Today we took a field trip to the property of the Kinder, Wald und Wiese e.V. association. There, Ben, a member of the association’s board, gave us a tour of the grounds and provided some information about the association’s activities and projects. After the tour, all participants were asked to reflect on potential projects or initiatives they would like to carry out. After a brief discussion with Ben, Esther, and Oliver about our financial and material resources, I decided on two projects. In the first project, I’d like to help the association improve access to the grounds by building a footbridge, bridge, dock, or something similar. Since I have the tools for this and have been promised wood, nothing stands in the way of the project. In addition, several participants immediately offered to help me. That made me very happy. I actually wanted to carry out the project because I’ve always loved working with wood and a meaningful opportunity had presented itself here, but I was very surprised that so many people were also enthusiastic about this work. However, I can really use the extra help, since a project like this would take a lot of time to do on my own.
For the second project, I want to draw on my computer science background by writing and implementing the blog that the participants have requested myself. To get the blog up and running as quickly as possible, I’ve already started working on it. I’ve decided to use a Supabase database and hosting via GitLab Pages or Vercel, depending on the blog’s future requirements. These services are more than sufficient for the scope of the project. They also offer seamless Git integration, which means the project can be easily migrated to other services later on. I quickly realized that the simplicity of the blog would be a challenge, as paradoxical as that may sound. Since no one in the course has a background in IT or engineering, I need to design the blog as simply as possible, but at the same time implement a complex permissions system so that not just anyone can post an entry, but only course participants. In the end, I decided on an invite-only setup using Supabase, since this way participants only need to set a password and can then log in with their university email. I still need to check with the instructors to get a list of the emails. If worse comes to worst, I’ll write a script that automatically retrieves the emails from StudIP. I’m very proud of how far I’ve come so far, and I’m confident that I’ll be able to launch the blog this week—or next week at the latest—and provide an introduction.
Linus Hoßfeld (er/ihm)
Comments (2)
Vielen Dank für deine tolle Arbeit mit Blog! Dein Fachwissen ist wirklich eine Bereicherung für unsere Seminararbeit und ich finde deinen Einsatz sehr lobenswert.
Klingt sehr spannend was du da mit deinem Informatik-Wissen veranstalten kannst! Richtig cool, dass du uns da so unterstützt.