Ensuring the Sustainability of Your Code Learning Community
summary
Creates a self‑sustaining RailsBridge NYC chapter that runs free 1.5‑day workshops, sells out within 24 hours with max ~60 students, and faces burnout after three workshops in 2013. Implements concrete systems: curriculum on GitHub + Heroku auto‑deploy, Google Apps for shared admin, MailChimp for alumni, Slack for async org comms, Asana/Trello for tasks, password manager, post‑event surveys (Bridge Troll) and a teacher application; delegating key accounts prevents single‑point failure and keeps the project running.
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chapters (47)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:15Content Warning
- 1:28About Paperless Post
- 1:48Why is sustainability important
- 2:44ADA Initiative
- 3:57Right Speak Code
- 4:42Takeaways
- 5:23My Story
- 6:20What is Railsbridge
- 7:33The Problem
- 9:05The Solution
- 10:46My Experience
- 11:26What are you celebrating
- 11:50Hard lesson to overcome
- 12:51Have an accurate mission statement
- 13:51Railsbridge NYC mission statement
- 14:56Set goals
- 16:22The Bus Factor
- 17:12Outline
- 18:00Incidents
- 20:24Github
- 21:15Website
- 23:42Documents
- 24:23Dropbox
- 24:44MailChimp
- 25:38Password Manager
- 26:04Task Manager
- 26:46Trello
- 26:57People
- 27:19Slack
- 29:01Doodle
- 29:36People are hard
- 30:08Whats your deal
- 31:07Working together
- 31:47Conflict resolution
- 34:52Ego
- 35:39Finding quality teachers
- 36:27Bridge Troll
- 36:59StudentTeacher Relationship
- 37:47Self
- 38:18Take care of yourself
- 38:38I lost self
- 40:34Sarah Allen
- 41:24How I met Bianca
- 43:05Working independently
- 43:29Do the work
- 45:31Thank you
