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Reading lists hackathon project

Goal

The aim of this project is to allow people to create and curate reading lists and learning resources around a particular topic and share them on the Life Itself website.

Why?

  • There are many resources out there for learning about a topic, but it can be hard to know where to start.
  • We want to make it easier for people to find resources and get started on their learning journey.
  • We want to make it easier for people to share their knowledge and expertise with others.
  • There's a diversity of perspectives on any particular topic, so allowing users to create their own reading lists will help to cater for this.
  • We want to provide a way for users to find out about topics that they might not have heard of before.

Inspiration

How?

MVP (for the hackathon)

  • Create a basic markdown template that users can duplicate in order to add their reading list to the website through a GitHub pull request.
    • User (creator)
    • Topic
    • Description (of the list and/or topic)
    • List of resources. For each:
      • Type (e.g. book, paper, video, podcast, etc)
      • Title
      • Author
      • Link
      • Description (incl. why it was included in the list)
  • Create a (manually curated) page on the Life Itself website that serves as an index of all the reading lists.
  • Create 5-10 reading lists to start with.
  • Create a page with some basic notes on how to add a reading list to the website.

Future ideas

  • Tie this in with a higher level knowledge map
  • Auto-generate the reading list index page
  • Allow users to submit reading lists without using GitHub