Free Code Camp现在有本地组 (Free Code Camp now has Local Groups)

Our open source community was born online. And our campers are adept at using the internet to communicate. Most of this communication is just short text messages back and forth. But there’s a lot of it.

我们的开源社区诞生于在线。而且我们的露营者都善于使用互联网进行交流。这种交流中的大部分只是来回的短文本消息。但是有很多。

A lot of our campers use Twitter to communicate, too.Still, there’s something about hanging out with people in-person. You get higher-bandwidth communication. You can sketch things out on a whiteboard. You can play ping pong. You can give each other hugs or high fives.

我们的许多露营者也使用Twitter进行交流，不过，还有一些与人们进行现场交流的内容。您将获得更高带宽的通信。您可以在白板上画草图。你可以打乒乓球。您可以互相拥抱或击掌。

Our community is scattered across the globe. The closest most of our campers have come to “hanging out” is pair programming together on Screen Hero.

我们的社区遍布全球。我们大多数营员最接近“闲逛”的是在Screen Hero上一起进行配对编程。

More than half of our campers live outside the United States. But that’s about to change. We’ve always encouraged our campers to go to hackathons and after-work coding events. Many of them live in cities with Hackerspaces or Makerspaces where they can rub shoulders with other coders.

我们一半以上的露营者居住在美国以外。但这将改变。我们一直鼓励露营者参加黑客马拉松和下班后的编码活动。他们中的许多人生活在拥有Hackerspaces或Makerspaces的城市中，他们可以与其他编码员并肩作战。

In big cities like San Francisco, there are JavaScript-related meetups several nights a month. (photo from SFHTML5) But telling our campers “go check Meetup.com” is only so helpful. From the beginning, we’ve wanted a tool to connect you with other campers in your city, so that you can coordinate going to big events together, and even plan events of your own.

在像旧金山这样的大城市，每个月有几个晚上举行与JavaScript相关的聚会。 (照片来自SFHTML5 )但是告诉我们的露营者“去检查Meetup.com”是非常有帮助的。从一开始，我们就需要一个工具来将您与城市中的其他露营者联系起来，以便您可以一起协调大型活动，甚至可以策划自己的活动。

We considered Eventbrite.com and Meetup.com. We experimented with coordinating local groups on our (now retired) forum. We even investigated a “Campers Near You” feature to our main site. Ultimately, we decided that the best solution was a tool that you’re probably already familiar with — Facebook!

我们考虑了Eventbrite.com和Meetup.com。我们在我们(现已退休)的论坛上尝试了协调本地团体的工作。我们甚至调查了我们主站点的“您附近的Campers”功能。最终，我们认为最好的解决方案是您可能已经熟悉的工具-Facebook！

Yes. Facebook. That baby photo sharing app that your parents use. That app that swallows up nearly a quarter of Americans’ time spent on the web.Well it turns out that Facebook has a really well-designed Groups functionality. It’s ideal for managing local groups.

是。脸书您的父母使用的那个婴儿照片共享应用程序。这个应用程序占用了美国人将近四分之一的时间在网络上。事实证明，Facebook具有精心设计的网上论坛功能。是管理本地组的理想选择。

It’s free
免费
It has easy-to-use event creation, member management, messaging and photo sharing
它具有易于使用的事件创建，成员管理，消息传递和照片共享
Almost everyone already has a Facebook account, so joining the group is as easy as clicking a button
几乎每个人都已经拥有一个Facebook帐户，因此加入该组就像单击一个按钮一样简单

See for yourself. Join the Free Code Camp group in your city (or create one if it doesn’t exist yet) here.We look forward to lots of hugs and high fives in the coming weeks!

你自己看。加入免费阵营码组中的城市(或创建一个，如果不存在的话) 在这里。我们期待着大量的拥抱和击掌在未来几周内！

Originally published at blog.freecodecamp.com on May 8, 2015.

最初于2015年5月8日发布在blog.freecodecamp.com上。