Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

#1

Post by frostmatthew » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help
eff.org

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

#2

Post by microjesus » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 2:58 AM UTC

"How technical do I need to be?" - not very.

Sorry, what?

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

#3

Post by knieveltech » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 3:05 AM UTC

microjesus wrote: post #2

"How technical do I need to be?" - not very. Sorry, what?

"You should be comfortable using Github, having basic programming proficiency in at least one language and have a reasonable grasp of HTML and Javascript. Experience collaborating via IRC is handy, but not critical."

So... very technical?

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

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Post by sinak » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 3:12 AM UTC

Full instructions on how to take part are at this link: http://theunitedstates.io/contact-congress/

And here is the Github repo: https://github.com/unitedstates/contact-congress/

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

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Post by zachlatta » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 3:13 AM UTC

I think it's really great that the EFF is reaching out to the community like this. I reached out to donate time and I encourage you to do the same.

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

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Post by sinak » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 3:14 AM UTC

knieveltech wrote: post #3

microjesus wrote: post #2

"How technical do I need to be?" - not very. Sorry, what?

"You should be comfortable using Github, having basic programming proficiency in at least one language and have a reasonable grasp of HTML and Javascript. Experience collaborating via IRC is handy, but not critical." So... very technical?

Okay, we'll remove "not very" from that paragraph :).

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

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Post by microjesus » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 3:16 AM UTC

knieveltech wrote: post #3

microjesus wrote: post #2

"How technical do I need to be?" - not very. Sorry, what?

"You should be comfortable using Github, having basic programming proficiency in at least one language and have a reasonable grasp of HTML and Javascript. Experience collaborating via IRC is handy, but not critical." So... very technical?

Sarcasm on their post :) I wish that I had the karma to downvote!

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

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Post by philipn » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 3:18 AM UTC

microjesus wrote: post #2

"How technical do I need to be?" - not very. Sorry, what?

A lot of the work here is parsing contact forms from sites using a bookmarklet. Lots of details here: http://theunitedstates.io/contact-congress/

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

#9

Post by trentmb » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 3:18 AM UTC

> Secure Connection Failed

> An error occurred during a connection to www.eff.org. The OCSP server has no status for the certificate. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_unknown_cert)

Anybody else getting this?

Re: Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

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Post by chrismorgan » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 3:22 AM UTC

trentmb wrote: post #9

> Secure Connection Failed > An error occurred during a connection to www.eff.org. The OCSP server has no status for the certificate. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_unknown_cert) Anybody else getting this?

Got it briefly. Tried again and it worked.