While your post is getting lots of reads, you should set up a landing page to collect email addresses. That way, when you have your non-profit set up, you send an email out asking for donations.

This is a great idea! Adding this now.

This is absolutely awesome. Sounds like a really great way to make the world a better place.

Not everybody is using fb, I hope you'll finish your http://garagescript.org/ website soon because now most links don't seem to be working. When you provide more details I think you may find some people who are willing to donate. E.g. is non-profit registered under garagescript? I couldn't find it. Well at least make contact and linkedin links working now that you are going to get some exposure from HN frontpage.

Got a bit too much into details, but what I meant to say, really great initiative, kudos.

Thank you! Non-profit is registered under 'garage script', here is the info on GuideStar: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/82-3129102

All of the points you mentioned is in our top priority list for early 2018, thank you for pointing them out!

> all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering growth

What were the holes that black-boxed you in your engineering growth?

Here are a few off the top of my head.

1. Servers. I've always 'pushed to heroku' without really knowing how servers worked.

2. Git. I've always just used gitlab or other git hosting services without knowing how to build it.

3. File hosting. I've always just uploaded files without knowing how files are processed / stored.

4. Email. SMTP is like a big unknown, I've never really cared about how emails worked.

5. SSL. This was always done for me, I've never had to create and manage my own certificates.

i admire what you're doing but I wonder why spend any significant amount of time on most if not all points on this list? if the goal is "couch -> working developer" then I don't think they're relevant to getting ramped up and working as a programmer/dec/swe who can deliver value. the black boxes you talk about might be better off taught in a lazy fashion so to speak.

a lot of these seem devopsy. I've definitely delved into a lot of these as an extracurricular activity over the years or have had to learn for work reasons (like being the only guy willing to take on the devops type work) but I'm not sure it belongs in a boot camp type curriculum.

You are right, we actually don't put much effort teaching these things, its pretty much lazy learning when it comes to devops. However, I make it a point to host and handle everything in-house so students see the whole picture of how the internet works. The alternative is to push to heroku or host code on github, which introduces black box.

What you're doing sounds great. I'm on the board of HackerDojo, our mission sounds pretty aligned to yours and you are not too far away - so get in touch, I'm sure we can figure out a way to support what you're doing! (will send pm also)

https://hackerdojo.com/

I would love to donate time to build you a website/online presence if you need it. email is in my profile if interested!

Responded, I think donating time is the best form of donation. Students want mentorship from industry veterans but its hard to find people willing to commit the time to mentor. Thank you for offering!

Making their own pools reminds me of PARC, and minimizing black boxes/assumptions must be very satisfying.

There's so many assumptions in mathematics, I've always assumed it must just take too much time/expertise to cover them properly. Engineering != math, but accomplishing that is revolutionary.

You know Wo/Man I think you should put up a page and ask for people to donate as sponsors. I think HN users alone, if we come together, could send 10,20,50,100 people through your program. I would be proud to know my few dollars helped in this way.

Yeah! Thats the plan for next year. It takes time to set up a donation platform as an NPO and we are working on it. In the meantime, I put an email signup (per baron816's suggestion) and will send out an email when donation tools are ready).

I would like to put some of my time helping your initiative. Do let me know. Email in my bio

Thank you, reached out.

Hey, I tried doing something similar in my city. I found designing a useful curriculum a challenge. I would love to ask a few questions. Couldn't get hold of your email. My email is raghav.toshniwal at google's service.

Thanks!

Love to give you some feedback/pointers, shot you an email. We plan to open source our curriculum and make adjustments as we go :)

Would love to donate to such projects (and already have, but you sound neat too).

Thanks for the support! Would love to share donation link but it has not been set up yet :)

If at all possible, let me respectfully suggest you make that a priority. I realize with an NPO it is a bit more complicated than for an individual.

Thank you, I'm on the same page. And you are correct that NPO takes longer and is a more complicated process, but we are diligently working to make it happen.

(Moral of story: don't announce genuinely amazing new initiatives without taking the time to get the donation links working first!)

Curious how/why something like PayPal/Stripe integration couldn't be done in a short amount of time. Not as a criticism, just "is this actually technically hard?" (or is it just a time issue?)

1. I was genuinely sharing what I did this year, was not hoping for any positive financial outcomes.

2. Integration with non-profits donations is not trivial. After registering as a non-profit, it takes some time for the list of registered non-profits to propagate through to donation tools (facebook, gofundme, etc). Sometimes, I have to fax in documents to prove legitimacy, and it takes a few days for that to process. I could easily create a gofundme for "help me do x" in my name instead of the non-profit's, but I didn't want to do that.

Hope that clears things up.

Check out givelively.org for (free) Stripe-based nonprofit fundraising and payment tools. I used to work there and they are doing a great job simplifying the process. I'm happy to put you in touch with the team if it's helpful.

givelively.org is amazing. Signed up and would love to be put in touch. song garagescript org

I see. Thanks for the clarification, very interesting.

This is awesome! Please keep us posted on where we can donate in the near future.

Will do! I'll respond back to this thread when things are all set up.

Its just like Udacity.