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Organized by Bruno and others in Digidem Lab in Gothenburg, Sweden, Civictech is going to be a series of hackdays and networking events to bring active people from civil society closer together and to t...
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The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
Just two weeks ago we had the foodsharing.de hackweek and now it was karrot's turn!
During the hackweek, we worked on many things, including
The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
Wow, what a week! Long ago, that we had 7 people working on foodsharing.de software platform related topics in a room. We can proudly say, that a lot has happened:
The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
The Rails Girls Summer of Code has not even started but we already have many interested coderettes joining our Slack. We are very happy that there is so much interest again! Now we only need to come up with m...
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The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
The possibility to upload user profile photos was added to Karrot's development version by Tilmann, based on work by Nick.
Lars submitted a design improvement with lots of changes and added group banners, T...
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The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
Kanthaus becomes more and more cozy and more and more things are happening here, which is why for the first time it gets its own subsections on the heartbeat. What a start into 2018! ;)
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The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
We're planning the first foodsaving worldwide hackweek of 2018 at the end of February at the Kanthaus in Wurzen. If you're interested in joining us, be it as developer or communication manager, tell us via e-mail. Karrot will most likely also be part of the one-day CivicTecGbg hackathon at March 10th in Gothenburg, Sweden - thanks to Bruno for arranging this!
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The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
Happy Birthday, foodsharing! The 12.12.2012 was a big date - when lebensmittelretten.de and foodsharing.de merged into what you know of as foodsharing.de today.
This date was also chosen as the launch date for a new media campaign to spread the word about foodsaving and foodsharing even more. This is why a new landing page is published at the same time as this heartbeat.
The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
"Steady progress" could be an apt summary for the last two weeks. Nick got the Android app ready for testing and kept thinking about the best way to deliver automated builds to beta testers. Janina worked with Tilmann on the groups pickup page, fueled by user feedback. There's still an ongoing discussion about which pickup dates to show in which place, input is highly welcome. Lukas finished his first Karrot coding task, which was about improving the backend code structure. Tilmann spent most of his karrot coding time in refactoring, bringing the code into better shape. The focus lies on improving the backend API structure, the frontend state management, error handling code and data loading.
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The yunity heartbeat - news from the world of sharing, fresh every two weeks.
Launch of a new version! After months of coding, we replace our good old AngularJS frontend with the shiny new VueJS version. It features much more than just changed internals: