being in the world.
Join our Telegram if you use it for general chat around the project (and in case the platform hits a tech issue and goes down for a bit)
If/when you get lost use the ‘Local’ or ‘Global’ tab in the header to reorient
Getting More Involved
This platform is focused on its mission to create more kindness, peace and well-being in the world, so you will find it very task and action focused
If you’d like to get involved in building click on ‘Global’ and pick a category you’d like to contribute to. Follow the Getting Started Guide in the banner of that category.
Write a post asking what needs building. If there is no-one active there @tag Andy at Focallocal and we’ll discuss what together what can be done to contribute to our shared mission.
Hello my name is Peter, I am from England but am currently living in Barcelona, Spain!
I came across this project during Hacktober and love the concept and vision. Community spirit has always been something important to me, so being able to contribute to something like this great!
I am currently working as web developer for an open-source company but would like to apply my skills elsewhere. I’m primarily a front-end developer and am currently working with JS and Django. In the past I have worked on the back-end with Node.js and Python. I am hoping to improve my skills with react.
Feel free to reach out if you want to know anything about me,
Peter
My sister just asked me if I considered living in the UK. She’s lived aboard for some years. I’ve been planning to live abroad, too (Mexico), but life has other plans for me. I want to explore Latin American culture, learn Spanish, and deepen my self-knowledge.
Spain is the only EU country I’ve been to, and I loved it! How long have you been there? Do you mind sharing a highlight from your perspective?
I’m from the US. Florida native. I moved to the west coast year and some change ago.
I’m a React developer, so I look forward to connecting with you as we continue improving. Open to talking about all things React and putting our heads together if needed.
My name is Kateria - Greek in origin, mom grew up in Europe. Feel free to call me by my nickname Kat if you’d like.
I’m very excited to be here. Finally, PHM is a project I can be aligned with and proud to contribute to. I’m thankful to find a community like this. I love the conscious intention behind it and its thoughtfulness and transparent nature. Energy doesn’t lie.
I’m a visionary and can 1000% see the impact a platform like this can have on our world. They say seeing is believing, but in my reality, believing is seeing. All of the various aspects of this project are beautiful.
Homelessness has a special place in my heart. I’ve been homeless many times throughout my youth due to family challenges growing up (poverty, low-income, single-parent home). It’s impacted me in more ways than I can write here. I wouldn’t be the woman I am today without those experiences.
I have an idea to tackle homelessness with technology, but it seems people in tech working on this challenge are pretty rare, and I’m not in a place to create a start-up, so I’m here
I’m a software engineer specializing in front-end web development, but I am willing to work full-stack. I intend to focus on contributing to the UI tasks and dive deeper into React. I’m enjoying it! I want to learn Redux and GraphQL next.
I’m a writer too. I can also contribute to our technical documentation and will jump in whenever feedback is needed.
Hello. My name is Na. I live in Georgia, US. I worked as a software engineer in the past(mostly Java backend stuff), and wanted to transition to do more front development.
I’ve always been interested in user experience and interactions, and wanted to build User Interface for web and mobile. I joined The Odin Project and learned javascript, css, react, and completed personal projects. I’ve also learned basic UX concepts and tools. I plan to get into nodeJS as a future step.
I am interested in joining and contributing to the Public Happiness Project because:
I want to gain frontend development experience (javascript/react) and learn from real world projects and other developers.
I share the value behind the project, and I think it’s very meaningful to take part in.
That’s about me Feel free to message me with any questions.
I’m sorry for answering late, i somehow wasn’t watching this topic. Must have clicked the watching button by mistake in the past.
We’re beginning a UX review right now actually… i imagine you’ve noticed its not great in here just yet. You would be very welcome to be part of that build
The ReactJS section is here: React Js and Meteor - Public Happiness and you can access tasks in the ‘Tasks’ tab. You are welcome to pick any task you like. If you’d like a suggestion then this one is probably a good one to start with: Hour picker improved
We have a working Android App. I think we needed to update permissions to allow notifications for the latest android version.
We use the stock Discourse App for iOS, which works but isn’t ideal as users need to point it at our site and click on it each time after opening the app to arrive at our homepage.
Hi thanks! I looked through the hour picker task and previous comments, it seems there’s already an open pull request, and it was waiting on the form UI redesign. Is that the case? I did see some things not look quite right on the form, eg, it won’t scroll so I can’t see the bottom.
Also I’ve noticed there’s no new activities in recent month on the repo (master and deploy-phm branch), so I wonder what is the current state of the development? Is there any major blocker? (Or maybe I didn’t look in the right place…)
Also which thread can I look at for the current UX design/review stuff?
thanks
The major blocker has been getting localhost set up. Most people who’ve joined in recently have given up and dropped out, so I’m pleased you were able to solve it and gave a write up of how you succeeded. Right before that our database was wrecked by an auto-transfer tool from mLab to MongoDB Atlas which knocked the project offline for a long time. We’re still recovering from that.
I’ve been searching for creative ways to update MeteorJS or remove it, unfortunately both are big tasks and difficult to achieve as a group of volunteers. I’ve got a few pots on the fire for this and hopefully one will produce something soon.
The forms are a bit of a mess tbh. They were created with one form serving two functions which is a mistake that needs fixing. We really need 3 separate ones. One for users, one for resources, and one which is only accessible during periods of disaster relief and emergencies when people are in need of a guide to free resources and connection to supporting people living nearby.
I don’t see why the time and date picker would be held up by that though. I’ll look for the task and PR to see if I can see an issue there.
@zhna123 I’ve been focused on getting the platform and community live again for a while. It took me a while to remember what was going on here.
That PR was made to the wrong branch and I guess I’m not following it so it never got deleted. The changes were also added to the main branch back in 2020.
Hello everyone! My name is Gastón but I go by gastonsk on the internet. I’m from Córdoba, Argentina!
I been looking to gain more experience as a dev and I think Public Happinness is the right place for me as it aligns with my views and makes me want to contribute to a project like this
I’m currently looking for my first job as a backend/fullstack developer, I’m a Ruby on Rails dev and I have a bit of experience working as a team, having developed an API for an NGO in the past.
I’m looking forward to getting to know you all also feel free to connect with me on linkedin!
Welcome to the community @gastonsk, Its great to have you with us!
You’ll find the getting started guide for Ruby on Rails here
We do our Ruby on Rails coding mostly as plugins on Discourse and so the main task is setting up Discourse on localhost and reading the documentation there. You’re welcome to set up the whole webapp, but i recommend starting with just the Discourse/Ruby on Rails side. Plugin development over there is actually a pretty cool niche for development if you’re open to specialising in that direction.
You’ll find the open Tasks list in the tabs in that category, here’s a direct link. When you’re ready you are welcome to pick any of the tasks in the list, and to propose new ones.
If you’d like a suggestion please reach out and ask as i can suggest a few which would be good for the project while not being too complex, so great to get started with
Your teams hashtag is @RubyonRails which you can use anytime you have a question, need support, or want to make a suggestion.
Hello! I’m Rose, I’m from the Philippines. I’m a graphic designer and leaning toward UI/UX path. I have experience in tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop, and Figma. My skills are in vector illustration as well as UI/UX. I can do wireframing and prototyping in low and high fidelity using Figma.
I hope to contribute well to this lovely community!
Hey everyone! My name is Jurate but pronounced with first Y The origin of this rare name is Lithunia. I’m a visual designer and throughout the years I’ve experienced different fields of design but currently I’m focused on digital user interfaces and user experience. I’m not a big fan of abbreviations
I’m glad to find out about this awesome platform and to be a part of it! Well done to all the founders and the community members for making it happen!
I am currently working as a Technical Mentor teaching full stack development with react and ruby on rails. I am more focused on backend development with Node.js (nestjs). I have been looking for a project to participate in and @roamingandy was kind enough to recommend this community on reddit.
Kudos to all you guys for this great initiative. Looking forward to interacting with y`all.
Its great to have you here, it looks like your skills align really well with our projects. A few places you’ll find interesting are:
Tasks for Ruby on Rails, Ember and Node although a lot of these have changed with the new UX Wireframe so please tag @RubyonRails in a comment under a task before starting You’ll notice most are build as Discourse plugins and themes as we use that to strap community building functionality on to our platforms.
I’ll also add you to our @DevMentors group if you’d like, although none of the @DevMentees have begun coding here yet. Hopefully that area will pick up speed soon.
In all of the Categories and Sub Categories you’ll find important links in the banner, like a Getting Started guide for each. We hope to have a live testing/staging server up by the end of the week, or early next week so we can give you access to a live site to play with and test things on
Hey everyone! I’m Caleb from Texas, US. I’m just getting started as a developer. I have some knowledge of JS, React and Postgres, but I’m trying to build up a portfolio so I can get a full time job or even some freelance work. I appreciate what you all are doing here and I’m excited to be a part of it. Thanks!
my name is Peter, I am from England but am currently living in Barcelona, Spain!
. It’s great to have you here.