Full stack web developer with advanced knowledge of JavaScript and modern application architecture. Formerly employee #7 at Meteor, most recently building GitSpy.com. Interested in mid-sized, rapidly growing startup with strong pragmatic product and world-class application engineering team.
(MDG-er here) On #2, I think you may enjoy browsing https://www.meteor.com/projects. :-) Lots of meaty technical detail on the different subprojects that make up the Meteor stack.
We actually never upvote our own stories or ask others to. It's hard not be curious about the comments, though, and we make a point to identify ourselves in our replies.
What was the rationale behind tying up donations with the GitHub stars? Landing on this today, it seemed to me more geared towards making meteor land in the 20K stars vicinity rather than helping CodeNow.
Not trying to troll, just genuinely interested in how you guys approached this.
Either way, it does seem like a smart "growth hack".
We picked GH stars because it's a transparent public number. Also because it's a relatively lightweight ask that still means a little more than a retweet or FB like. This campaign is about the existing Meteor community reaching out and encouraging new people into our community, and raising money for CodeNow is in the same spirit of accessibility and sharing.
Like Bahamut's comment shows, people do hesitate to star something they aren't actually interested in, and that's good; we want people to actually make an effort to tell their friends why they should check out Meteor. And then, if they succeed, it only takes 1-2 clicks for the friend to register their interest and get counted as part of the campaign.
Great answer. I love Meteor and it is great that your doing what you can tto help charity wise but some people will never be happy no matter what you do. Keep making great software and everything else will work itself out.
Couldn't agree more. My mom almost got taken in by a classic Craigslist scam, which did a lot to make me appreciate how easy it can be for even smart people to fall prey (she's an IT professional, has an advanced degree, and is quite smart in general).
Basically, she'd listed some furniture for sale. A guy contacted her with praise for the item and said he was a purchaser for a regional furniture reseller -- he finds nice used furniture for them and gets a cut of what they pay to the original owner (e.g. my mom). The two of them agreed on a price (including his commission), then he mailed her a check from "his company" and asked her to wire him his cut. At the point I found out about this (it came up in passing completely by accident), she'd deposited the check and was planning to wire the money the next day.
I told her it was a classic scam and to please not wire the money. She didn't believe me; she'd successfully sold furniture on craigslist before, the guy's e-mails sounded legit, and the bank seemed to have accepted the check just fine. I told her it takes a few days for the check to fail. She still thought it was fine, but for my sake, agreed to at least wait a few days.
Sure enough, the check bounced. My mom described how masterfully the scammer worked upon her feelings in the meantime, asking where the money was, sounding hurt and angry that she was withholding his "cut" on purpose and trying to cheat him, saying he'd trusted her with the check because she seemed nice. Even with my dire warnings, she felt bad about waiting for the check to clear, but luckily she did.
> I told her it takes a few days for the check to fail.
In the UK a cheque is never safe. The money could have been in your account for months, but if the bank discovers the cheque was forged they'll claw back the money.
(MDG-er here) A few meteorites actually did write an equivalent of phpMyAdmin for the Meteor Summer Hackathon, in case it's of interest to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixJyB8Z-tU8 :-)
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