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title: "Week 3: Ideastrike"
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author: "@tobin"
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date: 2012-01-17
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##This week's idea
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Two weeks down, and the momentum is strong - we've got a packed room over at [Jabbr](http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/code52), we've been featured on the [Github blog](https://github.com/blog/1024-a-new-coding-project-every-week-at-code52), and we've got two projects that are going strong.
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So now we're on to week three, and another idea from our community - [Ideastrike!](https://github.com/Code52/Ideastrike) (code to go up soon ;))
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Basically, our aim this week is to create a great site to give ideas and feedback, focusing on software development and good integration with other tooling.
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There are many feedback and voting mechanism for ideas, but we think we can provide an open-source alternative, that is feature rich, simple, but powerful, and will be a great asset for the small guys trying to get started on projects.
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We've got a [Trello board](https://trello.com/board/ideastrike/4f137b417201526045146b8a) set up for it which we'll be keeping in sync with jobs from our Github issues as we get them scheduled and assigned.
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##What platform are we looking at?
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Well, we've had a lot of feedback this week about this being a ".NET only" group - we don't intend it to be that way, but as it was said on [The West Wing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing) - "Decisions are made by those who show up".
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We're looking for the primary group to start working with an ASP.NET framework - [Nancy](https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy) as it's what some of us are familiar with, and what we think others with .NET experience will get up to speed on quicky. We also benefit from two [exceptional](https://twitter.com/grumpydev) [guys](https://twitter.com/thecodejunkie) who have been, and we hope will be, stopping by to offer support and advice.
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That being said, if some of the other communities out there - be it Java, Ruby, Python, Node.JS, Haskell, Erlang or Perl want to get involved - stop by, help us make decisions, and gather a group and code.
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We're happy to *have* help, we're happy *to* help.
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One idea we've had is if we collaboratively work on a set of specifications, so we can jointly create something that works cross-platform, for different scenarios and different communities - but a shared reference.
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We're happy to discuss it, to offer support, publicity where we can, but what we need is - if you're serious about contributing and you want to make this more than just about .NET, we need you to show up.
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##So what now?
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We'll be getting some code set up on the github in the next 24 hours, and discussing approaches and drawing up a battle plan in the chatroom - if you've got ideas you want, come in and discuss them with us (ping @aeoth, @shifty and @tobin in the room please), or leave a message on this blog post.
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Get into the chatroom at [JabbR](http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/code52) and join in on the fun!
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-- Code52 team

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##Getting ready to contribute
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***For a detailed list of getting started links, head to the [Code52 wiki](https://github.com/Code52/code52.github.com/wiki)***
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For all of the Code52 projects, we're using Git for our version control, and [GitHub](https://github.com/code52) as the central repo.
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Why Git and GitHub? Git is one of - if not the - leading *distributed* version control systems. All DVCS are faster than the centralised systems like SVN or CVS. We do understand that Git isn't as easy to grok - particularly on Windows - as other tools such as Mercurial (Hg). We feel that GitHub is better suited than other hosted source platforms, so we're persevering with it. There are a fair [few introductions to git](http://book.git-scm.com/), but feel free to ask questions on how to use it in [Jabbr](http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/code52).

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